Dr Naomi Klepacz

Dr Naomi Klepacz is a Health Services Researcher with a background in occupational health psychology.  Her research explores the occupational mental health and wellbeing of NHS staff, examining how organisational and psychosocial workplace factors influence quality of work life, staff retention, and patient outcomes.

Naomi is an experienced mixed-methods researcher, with expertise in survey design, interviews, focus groups, thematic analysis and realist methodologies.  She applies these approaches to evaluate complex healthcare workforce challenges and interventions.  Naomi also has extensive experience in impact generation and evidencing, knowledge exchange and patient and public involvement.

Before joining the University of Exeter, Naomi researched on multiple health service research projects, evaluating workforce interventions and contributing to national policy discussions at the University of Southampton and University of Surrey.  She also served as Senior Impact Officer at the University of Surrey, leading the institution’s REF 2021 impact submission.

Naomi is currently working on Understanding why Resident Doctors leave the NHS and what can be done to retain them: A realist synthesis, an NIHR-HSDR funded project led by Dr Anna Melvin.