Create Consultancy Ltd
Units 14 & 14A
Six Harmony Row
Glasgow
G51 3BA

Phone: 0141 445 5858
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Our Approach

At Create Consultancy not only do we have the expertise to carry out research and evaluation but we are committed to developing the capacity of the organisations we work with. Your organisation may wish to carry out some research but may not have the confidence or expertise to do so effectively.

With Create, you don't have to lose control of your research, we can support you through the research process with training and mentoring so that you gain skills and confidence and can effectively lead your own project. This is a more cost-effective and often more rewarding process for our clients and for us!

Dr. Niamh Fitzgerald, Managing Director

Niamh Fitzgerald

Lead on drug/alcohol prevention & education, brief interventions & motivational interviewing.

Niamh Fitzgerald is an experienced health improvement specialist with extensive qualitative research experience. Niamh has specialised in health improvement on substance misuse issues and has led a number of related qualitative research projects including national reviews. These have included semi-structured one to one interviews with adults and young people, mini-groups and focus groups as well as open and closed questionnaires.

Niamh’s PhD which she completed in 2003, included an extensive review of the theory and practice of qualitative research and specifically considered the steps that can be taken to enhance research quality. Since establishing Create in 2004, Niamh has had a number of relevant commissions including the provision of training to academic staff in The Robert Gordon University on qualitative research methods. In 2004/05, she provided training, mentoring and ongoing support to a team of staff at Health Spot Castlemilk to enable them to carry out a questionnaire and interview-based study of young people’s substance misuse behaviour and needs.

In 2005/06, Niamh was employed by The Robert Gordon University as a Senior Research Fellow and project manager for a large-scale qualitative research study in community pharmacies. This included focus groups and interviews with frontline pharmacy staff and telephone interviews with members of the public. The public interviews included pharmacy clients who had been identified as having an alcohol problem some of whom chose to engage with a brief intervention and some who declined.

Niamh has provided quality assurance to a wide range of research projects for Create including the review of youth health services for NHSGGC and the national review of Hepatitis C education. She has also recently carried out extensive interviews with practitioners and managers in a national study of midwifery practice relating to alcohol.

She has a proven ability to manage and implement large, complex research projects and to write clear, readable, useful reports.