Table 1

Three researcher-in-residence case studies

	WEL evaluation	UCLH ERT	Bristol KM
Team composition and expertise	1 full-time researcher (social scientist)	Originally two full-time researchers (anthropologist and operational researcher). Team later reconfigured to include five part-time members (two anthropologists, two operational researchers and one health economist)	Two researchers working 1 day a week (anthropologist and mixed-methods researcher) plus two local healthcare commissioners (policy-making transformation teams)
Team supervision	1 senior academic based at UCL	3 senior academics based at UCL	1 Senior Research Fellow who also acted as a researcher-in-residence
Duration	Initially 2 years, then extended for a further year	3 years	2-year contracts, team ran for 3 years
Team university affiliation	Improvement Science team, Department of Primary Care and Population Health, UCL	Department of Applied Health Research and Clinical Operational Research Unit, UCL	Centre for Academic Primary Care, Bristol University
Funding source	NHS Commissioners from the WEL IC programme partners	NIHR RCF funding administered by UCLH	NIHR RCF funding administered by the Avon Primary Care Research Collaborative
Setting (host organisation/s)	Nine organisations participating in WEL IC programme in East London	UCLH NHS Foundation Trust	Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group, Centre for Academic Primary Care, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset Clinical Commissioning Groups

NHS, National Health Service; NIHR RCF, National Institute for Health Research Research Capability Funding; UCLH ERT, University College London Hospital Embedded Research Team; WEL, Waltham Forest and East London.