Professor Martin Knapp

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

020 7955 6225

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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

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Joining up government by integrating funding streams? The experiences of the Individual Budget pilot projects for older and disabled people in England (2011)

Moran N, Glendinning C, Stevens M, Manthorpe J, Jacobs S, Wilberforce M, Knapp M, Challis D, Fernández J-L, Jones K, Netten A

International Journal of Public Administration 34, 4, 232-243

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The economic consequences of deinstitutionalisation of mental health services: lessons from a systematic review of European experience (2011)

Knapp M, Beecham J, McDaid D, Matosevic T, Smith M

Health and Social Care in the Community 19, 2, 113-125

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Individual budgets and adult safeguarding: Parallel or converging tracks? Further findings from the evaluation of the Individual Budget pilots (2011)

Manthorpe J, Stevens M, Rapaport J, Challis D, Jacobs S, Netten A, Jones K, Knapp M, Wilberforce M, Glendinning C

Journal of Social Work 11, 4, 422-438

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Assessing the role of increasing choice in English social care services (2011)

Stevens M, Glendinning C, Jacobs S, Moran N, Challis D, Manthorpe J, Fernández J-L, Jones K, Knapp M, Netten A, Wilberforce M

Journal of Social Policy 40, 2, 257-274

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Does ambient intelligence lead to e-inclusion of older people? (2010)

Damant J, Freddolino P, Knapp M, Ellis M, Mitleton-Kelly E

Gerontechnology 9, 2, 207

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View from the top: Why social care reform needs a foundation of robust research (2010)

Knapp M, Mehta A

Research Fortnight

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Effects of the implementation of the web-based patient support system on staff’s attitudes towards computers and IT use: a randomised controlled trial (2010)

Koivunen M, Välimäki M, Patel A, Knapp M, Hätönen H, Kuosmanen L, Pitkänen A, Anttila M, Katajisto J

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences 24, 3, 592-599

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A systematic review of outcome measures used in forensic mental health research with consensus panel opinion (2010)

Fitzpatrick R, Chambers J, Burns T, Doll H, Fazel S, Jenkinson C, Kaur A, Knapp M, Sutton L, Yiend J

Health Technology Assessment 14, 18, 1-94

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Making the case for investing in child and adolescent mental health: how can economics help? (2010)

McDaid D, Park A, Knapp M, Losert C, Kilian R

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion 12, 4, 37-44

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Cost-effectiveness analysis and child and adolescent mental health problems (2010)

Kilian R, Losert C, McDaid D, Park A, Knapp M

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion 12, 4, 45-57

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Social care services in England: policy evolution, current debates and market structure (2010)

Fernández J-L, Snell T, Knapp M

Cuadernos Aragoneses de Economia 19, 265-282

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Service use and cost of mental disorder in older adults with intellectual disability (2010)

Strydom A, Romeo R, Perez-Achiaga N, Livingston G, King M, Knapp M, Hassiotis A

British Journal of Psychiatry 196, 2, 133-138

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Maintenance Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) for dementia: a single-blind, multi-centre, randomized controlled trial of Maintenance CST vs. CST for dementia (2010)

Aguirre E, Spector A, Hoe J, Russell I, Knapp M, Woods R, Orrell M

Trials 11, 1, 46

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Black-skies planning? Prioritising mental health services in times of austerity (2010)

McDaid D, Knapp M

British Journal of Psychiatry 196, 6, 423-424

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The cost of relapse for patients with a manic/mixed episode of bipolar disorder in the EMBLEM study (2010)

Hong J, Reed C, Novick D, Haro J, Windmeijer F, Knapp M

Pharmacoeconomics 28, 7, 555-566

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Cognitive remediation therapy in schizophrenia: cost-effectiveness analysis (2010)

Patel A, Knapp M, Romeo R, Reeder C, Matthiasson P, Everitt B, Wykes T

Schizophrenia Research 120, 1-3, 217-224

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Dementia: a new global epidemic? (2010)

Knapp M

Maturitas 67, 3, 193-4

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The economic impact of initiatives to reduce stigma: demonstration of a modelling approach (2010)

McCrone P, Knapp M, Henri M, McDaid D

Epidemiologia e Psichiatria Sociale 19, 2, 131-139

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Overcoming the barriers experienced in conducting a medication trial in adults with aggressive challenging behaviour and intellectual disabilities (2010)

Oliver-Africano P, Dickens S, Ahmed Z, Bouras N, Cooray S, Deb S, Knapp M, Hare M, Meade M, Reece B, Bhaumik S, Harley D, Piachaud J, Regan A, Ade Thomas D, Karatela S, Rao B, Dzendrowskyj T, Lenôtre L, Watson J, Tyrer P

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research 54, 1, 17-25

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Design of an internet-based health economic evaluation of a preventive group-intervention for children of parents with mental illness or substance use disorders (2010)

Woolderink M, Smit F, Van Der Zanden R, Beecham J, Knapp M, Paulus A, Evers S

BMC Public Health , 10:470

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