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- PhD Social Policy University of York
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- Bachelors Sociology University of York
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- Realist review - a new method of systematic review designed for complex policy interventions (2005) (2285)
- RAMESES publication standards: realist syntheses (2013) (783)
- Evidence-based Policy: The Promise of `Realist Synthesis' (2002) (711)
- Evidence-Based Policy (2006) (679)
- Evidence-based policy: a realist perspective. (2006) (631)
- The Science of Evaluation: A Realist Manifesto (2013) (578)
- Realist synthesis - an introduction (2004) (531)
- Internet-based medical education: a realist review of what works, for whom and in what circumstances (2010) (410)
- RAMESES publication standards: meta-narrative reviews (2013) (405)
- Evidence-based Policy: In Search of a Method (2002) (368)
- How do you modernize a health service? A realist evaluation of whole-scale transformation in london. (2009) (342)
- Realist methods in medical education research: what are they and what can they contribute? (2012) (277)
- A realist diagnostic workshop (2012) (256)
- WHAT WORKS IN EVALUATION RESEARCH (1994) (232)
- Protocol - realist and meta-narrative evidence synthesis: Evolving Standards (RAMESES) (2011) (231)
- Digging for Nuggets: How ‘Bad’ Research Can Yield ‘Good’ Evidence (2006) (218)
- Theorizing the interview (1996) (213)
- Nothing as Practical as a Good Theory (2003) (188)
- An introduction to scientific realist evaluation (1997) (167)
- Functionality and feedback: a realist synthesis of the collation, interpretation and utilisation of patient-reported outcome measures data to improve patient care (2017) (165)
- RAMESES publication standards: realist syntheses. (2013) (153)
- Development of methodological guidance, publication standards and training materials for realist and meta-narrative reviews: the RAMESES (Realist And Meta-narrative Evidence Syntheses – Evolving Standards) project (2014) (146)
- Realist RCTs of complex interventions - an oxymoron. (2013) (144)
- A Measure for Measures: A Manifesto for Empirical Sociology (1989) (142)
- Middle-range realism (2000) (140)
- Evidence and Policy and Naming and Shaming (2002) (139)
- Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, Unknown Unknowns (2011) (130)
- Realistic Evaluation Bloodlines (2001) (117)
- Protocol—the RAMESES II study: developing guidance and reporting standards for realist evaluation (2015) (110)
- Social Research in Developing Countries (1985) (95)
- RAMESES publication standards: meta-narrative reviews. (2013) (73)
- Theory-driven evaluation of public health programmes (2009) (68)
- A new workforce in the making? A case study of strategic human resource management in a whole-system change effort in healthcare. (2011) (65)
- Caring Communities, Paradigm Polemics, Design Debates (1998) (62)
- Functionality and feedback: a protocol for a realist synthesis of the collation, interpretation and utilisation of PROMs data to improve patient care (2014) (59)
- Realist synthesis: Realist And Meta-narrative Evidence Syntheses – Evolving Standards (RAMESES) training materials (2014) (56)
- Providing effective and preferred care closer to home: a realist review of intermediate care. (2015) (56)
- Policy guidance on threats to legislative interventions in public health: a realist synthesis (2011) (53)
- Exploring complex causal pathways between urban renewal, health and health inequality using a theory-driven realist approach. (2015) (51)
- A multitude of syntheses: a comparison of five approaches from diverse policy fields (2006) (51)
- The Perilous Road from Evidence to Policy: Five Journeys Compared (2005) (49)
- Do reviews of healthcare interventions teach us how to improve healthcare systems? (2014) (47)
- Education, Change, and Transformation (1998) (37)
- Causality for beginners (2008) (31)
- Simple principies for the evaluation of complex programmes (2004) (30)
- Middle Range Theory and Program Theory Evaluation: From Provenance to Practice 1 (2017) (29)
- ESRC UK Centre for Evidence Based Policy and Practice : Working Paper 4 Evidence Based Policy : II . The Promise of ‘ Realist Synthesis ’ Ray Pawson ESRC UK Centre for Evidence Based Policy and Practice Queen (2001) (27)
- Realist Synthesis: New Protocols for Systematic Review (2006) (25)
- Evaluating deceased organ donation: a programme theory approach. (2014) (24)
- The role of informal networks in creating knowledge among health-care managers: a prospective case study (2014) (22)
- Quality and Quantity, Agency and Structure, Mechanism and Context, Dons and Cons 1 (1995) (21)
- Pragmatic trials and implementation science: grounds for divorce? (2019) (21)
- Mentoring relationships: an explanatory review (2004) (20)
- The ersatz realism of critical realism: A reply to Porter (2016) (19)
- Realist Methodology: The Building Blocks of Evidence (2006) (18)
- The Today Programme’s Contribution to Evidence-based Policy (2010) (17)
- A realist approach to qualitative research Joseph A Maxwell (2014) (17)
- Training materials for meta-narrative reviews (2014) (16)
- Re-evaluation: rethinking research on corrections and crime (1992) (16)
- Demand management for planned care: a realist synthesis (2016) (16)
- What's crucial in evaluation research: a reply to Bennett (1996) (16)
- Evaluation of Provision and Support for Disabled Students in Higher Education : report (2009) (15)
- Cook-Book Methods and Disastrous Recipes: A Rejoinder to Farrington (1998) (15)
- The Realist Foundations of Evidence-Based Medicine: A Review Essay (2018) (14)
- Legislating for health: Locating the evidence (2010) (13)
- The Precautionary Principle and Evidence-Based Policy. (2012) (13)
- Guidance on guidelines: Understanding the evidence on the uptake of health care guidelines (2018) (13)
- Invisible Mechanisms (2008) (12)
- LEARNING LESSONS: ENHANCING EVALUATION THROUGH RESEARCH REVIEW (2001) (12)
- Empiricist Explanatory Strategies: The Case of Causal Modelling (1978) (12)
- Public Opinion and Policy‐making (2013) (12)
- Myths, facts and conditional truths: What is the evidence on the risks associated with smoking in cars carrying children? (2011) (11)
- The coronavirus response: Boxed in by models (2020) (10)
- Whither (European) evaluation methodology? (1995) (9)
- The Modernisation Initiative: Independent Evaluation Final Report (2008) (7)
- The "pragmatic trial": An essentially contested concept? (2019) (7)
- The ABC of Evaluation (2005) (6)
- Realist thoughts on Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland and health care interventions. (2012) (6)
- The shrinking scope of pragmatic trials: a methodological reflection on their domain of applicability. (2019) (6)
- Protocols, policy making and scientific progress (2012) (6)
- Using realist methods to produce syntheses of evidence for use by managers and policy makers (2004) (5)
- Realistic evaluation [Encyclopaedia entry] (2004) (5)
- A Complexity Checklist (2013) (5)
- Realist evaluation caricatured: a reply to Porter. (2016) (5)
- Middle Range Theory and Programme Theory Evaluation (2008) (5)
- Empiricist measurement strategies: A critique of the multiple indicator approach to measurement (1980) (5)
- Informed Guesswork: The Realist Response to Complexity (2013) (4)
- How (and How Not) to Design Research to Inform Policy-making (1996) (4)
- On the Level: Measurement Scales and Sociological Theory (1986) (4)
- First Principles: A Realist Diagnostic Workshop (2013) (4)
- Half-Truths about Bias (1990) (4)
- ESRC UK Centre for Evidence Based Policy and Practice : Working Paper 5 Evidence and Policy and Naming and Shaming Ray Pawson ESRC UK Centre for Evidence Based Policy and Practice Queen (2001) (3)
- Go forth and experiment (2004) (3)
- Centre for Evidence Based Policy and Practice : Working Paper 3 Evidence Based Policy : I . In Search of a Method Ray Pawson (2001) (3)
- Evidence-Based Policy: The Promise of Systematic Review (2006) (3)
- Invisible Mechanisms I: The Long Road to Behavioural Change (2013) (3)
- Ethics approval letter (2014) (3)
- Exploring complex causal pathways between urban renewal, health and health inequality using a theory-driven approach (2014) (2)
- Language and Measurement: A Reply to Coxon (1983) (2)
- Reviewing Inner Mechanisms: Youth Mentoring (2006) (2)
- From the Library (1918) (2)
- Systematic Obfuscation: A Critical Analysis of the Meta-analytic Approach (2006) (2)
- Information sheet – interviews (2014) (1)
- ON BEING ‘EMPIRICAL’ WITHOUT BEING ‘EMPIRICIST’ (1991) (1)
- Role change: general practitioners with a special interest – can they control and shape demand? (2016) (1)
- Nick Tilley: an academic life in six scenes (2018) (1)
- Conclusion: Flying ‘The Tattered Flag of Enlightenment’ (2006) (1)
- Science and Social Science: An Introduction, Malcolm Williams, London: Routledge, 1999, £14.99, ix+173 pp. (ISBN: 0-415-19485-7) (2001) (1)
- President's Report (1995) (0)
- The role of theory in systematic review (2008) (0)
- Social Researching: Politics, Problems, Practice@@@Social Science Concepts: A Systematic Analysis@@@Basic Dilemmas in the Social Sciences (1986) (0)
- ‘Thinking it through’: prompts for practitioners (2016) (0)
- Synthesis as Science: The Bumpy Road to Legislative Change (2013) (0)
- Nancy Cartwright and Jeremy Hardie (2012), Evidence-Based Policy: A Practical Guide to Doing It Better . New York: Oxford University Press. £11.99, pp. 196, pbk (2013) (0)
- Whither evaluation methodology (1995) (0)
- Davydd J. Greenwood and Morten Levin, Introduction to Action Research: Social Research For Social Change , Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1998, £43.00 (£21.00 pbk), xiv+272 pp. (ISBN 0-7619-1676-8). (1999) (0)
- Network modelling and analysis (2014) (0)
- Consent form – interviews (2014) (0)
- Invisible Mechanisms II: Clinical Interventions as Social Interventions (2013) (0)
- Network data collection sheets (2014) (0)
- Briefing document for realist and meta-narrative review Delphi panel (2014) (0)
- Feedback of aggregate patient-reported outcome measures data: programme theory elicitation (2017) (0)
- Stakeholder and patient involvement (2016) (0)
- Changing responsibilities: direct access to the results of clinical tests – can it control and shape demand? (2016) (0)
- Research Committee “Logic and Methodology” RC33 Newsletter (1996) (0)
- Book Reviews (1999) (0)
- The policy response: charting the family of purported solutions (2016) (0)
- Book Reviews (2006) (0)
- Precursors: Seven Pillars of Realist Wisdom (2013) (0)
- THE NEW RULES OF SOCIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT (1991) (0)
- The runaway train: the multiple, intertwined causes of growth in demand for health care (2016) (0)
- Non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19 in the UK and Spain: a rapid realist review (2022) (0)
- Don't forget to think: Middle range theory as causal analysis (2008) (0)
- Information sheet – observation (2014) (0)
- AGAINST SCALING: MEANING AND MEASUREMENT (1991) (0)
- Example of one ‘theory theme’ (2017) (0)
- Review methodology: feedback and public reporting of aggregate patient-reported outcome measures data (2017) (0)
- AGAINST VARIABLE ANALYSIS: THIRTY YEARS ON (1991) (0)
- RC33 Newsletter Spring 1994 (1994) (0)
- RC33 Newsletter (1994) (0)
- Book Reviews (1989) (0)
- THEORY AND OBSERVATION: SQUARING THE CIRCULARITY PROBLEM (1991) (0)
- RC33 Newsletter Fall 1992 (1992) (0)
- ‘Paper’ version of round 2 online Delphi panel survey for realist reviews (2014) (0)
- EXPLANATORY NETWORKS: THE CONCEPTUAL DOMAIN OF CLASS (1991) (0)
- The challenge: reviewing the attempts to solve a ‘wicked problem’ (2016) (0)
- Book Reviews : Richard H. Brown, A Poetic for Sociology: Towards a Logic of Discovery for the Human Sciences. Chicago University Press, Chicago, 1989. Pp. xiii, 302. $14.95 (1992) (0)
- Patient-reported outcome measures as a tool for raising clinicians’ awareness of patients’ concerns (2017) (0)
- Interview 2 topic guide (2014) (0)
- Books Reviewed (2001) (0)
- Organisational change: referral management centres – can they control and shape demand? (2016) (0)
- Qualitative accounts of knowledge creation (2014) (0)
- Reviewing Outer Contexts: Naming and Shaming (2006) (0)
- CONSTRUCTING CLASS DATA: IMPOSITION AND CONTROL IN THE INTERVIEW (1991) (0)
- BOX 31, [Interim summary]. (2016) (0)
- CHOOSING CLASS CONCEPTS: FROM INDICATOR SELECTION TO THEORY ADJUDICATION (1991) (0)
- Example of a data extraction form (2017) (0)
- Reviewing the field (2016) (0)
- Dissemination events and outputs (2016) (0)
- Feedback of aggregate patient-reported outcome measures and performance data: reviewing mechanisms (2017) (0)
- Interactive feedback events (2014) (0)
- Patient-reported outcome measures as a tool to support patients in raising or sharing concerns with clinicians (2017) (0)
- Candidate programme theories of how the feedback of patient-reported outcome measures is intended to improve the care of individual patients (2017) (0)
- Evaluating the process for deceased organ donation: a programme theory approach (2014) (0)
- List of all members of the online Delphi panels (2014) (0)
- Realist and meta-narrative reviews identified from initial exploratory searches (2014) (0)
- RC33 Spring Newsletter & Brisbane Sociological Methodology Program (2002) (0)
- Integrating the patients' voice in designing and delivering a research study: The Yorkshire Cancer Research funded PREHABS study's experience. (2023) (0)
- 2. Public Health Ethics: Science, Values, and the Regulation of Risk (2018) (0)
- CLOSURE: ACTUALISM VERSUS REALISM (1991) (0)
- Conclusions: facing the challenge of complexity (2016) (0)
- Learned counsel: can guidelines control and shape demand? (2016) (0)
- Book Reviews (1989) (0)
- Notes on teleconference with a review team the project team provided methodological support to (2014) (0)
- Notes from the realist review training workshop held at Queen Mary University of London in March 2011 (2014) (0)
- Reviewing Implementation Processes: Megan's Law (2006) (0)
- RC33 Newsletter Fall 1991 (1991) (0)
- Consent form – observation (2014) (0)
- FROM VARIABLES TO MECHANISMS (AND BACK AGAIN) (1991) (0)
- ‘Paper’ version of round 3 online Delphi panel survey for meta-narrative reviews (2014) (0)
- Shorter Notices (1982) (0)
- Search and selection strategies (2016) (0)
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