Dr Sarah Morgan-Trimmer

About me:

I am a social scientist in the Health and Community Sciences department, where I conduct research to understand how and why health interventions work. This includes leading process evaluations, realist evaluations, qualitative studies and mixed methods studies within trials, feasibility studies, intervention development studies and larger research programmes. I have also designed and conducted studies on public health and socioeconomic interventions. I support methods development through lectures, seminars, workshops, advice clinics and PhD supervision.

Research interests: health inequalities, complex interventions, community development approaches to public health, citizen-state interactions in public services.

Methodological interests: process evaluation, realist evaluation, qualitative methods and mixed methods. I apply these methods - using critical realist and social science perspectives - to understand relationships between behaviours, organisations, social contexts and health outcomes.

I was previously a Research Associate at the Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer), University of Cardiff. Prior to academia, I worked as a researcher on child well-being programmes, employment services and substance abuse services in low-income areas. I have also worked for several voluntary organisations, including an education charity in the South Bronx (New York). My PhD (University of Bath) examined community participation in urban regeneration, working with both the Governance Research Group at Bath and the European CINEFOGO Network group on governance in Trento (Italy) and Prague.