Dr Tracey McConnell is a Lecturer in Chronic Illness and Palliative Care in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast. She is also an Honorary Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow. She has been using realist approaches for over 10 years across mental health, palliative care and music therapy research. She currently leads an NIHR funded multi-site UK wide realist evaluation and has successfully completed two NIHR funded realist syntheses supported by Prof Geoff Wong. Tracey has supervised MSc and PhD students using a realist approach and is keen to build a realist support network across the Island of Ireland.
