An Evidence Synthesis Group (ESG) has been established across four universities in Scotland and North East England (Edinburgh, Glasgow Caledonian, Stirling and Newcastle) in order to meet the aim of producing and disseminating timely, high quality and impactful evidence syntheses across a wide range of topics relevant to health care, public health and social care. These topics are applicable to end users across all four nations of the UK. This is done by combining methodological, topic and PPI expertise from a number of existing and highly successful evidence synthesis teams and PPI groups co-located within our institutions, with strong, established links to wider networks of experts and end-users of evidence from across the UK.

This is a five-year (2023-2028) programme funded by the NIHR.

NESSIE is led by Prof Alex Todhunter-Brown from DNCH, GCU and involves researchers from ReaCH and Yunus Centre.

Dr Bridget Davis, works as a reviewer within the NESSIE team which addressing a wide range of health and social care topics. PPI is central to this work.

Dr Julie Cowie, GCU,  is a member of the systematic review team and brings her experience in systematic reviewing and research into implementation and sustainability of interventions to the team.

Dr Ceri Sellars is a researcher at the School of Health and Life Sciences, GCU, with experience in systematic reviewing. She has a background in quantitative research into physical activity and women’s health. She has strong skills in statistics and data analysis.

Dr Katie Thomson, GCU, is a Research Fellow with expertise in mixed methods research, evidence synthesis and stroke rehabilitation. Katie is one of the Evidence Synthesis Group’s systematic reviewers and contributes to all aspects of review conduct with a focus on dissemination.

Further information can be found on the project website.