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Ray Pawson is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, with a focus on research within the health professions. Their work spans several subfields including general health professions, modeling and simulation, infectious diseases, economics and econometrics, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Their research covers diverse topics such as mental health and patient involvement, employment and welfare studies, community health and development, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, viral infections and outbreaks research, COVID-19 pandemic impacts, and palliative care and end-of-life issues.

Ray Pawson has contributed to several publications, including:

  • The coronavirus response: Boxed in by models, 2020, published in Evaluation
  • Integrating the patients' voice in designing and delivering a research study: The Yorkshire Cancer Research funded PREHABS study's experience, 2023, published in Radiography
  • Non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19 in the UK and Spain: a rapid realist review, 2022, published in Open Research Europe
  • Non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19 in the UK and Spain: a rapid realist review, 2022, published in Open Research Europe
  • 2824: Building a Theory of change of Prehabilitation for patients with Lung cancer in Leeds Cancer Centre, 2024, published in Radiotherapy and Oncology

Their research is often published in venues including Open Research Europe, Evaluation, Radiography, and Radiotherapy and Oncology.

Collaborative work is a significant feature of Pawson's research. Frequent co-authors include Carole Burnett, Jenny Hewison, Rachael L Murray, Andy Sloss, and Samuel Greenwood-Wilson.

Best Publications

  • Realist review - a new method of systematic review designed for complex policy interventions

    Ray Pawson;Trisha Greenhalgh;Gill Harvey;Kieran Walshe

  • RAMESES publication standards: realist syntheses

    Geoff Wong;Trish Greenhalgh;Gill Westhorp;Jeanette Buckingham

  • Evidence-based policy: a realist perspective.

    Ray Pawson

  • RAMESES publication standards: meta-narrative reviews

    Geoff Wong;Trish Greenhalgh;Gill Westhorp;Jeanette Buckingham

  • The Science of Evaluation: A Realist Manifesto

    Ray Pawson

  • Evidence-based Policy: The Promise of `Realist Synthesis'

    Ray Pawson

  • Realist synthesis - an introduction

    R Pawson;T Greenhalgh;G Harvey;K Walshe

  • Internet-based medical education: a realist review of what works, for whom and in what circumstances.

    Geoff Wong;Trisha Greenhalgh;Ray Pawson

  • Evidence-based Policy: In Search of a Method

    Ray Pawson

  • How Do You Modernize a Health Service? A Realist Evaluation of Whole-Scale Transformation in London

    Trisha Greenhalgh;Charlotte Humphrey;Jane Hughes;Fraser Macfarlane

  • Realist methods in medical education research: what are they and what can they contribute?

    Geoff Wong;Trisha Greenhalgh;Gill Westhorp;Ray Pawson

  • A realist diagnostic workshop

    Ray Pawson;Ana Manzano-Santaella

  • Digging for Nuggets: How ‘Bad’ Research Can Yield ‘Good’ Evidence

    Ray Pawson

  • Protocol - realist and meta-narrative evidence synthesis: Evolving Standards (RAMESES)

    Trisha Greenhalgh;Geoff Wong;Gill Westhorp;Ray Pawson

  • Evidence-Based Policy

    Ray Pawson

  • An introduction to scientific realist evaluation

    R Pawson;N Tilley

  • Theorizing the interview

    Ray Pawson

  • WHAT WORKS IN EVALUATION RESEARCH

    Ray Pawson;Nick Tilley

  • 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

    Geoff Wong;Trish Greenhalgh;Gill Westhorp;Ray Pawson

  • Functionality and feedback: a realist synthesis of the collation, interpretation and utilisation of patient-reported outcome measures data to improve patient care

    Joanne Greenhalgh;Sonia Dalkin;Kate Gooding;Elizabeth Gibbons

  • Nothing as Practical as a Good Theory

    Ray Pawson

Frequent Co-Authors

Joanne Greenhalgh
Joanne Greenhalgh University of Leeds
Geoff Wong
Geoff Wong University of Oxford
Nick Tilley
Nick Tilley University College London
Trisha Greenhalgh
Trisha Greenhalgh University of Oxford
Kieran Walshe
Kieran Walshe University of Manchester
Gill Harvey
Gill Harvey University of Adelaide
Angela Harden
Angela Harden City, University of London
Helen Roberts
Helen Roberts University College London
Bruno Marchal
Bruno Marchal Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Maica Rodríguez-Sanz
Maica Rodríguez-Sanz Pompeu Fabra University

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