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Are you still troubled by research waste? Hywel Williams, University of Nottingham - COMET INITIATIVE WEBINAR SERIES 2020

08oct12:00 pm1:00 pmAre you still troubled by research waste? Hywel Williams, University of Nottingham - COMET INITIATIVE WEBINAR SERIES 2020

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COMET 2020 Webinar series
Following the COVID-19 global outbreak earlier this year, the COMET Management Group has made the difficult decision to postpone COMET VIII until it is safe to go ahead with the meeting, and a new date for this meeting will be confirmed as soon as it is possible to do so. As we had already started to plan an exciting programme for COMET VIII, we still want to be able to
share this with you. We are therefore planning a webinar series that will start on October the 8th and 9th 2020, with two consecutive webinars on the days that would have been COMET VIII, followed by once a fortnight after that. More details about forthcoming webinars will be announced as they become available.

If you have any questions regarding this webinar series, please email: info@comet-initiative.org

Thursday 8th October 2020 12.00-13.00 BST
Hywel Williams, University of Nottingham “Are you still troubled by research waste?”

Despite Chalmers and Glasziou1 calling for the research community to reduce wasteful research in 2009, I still witness a lot of research waste in my various roles as researcher and funder. I see waste in terms of uninformative duplication of effort due to failure to check what is already known, answering research questions that are not prioritised by research users, using outcomes that are of limited meaning to end users, failure to design research in a way that minimises bias, poor reporting of studies, failure to publish or publication of a selection of favourable outcomes, and the lack of use of core outcomes that enable results from one study to be combined with others in order to produce a more meaningful interpretation of the totality of evidence. I will explain what I mean through the lens of my own field of skin disease research, reflect on the reasons why such undesirable behaviour patterns persist and suggest some solutions going forward including how we are trying to tackle the problem through the NIHR adding value in research strategy.

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(Thursday) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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