Nick Emmel - Doing Realist Research

Rob Andersonis Associate Professor of Health Economics and Evaluation at the University of Exeter Medical School. He has worked as an economic evaluator and applied health services researcher in the UK and Australia. He first wrote about the potential of combining realist evaluation with economic evaluation in 2003.Brad Astburyis a Lecturer at the University of Melbourne, Centre for Program Evaluation in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. He teaches introductory and advanced subjects within the Masters of Evaluation. His main areas of interest are evaluation theory, social research methodology and impact evaluation.Annette Boazis a Professor of Health Care Research in the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education at Kingston University and St Georges University of London. Her research focuses on the relationship between research evidence, policy and practice. She spent some of her formative years under the tutelage of Ray Pawson at the ESRC UK Centre for Evidence Based Policy and Practice.Andrew Boothis a Systematic Review Methodologist, with particular interests in qualitative and realist synthesis, at the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield. Andrew is a Co-Convenor of the Cochrane Qualitative and Implementation Methods Group and has published extensively on information retrieval topics.Simon Briscoeis an information specialist at the Exeter HS&DR Evidence Synthesis Centre which is funded by the NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research Programme at the University of Exeter Medical School and NIHR CLAHRC South West Peninsula. He has contributed to several realist reviews on health care topics.Richard Byngis a GP and Professor in Primary Care Research at Plymouth University focusing on the development and evaluation of complex interventions for mental health and marginalised groups, including the use of realist methods.David Byrnehas published widely in relation to methods and methodology and done empirical research in relation to social exclusion, health (with Blackman) and urban issues. His book, Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: The State of the Art, written with Gill Callaghan, reviews how complexity theory has been used across the social sciences.Sonia Dalkinis a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at Northumbria University, UK. She is also a member of Fuse (the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health). Sonia has specific interests in palliative care, health inequalities and complex interventions. Sonia has significant experience in realist approaches, providing training in these methodologies throughout the UK and internationally.Nick Emmelteaches interdisciplinary social research methods at the University of Leeds and researches complex social interventions, such as accessing socially excluded and vulnerable individuals and groups and explaining the results of randomised control trials. He is Director of Advanced Qualitative Methods Training for the ESRC White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership. Publications include Sampling and Choosing Cases in Qualitative Research: A Realist Approach (2013). He is currently writing about the case for context.Joanne Greenhalghis a Social Research Methodologist. Joannes current research is focused in two main areas: (1) applying realist evaluation and realist synthesis to the evaluation of healthcare policy and practice; (2) the evaluation of the use of patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) in clinical practice and their impact on clinical decision-making and patient care. She was a member of the NIHR funded RAMESES II project to develop quality and reported standards for realist evaluation and has worked on several realist synthesis and evaluation projects.Rebecca Hardwickis a PhD student at the University of Exeter Medical School. Her work focuses on knowledge use by third-sector healthcare organisations and she is applying a realist framework to explain these processes. Her background is health service policy and management, in the NHS and third sector.Guy Kegelsis Emeritus Professor of the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM). His academic career has covered research and teaching on health systems, health service organisation, research methodology and strategic management. He has guided work on realist evaluation, including PhD research projects, at ITM since 2003.Mike Kellyis Senior Visiting Fellow in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care and is a member of St Johns College, Cambridge. Between 2005 and 2014, when he retired from the NHS, he was the Director of the Centre for Public Health at the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE).Ana Manzanois a Social Research Methodologist and Lecturer based at the University of Leeds, UK. Her specialist area is the evaluation of complex applied healthcare interventions using mainly but not exclusively the realist approach.Bruno Marchalis Associate Professor at the Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) in Antwerp. His research includes local health systems and research methodology for complex issues in health. Much of his current work focuses on realist research in the field of health policy and systems research in low- and middle-income countries.Mark Monaghanis a Lecturer in Criminology and Social Policy at Loughborough University, UK; prior to this he worked at the University of Leeds. His work focuses mainly on the scientific and political battles through which policy is made. He has applied this to the area of illicit drug and welfare policies.Ray Pawsonis Emeritus Professor of Social Research Methodology, University of Leeds, UK. Publications include