Ben is Senior Lecturer in Health Research at Keele University. He is a qualitative and mixed methods researcher, with particular interest in the development and testing of complex interventions to improve primary care and self-management for people with long-term health conditions, as well as in advancements in the use of qualitative research methods. Ben is currently Principal- and Co-investigator on several research studies/programmes in the fields of mental health, young people’s health and IBD/ stoma care. Ben is Co-Editor of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology.