Becoming Research-Active in the Social Determinants of Health: a complexity-informed study of intelligent accountability in organisational culture change in local government

This work seeks to develop understanding of how local authorities can be supported to develop their own research infrastructure to address the social determinants of health. It uses a range of qualitative methods to evaluate initiatives which aimed to encourage research-active cultures in local government. It explores how public health leaders conceptualise what it means to be research-active on an organisational level. It then builds on this groundwork to understand the processes involved in developing collaborative, inter-organisational relationships to transform local authority research cultures