2026 Workshop Programme

Four stages from discovery to publication

A progressive workshop in which every session produces a concrete component of the participant’s own systematic literature review manuscript.

21–22 October · 18–19 November 2026

Postgraduate workshop participants receiving guidance from a lecturer — Programme learning experience

DISCOVER→DESIGN→REVIEW→SYNTHESISE→WRITE→REFINE→PUBLISH

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Stage 1 · Literature Discovery and Search Strategy

21 October 2026

Research topic, research questions, keywords, search strings, databases and literature discovery.

Participant output: RQ + keywords + search strings + initial article set.

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Stage 2 · Systematic Review and Evidence Synthesis

22 October 2026

Protocol, inclusion/exclusion criteria, deduplication, screening, PRISMA, quality assessment and extraction.

Participant output: Final selected studies + PRISMA data + extraction framework (completed during independent work).

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Stage 3 · Crafting the Systematic Literature Review Manuscript

18 November 2026

Synthesis, research gaps, tables and figures, Introduction, Method, Results and Discussion.

Participant output: First substantial manuscript draft.

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Stage 4 · Manuscript Refinement and Publication Readiness

19 November 2026

Manuscript review, journal matching, reporting compliance, references and final checks.

Participant output: Near publication-ready manuscript.

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Independent SLR work · 23 October–17 November

Participants complete screening, quality assessment and data extraction before Stage 3. The writing session assumes that the final study set has already been selected and the evidence is ready for synthesis.