Professor Julie Hepworth is Director of Research and Professor in the School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology. She is a public health psychologist with research interests in health services research and patients' experiences, health policy, and qualitative and mixed methodology. Professor Hepworth has published extensively in theoretical and applied areas of primary health care and public health, including a recent book chapter on the use of the research interview to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in June (2016).