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.
Research Fellow:
Dr Carolyn Blair
School of Nursing and Midwifery,
Queen’s University Belfast
Expertise:
• An experienced mixed-methods research fellow at the School of Nursing and Midwifery in Queen’s University Belfast (QUB).
• Lead researcher on a phenomenological study exploring the experience of cachexia for individuals with end stage renal disease.
• Lead researcher on a QUB/Marie Curie project exploring loneliness in terminal illness.
• Leading work related to developing an evidence and theory based multimodal integrative intervention for the management of renal cachexia and is currently funded to conduct a Cochrane systematic review on Multimodal interventions for cachexia management.
Patient:
John Burden
British Heart Foundation Patient and Public Involvement Network 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
British Heart Foundation Patient and Public Involvement Network 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
British Heart Foundation Patient and Public Involvement Network member
Expertise:
• Lived experience of heart failure
Robert’s role is to ensure the research focuses on what matters to patients and their families