Rate My Professor Tracy Finch

Finch's contributions include leading process evaluations for complex intervention trials across diverse health areas. Her highly cited publications encompass "Implementing, embedding, and integrating practices: An outline of Normalization Process Theory" (2009, Sociology), "Development of a theory of implementation and integration: Normalization Process Theory" (2009), and "Normalisation process theory: a framework for developing, evaluating, and implementing complex interventions" (2010), contributing to over 11,700 Scopus citations. Recent outputs include "A cluster randomised controlled trial, process and economic evaluation of two large-scale quality improvement interventions embedded with a national clinical audit to improve the care for young adults with type 2 diabetes (EQUIPD2): Study protocol" (2026, Implementation Science) and "Insights from healthcare professionals on enhancing fatigue management in chronic conditions: a qualitative study" (2026, Disability and Rehabilitation). She leads NIHR-funded initiatives such as IDEAS (2025-2030), REFUEL-MS (2022-2027) on fatigue self-management in multiple sclerosis, and EQUIPD (2022-2025) on diabetes care. In March 2026, she was appointed an NIHR Senior Investigator for her research leadership, receiving £15,000 annual funding for four years. Finch supervises PhD research on implementation and self-management and delivered an invited talk on NPT at the ASME AGM in 2019.