Dr Carmel McGrath

• Position:Senior Research Fellow in Public Involvement
• Department:School of Health and Social Wellbeing
• Telephone:+441179656261
• Email:Carmel.Mcgrath@uwe.ac.uk
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About me

Carmel McGrath is a Senior Research Fellow in Public Involvement, working across NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West and the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Evaluation and Behavioural Science (HPRU EBS ). With a background in public involvement and impact evaluation, her research focused on understanding how engaging the public in health research can shape outcomes and priorities over the long-term.

Carmel completed her PhD at the University of Southampton, funded by the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre. Her doctoral work explored the long-term impacts of public involvement in research, including the development of logic models in collaboration with the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre Patient Experience Research Centre to better capture and articulate these impacts.

She has played a key role in initiatives aimed at identifying and responding to community research priorities, including the award-winning Health Research Ambassador programme and World Café events. Carmel also supports researchers in evaluating public involvement using tools such as impact logs and the cube evaluation framework.

Her work contributes to advancing the field of public involvement by developing practical approaches to evaluation and by developing inclusive engagement with diverse communities.

Area of expertise

• Public involvement in health research 
• Evaluation of public involvement impact
• Development and use of logic models and evaluation frameworks
• Community engagement and research priority setting
• Design and delivery of participatory initiatives (e.g. Health Research Ambassador programme, World Café events)
• Cross-sector and institutional collaboration in research
• Capacity building for researchers in public involvement
• Translating research into practical tools and frameworks

Publications

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