Daniel Hind
- Position: Senior Research Fellow (Social Care Research and Development)
- Areas of expertise: Evaluation; Implementation Science; Quality Improvement; Intervention Development; Co-Design; HealthTech; Evidence Synthesis; Qualitative Research; Mixed-Methods; Qualitative Research; RCTs
- Email: D.Hind@leeds.ac.uk
- Website: ORCID
Profile
I am a social scientist with 25 years’ experience in applied health and care research. I have over 150 peer-reviewed publications, more than 8000 citations, a Google Scholar h-index of 43, and am associated with over £25m in research income. As Assistant Director of Sheffield Clinical Trials Research Unit between 2009 and 2025, I secured vital infrastructure for over 60 staff with a £2.5m annual turnover.
Based on the database Overton, my work is cited in more than 700 policy/practice guidelines worldwide, including 43 NICE guidelines. My support for NHS England-funded quality improvement work resulted in the adoption of two national indicators (IAP00610 and IAP00611) - relevant, actionable, and measurable information about quality of care and service performance.
My patient-led, equity-focused, Health Foundation-funded AWARE-IBD project received a 2024 British Society of Gastroenterology Service Improvement Award. I previously served on the NIHR HTA Clinical Evaluation and Trials committee (2019-2024) as an expert in randomised controlled trials, mixed-methods research and evidence synthesis, and currently serve on the NIHR Health and Social Care Delivery Research (NIHR) committee (2025-2028).
Research interests
Active Projects
- Devices For Dignity: Helping people live well for longer through health technologies and interventions – Methodological Innovation Theme Co-Lead.
- NIHR Three Schools Mental Health Awards: Perinatal Redesign for Accessing Mental Health Services (PRAMS): Using experience-based co-design to improve access to perinatal mental health care for women in underserved groups – Lead methodologist.
- NIHR207088: Giving Deaf people a voice: overcoming health inequalities in the Deaf community – Mentor for Chief Investigator.
- NIHR158715: Delivering Effective Non-Invasive ventilation in Motor neuron disease using intensive remote support (DENIM) – Implementation Scientist.
- NIHR133582: Prospective randomised controlled trial comparing three splints for finger flexor tendon repairs (FIRST study) – Process Evaluation Lead.
- Yorkshire Cancer Research: Early DETECTion of ColoRectal Cancer in Yorkshire (DETECT-CRC): Feasibility study assessing active case finding of colorectal cancer in socio-economically deprived areas – Co-Chief Investigator.
PhD students
- Asma Aldawood: Mobility Assistive Technology Provision in Saudi Arabian Healthcare: Identifying Barriers and Developing Implementation Strategies.
- Rachel Hawkins: Developing behavioural health system maps of the pathways to avoidable admissions in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A mixed methods participatory study.
- Catherine O’Connor: NIHR303582 Supported Inspiratory Muscle training (SIMT) for People with chronic obstructive puLmonary disease (COPD) who have dEclined pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR): A pilot randomised controlled trial (RCT) and process evaluation (SIMPLER).