Professor David Gough

  • Qualifications and position:
    • BSc, MSc, PhD, CPsychol, FHEA
    • Director of the Social Science Research Unit
      Director of the Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre (EPPI-Centre)
    • Professor of Evidence-informed Policy and Practice
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Children and Learning
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  • Summary:
    • I am Professor of Evidence Informed Policy and Practice and the Director of the Social Science Research Unit and the EPPI-Centre. I came to the unit in 1998, having previously worked at the University of Glasgow and Japan Women's University. Previously I wrote on child protection and abuse, but now spend most of my time on the study of methods for research synthesis and research use.
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  • Postgraduate Research:
    • My interests include:
      evidence informed policy and practice
      systematic reviews
      mapping and synthesis
      knowledge production and use
      knowledge mobilization
      research and citizenship
  • Professional Activities:
    • Editor, Evidence and Policy, Policy Press
      Editorial Board, Effective Education, Taylor and Francis
      Editorial Board, Systematic Reviews, BioMed Central
      Editorial Board, Child Abuse Review, Wiley Publications
      Fellow, Higher Education Academy
      Founder Member, Japan Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • Recent presentations include:

      'Developing a plurality of methods of research synthesis and research use to inform policy and practice'. International Seminar, Education et Sciences de l'Apprendre, Institut Francais de l'Education, Lyon, France, December 2011.

      'Evidence Informed Policy and Practice in Education in Europe- making research relevant to practice'. EAPRIL 2011 Conference, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, November 2011.

      'Research generation and use: The work of the EPPI-Centre'. ESRC What Works Initiative, NESTA, London, October 2011.
  • Personal Country Knowledge:
    • Canada: evidence informed policy and practice and knowledge mobilization
      Japan: child protection and evidence informed policy and practice
  • Languages Spoken:
    • Japanese (basic)
Professor David Gough

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Publications

  • Gough, D, Oliver, S, Thomas, J (2012) An Introduction to Systematic Reviews. London: Sage Publications Ltd, 304 pages. ISBN: 9781849201810.
  • Gough, D (2011) 'User-led Reviews of Research Knowledge: Enhancing Relevance and Reception' In Banister E et al, Knowledge Translation in Context: University-Community, Policy and Indigenous Approaches. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4426-4179-2.
  • Dickson, K, Gough, D (2008)  'Supporting people in accessing meaningful work: Recovery approaches in community based adult mental health services. ', SCIE Knowledge review 21. London: Social Care Institute of Excellence.
  • Gough, D (2007) 'Weight of evidence: a framework for the appraisal of the quality and relevance of evidence ', In J. Furlong, A. Oancea (Eds.) Applied and Practice-based Research. Special Edition of Research Papers in Education 22, (2), 213-228.,
  • Gough DA (2007) ' The Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating (EPPI) Centre' In T. Burns and T. Schuller (Eds), Evidence in Education: Linking Research and Policy. Paris: CERI/ OECD.
  • Gough, D (2007) 'Giving voice: evidence-informed policy and practice as a democratizing process ' In M Reiss, R DePalma and E Atkinson (Eds), Marginality and Difference In Education and Beyond,. London: Trentham Books.
  • Mytton, J, DiGuiseppi, C, Gough, D, Taylor, R, Logan, S. (2006) 'School-based secondary prevention programmes for preventing violence.', Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2006 Issue 3.,
  • Oakley, A, Gough, D, Oliver, S, Thomas, J (2005) 'The politics of evidence and methodology: lessons from the EPPI-Centre.', Evidence and Policy, 1 (1), 5-31.,
  • Gough, D, Elbourne, D (2002) 'Systematic research synthesis to inform policy, practice and democratic debate. ', Social Policy and Society 1: 1-12,
  • Gough DA (2005) 'Research for practice in child neglect.' In Taylor J, Daniel B (Eds), Neglect: Practice Issues For Health And Social Care. Jessica Kingsley. (pp 43-56). .
  • Gough, DA (1996) 'Defining the problem', Child Abuse and Neglect 20, 993-1002.
  • David Gough's full list of publications (pdf)