Welcome to this series of Cochrane Learning Live webinars, all dedicated to methods support. Each month, Cochrane review authors and editorial staff are invited to join a 60 minute web clinic hosted by Cochrane's Methods Support Unit to discuss methodological questions during the production of Cochrane Protocols and Reviews.

We are pleased to be joined throughout the series by experts in this field, and you can find out more about each session and access the webinar recordings below. All sessions are freely open to everyone. 

If you have a question or issue that you would like to get addressed on a Methods Support Unit web clinic, please contact the Methods Support Unit. 

Upcoming sessions

Thursday 15 May 2025, 08:00 UTC 
Tips for avoiding common errors in protocols for Cochrane Systematic Reviews
Clare Miles, Quality Assurance Editor, Cochrane’s Evidence Production and Methods Directorate. 
Jo-Ana Chase, Methods Implementation Editor, Cochrane’s Evidence Production and Methods Directorate.
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Watch the recordings of previous sessions

Living systematic reviews: the what, why, when and how? [April 2025]
Dr Rebecca Hodder, NHMRC Research Fellow at the University of Newcastle, Methods Editor & Research Associate at Cochrane Public Health, and Deputy Director of the Population Health Research Program at Hunter Medical Research Institute. 
Professor Tari Turner, Director of the Australian Living Evidence Collaboration & Professor (Research) at Cochrane Australia.
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Introduction to systematic reviews of prognosis studies [March 2025]
Prof. Dr. Carl Moons, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and former Director of Research, Julius Center, UMC Utrecht.
Dr. Anneke Damen, Assistant Professor, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care.
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How well are Cochrane reviews incorporating non-randomised studies of interventions (NRSI)? Lessons learnt from a scoping review [February 2025]
Emma Axon, Evidence Synthesis Methodology Editor, Methods Support Unit, Cochrane.
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Demonstration of new random-effects methods in RevMan [January 2025]
Professor Jo McKenzie, Head of the Methods in Evidence Synthesis Unit, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Areti-Angeliki Veroniki, Assistant Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto. Co-Convenor, Cochrane Statistical Methods Group.
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Equity in all Cochrane reviews [November 2024]
Jennifer Petkovic, Coordinator, Campbell and Cochrane Health Equity Thematic Group and MuSE Consortium.
Jordi Pardo Pardo, Senior Advisor, Cochrane Health Equity Thematic Group.
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Introduction to new random-effects methods in RevMan [October 2024]
Professor Jo McKenzie, Head of the Methods in Evidence Synthesis Unit, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Areti-Angeliki Veroniki, Assistant Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto. Co-Convenor, Cochrane Statistical Methods Group.
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Introducing ROB-ME: a tool for assessing risk of non-reporting biases in systematic reviews with meta-analysis [October 2024]
Matthew Page, Senior Research Fellow & Deputy Head, Methods in Evidence Synthesis Unit, Monash University
Julian Higgins, Professor of Evidence Synthesis, University of Bristol
Jonathan Sterne, Professor of Medical Statistics & Epidemiology, University of Bristol
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Writing a Cochrane abstract in the focused review format [September 2024]
Lindsay Robertson, Evidence Synthesis Development Editor, Cochrane
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Reporting a Cochrane Qualitative Evidence Synthesis – how to avoid common reporting issues [July 2024]
Jane Noyes, Professor in Health and Social Services Research and Child Health, Bangor University, UK
Martina Giltenane, Associate Professor, Department of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Limerick
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Applying and reporting GRADE CERQual: how to avoid common mistakes [June 2024]
Jane Noyes, Professor in Health and Social Services Research and Child Health, Bangor University, UK
Andrew Booth, Professor in Evidence Synthesis, Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research (SCHARR), University of Sheffield.
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Development of materials to facilitate implementation of methods for presentation and statistical synthesis when data are not amenable to meta-analysis [November 2022]
Joanne McKenzie, Simon Turner & Sue Brennan, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Australia
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Interpretation of subgroup analyses [October 2022]
Marty Chaplin, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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What makes a good Discussion section? [September 2022]
Nuala Livingstone, Cochrane Evidence Production and Methods Directorate
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Writing up reviews with network meta analysis [July 2022]
Kerry Dwan, Methods Support Unit
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Preferred and acceptable risk of bias tools for non-randomised studies of interventions [June 2022]
Michele Hilton Boon, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Writing up Risk of Bias 2 [May 2022]
Kerry Dwan & Rachel Richardson, Cochrane's Central Executive Team
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A checklist and guide for defining the questions to be addressed in the synthesis of public health intervention reviews [April 2022]
Miranda Cumpston, Joanne McKenzie & Sue Brennan, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Australia
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Summary of findings table common errors [March 2022]
Rachel Richardson, Associate Editor, Cochrane Evidence Production & Methods
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Developing your implications for research section [February 2022]
Toby Lasserson, Deputy Editor in Chief in Cochrane
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