Search Lightning – The 2026 UHMLG Spring Forum

This review is automatic, systematic, hydromatic!

The 2026 UHMLG Spring Forum will once again bring together a fantasic line-up of speakers from around the UK, across two half-days in April. There are a total of six talks on the overall theme of systematic reviews – some of which do, of course, discuss the use of AI in systematic reviews… but the focus is very much on the practical implementation, not on generalities or background.

Provisional Schedule

Wednesday 22 April

  • Isla Kuhn, Head of Medical Library services, University of Cambridge: The Medical Student Systematic Review Group at Cambridge University.
  • Pip Duvall, Clinical Librarian Service Manager, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust: Experiences of UK based health librarians collaborating with clinical research staff on systematic reviews and associated authorship.
  • Carolyn Smith, Horton Library Manager and Outreach Librarian, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford: Systematic review searching – what does being a co-author involve

Thursday 23 April

  • Charis Wong, PhD student, neurology registrar and clinical trial fellow, University of Edinburgh: AI-enabled systematic review platforms: how well do they perform?
  • A presentation from the RAISE project: Working towards the responsible use of AI in evidence synthesis: The RAISE project
  • John Barbrook, Faculty Librarian, Lancaster University: AI Methods within systematic review search strategies

Tickets

Tickets will be available via Eventbrite shortly for this online conference. This year, to ensure the continuation of UHMLG’s activities in the absence of a Summer Conference, we do need to charge a small fee for tickets:

  • £25 for one person, one day
  • £40 for one person, both days
  • £100 for an organisation ticket: multiple staff can view both days, and the conference can be streamed in a shared space