Field of work
David Richards is an experienced nurse and health services researcher. He is author of more than 290 peer reviewed and professional journal articles, books and book chapters. He is joint editor of the book 'Complex Interventions in Health', and has obtained more than £14m (NOK 167m) in external research funding during his career. He undertakes research into complex healthcare interventions including systematic reviews, pilot and feasibility trials, full scale clinical trials and mixed method studies that integrate experimentally-derived outcomes data with findings from observational qualitative studies.
David is an emeritus Senior Investigator in the UK’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Faculty. He has been at the forefront of national and international efforts to improve access to treatment for those suffering from high-prevalence mental health problems such as depression, leading the development of the low-intensity treatment methods. He was a Clinical Informatics Advisor to the UK Department of Health from 2008-2011. He has also worked and published extensively on the evidence base for fundamental nursing care. Until recently, he was President of the European Academy of Nursing Science and Head of Nursing at the University of Exeter, UK.
Between 2020-2022, he was chief investigator of the NIHR funded ‘COVID-NURSE’ cluster randomised controlled clinical trial, evaluating a pandemic-specific clinical nursing protocol used by nurses caring for patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19.
Courses taught
Health Services Research
Fundamental Nursing Care
Clinical Trials
Systematic Reviews
Research Methods
Research areas
Primary care mental health
Fundamental Nursing Care
Low-intensity psychological therapies
Mixed methods research methods
Research groups
Diabest
Publications
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Prevalence of impaired awareness of hypoglycaemia and associated factors in adults with type 1 diabetes: A nationwide, population based registry study
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Development and validation of a prognostic model to predict relapse in adults with remitted depression in primary care: secondary analysis of pooled individual participant data from multiple studies
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Prevalence and risk factors for impaired awareness of hypoglycaemia: A registry-based study of 10,202 adults with type 1 diabetes in Norway
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Examining the involvement of guardians of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Tanzania as public contributors to inform the design and conduct of the GuardiansCan project: A mixed-methods study protocol
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Presentation of the first international research network to foster high-quality clinical trials testing non-pharmacological interventions (TRACTION network)