Deakin Lab for the Meta-Analysis of Research (DeLMAR)

Faculty of Arts and Education

Alfred Deakin Institute

Faculty of Business and Law

Faculty of Health

Associate Members

Faculty of Business and Law

Stress, mental health and lifestyle behaviours: synthesising the evidence, 6 November 2019

DeLMAR was delighted to host the symposium Stress, mental health and lifestyle behaviours: synthesising the evidence on Wednesday the 6th November at Deakin Downtown.

Streams included Diet and stress, Physical activity and mental health, and Stress and disease development. Keynote speakers included Professor Leigh Gibson from the University of Roehampton, Professor Anna Whittaker from the University of Stirling, Dr Amanda Rebar from CQUniversity, Dr Simon Rosenbaum from University of New South Wales, and Professor Andrew Scholey from Swinburne University.

^{Symposium speakers (left to right): Mrs Sara Dingle, Dr Katrina Champion, Professor Andrew Scholey, Dr Amanda Rebar, Professor Anna Whittaker, Dr Sisitha Jayasinghe, Professor Susan Torres, Professor Leigh Gibson, Dr Anne Turner, Dr Simon Rosenbaum and Dr Megan Teychenne.}

How to Host a Systematic Review workshops, 6 and 30 September 2019

DeLMAR was delighted to host two How to Host a Systematic Review workshops at our Melbourne Burwood and Geelong Waurn Ponds Campuses on Friday 6 September and Monday 30 September with DeLMAR Co-Director and Faculty of Health Associate Professor, Dr Susan Torres.

Evidence Synthesis in Eating Behaviour Symposium, 22-23 October 2018

DeLMAR was proud to host the Evidence Synthesis in Eating Behaviour Symposium on Monday 22–Tuesday 23 October 2018.

The Faculty of Business and Law hosted the Evidence Synthesis in Eating Behaviour Symposium at Deakin Downtown. The symposium was organised by DeLMAR Co-Directors, Professor Chris Dubelaar, Faculty of Business, and Dr Emily Kothe, from the Faculty of Health, and featured international guests, industry and government speakers, and researchers across the fields of marketing, psychology, health and medicine.

DeLMAR welcomed international guests:

• Professor Dame Theresa Marteau, Director, Behaviour and Health Research Unity, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge
• Professor Emeritus Janet Polivy, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
• Professor Emeritus, C Peter Herman, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto.

The symposium’s aim was to foster cross-fertilisation – across disciplines, across institutions, across paradigms, and across approaches to common problems The symposium finished with a closing statement of goals and objectives, for a future research focus to address the problems we’re all seeing around the world in how we consume food leading to obesity and ill health.

Read the related Business Newsroom article

^{All of the attendees}

^{Prof Chris Dubelaar with guests (left to right), Prof Carolina Werle, Prof Emeritus Janet Polivy, Prof. Dame Theresa Marteau and Prof Emeritus C Peter Herman}

Download the DeLMAR Behavioural Eating Symposium Program (PDF, 536.7KB)

MAER-Net Colloquium, 4-5 October 2018

The Faculty of Business and Law and DeLMAR were delighted to host the 2018 Meta-Analysis of Economics Research Network (MAER-Net) Colloquium on 4–5 October, 2018 at Deakin Downtown with 24 presenters, largely from Europe, Asia and North America, and over 40 participants. Chris Doucouliagos, Alfred Deakin Professor, Chair in Economics and DeLMAR co-director may be seen presenting and in the group photo.

Professor Tom Stanley gave a keynote lecture, 'Recent developments: should we WAAP Economics' low power?'.

MAER-NET is an open international network of scholars committed to improving economic and social sciences through meta-analysis.

• Conference flyer
• Conference program

^{Dr Tomáš Havránek, Czech National Bank and Charles University, Czech Republic, delivers the keynote address for MAER-Net 2018.}

^{Professor Tom Stanley}

^{Attendees at 2019 MAER-Net Symposium}

Meta-analysis in Health and Medicine

DeLMAR hosted a well-attended workshop on Meta-analysis in Health and Medicine on Thursday 9 March at Burwood Corporate Centre. A unifying focus of DeLMAR's work is the development and application of meta-analytic methods to research questions and problems in the social and natural sciences.

Tom Stanley, Professor of Meta-Analysis in the Faculty of Business and Law, and Emily Kothe, School of Psychology, discussed how meta-analytic methods are applied in a health context.

DeLMAR ANZMAC Meta-Analysis Workshop

DeLMAR was a bronze sponsor of ANZMAC 2017, held at RMIT, and hosted a highly successful Meta-Analysis workshop on Thursday 7 December, focussing on the motivation and scoping of meta-analytic studies, search terms and search locations, and hands-on exercises on extracting and coding data and calculating effect sizes and weights. Presenters also reviewed standards for Systematic Reviews, the PRISMA and MAER-Net guidelines, and how meta-analysis helps advance knowledge.

^{The presenters were (from left to right) Professor Tom Stanley, Dr Josh Newton, Professor Chris Dubelaar, and Professor Stephen Holden (Macquarie University)}

An Introduction to Meta-Analytic techniques in Marketing and Management, Thursday 26 October 2017

Have you ever thought about running a meta-analysis but weren’t sure how to do one? Then this is the workshop for you! Using datasets from published papers and taught by people who have published meta-analyses in prestigious journals, this hands-on half-day workshop will introduce you to the basics of how to:

• plan, conduct, and document a systematic search of the literature
• extract the relevant data from the papers you find
• convert the data you extract into the metrics required to conduct a meta-analysis
• conduct a basic meta-analysis
• test your data for basic problems of bias and heterogeneity
• report your meta-analytic findings.

DeLMAR Launch, 9th October 2017

DeLMAR was launched on Monday 9 October 2017 with a Keynote Address by Professor John P.A. Ioannidis, from Stanford University, and speakers Professor Mike Ewing, and the centre co-directors Professor Chris Dubelaar and Professor Chris Doucouliagos.

Professor Ioannidis' keynote presentation was titled Meta-analyses and meta-research: evidence synthesis and bird's eye views of science.

Workshop on the Meta-Analysis and Research Synthesis, 14th February 2017

Presenters: T.D Stanley (Hendrix College) and Chris Doucouliagos (Deakin)

In the first half of the workshop, Professor Stanley discussed meta-analysis methods and the synthesis of empirical research. The methods were illustrated with an example of the marriage premium and the baby penalty; do men gain from marriage and women lose from having children? In the second half of the workshop Chris Doucouliagos provided hands-on research synthesis training using data on the impact of private and public health expenditure on life expectancy and mortality.