I am delighted to welcome you to the new SRSM website, which will become central to Society operations. Not only does the site look great, it should enhance communication and ease administration. Members will be able to find Society documents and forms on-line and pay membership dues (and next year, meeting registration fees) through the site. I hope that it will also become a focal point that members (and non-members) will visit often and use to share ideas and advance the science of synthesis.
SRSM is a cross disciplinary society that promotes and supports the development and use of innovative and robust methods of evidence synthesis. We do this by providing opportunities to share, discuss and receive feedback on theoretical and practical methodological advances across disciplines and research areas. Our new website can play an important role in this, serving as our frontline means of communication.
As the Society heads for its 10th birthday we have been discussing and debating the future form and role of SRSM and how we can ensure that we maintain a vibrant culture that both celebrates past achievements and encourages the development of an upcoming generation of new researchers. The world around us is changing at a rapid pace: more areas are embracing evidence informed policy; technological advancement is enabling implementation of sophisticated methods; the world of ‘big data’ is synthesizing diverse data for a vast range of purposes but largely running in parallel to SRSM members’ spheres of activity; and open science and data sharing are becoming a new norm. This is certainly an exciting time to be involved in research synthesis.
I am looking forward to an exciting meeting in Nashville (8-10th July) and hope that many SRSM members will be able to join us for what promises to be 3 days of excellent presentation, discussion and debate addressing some of the above issues. As ever, it will be an opportunity to get together with colleagues from across the globe in an informal setting to learn from each other and make connections (methodological and social!). A lively programme of events and entertainment is planned – more details will follow here on our new website.
Finally my thanks especially to David Waring of Stony Brook University, and also to Shinichi Nakagawa, Jessica Gurevitch, Will Shadish and for feedback and ideas from all of the Trustees for all their hard work and creativity in developing the new website, which should prove to be of great benefit to the Society and its members.
See you in Nashville ….
Lesley Stewart, President, SRSM
SRSM is a cross disciplinary society that promotes and supports the development and use of innovative and robust methods of evidence synthesis. We do this by providing opportunities to share, discuss and receive feedback on theoretical and practical methodological advances across disciplines and research areas. Our new website can play an important role in this, serving as our frontline means of communication.
As the Society heads for its 10th birthday we have been discussing and debating the future form and role of SRSM and how we can ensure that we maintain a vibrant culture that both celebrates past achievements and encourages the development of an upcoming generation of new researchers. The world around us is changing at a rapid pace: more areas are embracing evidence informed policy; technological advancement is enabling implementation of sophisticated methods; the world of ‘big data’ is synthesizing diverse data for a vast range of purposes but largely running in parallel to SRSM members’ spheres of activity; and open science and data sharing are becoming a new norm. This is certainly an exciting time to be involved in research synthesis.
I am looking forward to an exciting meeting in Nashville (8-10th July) and hope that many SRSM members will be able to join us for what promises to be 3 days of excellent presentation, discussion and debate addressing some of the above issues. As ever, it will be an opportunity to get together with colleagues from across the globe in an informal setting to learn from each other and make connections (methodological and social!). A lively programme of events and entertainment is planned – more details will follow here on our new website.
Finally my thanks especially to David Waring of Stony Brook University, and also to Shinichi Nakagawa, Jessica Gurevitch, Will Shadish and for feedback and ideas from all of the Trustees for all their hard work and creativity in developing the new website, which should prove to be of great benefit to the Society and its members.
See you in Nashville ….
Lesley Stewart, President, SRSM
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