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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Funding mental health in Europe. European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. Policy Brief (2004)
McDaid D, Knapp M, Grant C
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Cognitive impairment in older people: its implications for future demand for services and costs. Executive Summary (2003)
Comas-Herrera A, Wittenberg R, Pickard L, Knapp M, MRC-CFAS
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The motivations of domiciliary care providers in England: Building a typology (2002)
Kendall J, Knapp M, Forder J, Matosevic T, Hardy B, Ware P
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The State of Residential Care Supply in England: Lessons from PSSRU's Mixed Economy of Care (Commissioning and Performance) Research Programme (2002)
Kendall J, Knapp M, Forder J, Hardy B, Matosevic T, Ware P
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Mental health residential care in the 1990s: beds and balances (1996)
Lelliott P, Knapp M, Audini B, Chisholm D
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The costs and benefits of treating drug misuse: an overview of the evidence (1996)
Healey A, Knapp M
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Introduction (1996)
Knapp M
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The determinants of volunteering (1995)
Knapp M, Koutsogeorgopoulou V, Davis Smith J
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Living in the community after leaving long-stay hospital. Findings 57: Social Care Research (1994)
Cambridge P, Hayes L, Knapp M
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The voluntary sector and the environment: scope, contributions, issues (1993)
Pinner J, Kendall J, Knapp M, Fenyo A, 6 P
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Charity statistics in a European context: a position paper on the research issues (1992)
Kendall J, Knapp M
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Child Care Assessment in Social Services: A Study of the Costs (1991)
Beecham J, Knapp M
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Time is money: the costs of volunteering in Britain today (1990)
Knapp M
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Inter-sectoral and international contracting-out of long-term care: evidence on comparative costs and efficiency from Britain and Spain (1990)
Knapp M, Montserrat J, Fenyo A
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Children in care - planning without costs, Nuffield/York Portfolio No. 7 (1984)
Knapp M
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Cost evaluation in social services (1979)
Knapp M
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Assessing the economic pay-off of low-level interventions in reducing postnatal depression (2012)
Bauer A, Knapp M, McDaid D
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After Transition: Health and Social Care Needs of Young Adults with Long-Term Neurological Conditions (2008)
Beecham J, Snell T, Perkins M, Knapp M
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Maintaining good health for older people with dementia who suffer a neck of femur fracture. PSSRU Research Summary 44. (2007)
Henderson C, Malley J, Knapp M
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Patterns of, and factors associated with, atypical and typical antipsychotic prescribing by general practitioners in the UK during the 1990s. PSSRU Research Summary 43. (2007)
King D, Knapp M
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