Professor Carl May
Professor of Medical Sociology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
12.30pm to 1.30pm
Implementation research looks for answers to some of the most difficult problems that we face: how to get new and improved evidence-based ways of delivering and organising healthcare into practice, and how to keep them there. At the same time, implementation researchers have worked to develop frameworks that will help us understand, organise and evaluate the processes of implementing innovations and evidence. Normalization Process Theory (NPT) is an example of such a framework: there are now around 400 protocols, reviews and empirical studies that have applied NPT, not just in healthcare research but in areas as diverse as agriculture, education, criminal justice, and supply chain logistics. This seminar will provide participants with an introduction to NPT, and an understanding of how to apply it to practical problems in implementation. In particular, it will be oriented to action. NPT focuses on the things that people do, rather than their attitudes or intentions, and it emphasises the collaborative nature of implementation work.
The NIHR ARC EoE runs an Implementation Fellowship featuring a series of open seminars in which speakers discuss an aspect of research implementation in which they are internationally preeminent. Anyone interested in research implementation is welcome to attend via Zoom, an online videoconferencing platform that runs on any browser (no account needed).
Join via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/497925415
To access further details of the Implementation Seminar Series taking place across the year, please see the flyer