Centre for Trials Research - Population Health and Social Care meeting
This month’s meeting will explore the use of realistic trials to evaluate complex intervention, the Centre for Trials Research are pleased to welcome Dr Emily Warren from the London School of Hygiene and Tropic Medicine as speaker. The planned session on feasibility studies and trials will be re-arranged for later in the year.
Recent years have seen important methodological debates between researchers who use randomised controlled trials to evaluate interventions, and those advocating use of realist evaluation methods – with these approaches sometimes characterised as being in opposition to (or incompatible with) each other.
This month’s meeting will explore some of the practical and philosophical possibilities of undertaking realist randomised controlled trials – which integrates these two approaches. Dr Emily Warren – Assistant Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, will present findings from her PhD which comprised a mixed-methods evaluation of a bullying prevention intervention, and used realist analysis.