Professor Martin Knapp

Director of PSSRU at LSE; Professor of Social Policy; Director of the NIHR School for Social Care Research

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Research Interests

Martin Knapp is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He has also been Director of the NIHR School for Social Care Research since 2009. His current research emphases are primarily dementia, child and adult mental health, autism and long-term social care; much of his work has an economic focus, and in all of it he seeks to tease out the policy implications. He has published almost 600 peer-review journal papers and 15 books. His work has had numerous impacts on policy and practice in these areas.

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Martin Knapp's Publications

Journal Articles

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Advance care planning in England: Is there an association with place of death? Secondary analysis of data from the National Survey of Bereaved People (2016)

Dixon J, Knapp M, King D

BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care

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Defeating Alzheimer's disease and other dementias: a priority for European science and society (2016)

Winblad B, Amouyel P, Andrieu S, Ballard C, Brayne C, Brodaty H, Cedazo-Minguez A, Dubois B, Edvardsson D, Feldman H, Fratiglioni L, Frisoni G, Gauthier S, Georges J, Graff C, Iqbal K, Jessen F, Johansson G, Jönsson L, Kivipelto M, Knapp M, Mangialasche F, Melis R, Nordberg A, Rikkert M, Qiu C, Sakmar T, Scheltens P, Schneider L, Sperling R, Tjernberg L, Waldemar G, Wimo A, Zetterberg H

The Lancet Neurology 15, 5

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Service use and access in young children with an intellectual disability or global developmental delay: Associations with challenging behaviour (2016)

Adams D, Handley L, Simkiss D, Walls E, Jones A, Knapp M, Romeo R, Oliver C

Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability

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Economic evaluation of mental health interventions: an introduction to cost-utility analysis (2016)

Luyten J, Naci H, Knapp M

Evidence-Based Mental Health 19, 2, 49-53

Evidence-Based Mental Health

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Evaluating the economic impact of screening and treatment for depression in the workplace (2016)

Evans-Lacko S, Koeser L, Knapp M, Longhitano C, Zohar J, Kuhn K

European Neuropsychopharmacology 26, 6, 1004-1013

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Circles of Support and personalization: Exploring the economic case (2016)

Wistow G, Perkins M, Knapp M, Bauer A, Bonin E

Journal of Intellectual Disabilities 20, 2, 194-207

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Commentary: Chorozoglou M, Smith E, Koerting J, et al., preschool hyperactivity is associated with long-term economic burden: evidence from a longitudinal health economic analysis of costs incurred across childhood, adolescence and young adulthood (2016)

Knapp M

Evidence-Based Mental Health 19, 1, 30

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Cost-effectiveness of donepezil and memantine in moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease (the DOMINO-AD trial) (2016)

Knapp M, King D, Romeo R, Adams J, Baldwin A, Ballard C, Banerjee S, Barber R, Bentham P, Brown R, Burns A, Dening T, Findlay D, Holmes C, Johnson T, Jones R, Katona C, Lindesay J, Macharouthu A, McKeith I, McShane R, O'Brien J, Phillips P, Sheehan B, Howard R

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

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Predictors of care home and hospital admissions and their costs for older people with Alzheimer's disease: findings from a large London case register (2016)

Knapp M, Chua K-C, Broadbent M, Chang C, Fernández J-L, Milea D, Romeo R, Lovestone S, Spencer M, Thompson G, Stewart R, Hayes R

BMJ Open 6, 11, e013591

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Positive behavioural support in schools for children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities whose behaviour challenges: An exploration of the economic case (2016)

Iemmi V, Knapp M, Brown FJ

Journal of Intellectual Disabilities 20, 3, 281-295

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Preschool hyperactivity increases costs into early adulthood (2016)

Knapp M

Evidence-Based Mental Health , 19:30

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Lifetime costs of perinatal anxiety and depression (2016)

Bauer A, Knapp M, Parsonage M

Journal of Affective Disorders 192, 83-90

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Perceptions of unmet needs for community social care services in England. A comparison of working carers and the people they care for (2016)

Brimblecombe N, Pickard L, King D, Knapp M

Health and Social Care in the Community

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Effects of digital engagement on the quality of life of older people (2016)

Damant J, Knapp M, Freddolino P, Lombard D

Health and Social Care in the Community

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Early intervention for first-episode psychosis: broadening the scope of economic estimates (2016)

Park A, McCrone P, Knapp M

Early Intervention in Psychiatry 10, 2, 144-151

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Numbers of working carers whose employment is ‘at risk’ in England (2015)

King D, Pickard L, Brimblecombe N, Knapp M

Research, Policy and Planning 31, 1, 29-42

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Changing practice in dementia care in the community: developing and testing evidence-based interventions, from timely diagnosis to end of life (EVIDEM) (2015)

Iliffe S, Wilcock J, Drennan V, Goodman C, Griffin M, Knapp M, Lowery D, Manthorpe J, Rait G, Warner J

Programme Grants for Applied Research 3, 3

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Are different measures of depressive symptoms in old age comparable? An analysis of the CES-D and Euro-D scales in 13 countries (2015)

Courtin E, Knapp M, Grundy E, Avendano-Pabon M

International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research 24, 4, 287-304

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Social isolation, loneliness and health in old age: a scoping review (2015)

Courtin E, Knapp M

Health and Social Care in the Community

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Untangling the complexity of funding recommendations: a comparative analysis of health technology assessment outcomes in four European countries (2015)

Cerri K, Knapp M, Fernandez JL

Pharmaceutical Medicine 29, 6, 341-359

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