Dr Rebecca Hardwick
Senior Research Fellow & Co-theme Lead for Mental Health
Expertise
Knowledge mobilisation, voluntary sector healthcare organisations, realist methodology, mental health
Biography
Becky is an applied health researcher, with methodological expertise in qualitative and realist research and evaluation. She has skills in systematic review, ethnographic methods (interviews and participant/non-participant observation), and realist methods. She lives with her fella and two cats (Rosie and Freya) in rural Devon, and prior to her new role with ARC South West, she was working for Prof Rod Sheaff on the Third Sector Commissioning project. Her research interests include knowledge mobilisation (the focus of her PenCLAHRC PhD), voluntary sector healthcare organisations, realist methodology, language revitalisation and of course mental health. She supervises two PhD students, one at the University of Plymouth and one at Charles Darwin University.
Projects
- Coastal and Rural Mental Health Realist Study (CARMHRS)
- The South-West Community Mental Health Knowledge Mobilisation Network
- Community Builders Realist evaluation 
- Mental health inclusion realist synthesis: How, why, for whom, and under what circumstances do what interventions improve inclusion in mental health services for marginalised groups?
- The Realist Evaluation of the Community Engagement Project
- CAMHS goes wild
- Commissioning, Co-commissioning and Being Commissioned
- Community Mental Health Framework Pilot Evaluation
- One Mental Health Team realist evaluation project
- Torbay Wellbeing Engagement Project Evaluation: TWEP
- The Peninsula Mental Health Research Initiative (PenMHRI)
