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Citations
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4579
National Ranking
771

Overview

Tom R. Burns is affiliated with London Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom. Their primary area of research is in the field of psychology, with a focus on clinical psychology. Additional subfields of interest include general health professions, philosophy, neurology, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their research covers topics such as historical psychiatry and medical practices, healthcare decision-making and restraints, psychiatric care and mental health services, mental health and psychiatry, neurology and historical studies, schizophrenia research and treatment, and mental health and patient involvement.

Recent publications by Tom R. Burns include:

  • Cost and quality-of-life impacts of community treatment orders (CTOs) for patients with psychosis: economic evaluation of the OCTET trial (2020), Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • Community-Based Mental Health Care in Britain (2020), Consortium Psychiatricum
  • From Theory to Practice: Forging a Collaborative Evaluation Strategy for a Culturally-Informed Domestic Violence Initiative (2020), Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice
  • Sociological game theory: agency, social structures and interaction processes (2021), Sociologia Problemas e Práticas
  • Generative AI Policy and Governance Considerations for Health Security in Southeast Asia (2024), arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors of Tom R. Burns include:

  • George Ikkos
  • Judit Simon
  • Susanne Mayer
  • Agata Łaszewska
  • Jorun Rugkåsa

The scientist's publications have appeared in several academic venues, with multiple works in NOISE-CON proceedings and single papers in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Consortium Psychiatricum, Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice, and Sociologia Problemas e Práticas.

In book publications, Tom R. Burns has contributed to Cambridge University Press with the work titled Mind, State and Society published in 2021.

Best Publications

  • The Shaping of Social Organization: Social Rule System Theory with Applications

    Helena Flam;Tom R. Burns

  • The European Union and the Erosion of Parliamentary Democracy: A Study of Post-Parliamentary Governance

    Tom R. Burns;Svein Andersen

  • The Directions of Activity and Communication in a Departmental Executive Group: A Quantitative Study in a British Engineering Factory with a Self-recording Technique

    Tom Burns

  • Micropolitics: Mechanisms of Institutional Change

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  • Content Analysis in Communication Research

    Tom Burns;Bernard Berelson

  • CULTURAL EVOLUTION: SOCIAL RULE SYSTEMS, SELECTION AND HUMAN AGENCY

    Tom R. Burns;Thomas Dietz

  • Teaching in the Age of Covid-19

    Petar Jandrić;Petar Jandrić;David Hayes;Ian Truelove;Paul Levinson

  • Management in Action

    Tom Burns

  • Caring About - Caring For: moral obligations and work responsibilities in intensive care nursing

    Agneta Cronqvist;Töres Theorell;Tom Burns;Kim Lützén

  • Human Agency and the Evolutionary Dynamics of Culture

    Thomas Dietz;Tom R. Burns

  • Creative Democracy: Systematic Conflict Resolution and Policymaking in a World of High Science and Technology

    Tom R. Burns;Reinhard Ueberhorst

  • The BBC: Public Institution and Private World

    Tom Burns

  • The Reference of Conduct in Small Groups Cliques and Cabals in Occupational Milieux

    Tom Burns

  • The promise and limitations of partnered governance: the case of sustainable palm oil

    Jordan Nikoloyuk;Tom R. Burns;Reinier de Man

  • A Structural Theory of Social Exchange

    Thomas Burns

  • Work and Power

    Tom R. Burns;Lars Erik Karlsson;Veljko Rus

  • Dissonant imperatives in nursing: a conceptualization of stress in intensive care in Sweden

    Agneta Cronqvist;Töres Theorell;Tom Burns;Kim Lützén

  • Friends, Enemies, and the Polite Fiction

    Tom Burns

  • The social construction of consciousness. Part 1: collective consciousness and its socio-cultural foundations

    Tom R. Burns;Erik Engdahl

  • The Evolution of Parliaments and Societies in Europe Challenges and Prospects

    Tom R. Burns

  • Sociology of Literature and Drama.

    Robert N. Wilson;Elizabeth Burns;Tom Burns

  • The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners

    Tom Burns;Norbert Elias

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Dietz
Thomas Dietz Michigan State University
Kim Lützén
Kim Lützén Karolinska Institute
Ilan Kelman
Ilan Kelman University College London
Michael Argyle
Michael Argyle University of Oxford
Lennart Olsson
Lennart Olsson Lund University
Norbert Elias
Norbert Elias Bielefeld University
Elihu Katz
Elihu Katz University of Pennsylvania

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