## About the TI Methods Speaker Series
The UBC TI Methods Speaker Series is organised by Dr Carole Lunny, Postdoctoral Research Fellow who is affiliated with the Therapeutics Initiative and the Cochrane Hypertension Review Group at the University of British Columbia. The Methods Speaker Series is filling a gap in knowledge around more topics related to systematic reviews and meta-analysis, methods and statistics in evidence synthesis, comparative effectiveness research, knowledge synthesis products, and open science practices. It has also fostered collaborations between students, faculty and staff at UBC, nationally, and globally.
The Methods Speaker Series is offered free of charge and everyone is welcome, and remote attendance is possible by videoconference. Click here to view a list of all talks offered as part of the TI Methods Speaker Series.
https://www.ti.ubc.ca/2019/05/06/methods-speaker-series-2019/
The first Methods Speaker Series was held on March 27, 2019 on “Navigating the p-value swamp for meta-analysts” by Dr. Ed Kroc, Assistant Professor of Measurement, Evaluation, and Research Methodology within UBC’s Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education. This topic is timely as the statistical concept of the p-value has enjoyed a long and contentious history in applied quantitative research, and recent proclamations of “replicability crises” in the social and health sciences have inflamed the modern debate.
Dr Kroc is a graduate of UBC’s Department of Mathematics and a former post-doc in UBC’s Department of Statistics, he has long been interested in bridging the gap between statistical rigour and practical scientific research. Dr. Kroc’s particular research interests focus on ways to address this gap, as well as on statistical measurement, spatio-temporal modelling, and urban ecology.
In 2019, we have several notable speakers lined up, namely Dr Nick Bainsback on “Network Meta-analysis” and Dr Joel Singer on “Imputation for missing data in RCTs”. Dr. Bansback is an Associate Professor in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia, and Scientist with the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences. He is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator, whose research aims to inform policies and practices in health through the application of health economics and decision theory. Dr. Singer is a professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) where he is Associate Director of the MHSc program. He is involved as a co-investigator in trials of HIV, arthritis, ICU care, health promotion and neonatology, and has published widely in major journals as lead methodologist on many RCTs.
