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

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Nursing home placement in the Donepezil and Memantine in Moderate to Severe Alzheimer's Disease (DOMINO-AD) trial: secondary and post-hoc analyses (2015)

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

The Lancet 14, 12, 1171-1181

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Cost-effectiveness of exercise as a therapy for behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia within the EVIDEM-E randomised controlled trial (2015)

D'Amico F, Rehill A, Knapp M, Lowery D, Cerga-Pashoja A, Griffin M, Iliffe S, Warner J

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 31, 6, 656-665

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Cost-effectiveness of financial incentives to promote adherence to depot antipsychotic medication: economic evaluation of a cluster-randomised controlled trial (2015)

Henderson C, Knapp M, Yeeles K, Bremner S, Eldridge S, David A, O'Connell N, Burns T, Priebe S

PLoS One 10, 10, e0138816

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Improving healthcare for people with dementia in England: good progress but more to do (2015)

Black N, Dixon J, Tan S, Knapp M

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 108, 478-481

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Recovery and economics (2015)

Knapp M, McDaid D, Park A

Die Psychiatrie 12, 3, 162-166

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Individual cognitive stimulation therapy for dementia: a clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness pragmatic, multicentre, randomised controlled trial (2015)

Orgeta V, Leung P, Yates LA, Kang S, Hoare Z, Henderson C, Whitaker C, Burns A, Knapp M, Leroi I, Moniz-Cook E, Pearson S, Simpson S, Spector A, Roberts S, Russell I, de Waal H, Woods R, Orrell M

Health Technology Assessment 19, 64, 1-108

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The role of youth mental health services in the treatment of young people with serious mental illness: two-year outcomes and economic implications (2015)

Brimblecombe N, Knapp M, Murguia S, Mbeah-Banks H, Crane S, Harris A, Evans-Lacko S, Ardino V, Iemmi V, King D

Early Intervention in Psychiatry

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Interventions to improve therapeutic communications between Black and minority ethnic patients and professionals in psychiatric services: systematic review (2015)

Bhui K, Aslam R, Palinski A, McCabe R, Johnson M, Weich S, Singh S, Knapp M, Ardino V, Szczepura A

British Journal of Psychiatry 207, 2, 95-103

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Can we model a cognitive footprint of interventions and policies to help to meet the global challenge of dementia? (2015)

Rossor M, Knapp M

The Lancet 386, 9997, 1008-1010

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Cluster randomized controlled trial: clinical and cost-effectiveness of a system of longer-term stroke care (2015)

Forster A, Young J, Chapman K, Nixon J, Patel A, Hollway I, Mellish K, Anwar S, Breen R, Knapp M, Murray J, Farrin A

Stroke 46, 8, 2212-2219

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Reflecting on 'An economic model of social capital and health' (2015)

Knapp M

Health Economics, Policy and Law 10, 4, 411-417

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Positive behavioural support for adults with intellectual disabilities and behaviour that challenges: an initial exploration of the economic case (2015)

Iemmi V, Knapp M, Saville M, McWade P, McLennan K, Toogood S

International Journal of Positive Behavioural Support 5, 1, 16-25

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The economic evidence for advance care planning: systematic review of evidence (2015)

Dixon J, Matosevic T, Knapp M

Palliative Medicine 29, 10, 869-884

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Cost-effectiveness of active monitoring versus antidepressants for major depression in primary health care: a 12-month non-randomized controlled trial (INFAP study) (2015)

Rubio-Valera M, Beneitez I, Peñarrubia-Maria M, Luciano J, Mendive J, McCrone P, Knapp M, Sabes-Figuera R, Kocyan K, García-Campayo J, Serrano-Blanco A

BMC Psychiatry , 15:63

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Comparative performance of adult social care research, 1996-2011: a bibliometric assessment (2015)

Campbell D, Côté G, Grant J, Knapp M, Mehta A, Jones M

British Journal of Social Work 46, 5, 1282-1300

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The 'visibility' of unpaid care in England (2015)

Pickard L, King D, Knapp M

Journal of Social Work 16, 3, 263-282

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The effectiveness of paid services in supporting unpaid carers’ employment in England (2015)

Pickard L, Brimblecombe N, King D, Knapp M

Journal of Social Policy 44, 3, 567-590

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An evaluation of peer-led self-management training for people with severe psychiatric diagnoses (2015)

Cyhlarova E, Crepaz-Kay D, Reeves R, Morgan K, Iemmi V, Knapp M

Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice 10, 1

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Cognitive-behavioural therapy for anxiety in dementia: pilot randomised controlled trial (2015)

Spector A, Charlesworth G, King M, Lattimer M, Sadek S, Marston L, Rehill A, Hoe J, Qazi A, Knapp M, Orrell M

British Journal of Psychiatry 206, 6, 509-516

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The cost-effectiveness challenge: is it worth it? (2015)

Knapp M

Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy 7, 10

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