Dr Naomi Klepacz

Dr Naomi Klepacz is a Health Services Researcher with a background in occupational health psychology.  Her research focuses on the mental health, wellbeing and retention of the NHS workforce, examining how organisational and psychosocial working conditions shape quality of work life, decision-making, and outcomes for staff and patients. 

Naomi is an experienced mixed-methods researcher, with expertise in survey design, interviews, focus groups, thematic analysis and realist methodologies.  She applies these approaches to evaluate complex healthcare workforce challenges and interventions, with a strong emphasis on understanding how organisational and leadership conditions influence system performance and sustainability in healthcare. 

Prior to joining the University of Exeter, Naomi held applied health services research roles at the University of Warwick, the University of Southampton and the University of Surrey, contributing to evaluations of health system and workforce interventions and informing national policy discussions.   She also served as Senior Impact Officer at the University of Surrey, leading the institution’s REF 2021 impact submission.

Naomi is currently working on Understanding why Resident Doctors leave the NHS and what can be done to retain them: A realist synthesis, an NIHR-HSDR funded project led by Dr Anna Melvin.