Carl May is professor of medical sociology and leads the health technologies and human relations research programme in the Centre for Health Services Research - University of Newcastle, UK. Carl’s principal research interest is in the sociology of medical knowledge and practice, and the social production of clinical evidence.

Catherine Exley is lecturer in medical sociology and works within the health technologies and human relations research programme, lead by Professor May, in the Centre for Health Services Research, University of Newcastle, UK. In ReBEQI she is leading and co-ordinating the fieldwork for Workpackage 5 across Europe.

Martin is Professor of Clinical Effectiveness and the William Leach Professor of Primary Care Research at the Centre for Health Services Research, School of Population and Health Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He runs the Clinical Effectiveness research programme. Martin's part in the ReBEQI project is to develop methods that help develop better QI interventions.

Eileen Kaner is a behavioural scientist whose research programme focuses on professional behaviour and change in primary health care. Her longstanding research on getting evidence-based interventions into routine practice in primary care has led to an increasing interest in linking process to outcome in implementation and quality improvement (QI) research.

Dr. Grimshaw is the Director of the Clinical Epidemiology Program of the Ottawa Health Research Institute and Director of the Centre for Best Practice, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa. He holds a Tier 1 Canadian Research Chair in Health Knowledge Transfer and Uptake and is a Full Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa.

Jan Legge is Personal Assistant to Martin Eccles, Professor of Clinical Effectiveness and Carl May Professor of Medical Sociology. She joined the Centre for Health Services Research at Newcastle University in 2001. Jan is currently in her 2nd year of a BA in Business Management.

Researchers involved in WP5- Evaluation of partners' QI program selection, design and impact

Dr Alison Steven (Italian arm of WP5)

Dr Myriem el Maizi (French arm of WP5)

Dr Tim Rapley

Tim Rapley is a social science researcher who works within the Health Technologies and Human Relations research programme, lead by Professor May. Tim is working with Carl, Cath, Alison and Myriem to explore the sociogenesis of QI research questions, and the relationship between researchers' intellectual biographies and the policy and professional contexts in which their work is developed.

Alison Steven is a social science and education researcher working within the health technologies and human relations research programme, lead by Professor May, in the Centre for Health Services Research, University of Newcastle, UK. In ReBEQI she is leading the fieldwork for Workpackage 5 in Italy.