Mobilising Evidence Through AI and User-informed Synthesis, or METIUS for short, is a £11.5 million project aiming to improve the decision-making process for urgent issues like climate change, education, and international development.
Governments often struggle to keep up with the huge amount of scientific research being published: important findings can be hard to find or too complex to use in time-sensitive decisions. This project aims to fix that by creating a faster, smarter way to bring the best available evidence directly to the people who need it most.
Teams at the Universities of Exeter and Newcastle will spearhead one of the project’s key strands – the methods work package – which will focus on developing and enhancing the methods needed to create “living evidence syntheses” that stay up to date and deliver robust, broad scale, and timely actionable insights.
The project is led by University of Queens, Belfast, supported by NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South West Peninsula (PenARC), and includes partners from the University of Newcastle, University College London, University of Aberdeen, Campbell Collaboration, Centre for Environmental Evidence, and the University of Exeter.