Frances Rapport

Frances Rapport is a social scientist and professor of health implementation science whose research connects qualitative methods with healthcare delivery. At Macquarie University she has worked within the Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science and the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, while holding an honorary chair at Swansea University. Implementation Science, edited with Robyn Clay-Williams and Jeffrey Braithwaite, gathers more than sixty concise essays on translating evidence into practice. Routledge presents the volume as a guide to theory, methods, evaluation, sustainability, and human dimensions of service change. Rapport contributes expertise in methodological diversity and walking methods, reflecting her work in qualitative and mixed methods health research. Her career spans arts informed inquiry, medical sociology, and international collaboration, with projects in Australia and Britain. The book extends a research program concerned with how evidence is interpreted, adapted, and made useful within complex clinical settings.