Kristin Konnyu, PhD, is a Lecturer in Implementation Science in the Aberdeen Centre for Evaluation (ACE), University of Aberdeen. Prior to this role, Kristin was an Assistant Professor at Brown University where she led multiple systematic reviews for the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality as part of Brown’s Evidence Based Practice unit. She is interested in the design, evaluation, and synthesis of complex interventions to address complex health and social problems, and in particular, ensuring primary studies are designed up front to support evidence synthesis and subsequent decision-making needs.
Kristin has contributed methodological research to advance the conduct of reviews across the evidence synthesis spectrum, including rapid reviews, meta-regression models for complex interventions, methods for contacting primary study authors for missing information, and methods for imputing missing instracluster correlation coefficients for cluster-randomised trials.
She has also advanced methods in the use and comparison of diverse taxonomies to code the content of complex interventions and approaches for coding the determinants of implementation. Her background spans multiple disciplines, including basic sciences, rehabilitation, education, epidemiology, and psychology, shaping her strong interdisciplinary and mixed-methods approach. Kristin is a methods editor with the Campbell Collaboration Climate Solutions Coordinating Group and is interested in applying evidence synthesis and implementation approaches to climate change mitigation and adaptation initiatives.