Realist Lab
Scientific support
We are currently providing scientific support to the following projects:
the Lichtpuntjes project at Rutgers Foundation Netherlands on youth mental health (from June 2026, ongoing);
the Patroondiagnostiek project at Parnassia Group (GGZ) Netherlands on transforming diagnostics in mental health care (from September 2025, ongoing);
a realist evaluation to understand the implementation of EORTC PROMs in clinical practice: an implementation science project.
We conducted realist evaluations for AFD, Enabel, Danida, IFRC, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the World Bank, and DNDi.
We have been members of the organising committee of all international realist evaluation conferences, and co-chaired the Methodsnet conference 2025 (UCL).
We have been organising workshops on realist evaluation and realist research at various editions of the International Conferences on Realist evaluation, research and synthesis, at the Global Symposia on Health Systems Research and at the request of agencies and research institutions.
Contact
Bruno Marchal
✉ bmarchal@itg.be
Sara Van Belle
✉ svanbelle@itg.be