*As presented at the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science conference. Rotterdam, Netherlands, July 2019.* **Abstract:** Systematic-reviews and meta-analyses are distinct methods of synthesis with heavily overlapping techniques in terms of initial study selection. In a systematic-review, studies are evaluated from a richer, qualitative perspective, offering a potentially robust method of evaluating the strength of evidence, and identifying weaknesses in past and current methods. Regardless of these strengths, there is limited guidance for conducting high-quality systematic-reviews (with or without an accompanying meta-analysis) outside of interventional health-care research, and currently no appropriate quality assessment tool. In this session we plan to describe the steps involved in a systematic-review and we also hope to discuss the development of an advisory framework for systematically reviewing non-interventional research, with the potential to evolve into a hackathon.