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Staff Profile

Sheila Wallace

Research Fellow (Information Specialist and Evidence Synthesis)

  • Email: sheila.wallace@ncl.ac.uk
  • Address: NIHR Innovation Observatory and Evidence Synthesis Group
    Population Health Sciences Institute
    Faculty of Medical Sciences
    Newcastle University
    The Catalyst
    3 Science Square
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE4 5TG
Background

Sheila Wallace is a Research Fellow and information specialist based within the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Innovation Observatory and the Evidence Synthesis Group at Newcastle University. She has over 25 years’ experience in evidence synthesis as an information specialist and systematic reviewer. She was an Editor for Cochrane Incontinence (2013 to 31 March 2023) and is an experienced Cochrane author (18 new and/or updated reviews) and has also co-authored seven NIHR HTA evidence syntheses. She worked on her first evidence synthesis in 1992 and continues to work in this area including more recently on three reviews involving network meta-analyses. Sheila has also co-authored 24 non-Cochrane non-HTA publications related to or based on evidence syntheses. She has been a co-applicant on a number of successfully completed projects including a number funded by NIHR and was a co-applicant on the newly NIHR-funded Newcastle University-based Technology Assessment Reviews (TARs) centre. She is an experienced supervisor including the supervision of evidence synthesis specialists as well as information specialists conducting searches for the Newcastle NICE External Assessment Centre (EAC) based in Newcastle University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She is a member of the Cochrane Information Retrieval Methods Group and the NIHR Methodology Incubator Information Retrieval Specialists workstream. Sheila's Google Scholar profile is here.

Research

My main research interest is information retrieval methods.

Publications