Dr Louise Hull and Dr Julie Williams

Faculty webinar - Designing implementation research using the ImpRes tool and guide with Dr Louise Hull and Dr Julie Williams

In this webinar, Dr Louise Hull and Dr Julie Williams introduce the Implementation Science Research development (ImpRes) tool and supplementary guide and share their experiences of using ImpRes to design implementation research.

The ImpRes tool and guide represents a consolidation of conceptual and methodological guidelines, recommendations, tools and resources relevant to the design of implementation research.

This webinar looks into the core elements of implementation research that must be considered when designing an implementation study, including implementation theories, models and frameworks, implementation strategies, implementation outcomes and unintended consequences.

Dr Williams shares her experiences of applying ImpRes on two implementation research studies she has worked on including how ImpRes was used to guide the design and evaluation of the studies. The two studies are

  1. a study that evaluated an intervention designed to support people with severe mental illness with their physical health called Health Champions
  2. a project called SHAPER which is the largest known study that aims to investigate the implementation of arts-based interventions at scale.

Dr Hull is a Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London. She is Deputy Director of the Centre for Implementation Science and leads the Centre’s Methodology Research theme. She also leads the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) South London Implementation Research theme. Dr Hull has developed a number of tools and resources to support the design of implementation research.

Dr Williams is a post doctoral researcher at King’s College London. She has a clinical background and worked as an Occupational Therapist before doing her PhD. Her work focuses on improving the physical health of people using mental health services. She has designed and run a number of projects using Implementation Science methodologies.

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