Introducing scoping & systematic reviews: An Open Education Resource (27 May)

Event Description

In response to student and staff needs, librarians at Federation University created an Open Education Resource to introduce a complex topic in an easy to understand, step by step way. This lunchtime session will describe the process of creating the resource from inception to publication, and demonstrate the content, features and interactive elements of the resource.

Presenters

  • Erin Roga
  • Karen Pruis

Erin Roga has a Masters of Information Management from the University of South Australia. Her minor thesis explored the impact of digital skills classes for first year nursing students. In 2022, she attended the Australian Evidence Based Practice Librarians’ Institute. Erin is a liaison librarian for the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at Federation University Australia, and supports students and academics in their teaching, learning and research, with a focus on training for conducting systematic and scoping reviews. She is interested in promoting the need for rigourous methodology and reporting of reviews. In her spare time, she loves to potter in her vegetable patch and hang out with her chicken friends, and is now learning to keep bees and cultivate mushrooms.

Dr. Karen Pruis obtained her PhD from Federation University Australia, and her qualitative thesis explored the lived experience of Chinese international students communicating in English while studying abroad. In 2023, she attended the Australian Evidence Based Practice Librarians’ Institute. Karen is a liaison librarian with the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at Federation University Australia with extensive experience in supporting students and researchers with evidenced-based literature searching. She loves to teach them how to construct a replicable search strategy for scoping and systematic reviews. Finally, Karen has two poodles named CoCo and Margaux who are her best friends and give her a lot of joy.

🕚 When

Tuesday, 27 May 2025

1.00pm – 2.00pm (Vic, NSW, Tas, ACT, QLD),

12:30pm – 1:30pm (SA, NT),

11am – 12:00pm (WA),

3pm – 4pm (NZ)

🌏 Where

Online webinar Zoom – a link will be sent the day prior.

💰 Cost

ALIA Members – FREE (One of 14 benefits of HLA ALIA membership)
Non-Members – $22

📝 Register

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