Founder & Mentor
Ahmed Raza
Personalized mentorship is the center of ESMP: guidance that connects methodological principles to the real decisions a research project demands.
Evidence synthesis · Research mentorship
- Research publications
- 20+
- Academic citations
- 50+
Founder profile
Research experience brought into the learning process
Ahmed Raza founded ESMP to make evidence-synthesis methods understandable through structured teaching, sustained practice, and close project mentorship.
His published research experience informs a mentorship model that follows the project closely—from judging whether a question is feasible to interpreting an analysis, shaping a coherent manuscript, and preparing for journal submission.
The aim is not to make difficult methods appear simple. It is to make them understandable, usable, and defensible through careful explanation and repeated application.
Mentorship approach
Rigorous methods, explained with patience
The mentor's role is to support sound reasoning and growing independence—not simply to provide answers or complete the project for the participant.
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Explain complex methods from first principles without removing the reasoning behind them.
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Connect every lesson to a real decision or output in the participant's review.
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Give individualized feedback that helps participants understand both what to change and why.
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Continue guidance as the project moves from analysis and writing into submission and revision.
Scope of guidance
From feasibility to revision
Question formulation and topic feasibility
Protocol, search, and study-selection decisions
Extraction, appraisal, and meta-analysis in R
Interpretation, manuscript development, and journal revision
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