Using Covidence for our rapid review of speech, language, communication and literacy programs for Indigenous children

We have been undertaking a rapid review of speech, language, communication and literacy programs for Indigenous children. Today Carolyn and I began screening the >2000 papers identified via Covidence.

 

Children on campus: Policy and literature review

Our review of policies, procedures and literature about children on university campuses continued today. It is great working with Carolyn Gregoric, Suzanne Hopf and Claudio Dionigi to develop our background understanding of children on campus and how we can use this knowledge to inform the creation of The Treehouse and our space for children's communication and research. 

Word cloud of auto-generated themes from university policy and procedures

NVivo analysis of policies and procedures

EndNote review of 1,223 articles (229 duplicates) = 994 papers to review

Children on campus - ECIR rapid review

Today we worked on our rapid review to consider how children are included (or not) on university campuses. Claudio Dionigi has undertaken the literature search and first phase of inclusion/exclusion. Carolyn and Suzanne are going to undertake the next phase of inclusion/exclusion coding, then I will work on pulling it together. This will inform our co-design of The Treehouse for the International Children's Communication and Research Centre.

Our Masters students in Vietnam are writing their literature reviews

Today Dr Ben Phạm and I had a productive meeting with our Masters students in Vietnam who are writing their literature reviews. We discussed the funnel approach where we write from what is known to what is unknown using the following structure:

1. What is widely known 
2. Establish a territory
   a. Show the general area is: important/ central/ interesting/ problematic/ relevant
   b. Introduce and review previous research 3
3. Establish a niche
   a. Indicate a gap in previous research
   b. Raise a question about it
   c. Extend previous knowledge 
4.  Occupy the niche
   a. Outline purposes/nature of the research
   b. Indicate structure of the paper 

We also discussed how it was important to keep revising the title and aims as we read the literature (and respond to constraints from COVID-19). I believe that the students are on track for submitting their thesis proposal even though they have been at home with their children for 5-6 weeks as a result of COVID-19.

Skype meeting with Hang Nguyen,  Vấn Phạm, and Dr Ben Phạm in Viet Nam