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Steve Hanney

 
Steve Hanney

 

Steve Hanney BSc (Soc Sci) MA PhD

Professorial Research Fellow (1993-)

E-Mail: stephen.hanney@brunel.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1895 265444

Fax: +44 (0)1895 269708

Steve Hanney has a PhD from the Department of Government at Brunel University. He has spent over 25 years researching a range of topics including: assessing the payback or benefits from health research; advisory systems to policymakers and the use of research in decision-making; policymaking for higher education and research systems; measurement of performance or quality in public services - especially higher education and research systems. His work on assessing the impact of health research is taking on an increasingly international dimension and he has collaborated on, or advised, studies applying the Buxton and Hanney Payback Framework to health research in many countries, including: Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, and USA. He has been a consultant to the World Health Organization on several occasions, most recently in relation to preparation for the World Health Report 2012 on the role of health research in improving health. He co-edits the journal Health Research Policy and Systems.
 
Research interests: assessing payback or impacts from health R&D; the use of research to inform policymaking; the organisation of health research systems;
the measurement of performance and quality in public services.

Recent publications

Articles in refereed journals

Hanney S, Griffiths P (2011) Ways of assessing the economic value or impact of research: is it a step too far for nursing research? Journal of Research in Nursing.16(2):151-66

Scoble R, Dickson K, Hanney S, Rodgers G. J. (2010) Institutional strategies for capturing socio-economic impact of academic research, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 32: 5, 499— 510. To link to this Article: DOI: 10.1080/1360080X.2010.511122
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1360080X.2010.511122

Hanney S, Kuruvilla S, Soper B, Mays N (2010) Who needs what from a national health research system: Lessons from reforms to the English health department’s R&D system. Health Research Policy and Systems, 8:11.
 http://www.health-policy-systems.com/content/pdf/1478-4505-8-11.pdf

Raftery J, Hanney S, Green C, Buxton M (2009) Assessing the impact of England's National Health Service R&D Health Technology Assessment program using the "payback" approach, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 25:1-5.

Jones T, Hanney S, Buxton M (2008) The role of the national general medical journal: surveys of which journals UK clinicians read to inform their clinical practice. Med Clin (Barc). 131(Supl 5):30-5

Buxton M, Hanney S (2008) Desarrollo y aplicación del Modelo Payback para la evaluación del impacto socioeconómico de la investigación en salud. Med Clin (Barc). 131(Supl 5): 36-41.

Hanney S, Gonzalez Block MA (2008) Evaluación del impacto de la investigación en la política sanitaria: conceptos y casos concretos. Med Clin (Barc). 131(Supl 5):81-6

 


Editorial

Hanney SR, González-Block MA (2011) Yes, research can inform health policy; but can we bridge the 'Do-Knowing It's Been Done' gap? Health Res Policy Syst, 9:23.
http://www.health-policy-systems.com/content/9/1/23


Externally published reports/monographs

Wooding, S., S. Hanney, Pollitt, A., M. Buxton, J. Grant. (2011). Project Retrosight. Understanding the returns from cardiovascular and stroke research: Policy Report. Cambridge, UK: RAND Europe, MG-1079-RS, 2011. http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1079.html

Pollitt, A., S. Wooding, S. Hanney, M. Buxton, J. Grant. (2011). Project Retrosight. Understanding the returns from cardiovascular and stroke research: Methodology Report. Cambridge, UK: RAND Europe, TR-925-RS. http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR925.html

Pollitt, A., S. Wooding, S. Hanney, M. Buxton and J. Grant. (2011). Project Retrosight. Understanding the returns from cardiovascular and stroke research: Case Studies. Cambridge, UK: RAND Europe, TR-926-RS.

Ling T, Soper B, Buxton M, Hanney S, Oortwijn W, Scoggins A, Steel N (2010) An Evaluation of The Health Foundation’s Engaging with Quality Initiative. London: The Health Foundation.

Wooding S, Nason E, Starkey T, Hanney S, Grant J. (2009) Mapping the Impact: Exploring the Payback of Arthritis Research. Santa Monica CA: RAND Corporation

Buxton M, Hanney S, Morris S, Sundmacher L, Mestre-Ferrandiz J, Garau M, Sussex J, Grant J, Ismail S, Nason E, Wooding S (2008) Medical Research - What's it worth? Estimating the economic benefits from medical research in the UK.  London: UK Evaluation Forum (Academy of Medical Sciences, MRC, Wellcome Trust). ISBN 978 1 84129 080 5. http://www.brunel.ac.uk/385/other/TAP825EconomicBenefitsReportFULLWeb.pdf

 

Selected publications

Hanney SR, González-Block MA. Evidence-informed health policy: are we beginning to get there at last? Health Research Policy and Systems 2009; 7:30. http://www.health-policy-systems.com/content/pdf/1478-4505-7-30.pdf
 
Soper B, Buxton M, Hanney S et al (2008) Developing the protocol for the evaluation of the health Foundation's engaging with quality initiative': an emergent approach, Implementation Science, vol 3 (46) http://www.implementationscience.com/content/3/1/46

Milewa T, Buxton M and Hanney S (2008) Lay involvement in the public funding of medical research: expertise and counter-expertise in empirical and analytical perspective, Critical Public Health, vol 18 (3), pp 357-66

Oortwijn W, Hanney S, Ligtvoet A et al (2008) Assessing the impact of health technology assessment in the Netherlands, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, vol 24 (3), pp 259-69

Nason E, Janta B, Hastings G, Hanney S, O'Driscoll, Wooding S (2008) Health Reserach - Making an Impact. The economic and social benefits of HRB-funded research. Dublin: Health Research Board. http://www.hrb.ie/uploads/tx_hrbpublications/Health_Reseach-Making_an_Impact.pdf
 

Hanney S and Gonzalez Block MA (2008) Why national health research systems matter. Health Research Policy and Systems, vol 6, no 1 http://www.health-policy-systems.com/content/pdf/1478-4505-6-1.pdf

Soper B, Hanney S (2007) Lessons from the evaluation of the UK's NHS R&D Implementation Methods Programme, Implementation Science, 2:7 http://www.implementationscience.com/content/pdf/1748-5908-2-7.pdf

Jones T, Hanney S, Buxton M (2007) The information sources and journals consulted or read by UK paediatricians to inform their clinical practice and those which they consider important: a questionnaire survey. BMC Pediatrics, vol 7, no 1, doi:10.1186/1471-2431-7-1

Hanney S, Buxton M, Green C, Coulson D, Raftery J (2007) An assessment of the impact of the NHS Health Technology Assessment Programme, Health Technol Assess, vol 11 (53) http://www.ncchta.org/project/1440.asp

Jones T, Hanney S, Buxton M (2006) The journals of importance to UK clinicians: a questionnaire survey of surgeons. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, vol 6, no 24, doi:10.1186/1472-6947-6-24

Hanney S, Gonzalez-Block MA (2006) Building health research systems to achieve better health. Health Research Policy and Systems, vol 4, no 10 http://www.health-policy-systems.com/content/pdf/1478-4505-4-10.pdf

Kogan M, Henkel M, Hanney S (2006) Government and Research: Thirty Years of Evolution. Second Edition. Dordrecht: Springer.

Hanney S (2006) Future of Health Research in the UK, Lancet, vol 368, pp 728-9 (letter).

Hanney S, Frame I, Grant J, Buxton M, Young T, Lewison G (2005) Using categorisations of citations when assessing the outcomes from health research, Scientometrics, vol 65, no 3, pp 357-79.

Hanney SR, Home PD, Frame I, Grant J, Green P, Buxton MJ (2005) Identifying the impact of diabetes research, Diabetic Medicine. DOI:10.1111/j.1464-5491.2005.01753.x

Jones T, Hanney S, Buxton M, Rippon I (2005) Journals used for the publication of English psychiatry, surgery and paediatrics research. Aslib Proceedings, 57 (3): 278-290.

Hanney S (2005) Personal interaction with researchers or detached synthesis of the evidence: modelling the health policy paradox. Evaluation and Research in Education, 18 (1-2): 72-82. pdf copy

Hanney S, Mugford M, Grant J, Buxton M (2005) Assessing the benefits of health research: lessons from research into the use of antenatal corticosteroids for the prevention of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome. Social Science & Medicine, vol 60, pp 937-47
 
Buxton M, Hanney S, Jones T (2004) Estimating the economic value to societies of the impact of health research: a critical review, Bulletin of World Health Organisation, vol 82:733-739 pdf copy
 
Wooding S, Hanney S, Buxton M and Grant J (2004) The returns from arthritis research. Volume 1: Approach, analysis and recommendations. RAND Europe, Cambridge (Available here)
 
Wooding S, Anton S, Grant J, Hanney S, Lierens A and Shergold (2004) The returns from arthritis research. Volume 2: Case studies. RAND Europe, Cambridge (Available here)
 
Jones T, Hanney S, Buxton M, Burns T (2004) What British psychiatrists read: Questionnaire survey of journal usage among clinicians. British Journal of Psychiatry, vol 185 , pp 251-7 .
 
Hanney S, Grant J, Wooding S, Buxton M (2004) Proposed methods for reviewing the outcomes of research: the impact of funding by the UK's 'Arthritis Reserach Campaign', Health Research Policy and Systems, vol 2 (4) pdf file
 
Pang T, Sadana R, Hanney S, Bhutta ZA, Hyder AA, Simon J (2003) Knowledge for better health – a conceptual framework and foundation for health research systems, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, vol 81, 815-20. pdf file
 
Hanney S, Gonzalez-Block M, Buxton M, Kogan M (2003) The utilisation of health research in policy-making: concepts, examples and methods of assessment, Health Research Policy and Systems, vol 1 . pdf file
 
Croxson B, Hanney S, Buxton M (2001) Routine monitoring of performance: what makes health research and development different? Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, vol 6, no 4, pp 226-232

Buxton M, Hanney S, Packwood T, Roberts S, Youll P (2000) Assessing Benefits from Department of Health and National Health Service Research and Development, Public Money and Management, vol 20, no 4, pp 29-34

Hanney S, Packwood T, Buxton M (2000) Evaluating the benefits from health R&D centres: a categorisation, a model and examples of application. Evaluation: The International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, vol 6, no 2, pp 137-160

Buxton MJ and Hanney S (1998) Evaluating the NHS R&D programme: will the programme give value for money? Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, vol 91 (suppl 35), pp 2-6

Buxton MJ, Hanney S (1996) How can payback from health services research be assessed?, Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, vol 1, no 1, pp 35-43
 
Wooding S, Hanney S, Buxton M, Grant J (2005) Payback arising from research funding: evaluation of the Arthritis Research Campaign. Rheumatology, vol 44, pp 1145-56 (download pdf file)
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