Dr Jill Russell, BSc Econ MSc FHEA

Profile

I have a first degree in Social Policy from Cardiff University, an MSc in Information Technology from QMUL, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. I have a broad background in health and social policy research and evaluation from a variety of research and evaluation posts in academic, local government and voluntary sector organisations, including the Institute of Education, Cardiff University, UCL, the London Research Centre, and Charities Evaluation Services. I joined QMUL in 2011 and am a member of the Methodology Research Unit in the Centre for Evaluation and Methods. From 2013 - 2023 I was an advisor for the NIHR Research Design Service and the qualitative methods lead for the London team. I am an institutional co-lead at QMUL for the NIHR Research Support Service Imperial and Partners Hub, and a member of the qualitative methods team for the Hub. I have helped develop and deliver a module on qualitative research methods for the MSc in Health Data in Practice.

Research

Research Interests:

My research interests include qualitative research and evaluation methodologies, and a particular interest in linguistic ethnography and discourse analysis. Recent projects include a rhetorical policy analysis of deliberations about resource allocation in the NHS, and a mixed methods evaluation of an e-learning intervention to improve employee well-being. 

Research Groups:

•  NIHR Research Support Service Imperial College London and Partners Hub

Publications

Outstanding publications:

Russell J, Fudge N, Greenhalgh T (2020) The impact of public involvement in health research: what are we measuring? Why are we measuring it? Should we stop measuring it?. Research Involvement and Engagement vol. 6, (1).

Russell J, Berney L, Stansfeld SA, Lanz D, Kerry S, Chandola T and Bhui K. (2016) The role of qualitative research in adding value to a randomised controlled trial: lessons from a pilot study of a guided e-learning intervention for managers to improve employee wellbeing and reduce sickness absence. Trials DOI 10.1186/s13063-016-1497-8. 17:396.

Russell J, Swinglehurst D, Greenhalgh T (2014) ‘Cosmetic boob jobs’ or evidence-based breast surgery. An interpretive policy analysis of the rationing of ‘low value’ treatments in the English National Health Service.  BMC Health Services Research.  14: 413.

Dhedhi SA, Swinglehurst D, Russell J.  (2014) ‘Timely’ diagnosis of dementia: what does it mean?  A narrative analysis of GPs’ accounts.  BMJ Open. 4:e004439. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-004439

Russell J and Greenhalgh  T. (2013) Being ‘rational’ and being ‘human’: How NHS rationing decisions are constructed as rational by resource allocation panels.   Health: an interdisciplinary journal for the social study of health, illness and medicine, DOI: 10.1177/1363459313507586.

Russell J and Greenhalgh T (2012) Affordability as a discursive accomplishment in a changing National Health Service.  Social Science and Medicine 75: 2463-2471.