MsZoe McCormack

Zoe McCormack is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Health Professions Education Centre, working on the HUGS@Home project. Her work focuses on health professions education, co-design methodologies, eating disorders, and mental health training. She recently completed her PhD, which looked at what works in mental health education for health profession students. 

Zoe's research interests include implementation science, realist methodology, co-design, mental health literacy, and improving healthcare professionals' preparedness to support individuals with complex mental health conditions. Her doctoral research incorporated mixed and multi-method approaches, including co-design workshops, quantitative evaluation, and qualitative inquiry, to develop and evaluate innovative educational interventions.

She has experience in designing, delivering, and evaluating health education programmes and has contributed to research across mental health, eating disorders, and healthcare workforce development. Her work has received recognition through nominations and shortlisting for national healthcare awards in research and co-design. Zoe is committed to collaborative, person-centred research that bridges evidence, lived experience, and practice to improve healthcare education and patient outcomes.

Research interests: Health professions education; eating disorders; co-design; realist evaluation; implementation science; mental health literacy; mixed and multi-method research; healthcare workforce development.