automation

Advances in Systematic Review Automation (In Person. May Melb 26 & Bris 28, Jun Syd 12)


๐Ÿ‘‰ Get in quick as spaces are limited and capped!

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW:

Reviews (systematic or scoping) are a great way to answer research questions or summarise evidence on a topic, but they take a long time and are a lot of work. Fortunately, there are now tools and methodological innovations that can help with doing reviews. One of these tools available is the Evidence Review Accelerator (TERA) built in Australia by a team at Bond University. TERA improves the speed of conducting reviews by accelerating all the tasks in a review. This workshop will cover all the tools available in TERA, but will focus on using the tools of most value to information specialist/librarians.  Attendees will gain practical experience using TERA quickly design and run precise search strategies, while also gaining background information on the other review tasks to better enable review support at their institution. TERA is available at the following website: https://tera-tools.com/, and a 12-month subscription to TERA is included in the workshop fee.

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ PRESENTER:

The workshop will be presented by Justin Clark, a Research Fellow in Evidence Review Acceleration and lead of the Automation program at the Institute for Evidence-Based Practice (IEBH) at Bond University, Gold Coast Australia. He is also the Cochrane Information Specialist for the Acute Respiratory Infections Group, was a member of the Cochrane Information Specialists Executive and the Co-Lead of the search group of the Living Evidence Network. He is one of the inventors of the Two-Week Systematic Review (2weekSR) method, a founding member of the International Collaboration for the Automation of Systematic Reviews (ICASR) and leads the development of the Evidence Review Accelerator (TERA), a suite of automation tools that accelerate the production of evidence synthesis.  His research focuses on improving evidence synthesis methods to reduce the resources needed to conduct reviews of the evidence. For more information about Justinโ€™s research please visit his Research Profile: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55311800800

๐Ÿ’ธ COST: ALIA – $120; Non-ALIA – $180

๐Ÿ•ง TIME: 10am โ€“ 4pm (face to face)

WHAT TO BRING:

BYO laptop; lunch (or head to nearby eatery at lunchtime)

๐ŸŒ WHERE: Face to face in either Melbourne, Brisbane or Sydney

Melbourne

Tuesday May 26th 2026

Royal Australasian College of Surgeons โ€“ Skills & Education Space

250/290 Spring St, East Melbourne VIC 3002

Register here: Advances in Systematic Review Automation Methods – Melbourne Workshop

Brisbane

Thursday May 28th 2026

Pathology Queensland (CSIRO site)

Block 1 (make yourself known at security)

39 Kessels Rd, Coopers Plains QLD 4108

https://maps.app.goo.gl/14zowXMdZuUg6w61A

Register here: Advances in Systematic Review Automation Methods – Brisbane

Sydney

Friday June 12th 2026

Royal North Shore Hospital โ€“ Kolling Institute

10 Westbourne Street, St Leonards NSW 2065

Register here: Advances in Systematic Review Automation Methods – Sydney Workshop