Dr Lauralie Richard

Position	Senior Research Fellow
Department	Department of General Practice and Rural Health (Dunedin)
Qualifications	BSc(Hons) PhD
Research summary	Health care delivery research
Memberships	Member, Centre for Health Systems and Technology, University of Otago Member, Centre for Global Migration, University of Otago Executive Committee, Australasian Association for Academic Primary Care Member, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing

Research

Dr Lauralie Richard is a Research Fellow at the Department of General Practice and Rural Health, Dunedin School of Medicine.

Lauralie completed a PhD in Nursing (2014, Université de Montréal, Canada) and a 2-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Australia (2014-2016). Lauralie maintains strong collaborations within international research networks. She holds ongoing honorary University appointments at the Faculty of Nursing, Université de Montréal (Honorary Associate Professor), and the Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne (Honorary Research Fellow).

Lauralie conducts health care delivery research – both primary empirical research and evidence synthesis – using a range of qualitative and mixed research methodologies. Her research expertise covers:

Innovative service delivery models to promote health equity for people with high and complex needs
Access to health care and service integration for vulnerable populations
Health care delivery to refugees and migrants

Her key methodological interests include innovative implementation research methodologies and developments in qualitative research designs and methods, including stakeholder engagement and co-design approaches. She has particular expertise in visualisation methods to study health care network integration, timeline mapping of complex health care experiences and patients’ journeys, qualitative process evaluations in trials of complex interventions, realist evaluation designs and methods, as well as evidence synthesis. Her theoretical interests cover the use of social and critical theory to support analysis of complex health care interventions and strengthen research designs.

Current and previous funded research projects as Principal Investigator include:

"Delivering primary health care to refugees in New Zealand’s Southern Health District: a qualitative study" (Dean's Bequest, University of Otago)
"Refugee health delivery in the Southern Health District: an innovative qualitative study involving research co-design" (University of Otago Research Grant)
"Understanding health needs and ways of doing culturally responsive research with people from refugee backgrounds" (Health Care Otago Charitable Trust)
"Teleconsulting for Inflammatory Bowel Disease in rural areas of the Southern Health District: qualitative process evaluation of an effectiveness Randomised Controlled Trial and interview study of adults with Inflammatory Bowel Disease" (Health Care Otago Charitable Trust)

Publications

Sreedhar, S., Richard, L., & Stokes, T. (2019). Multimorbidity and multiple social disadvantage in a New Zealand high-needs free primary healthcare clinic population: A cross-sectional study. New Zealand Medical Journal, 132(1490), 42-51. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal

Richard, L., Richardson, G., Jaye, C., & Stokes, T. (2019). Providing care to refugees through mainstream general practice in the southern health region of New Zealand: A qualitative study of primary healthcare professionals’ perspectives. BMJ Open, 9, e034323. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034323

Palmer, V. J., Weavell, W., Callander, R., Piper, D., Richard, L., Maher, L., … Robert, G. (2019). The participatory Zeitgeist: An explanatory theoretical model of change in an era of coproduction and codesign in healthcare improvement. Medical Humanities, 45, 247-257. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2017-011398

Rouleau, G., Richard, L., Côté, J., Gagnon, M.-P., & Pelletier, J. (2019). Nursing practice to support people living with HIV with antiretroviral therapy adherence: A qualitative study. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 30(4), e20-e37. doi: 10.1097/JNC.0000000000000103

Richardson, A., Richard, L., Gunter, K., & Derrett, S. (2019). Interventions to integrate care for people with serious mental illness and substance use disorders: A systematic scoping review protocol. BMJ Open, 9, e031122. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031122

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Richard, L., & Gendron, S. (2015). La pratique d'interface en contexte de vulnérabilité sociale: Les défis pour le développement professionnel des infirmières au croisement de l'intervention sociale et de santé. In J. Gosselin, P. S. Greenman & M. Joanisse (Eds.), Le développement professionnel en soins de santé primaires au Canada: Nouveaux défis. (pp. 85-97). Canada: Presses de l'Université du Québec.

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Richard, L., Piper, D., Weavell, W., Callander, R., Iedema, R., Furler, J., … Palmer, V. J. (2017). Advancing engagement methods for trials: The CORE study relational model of engagement for a stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial of experience-based co-design for people living with severe mental illnesses. Trials, 18, 169. doi: 10.1186/s13063-017-1878-7

Richard, L., Furler, J., Densley, K., Haggerty, J., Russell, G., Levesque, J.-F., & Gunn, J. (2016). Equity of access to primary healthcare for vulnerable populations: The IMPACT international online survey of innovations. International Journal for Equity in Health, 15, 64. doi: 10.1186/s12939-016-0351-7

Gendron, S., & Richard, L. (2015). La modélisation systémique en analyse qualitative: Un potentiel de pensée innovante. Recherches Qualitatives, 17(Hors-Série), 78-97.

Palmer, V. J., and the CORE Study Team, including Richard, L. (2015). Getting to the CORE of the links between engagement, experience and recovery outcomes. newparadigm, (Summer), 41-45.

Richard, L. (2015). Recherche qualitative d'une pratique infirmière d'interface en contexte de vulnérabilité sociale: Résultats empiriques et réflexion méthodologique [Jean-Marie-Van-der-Maren Award 2014]. Recherches Qualitatives, 34(1), 196-222.

Richard, L., Gendron, S., & Cara, C. (2012). Modélisation de la pratique infirmière comme système complexe: Une analyse des conceptions de théoriciennes en sciences infirmières. Aporia, 4(4), 25-39.

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Stokes, T., Atmore, C., Penno, E., Richard, L., Wyeth, E., Richards, R., Doolan-Noble, F., Gray, A. R., Sullivan, T., & Gauld, R. (2019). Protocol for a mixed methods realist evaluation of regional District Health Board groupings in New Zealand. BMJ Open, 9, e030076. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030076

Palmer, V. J., Piper, D., Richard, L., Furler, J., Herrmann, H., Cameron, J., … Iedema, R. (2016). Balancing opposing forces: A nested process evaluation study protocol for a stepped wedge designed cluster randomized controlled trial of an experience based codesign intervention: The CORE Study. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 15(1), 1609406916672216 . doi: 10.1177/1609406916672216

Palmer, V. J., Chondros, P., Piper, D., Callander, R., Weavell, W., Godbee, K., … Richard, L., … Gunn, J. (2015). The CORE study protocol: A stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial to test a co-design technique to optimise psychosocial recovery outcomes for people affected by mental illness in the community mental health setting. BMJ Open, 5(3), e006688. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006688

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