Dr Sara Shaw
Senior Lecturer in Health Policy Research
Sara Shaw is Senior Lecturer in Health Policy Research in the Healthcare Innovation and Policy Unit. She has a background in medical sociology and policy studies and her interests focus on health policy and healthcare practices. Sara has extensive experience of developing and applying qualitative approaches to studying health policy. She has a particular interest in discourse analysis and exploring how organisational processes, routines and decision-making are created through language/social interaction and shape healthcare. She has undertaken work on topics including NHS commissioning, integrated care, patient experience, health research policy, research governance and European research policy.
Sara is committed to working across social, political and organisational boundaries. In addition to her position at Queen Mary, University of London, Sara is Visiting Senior Fellow at the Nuffield Trust, an independent UK charity focused on researching health policy and the organisation and delivery of health care. She has undertaken work for the Department of Health, Royal College of General Practitioners, Faculty of Public Health, National Institute for Health Research and NHS R&D Forum. She is Associate Editor for BMC Health Services Research; co-editor of a series of nine research workbooks (two of which have won prizes in the annual BMA Book Competition); and has published widely on topics including shaping national health research policy, critical approaches to policy analysis and the organisation of primary care.
Publications:
Selected Publications
What is integrated care?
Shaw SE, Rosen R and Rumbold B (2011) London, Nuffield Trust.
Integration in Action: Four international case studies
Rosen R, Mountford J, Lewis GHL, Lewis R, Shand J and Shaw SE (2011) . London, Nuffield Trust.
Horizontal and vertical integration in the UK: lessons from history
Rumbold B and Shaw SE (2010), . Journal of Integrated Care 18(6): 45-52.
Reaching the parts that other theories and methods can’t reach? How and why a policy-as-discourse approach can inform health-related policy
Shaw SE (2010) Health, 14(2) 196–212.
Discourse analysis: what is it and why is it relevant to family practice?
Shaw SE and Bailey J (2009) Family Practice, 26: 413-419; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmp038.
What is the role of local enhanced services in building clinical research facilities in primary care?
Shaw SE, Johns T, Hoile O, Gunnell C (2009) Primary Health Care Research and Development, 10: 274–278.
A double-edged sword? Health research and research governance in UK primary care
Shaw SE, Chapman JL, Petchey RP, Abbott S. (2009) Social Science & Medicine, 68: 912-918.
Best research – for what? Best health – for whom? a critical exploration of primary care research policy using discourse analysis
Shaw SE and Greenhalgh T. (2008) Social Science & Medicine, 66(12): 2506-19.
Can health research policy be shaped? Lessons from the UK experience
Shaw SE, Carter YH, Greenhalgh T, Macfarlane F. (2007) Harvard Health Policy Review, 8(1): 114-125.
Driving out alternative ways of seeing: the significance of neo-liberal policy mechanisms for UK primary care research
Shaw SE. (2007)Social Theory & Health, 5: 316-337
Developing sustainable relationships for health improvement: the case of public health and primary care in the UK
Shaw S, Ashcroft J, Petchey R. (2006) Critical Public Health, 16(1): 73-88.
Research Governance: ethical issues
Slowther A, Boynton P, Shaw S (2006) . Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 99: 65-72.
Research governance: regulating risk and reducing harm?
Shaw S and Barrett G (2006) Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 99:14-19.
Research Governance: where did it come from? What does it mean?
Shaw S, Boynton P, Greenhalgh T. (2005) Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 98: 496-502.
What’s in a care pathway? Towards a cultural cartography of the new NHS
Pinder R, Petchey R, Shaw S & Carter YH. (2005) Sociology of Health and Illness, 27(6): 759-79.
Developing primary care research teams: A qualitative interview study in UK general practice
Shaw S, Macfarlane F, Carter YH, Letley L (2005) Australian Journal of Primary Health, 11(1): 24-31.
Developing research management and governance capacity in UK PCTs: a qualitative evaluation of pilot sites
Shaw S, Macfarlane F, Greaves C, Carter YH. (2004) Family Practice, 21(1): 92-98.
Issues in Primary Care Epidemiology
Carter YH, Shaw S and Thomas C (eds)(2002). London: RCGP.
Patient Participation and Ethical Considerations
Carter YH, Shaw S and Thomas C (eds) (2001) . London: RCGP. (First prize in the Non-Commercial category of the BMA 2002 Medical Book Competition)
Statistical Concepts. London: RCGP
Carter YH, Shaw S and Thomas C. (eds)(2000) . (Commended prize in the Primary Health Care category of the BMA 2000 Medical Book competition).
An Introduction to Qualitative Methods for Health Professionals
Carter YH, Shaw S and Thomas C (eds)(1999) . London: RCGP.