Rate My Professor Tracy Finch

Professor Tracy Finch is Professor of Healthcare & Implementation Science in the Department of Nursing, Midwifery & Health within the School of Healthcare and Nursing Sciences at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle. She joined the university in November 2017, having previously held academic appointments at the University of Manchester and Newcastle University. Finch earned her PhD from Deakin University, Australia, in 1999, and possesses a background in health psychology and nursing. Her research focuses on implementation science, including the theory and tools necessary to understand and support the implementation of complex interventions in health, social care, and wellbeing contexts. As a co-developer of Normalization Process Theory (NPT), she has pioneered practical resources such as the NoMAD tool for measuring implementation outcomes and the ItFits-toolkit from the ImpleMentAll project for tailored implementation strategies.

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.