Animal Welfare Professionals

March 2024 Maddie's Monthly Behavior Connection:  Informed Insights: 10 Tips for Evaluating Research

Guest Speaker: Seana Dowling-Guyer, Associate Director of Tufts Collaborative (Center) for Shelter Dogs at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University

Description of call topic:

With new research shared at an increasingly fast pace, it can be challenging to identify quality studies and useful results. The proliferation of questionable pay-to-publish models has resulted in an alarming surge of low-quality and even erroneous research. This presentation will share 10 practical tips for evaluating research critically, even if you don’t have a science background. Learn ways to assess research credibility, spot red flags, and extract useful applications from research findings. By becoming a critical consumer of research, you’ll be better able to use research for informed decision-making.