Dr Naomi Klepacz

Dr Naomi Klepacz is a Health Services Researcher and lecturer with a background in occupational health psychology.  Her research focuses on the sustainability 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, qualitative methods and realist approaches to complex health system challenges.  Her research explores how organisational and leadership contexts influence implementation, workforce sustainability and system performance, with a particular interest in translating evidence into policy and practice. 

Alongside her research, Naomi teaches on the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson programme, supporting healthcare leaders to develop leadership capability, systems thinking and evidence-informed practice.

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. She has contributed to evaluations of health system and workforce interventions and to national policy discussions, and previously 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. She is a member of the Health Professions Education & Wellbeing Research Group, led by Professor Karen Mattick.