Publications / Selected Talks Conferences and Presentations
Bach-Mortensen, A. M., Montgomery, P. (21-23 November 2019). What are the Barriers and Facilitators for Third Sector Organizations (non-profits) to Evaluate their Services? A Systematic Review. 48th Annual ARNOVA conference, San Diego, California, USA. (p. 88 of 110).
https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.arnova.org/resource/resmgr/2019conference/ARNOVA_2019_48th_Conference_.pdf
Montgomery, P. (14 – 18 October 2019). GRADEing the quality of a body of evidence for complex interventions: challenges and the way forward. What Works Global Summit. Mexico City, Mexico.
https://www.evalforward.org/events/what-works-global-summit-wwgs-2019
Montgomery, P., Gallagher, M. (14 February 2019). The how and why of impact evaluation in the third sector. TSRC 10th anniversary conference, BVSC, Birmingham. UK.
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/tsrc/news/2019/findings-impact-influence.aspx
Bacon, S.L., Byrne, M., Carlson, L., Collins, L., Czajkowski, S.M., Davidson, K.W., Freedland, K.E., Grimshaw, J.M., Kaplan, R.M., Lavoie, K., Michie, S., Montgomery, P., Ninot, G., Powell, L.H., Spring, B., West, R. It’s time for a culture change in behavioural medicine. (24-26 November 2018) International Behavioural Trials Network (IBTN) Conference, Montreal, Canada.
Montgomery, P. (3-5 July 2018) Applying a complexity perspective to the assessment of evidence. ESRC Research Methods Festival, University of Bath, Bath, UK.
Weisman, C., Montgomery, P. (18-20 April 2018). Functional Family Therapy for behavioural problems in delinquent youth: An Overview of Review Evidence. 8th European Conference for Social Work Research (ECSWR). University of Edinburgh, UK. A5 Abstract ID: 578. p.p.29. ISBN 978-1-9999205-7-9.
Grant, E., Batista, T., Mitchell, O.J., Annison, H., Bradford, B., Norfleet, G. & Montgomery, P., (14 September 2017). Challenges to validity in two applications of network meta-analysis to complex social interventions. Abstracts of the Global Evidence Summit, Cape Town, South Africa. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2017, Issue 9 (Suppl 2). Global Evidence Summit, Cape Town, South Africa.
Movsisyan A, Montgomery P, Grant S. (24 May 2017). Developing GRADE guidance for rating the certainty of evidence in systematic reviews of complex interventions. A three-day expert meeting organised by the project on Developing GRADE guidance for complex interventions to finalise the content of the new GRADE guidance. Oxford, UK.
Montgomery, P., Movsisyan A. & Grant S. (26 April 2017). Developing GRADE guidance for rating the certainty of evidence of complex interventions. GRADE Working Group, Rome, Italy.
Montgomery, P., Movsisyan, A. & Grant S. (23 January 2017). Using GRADE in systematic reviews of complex interventions. A two-day workshop organised by the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization on retrieval, synthesis and assessment of evidence on complex, multidisciplinary interventions. Freising, Germany.
Montgomery, P., Movsisyan, A. & Grant, S. (31 October-2 November 2016). Development of a GRADE extension for complex social interventions. Oral presentation at 7th EUSPR Conference and Members’ Meeting, The European Society for Prevention Conference. Berlin, Germany.
Montgomery, P., Mayo-Wilson, E., Grant, S. & Movsisyan, A. (26 September 2016). Registering, reporting and reviewing social intervention trials to inform policy and practice. Panel presentation at the What Works Global Summit. London, UK.
https://wol.iza.org/events/what-works-global-summit
Montgomery, P., Hennegan, J., Dolan, C., Wu, M., & Scott, L. (14 September 2016). Menstruation and the cycle of poverty: A cluster quasi-randomised control trial of sanitary pad and puberty education provision in Uganda. 60th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Social Medicine. York, UK.
https://www.york.ac.uk/crd/news/2016/ssm-conference-2016/
Hennegan, J., Dolan, C., Wu, M., Scott, L., & Montgomery, P. (12-13 September 2016). Measuring the prevalence and impact of poor menstrual hygiene management: a quantitative survey of schoolgirls in rural Uganda. 36th Annual Society for Reproductive & Infant Psychology Conference, Leeds, UK.
https://eventegg.com/srip-2016/
Movsisyan A, Montgomery P. (16 August 2016). Assessing the quality of the body of evidence underpinning statements on the effectiveness of social interventions. A two-day workshop held at the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization on retrieval, synthesis and assessment of evidence on complex, multidisciplinary interventions. Geneva, Switzerland.
Montgomery, P., Grant, S., & Movsisyan, A. (31 May-5 June 2016). Grading the evidence of complex social interventions. Workshop conducted at the 24th annual meeting of the Society for Prevention Research, San Francisco, CA, USA.
https://www.preventionresearch.org/2016-annual-meeting/
Montgomery. P., Movsisyan, A. & Grant, S. (31 May-5 June 2016). Development of a GRADE extension for complex social interventions. Poster and session presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research (SPR). San Francisco, USA.
https://www.preventionresearch.org/2016-annual-meeting/
Movsisyan, A. & Montgomery, P. (19 April 2016). Developing a GRADE extension for complex social interventions. NCRM Annual Centre Meeting. Chilworth Manor, Southampton, UK.
https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/news/show.php?article=5490
Movsisyan, A. & Montgomery, P. (12 March 2016). Applying the GRADE approach to complex interventions: An empirical investigation and development of a GRADE extension. World Congress on Public Health & Nutrition. Madrid, Spain.
https://publichealth.healthconferences.org/2016/
Montgomery, P. & Movsisyan, A. (18 February 2016). GRADE extension for complex social interventions. A scoping meeting held at the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health. WHO HQ, Geneva, Switzerland.
https://www.who.int/maternal_child_adolescent/en/
Mayo-Wilson, E., Grant, S., Cybulski, L. & Montgomery, P. (28-30 September 2015). Improving transparency and reducing waste beyond biomedicine. Paper presented at the inaugural REWARD/EQUATOR Conference, Edinburgh, UK.
http://www.dcn.ed.ac.uk/camarades/REWARD_EQUATOR/files/Abstract%20book.pdf
Montgomery, P. & Hennegan, J. (14 September 2015) Menstruation and the cycle of poverty: a cluster quasi-randomised control trial of sanitary pad and puberty education provision in Uganda. 60th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Social Medicine, York, UK.
https://www.york.ac.uk/crd/news/2016/ssm-conference-2016/
Hennegan, J., & Montgomery, P. (2-4 September 2015). Do menstruation management interventions improve education and psychosocial outcomes for women and girls in low and middle income countries? A systematic review. 59th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Social Medicine, Dublin, Ireland.
https://hsruk.org/hsruk/events/external-event-ssm-59th-annual-scientific-meeting
Grant, S., Montgomery, P. & Mayo-Wilson, E. (26-29 May 2015). Reporting guideline for trials of social and psychological interventions: CONSORT-SPI. Paper presented at the Society for Prevention Research Annual Conference 2015, Washington DC, USA.
http://www.preventionresearch.org/2015-annual-meeting/
Grant, S., Montgomery, P., & Mayo-Wilson, E. (4 April 2015). A new reporting guideline for trials of social and psychological interventions: CONSORT-SPI. Oral presentation at inaugural session of the Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Special Interest Group, American Educational Research Association annual conference, Chicago, USA.
https://www.aera.net/Events-Meetings/Annual-Meeting/Previous-Annual-Meetings/2015-Annual-Meeting
Montgomery, P. (19-20 March 2015). Le modèle CONSORT pour les essaiscliniquescomportementaux et sociaux (CONSORT model for behavioual and social interventions). Presentation at Congrès international sur la recherche interventionnelle non médicamenteuse (iCEPS); The International Conference on the Efficacy of Non-Pharmacological Interventions), Montpellier, France.
http://montpellier-cancer.com/media/Program-iCEPS-Conference-2015-Montpellier.pdf
Montgomery. P. & Movsisyan, A. (5 March 2015). Introducing an extension to the GRADE approach for complex social interventions. GRADE Working Group meeting. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
https://www.gradeworkinggroup.org/
Yaffe, J., Grant, S., Montgomery, P. & Solomon, P. (14-18 January 2015). A new reporting guideline for trials of social and psychological interventions: CONSORT-SPI. Pre-conference workshop led at the Society for Social Work and Research annual conference, New Orleans, USA.
https://secure.sswr.org/2015-conference-home/
Grant, S., Montgomery, P. & Mayo-Wilson, E. (19-22 November 2014). Reporting guideline for trials of social and psychological interventions: CONSORT-SPI. Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology annual conference, San Francisco, USA.
https://www.asc41.com/Annual_Meeting/PreviousMeetings.html
Montgomery, P. (5-6 November 2014). The clinical importance of Omega-3 for mood, behaviour, and learning. Invited presentation at the 2nd International Conference on Pharma-food (ICPF 2014), Shizuoka, Japan.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/pharmanutrition/vol/3/issue/4
Montgomery, P. (24 October 2014). Omega-3 DHA and Sleep. Presentation at Nutrition and Mental Resilience in Children and Adults: Feeding Better Health, Wellbeing and Performance, Food and Behaviour Conference, London, UK.
https://www.foodsmatter.com/conference_reports/articles/mental-resilience-fab-11-14.html
Montgomery, P. (23-25 September 2014). CONSORT-SPI: A reporting guideline for complex psychosocial interventions. British Educational Research Association (BERA) Annual Conference 2014, Institute of Education, London, UK.
https://www.bera.ac.uk/conference/annual-conference-2014
Mayo-Wilson, E., Grant, S. & Montgomery, P. (4-6 September 2014). Reporting randomized controlled trials in education. Paper presented at the Fall 2014 Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, Washington, DC, USA.
Mayo-Wilson, E., Grant, S., & Montgomery, P. (7-10 August 2014). A reporting guideline for trials of social and psychological interventions: CONSORT-SPI. Paper presented at the 2014 Annual American Psychological Association Convention, Washington, DC, USA.
https://www.apa.org/pi/aging/resources/newsletter/2014/05/convention
Naghieh, A., Thompson, M. & Montgomery, P. (3-5 July 2014) A system-level intervention to address teacher stress: Qualitative evidence from a pilot study of the Change Laboratory methodology in UK secondary schools. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Colloquium of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), Rotterdam, Netherlands.
https://www.rsm.nl/about-rsm/news/detail/3294-30th-egos-colloquium-explores-contexts-for-business/
Montgomery, P. & MacDonald, G. (16-19 June 2014). A new reporting guideline for trials of social and psychological interventions: CONSORT-SPI. 2014 Campbell Collaboration Colloquium, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK.
https://campbellcollaboration.org/images/past/ColloquiumProgramme2.pdf
Montgomery, P. (18 April 2014). CONSORT-SPI: An extension to CONSORT for trials of complex social and psychological interventions. International Behavioural Trials Network conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
https://www.ibtnetwork.org/home/about-us/
Bronstein, I. & Montgomery, P. (17-19 October 2013). The sleep of Afghan unaccompanied asylum seeking adolescents. Poster presented at the British Sleep Society 25th Anniversary Scientific Meeting, Edinburgh, UK.
Montgomery, P., Yaffe, J., Morton, M., Shepard, L. & Hopewell, S. (19-23 September 2013). Empty review reporting practices and policies: A survey of Cochrane Review Group editors and other key systematic review producers. Paper presented at Cochrane Colloquium 2013, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
http://2013.colloquium.cochrane.org/
Yaffe, J., Shepard, L., Hopewell, S. & Montgomery, P. (19-23 September 2013). The ‘Implications for Practice’ of empty reviews: An analysis of Cochrane systematic reviews with no included studies. Paper presented at Cochrane Colloquium 2013, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
http://2013.colloquium.cochrane.org/
Montgomery, P., Grant, S. & Mayo-Wilson, E. (16-20 January 2013). Reporting quality of complex social intervention trials: A CONSORT extension for complex social interventions. Paper presented at 17th annual Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Conference, San Diego, California, USA.
https://secure.sswr.org/past-conferences/
Grant, S., Montgomery, P. & Mayo-Wilson, E. (23 November 2012). Development of a CONSORT extension for interventions in public health and related disciplines. Paper presented at Royal Society of Medicine’s Public Health Science: a National Conference Dedicated to New Research in Public Health, London, UK.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)60640-0/fulltext
Montgomery, P. & Grant, S. (30 September-3 October 2012). Development of a CONSORT extension for complex social interventions. Paper presented at the 20th annual Cochrane Colloquium, Auckland, New Zealand.
http://2012.colloquium.cochrane.org/
Montgomery, P. (18 May 2012). MENDS: The use of Melatonin in children with neuro-developmental disorders and impaired sleep — a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel trial. Paper presented at Royal College of Paediatric and Child Health Meeting, London, UK.
Aquirre, D., Joseph, D., Gringras, P., Montgomery, P. & Whitehouse, W. P. (18-20 January 2012). The UK British Paediatic Neurologists Narcolepsy Survey. UK BPNA Meeting, London, UK.
https://bpna.org.uk/pr3ss/wp-content/themes/bpna/FILES/bpna.html
Montgomery, P. & Greenhalgh, T. (22 October 2011). Complex social interventions: Challenges to the EBM model? Paper presentation and workshop session at the Evidence Live 2011 Conference, London, UK.
Montgomery, P. & Grant, S. (19-21 October 2011). Development of a CONSORT extension for randomised controlled trials evaluating complex behavioural change and psychological interventions. Workshop at the 19th annual Cochrane Colloquium, Madrid, Spain.
http://2011.colloquium.cochrane.org/
Montgomery, P. & Grant, S. (15-16 August 2011). Will you CONSORT with me? Presentation given at the Centre for Evidence-Based Crime Policy and Campbell Collaboration Joint Symposium on Evidence-Based Policy, Washington, D.C., USA.
https://campbellcollaboration.org/news-and-events/events/past-colloquia.html
Montgomery, P., Mayo-Wilson, E. & Grant, S. (15-17 August 2011). Will you CONSORT with me? Improving reporting quality to improve outcomes for people and organizations. Poster presented at the 1st annual Global Implementation Conference, Washington, D.C., USA.
https://gic.globalimplementation.org/past-conferences/
Montgomery, P. & Mayo-Wilson E. (18-22 October 2010). Reporting Guidelines for Implementation Data in Systematic Reviews: First Consensus Meeting. Paper presented at Cochrane Colloquium, Keystone, Colorado, USA.
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD000002/full
Mayo-Wilson E. & Montgomery, P. (18-22 October 2010). Missing data in systematic reviews: A table might help. Paper presented at Cochrane Colloquium, Keystone, Colorado, USA.
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD000002/full
Montgomery, P, Yaffe, J. Hopewell, S. & Shepard, L. (18-22 October 2010). How empty are empty reviews? A report on empty reviews in the Cochrane Library and an invitation to participate in the development of reporting guidelines. Paper presented at Cochrane Colloquium. Keystone, Colorado, USA.
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD000002/full
DeJanes, W.A. & Montgomery, P. (18-23 July 2010). Associations between non-sexual childhood abuse and HIV risk factors among Black/African South Africans aged 18–22 in the Western Cape. Paper presented at International AIDS Conference XVIII, Vienna, Austria.
https://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/meetings/2010/aids2010/en/
Montgomery, P. & Bronstein, I. (15 April 2010). Findings from a pilot study on the mental health of Afghan unaccompanied aslyum-seeking children. Paper presented at BASPCAN conference on Issues in Safeguarding Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Children, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.
https://www.childprotectionprofessionals.org.uk/
Bronstein, I. & Montgomery, P. (13-16 September 2009). The mental health of refugee children in Western Countries. Paper presented at the British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, 7th National Congress, Swansea University, Swansea, UK.
https://www.baspcan.org.uk/congress.html
Montgomery P. & Gardner, F., Ramchandani, P. & Bjornstad, G. (24 May 2009). Systematic reviews of interventions following physical abuse: Helping practitioners and expert witnesses improve the outcomes of child abuse. Presentation to Department of Children Schools and Families/Department of Health Joint Seminar, London, UK.
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-health-and-social-care
Bronstein, I. & Montgomery, P. (5-8 May 2009). The mental health of refugee children in Western Countries. Paper presented at the Association of Psychology and Psychiatry for Adults & Children 14th Annual Conference, Athens, Greece.
https://euagenda.eu/organisers/appac-association-of-psychology-psychiatry-for-adults-children
Bronstein, I. & Montgomery, P. (7 November 2008). Invited to present preliminary findings from systematic review on the epidemiological literature concerning refugee children. Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Montgomery, P., McShane R. & Bantry-White, E. (1 November 2008). GPS tracking in Dementia: A study of carer impact and acceptability in a domestic setting. Directions and Development for Old Age Psychiatry, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London, UK.
https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/members/your-faculties/old-age-psychiatry
Montgomery, P., McShane, R. & Bantry-White, E. (28-30 October 2008). GPS tracking for community-dwelling people with dementia who wander and get lost: a study of the acceptability and impact in a carer sample. 3rd UK Dementia Congress, Bournemouth, UK.
https://www.journalofdementiacare.co.uk/
Montgomery, P. & Bronstein, I. (9 October 2008). Invited presentation on research results and assessment frameworks for mental health. ASSAFAID and UNHCR, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
http://assaf.org.il/en/tags/unhcr
Bantry White, E., Montgomery, P. & McShane, R. (8-11April 2008). GPS tracking for people with dementia who wander and get lost: A study of the acceptability and impact in a domestic setting. Paper presented at Mental Health and Ageing Towards a New Era of Enlightenment 2008 International Psychogeriatric Association European Meeting, Dublin, Ireland.
https://www.ipa-online.org/events/regional-meetings/past-ipa-regional-meetings
Eisenstein, E. L., Lobach, D. F., Montgomery, P., Kawamoto, K., & Anstrom, K. J. (10-14 November 2007). Implementation fidelity: a framework for evaluation in the health information technology field. Annual Proceedings, AMIA Symposium, Chicago, USA.
https://dblp.org/db/conf/amia/index
Spoormaker, V. & Montgomery, P. (11-14 July 2007). Internet-delivered cognitive-behavioural self-help treatment for insomnia: a randomised controlled trial. 5th World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, Barcelona, Spain.
Eisenstein, E.L., Lobach, D.F., Montgomery, P., Kawamoto, K. & Anstrom, K.J. (26-27 June 2007). Evaluating Implementation fidelity in health information technology interventions. Paper presented to the Annual Biomedical and Informatics Conference, Stanford University, California, USA.
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/trainingconf2007.html
Underhill, K., Montgomery, P. & Operario, D. (8 May 2007). Systematic reviews of abstinence-only and abstinence-plus program interventions to prevent HIV transmission. Paper presented at the Annual U.S. National HIV Prevention Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/11544
Burton, J., Montgomery, P., Mayo-Wilson, E., Underhill, K. & Thorgaard, C. (19 November 2006). Home visits for prevention of cognitive and functional impairment and for prolonging survival in non-demented elderly people. Paper presented at What Works 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark.
https://whatworks.blog.gov.uk/about-the-what-works-network/
Montgomery, P., Donkoh, C. & Underhill, K., (19 November 2006). Independent living programs for fostered children. Paper presented at What Works 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark.
https://whatworks.blog.gov.uk/about-the-what-works-network/
Underhill, K., Mayo-Wilson, E., Gardner, F., Operario, D. & Montgomery, P. (26 October 2006). A New tool to incorporate implementation data into systematic reviews: applying the Oxford Implementation Index (workshop. Paper presented at XIV Cochrane Colloquium, Dublin, Ireland.
https://cmr.cochrane.org/?CRGReportID=10075
Gardner, F., Montgomery, P., Mayo-Wilson, E., Underhill, K. & Operario, D. (10 October 2006). Increasing capacity for reviewing: a new graduate program in Evidence Based Social Intervention at Oxford University. Symposium given at Campbell Collaboration Colloquium, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
https://campbellcollaboration.org/news-and-events/events/past-colloquia.html?start=10
Underhill, K., Montgomery, P. & Operario, D. (25 September 2006). Systematic review of abstinence-only and abstinence-plus programs for the prevention of HIV infection in high-income countries. Paper presented at International AIDS Conference 2006, Toronto, Canada.
Mayo-Wilson, E. & Montgomery, P. (6 July 2006). A systematic review of self-help for anxiety. Poster presented at British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 35th Annual Conference, Warwick University, Coventry, UK.
https://www.babcp.com/Conferences/Archive/conference_archive/warwick2006_4.pdf
Montgomery, P. & Bjornstad, G. (23 June 2006). Self-help Triple P for conduct problems in children on CAMHS waiting lists: a pilot study. Paper presented at British Psychological Society, Division of Clinical Psychology Annual Conference, London, UK.
https://www.bps.org.uk/member-microsites/division-clinical-psychology
Underhill, K., Montgomery, P. & Operario, D. (11 June 2006). Systematic review of abstinence-only programmes for the prevention of HIV in high-income countries. Invited lecture at UK Cochrane Centre, Oxford, UK.
Montgomery, P. (2 June 2006). Evidence Based Practice: how to move from research into practice. Invited presentation at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Mayo-Wilson, E. & Montgomery, P. (10 May 2006) Anxiety in primary care. Paper presented at Primary Care Psychiatry Workshop, London, UK.
https://www.who.int/mental_health/policy/services/UK.pdf
Montgomery, P., Gardner, F., Mayo-Wilson, E., Tamayo, S. & Underhill, K. (21 October 2005). Are they doing what it says on the packet? Towards an implementation fidelity index for use in systematic reviews. Paper presented at Cochrane Collaboration Colloquium 2005, Melbourne, Australia.
https://community.cochrane.org/news/events/colloquium/past-colloquia