Context Realist evaluation is increasingly employed in health professions education
research (HPER) because it can unpack the extent to which complex educational …

Medical Education 2012: 46: 89–96 Context Education is a complex intervention which
produces different outcomes in different circumstances. Education researchers have long …

Pawson and Tilley suggest a unique strategy for conducting qualitative interviews within
realist evaluation studies. Theories are placed before the interviewee for them to comment …

Realist evaluation is a method increasingly adopted to provide an understanding of how and
why a program works, for whom, and under what circumstances. Initial program theories …

The nature, direction, possibilities and methods of realist evaluation continue to be debated.
The ideas have long since taken on a life of their own. The ideas have been refined, applied …

A realist review is a theory-driven approach to literature synthesis that seeks to evaluate the
effectiveness of interventions in a contextualized way. Realist research, which includes …

Introduction A realist literature review involves iterative processes, with searches, appraisal
and synthesis occurring simultaneously. Whilst this lends itself to theory development, the …

Realist evaluation methodology aims to understand social programmes by revealing what
works, for whom, in what circumstances, and how and why. Realist evaluation starts with …

Background: Many of the problems confronting policy-and decision-makers, evaluators and
researchers today are complex, as are the interventions designed to tackle them. Their …

Realist synthesis is an increasingly popular approach in reviewing and synthesising
evidence for a range of different interventions and activities in health and social care …