The London Review of Education is excited to share the launch and publication of a new special feature on ‘Systematic Reviews in Education: Producing and acquiring knowledge in times of crisis and social change’.

Edited by Dr Janice Tripney, (Associate Professor of Social Policy, Social Research Institute, IOE - Faculty of Education and Society, UCL, UK) and Dr Sabine Wollscheid (Research Professor, The Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education, Norway ), this open access special feature brings together a collection of articles on systematic review methodology and their application in education and related fields. The intent is to provide an overview of the current state of research on these topics and to characterise the major findings or implications of this research, covering two categories:

• Systematic reviews that stand to make important contributions to the most pressing challenges facing decision-makers in education, including but not limited to reviews responding to the social crisis created by the Covid-19 pandemic.

• Articles highlighting technological or data-related innovations in methodology that are relevant to future systematic reviews in education and related subject areas.

Read the first two articles published in this series:

The UK Prevent Strategy’s ‘fundamental British values’: a qualitative systematic review of perspectives from the education sector authored by Mark Reed (Analyst, National Audit Office, London, UK) and Rebecca Rees (Director, Social Science Research Unit, UCL, London, UK)

Methodological issues in technology-mediated qualitative data collection: a mapping of research undertaken in schools during the Covid-19 pandemic authored by Leanete Thomas (Lusofona University, Lisbon, Portugal), André Freitas (Lusofona University, Lisbon, Portugal) and Rita Tavares de Sousa (University of Porto, Porto, Portugal).

More articles are due to publish in this special feature over time and readers can stay up-to-date with new articles by registering for the journals News and Publication Alerts by registering at https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/lre/site/subscribe.

Read the open access special feature for free at https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/lre/collections/601

Have a paper you would like to publish in LRE? Get in touch!

The London Review of Education is a fully open access, peer-reviewed journal that provides a diversity of perspectives on all types, sectors and phases of education.

Email us at ioe.reviews@gmail.com

Systematic reviews Education