NIHR SSCR's Webinar Series showcases the School's commissioned research and capacity-building activities. The Series also aims to showcase relevant social care research funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).

Methods Webinar: Overview of the new framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions

Speakers: Kathryn Skivington and Kathleen Anne Boyd, University of Glasgow

The MRC guidance on evaluating complex interventions was first published in 2000 and updated in 2006. Since this time interest in complex interventions has grown rapidly, and there have been important conceptual, methodological and theoretical developments which signalled a need to update the core guidance again, linking it with related developments, and addressing some of the remaining gaps in the previous guidance.

In October 2021 the new MRC and NIHR framework for the development and evaluation of complex interventions was published authored by Dr Kathryn Skivington and Dr Kathleen Boyd.

This webinar will provide an overview of the new guidance update:

Dr Skivington will summarise the updates relating to the four research perspectives, four phases of research, and the six new core elements to consider in your complex intervention research.

Dr Boyd will provide an overview of the guidance in terms of economic analyses of complex interventions, covering the key economic elements, and the implications and considerations for using the guidance in practice.

Following these presentations there will be a group discussion on developing capacity for evaluating complex interventions in social care.

Dr Kathryn Skivington is Research Fellow in the MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Unit, Institute of Health & Wellbeing, at the University of Glasgow.

Dr Kathleen Anne Boyd is Reader in Health Economics & Health Technology Assessment, Institute of Health & Wellbeing, at the University of Glasgow.

NIHR SSCR's Webinars are free to attend with pre-registration.