Meet the team
Project Co-Lead:
Dr Tracey McConnell
Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow,
School of Nursing and Midwifery,
Queen’s University Belfast
Expertise:
• Palliative Care and Health Services Research background
• Extensive experience in realist review methodology, execution and supporting reviews.
Member of online Delphi group with an interdisciplinary panel of experts from academia and policy for the RAMESES project (www.ramesesproject.org) that developed realist review quality and publication standards and training materials.
Project Co-Lead:
Professor Joanne Reid
School of Nursing and Midwifery,
Queen’s University Belfast
Expertise:
• Palliative care background
• Extensive experience as Principle Investigator of palliative care research, realist review methodology, Cochrane reviewer/supervisor.
Co-Applicant:
Associate Professor Geoff Wong
Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences,
University of Oxford
Expertise:
• NHS GP
• Extensive experience in realist review methodology, execution and supporting reviews
• Lead researcher on RAMESES project (www.ramesesproject.org) that developed realist review quality and publication standards and training materials.
Co-Applicant:
Dr Loreena Hill
School of Nursing and Midwifery,
Queen’s University Belfast
Expertise:
• Prior Specialist Heart Failure Nurse
• Extensive experience of developing regional & international guidance for management of patients with advanced heart failure, in particular implanted cardiac devices.
Co-Applicant:
Claire Duddy, Realist Reviewer
Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences,
University of Oxford
Expertise:
• Information specialist (librarian) with experience in developing complex search strategies for systematic reviews and realist reviews.
• NIHR Systematic Review Fellow and Realist Reviewer, with training and experience in realist review methodology.
Patient:
John Burden
Patient and Public Involvement Stakeholders: British Heart Foundation London heart failure group member.
Expertise:
• Lived experience of heart failure
John’s role is to ensure the research focuses on what matters to patients and their families
Patient:
Bob Jones
Patient and Public Involvement Stakeholders: British Heart Foundation London heart failure group member.
Expertise:
• Lived experience of heart failure
Bob’s role is to ensure the research focuses on what matters to patients and their families
Patient:
Robert Ruane
Patient and Public Involvement Stakeholders: British Heart Foundation London heart failure group member.
Expertise:
• Lived experience of heart failure
Robert’s role is to ensure the research focuses on what matters to patients and their families