Martin Knapp

Martin Knapp is an experienced researcher working in health and social care policy and practice. He works at both the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and King's College London (KCL). At LSE, Martin is Professor of Social Policy and directs two research centres: the Personal Social Services Research Unit| (since 1996) and LSE Health| (since 2011). At KCL, he is Professor of Health Economics, in the Centre for the Economics of Mental and Physical Health|, which he established in 1993. Martin has been director of the School for Social Care Research| since 2009, funded by the National Institute of Health Research |(NIHR) in England.

He has been an advisor to many government departments and other bodies in the UK and elsewhere, and to international bodies such as the European Commission and World Health Organization. His publications include about 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, about 140 book chapters, 15 books, 4 edited books, and numerous monographs.

Professor Knapp was recently awarded one of the first 100 Senior Investigator Awards from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).

Recent Publications

• Autism costs
  Knapp, Martin (2012) Autism costs. Health and Social Care (09 Apr 2012) Blog Entry.
• Donepezil and memantine for moderate-to-severe Alzheimer's disease
  Howard, Robert and McShane, Rupert and Lindesay, James and Ritchie, Craig and Baldwin, Ashley and Barber, Robert and Burns, Alistair and Dening, Tom and Findlay, David and Holmes, Clive and Hughes, Alan and Jacoby, Robin and Jones, Rob and Jones, Roy and McKeith, Ian and Macharouthu, Ajay and O'Brien, John and Passmore, Peter and Sheehan, Bart and Juszczak, Edmund and Katona, Cornelius and Hills, Robert and Knapp, Martin and Ballard, Clive and Brown, Richard and Banerjee, Sube and Onions, Caroline and Griffin, Mary and Adams, Jessica and Gray, Richard and Johnson, Tony and Bentham, Peter and Phillips, Patrick (2012) Donepezil and memantine for moderate-to-severe Alzheimer's disease. New England journal of medicine, 366 (10). pp. 893-903. ISSN 0028-4793
• Mental health economics, mental health policies and the human rights implications
  Mangalore, Roshni and Knapp, Martin and McDaid, David (2012) Mental health economics, mental health policies and the human rights implications. In: Dudley, M. and Silove, D. and Gale, F., (eds.) Mental health and human rights: vision, praxis, and courage. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199213962 (In Press)
• Estimating preference-based single index measures for dementia using DEMQOL and DEMQOL-Proxy
  Rowan, Donna and Mulhern, Brendan and Banerjee, Sube and van Hout, Ben A and Young, Tracey A. and Knapp, Martin and Smith, Sarah C. and Lamping, Donna L. and Brazier, John E. (2012) Estimating preference-based single index measures for dementia using DEMQOL and DEMQOL-Proxy. Value in health, 15 (2). pp. 346-356. ISSN 1098-3015
• Good friends are hard to find?: the social networks of people with mental illness 12 years after deinstitutionalisation
  Forrester-Jones, Rachel and Carpenter, John and Coolen-Schrijner, Pauline and Cambridge, Paul and Tate, Alison and Hallam, Angela and Beecham, Jennifer and Knapp, Martin and Wooff, David (2012) Good friends are hard to find?: the social networks of people with mental illness 12 years after deinstitutionalisation. Journal of mental health, 21 (1). pp. 4-14. ISSN 0963-8237
• Development of a social inclusion index to capture subjective and objective life domains (phase II): psychometric development study
  Huxley, P. and Evans, S. and Madge, S. and Webber, M. and Burchardt, Tania and McDaid, David and Knapp, Martin (2012) Development of a social inclusion index to capture subjective and objective life domains (phase II): psychometric development study. Health Technology Assessment, 16 (1). pp. 1-248. ISSN 1366-5278
• Economics of evidence-based practice and mental health
  Knapp, Martin and McDaid, David (2012) Economics of evidence-based practice and mental health. In: Sturmey, Peter and Herson, Michael, (eds.) Handbook of evidence-based practice in clinical psychology, volume 2, adult disorders. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780470335468 (In Press)
• Corrigendum to “cost of disorders of the brain in Europe 2010” [eur. neuropsychopharmacol. 21 (2011) 718–779]
  Gustavsson, Anders and Svensson, Mikael and Jacobi, Frank and Allgulander, Christer and Alonso, Jordi and Beghi, Ettore and Dodel, Richard and Ekman, Mattias and Faravelli, Carlo and Fratiglioni, Laura and Gannon, Brenda and Jone, David Hilton and Jennum, Poul and Jordanova, Albena and Jönsso, Linus and Karampampa, Korinna and Knapp, Martin and Kobelt, Gisela and Kurth, Tobias and Lieb, Roselind and Linde, Mattias and Ljungcrantz, Christina and Maercker, Andreas and Melin, Beatrice and Moscarelli, Massimo and Musayev, Amir and Norwood, Fiona and Preisig, Martin and Pugliatti, Maura and Rehm, Juergen and Salvador-Carulla, Luis and Schlehofer, Brigitte and Simon, Roland and Steinhausen, Hans-Christoph and Stovner, Lars Jacob and Vallat, Jean-Michel and Van den Bergh, Peter and van Os, Jim and Vos, Pieter and Xu, Weili and Wittchen, Hans-Ulrich and Jönsson, Bengt and Olesen, Jes (2012) Corrigendum to “cost of disorders of the brain in Europe 2010” [eur. neuropsychopharmacol. 21 (2011) 718–779]. European neuropsychopharmacology, 22 (3). pp. 237-238. ISSN 0924-977X
• Long-term conditions and mental health: the cost of co-morbidities
  Naylor, Chris and Parsonage, Michael and McDaid, David and Knapp, Martin and Fossey, Matt and Galea, Amy (2012) Long-term conditions and mental health: the cost of co-morbidities. The King's Fund, London, UK. ISBN 9781857176339
• Cost-effectiveness comparisons between antidepressant treatments in depression: evidence from database analyses and prospective studies
  Pan, Yi-Ju and Knapp, Martin and McCrone, Paul R. (2012) Cost-effectiveness comparisons between antidepressant treatments in depression: evidence from database analyses and prospective studies. Journal of affective disorders, online . ISSN 0165-0327 (In Press)

For a full list of past publications please Martin's LSE Research Online page|, or...

• Publications 2011
• Publications 2010
• Publications 2009
• Publications 2008
• Publications 2007
• Publications 2006
• Publications 2005
• Publications 2004
• Publications 2003
• Publications 2002
• Publications 2001
• Publications 2000
• Publications 1999
• Publications 1976 - 1998 (PDF)
• Journal papers