Conducting a Systematic Literature Review in Education and Childhood Studies

Conducting a systematic literature review can ensure your research questions are answering a gap in the literature, identify problems and limitations with existing research, places your research in a wider context, and synthesises existing research to present over-arching conclusions to your readers.

This one-day workshop will lead you through the process of completing a systematic literature review. It will include search strategies, critically assessing research literature, multiple methods for analysing the literature, and helping you organise, synthesise and present literature.

Outcomes

By the end of the workshop, students will be able to:

• Articulate why a literature review would be beneficial to their research;
• Create a justifiable methodology for their literature searches and analysis;
• Critically identify research suitable for their review;
• Know the conventions of writing up a systematic literature review and accompanying methodology.

Contributors

This training, organised by the WRDTP’s ECY (Education, Childhood and Youth) training team, will be delivered by:

• Prof Sarah Howard, who is Professor of Digital Education at the University of Leeds and leads the Centre for Research in Digital Education. Her research explores emerging technologies, including AI, and their use in education. She has previously published systematic literature reviews in the area of digital education and AI.
• Dr Ouhao Chen, who has experience of conducting meta-analyses and expertise in the quantitative methods required to create conclusions from multiple sources.

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