The Realist Lens – For Researchers Who Keep It Real
The Realist Lens - For Researchers Who Keep It Real
Podcast Description
The Realist Lens is a podcast that makes realist evaluation and synthesis accessible and easy to follow. Through relaxed conversations with expert guests, students, and practitioners, we explore key realist concepts like mechanisms, context, and outcomes. Whether you're new to realist approaches or more experienced, this podcast offers practical insights, real-world examples, and thoughtful reflections to support your learning and curiosity—one conversation at a time.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast focuses on key realist concepts such as mechanisms, context, and outcomes, offering episodes that provide practical insights. For example, the inaugural episode with Geoff Wong covers the foundations of realist research, explaining generative causation and programme theories, while subsequent episodes aim to unpack various aspects of realist evaluation through real-world examples and thoughtful reflections.
The Realist Lens is a podcast that makes realist evaluation and synthesis accessible and easy to follow. Through relaxed conversations with expert guests, students, and practitioners, we explore key realist concepts like mechanisms, context, and outcomes. Whether you’re new to realist approaches or more experienced, this podcast offers practical insights, real-world examples, and thoughtful reflections to support your learning and curiosity—one conversation at a time.
What does it really take to explore workforce issues in healthcare using a realist lens? How can research stay grounded when you're working with overstretched systems and exhausted staff? Join Alejandro and Dr. Ruth Abrams for a conversation packed with practical wisdom and reflective insights. Ruth opens up about her journey into realist research, how context (with a big ”C”) shapes everything, and why creativity and community matter just as much as theory. From setting up special interest groups to influencing real-world commissioning decisions, this episode offers a front-row seat to the challenges and possibilities of doing meaningful realist work in the healthcare workforce. Whether you’re new to realism or looking to energise your stakeholder engagement strategies, this episode is for you.
DCC Project Outputs
Surrey DCC Project OutputsNewsletter Example & IPT on OSF
Surrey Women GPs Project OutputsUB Project – Big C Context (e.g., #MeToo, Black Lives Matter)
NIHR Report on UB ProjectRealist Workforce SIG Website
Realist Workforce SIG
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