Professor Carolyn Tarrant
University of Leicester
Lead for stage 1 c
Professor of Health Services Research
carolyn.tarrant@leicester.ac.uk
www.le.ac.uk
Institution information:
The University of Leicester is a leading UK university committed to international excellence through the creation of world changing research and high quality, inspirational teaching. Leicester is consistently one of the most socially inclusive of the UK’s leading universities with a long-standing commitment to providing fairer and equal access to higher education.
Individual Information:
I am Professor of Health Services Research at the University of Leicester. I have a background in psychology, and expertise in qualitative methods including ethnographic methods in healthcare improvement research, conducting qualitative research to inform the development of interventions to improve healthcare, and qualitative process evaluation of programmes and interventions.
I have particular interests in AMR and antibiotic overuse, and researching acute care settings.
I am Principal Investigator for the iSAMPLE project, and have led qualitative research on URKI-funded studies of broad-spectrum antibiotic use in hospitals internationally, and antibiotic stewardship in UK health care settings. I am Associate Editor for the Journal JAC-AMR.