Institute of Education London

Rebecca Rees

• Qualifications and position:
  • MA, MSc, FHEA
  • RCUK Academic Fellow
• Faculty:
  • Faculty of Children and Learning
• Department:
  • Childhood, Families and Health
• Centre:
  • Social Science Research Unit
    Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre (EPPI-Centre)
• Summary:
  • My background is in social research methods and research in education, public health and complementary medicine. Research interests include the synthesis of diverse types of research, especially studies of people's views on or experiences of social phenomena; research ethics and the active participation of stakeholders in research; the production and use of evidence in diverse fields, including education, public health and health promotion; the use of information and communication technologies in teaching and learning.
• Teaching:
  • I co-ordinate the IOE's MSc in Research for Public Policy and Practice and lead the module Systematic Reviews for Policy and Practice (RSPP). With colleagues I have developed a fully-online version of this and two further MSc modules. Another run of RSPP can be taken which incorporates interactive online activities with four, day-long workshops.
• Research Projects:
  • I am an Academic Fellow in Evidence Informed Policy and Practice in Education, funded by the UK Research Councils. I'm currently working half-time on the SSRU's Health promotion and public health reviews facility and half-time on the SSRU's teaching programme. I am a PhD student at the Institute of Education and hold an MSc in Social Research Methods (with statistics) from City University in London.
• Postgraduate Research:
  • Research interests:
    Collaboration in research between people with different perspectives (e.g. service users, practitioners, policy makers working with researchers to design and select the focus of research)
    Synthesis of studies of people's perspectives
    Teaching and learning about research synthesis
    E-learning and ICT in education
• Professional Activities:
  • Deputy Panel Member: NHS Evidence Advisory Committee
    Member of: Cochrane Qualitative Research Methods Group, Society for Social Medicine.
• Conferences/presentations:
  • How might young people inform and influence systematic reviews of research literature? Experiences from three reviews about body size. (Workshop) Rees R (2010) INVOLVE conference, Nottingham University, UK, 17th November 2010
    
    Methods for involving consumers in systematic reviews (workshop). Liabo K, Rees R, Stewart R and Oliver S (2010) 18th Cochrane Colloquium, Keystone, Colorado, USA, 18-22 October 2010.
    
    Interrogating the findings in a draft systematic review of young people's views about body size. Rees R, Caird J; Public Health, Education, Awareness, Research (PEAR) young people's residential; Warwick University, Coventry; July 2010.