Jonathan is a Professorial Fellow at GPM.  His main research interests relate to public participation and lay experience in public services and policy making particularly in relation to health (cancer and mental health) and environmental policy. His current preoccupation is patient and public involvement both in the UK and internationally, and the implications of the tensions between consumerism and choice and collective and community engagement for policy and practice.  He is involved in a range of international and national support and development work that focuses particularly on the evidence base on the impact of patient and public involvement. Jonathan also has particular methodological interest in focus groups and questionnaire design as well as multi-disciplinary research.

Jonathan has conducted a number of national and international studies on patients' and carers' experience of services and citizen engagement in environmental management funded by the ESRC, Department of Health and Academy of Finland. He led the development of the NHS National Centre for Involvement for the Department of Health, is Chair of the Health Protection Agency Society Advisory Group and a member of the Royal College of Physicians Patient Carer Network Steering Group. His latest book (with Koivusalo, Ollila and Dorfman) is Globalisation, Markets and Healthcare Policy: Redrawing the Patient as Consumer and was published by Routledge in August 2009.

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