Catherine is an expert in qualitative and mixed methods for applied health research, and a key contributor to developing methods for evidence synthesis. She has published empirical, theoretical, and methodological work, including over 160 peer reviewed journal and conference papers for clinical, sociological, policy and practitioner audiences.  She is co-editor of ‘Pope and Mays’ Qualitative research in health care (4th edition Oxford: Wiley 2020). She is co-author of Organisational innovation in health services: lessons from the NHS treatment centres (2011, Bristol: Palgrave) and Synthesizing qualitative and quantitative health evidence (2007, Buckingham: Open University Press).

Catherine’s current research includes projects about: access to general practice; urgent care and triage and assessment, a programme developing and co-producing better models of care for people with fibromyalgia (funded by Versus Arthritis and led by colleagues in the University of Aberdeen); OPTIMIST programme and SAMUEL2 project looking at a new life saving surgical and medical interventions for stroke and how services and practice may need to be reconfigured to deliver it.

Her research interests encompass organisational change in health care, service delivery and reconfiguration, workforce and work in health services, and the impact of digital and Web technologies on health care and services.