9th Trials Methodology Symposium (2025 – UCC)
Professor Shaun Treweek, Aberdeen Centre for Evaluation, University of Aberdeen, UK & Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Sweden
Shaun is a health services researcher interested in efficient trial design, particularly around inclusive recruitment and retention and the effective presentation of research evidence. He led the development of the NIHR INCLUDE Ethnicity Framework, a tool to help trialists design inclusive trials, PRO EDI, a tool to help systematic reviewers consider equity in their reviews, and PRECIS-2, a tool to match trial design decisions to what the users of the results need. He leads an initiative called Trial Forge (http://www.trialforge.org) that aims to be more systematic about how we identify, generate and use research evidence in making trial design, conduct, analysis and reporting decisions. Shaun is also an Editor-in-Chief of the journal Trials.
