Day 1 Opening plenary: 18 October – Child protection and evidence

07.00 EDT // 11.00 UTC [Convert to your time zone]

Speakers:

Eileen Munro
Emeritus Professor, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics, UK
Building bridges from evidence to practice and policy in child welfare and child protection

Joan Nyanyuki
Executive Director, African Child Policy Forum, Ethiopia
Promoting and developing policies to protect children

Lucie Cluver
Professor of Child and Family Social Work, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford and
Honorary Professor in Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa, South Africa
Protecting children in crises: new evidence, new opportunities, new challenges

Day 2 plenary: 19 October – The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) Teaching and Learning Toolkit

07.00 EDT // 11.00 UTC

Speakers:

Steve Higgins
Professor of Education, Durham University, UK
The EEF Toolkit: Developing a database of living systematic reviews for education

Patrick Okwen
Team Lead, Effective Basic Services (eBASE) Africa, Cameroon
Globalising the evidence: adapting the EEF Toolkit for Cameroon

Day 3 plenary: 20 October – Countering violent extremism

07.00 EDT // 11.00 UTC

Speakers:

Angela Higginson
Associate Professor, School of Justice, Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Kiran Sarma
Deputy Head, School of Psychology National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland

Sarah Marsden
Senior Lecturer, Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK

James Lewis
Research Fellow, Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK

Ghayda Hassan
Professor, Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

The Campbell Countering violent extremism (CVE) evidence synthesis programme is a global research initiative to use rigorous and relevant evidence to inform policy and practice.