Jonathan Boote MA (Cantab), MSc, PhD

Section of Public Health
ScHARR
University of Sheffield
Regent Court
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA

Office: Ground Floor, Regent Court

Tel: +44 (0)114 222 0892
Fax: +44 (0) 114 222 4095

email:  j.boote@sheffield.ac.uk

Biography

I studied history at the University of Cambridge, and then undertook an MSc and PhD in marketing management at the University of Bedfordshire. I started my career in the NHS, working as a Senior Research Officer at Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust, and then as a Research Manager for Sheffield Health and Social Research Consortium. I joined the NIHR Research Design Service for Yorkshire and the Humber in 2008 as a Research Fellow, where I have regional responsibility for patient and public involvement. Over the last 10 years, I have been involved in a research programme in the field of patient and public involvement in health and social care research, which is one of the main research themes in the Public Health Section of ScHARR.  As either chief or co-investigator, I have thus far obtained over £1million in external funding.

Research Interests

• Public involvement in health research, particularly its impact on research processes and outcomes
• The health of older adults
• Patient expectations, satisfaction and complaining behaviour
• Applications of the Delphi method for reaching consensus

Teaching Interests

I teach on aspects of public involvement in research and evidence-based healthcare on the MPH, DClinPsy and MSc in Clinical Research degree programmes. I also supervise MPH and MSc in Clinical Research dissertations, and contribute to a Master's level course on public involvement run by King's College, London.

Professional Activities

• For the NIHR Research Design  Service for Yorkshire and the Humbers (RDSYH), I chair the Service's Patient and Public Involvement Forum, co-ordinate its Public Involvement in Grant Applications Funding Award, and maintain the public involvement section of the RDSYH website.  I am a member of the RDSYH's Executive Group, and represent the RDSYH at national meetings of public involvement leads of all ten NIHR Research Design Services, facilitated by INVOLVE, three times a year.
• I undertake peer reviews for the following journals: BMJ, Milbank Quarterly, Annals of Internal Medicine, Social Science and Medicine, Rheumatology, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Health Policy, Health Expectations, Health Research Policy and Systems, Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research, Systematic Reviews, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Clinical Governance: An International Journal, Drug and Alcohol Review, the International Journal of Consumer Studies and the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences.
• I review funding applications for the National Institute for Health Research, Parkinson’s Disease Society of the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development.
• I am a member of the following groups and organisations: INVOLVE, the HTAi Interest Sub-Group on Patient and Citizen Involvement in HTA; the International Collaboration on Participatory Health Research; the NIHR Stroke Research Network's Clinical Studies Group on Patient, Carer and Public Involvement; the Strategic Local Priority Group for Patient and Public Involvement in South Yorkshire; and invoNET.
• I am an external PhD examiner for the University of Newcastle, Australia.
• Within the University of Sheffield, I am a member of the University Senate and the Research Ethics Committee of the School of Health and Related Research.

Current Projects

• Potential prediction of preterm labour and birth by novel devices. Consultant advisor on patient and public involvement. £320,138 from NIHR Invention for Innovation Stage 2.  Collaborators:  Dilly Anumba, Timothy Healey, Brian Brown. 2012-2014.
• Assessing the Risk of Spontaneous Premature Birth by Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy of the Cervix.  Co-investigator. £622,048 from the MRC Development Pathway Funding Scheme.  Collaborators:  Dilly Anumba, Graham Stafford, Georgina Jones, Stephen Walters, Simon Dixon, Brian Brown.  2012-2016.
• Preventing and Lessening Exacerbations of Asthma in School-age Asthmatics associated with a New Term (PLEASANT).  £477,000 from NIHR Health Technology Assessment. Co-investigator.  Collaborators:  Steven Julious, Henry Smithson, Heather Elphick, Michelle Horspool, Paul Norman, Tjeerd Van Staa, Gerard MCann, Sarah Davis. 2012-2015.
• Identifying and embedding the impact of participatory health research.  Co-applicant.  £20,385 from JISC.  Collaborators: Tina Cook, Emma Baron, Michael Wright, Sonia Vougioukalou, Gwen Marples. 2012.
• Improving management of Type 1 diabetes in the UK: the DAFNE programme as a research test-bed (Chief Invesigator - Prof Simon Heller).  Lead for the evalulation of user involvement within the programme.  Total grant funding: £2 million from NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research.  Collaborator on the evaluation: Wendy Baird. 2010-2013.
• Can physiotherapy effectively treat patients with lumbar radicular syndrome secondary to MRI demonstrable disc prolapse? A preliminary randomised trial of patients awaiting lumbar micro-discectomy. Co-investigator. £169,000 from NIHR Research for Patient Benefit.  Collaborators: Ruth Newsome, Michael Reddington, Munyaradzi Dimairo. 2011-2013.
• Public involvement in health and social care research: a bibliometric review of the literature. Lead investigator. Collaborators: Andrew Booth and Ruth Wong. Unfunded.

Key Publications

I have so far published 20 peer-reviewed journal articles.  According to Google Scholar, I have an h-index of 12, and one of my papers (Boote et al, 2002) has been cited over 150 times.

• Boote J, Dalgleish M, Freeman J, Jones Z, Miles M, Rodgers H (2012) "But is it a question worth asking?"  A reflective case study describing how public involvement can lead to researchers' ideas being abandoned.  Health Expectations, in press.
• Barber R, Boote J, Parry G, Cooper C, Yeeles P, Cook S (2011) Can the impact of public involvement on research be evaluated?  A mixed methods study.  Health Expectations, doi: 10.1111/j.1369-7625.2010.00660.x
• Barber R, Beresford P, Boote J, Cooper C, Faulkner A. Evaluating the impact of public involvement on research: a prospective case study.  International Journal of Consumer Studies. (2011) 35(6), 509-615.
• Boote J, Baird W, Sutton A. (2011) Public involvement in the systematic review process in health and social care:  a narrative review of case examples.  Health Policy. 102, 105-116.
• Boote J, Baird W, Sutton A. (2011) Public involvement in the design and conduct of clinical trials: a review.  The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 5(11), 91-111.
• Barber R, Boote J, Parry G, Cooper C, Yeeles P. (2011) Evaluating the impact of public involvement on research.  In: Barnes M, Cottrell P (eds), Critical Perspectives on User Involvment.  Bristol: Policy Press.
• Boote J, Baird W, Beecroft C.  Public involvement at the design stage of primary health research: a narrative review of case examples.  Health Policy (2010) 95, 10-23. 
• Ward PR, Thompson J, Barber R, Armitage CJ, Boote JD, Cooper CL, Jones GL. (2010) Critical perspectives on 'consumer involvement' in health research: epistemological dissonance and the know-do gap.  Journal of Sociology 46(11), 63-82.
• Allmark P, Boote J, Chambers E, McDonnell A, Thompson A, Tod A (2009), Ethical issues in the use of in-depth interviews: literature review and discussion. Research Ethics Review, 5(2), 48-55.
• Thompson J, Ward P, Barber, R, Boote J, Armitage C, Cooper C, Jones G. (2009) Health researchers' attitudes to public involvement in health research. Health Expectations, 12(2), 209-220.
• Barber R, Boote J, Cooper C (2007) Involving consumers successfully in NHS research: A national survey. Health Expectations, 10 (4), 380-391.
• Boote J, Barber R, Cooper C (2006) Principles and indicators of successful consumer involvement in NHS research: results of a Delphi study and subgroup analysis. Health Policy, 75 (3), 280-297.
• Boote J, Lewin V, Beverley C, Bates J (2006) Psychosocial interventions for people with moderate to severe dementia: a systematic review. Clinical Effectiveness in Nursing, 9S1, e1-e15.
• Ledsham R, Boote J, Kirkland A, Davies S (2006) What is it like to use hip protectors? A qualitative study of the views and experiences of nurses and patients. Clinical Effectiveness in Nursing. 9S1, e97-e105
• Bates J, Boote J, Beverley C (2004) Psychosocial interventions for people with a milder dementing illness: a systematic review.  Journal of Advanced Nursing, 45(6), 1-15.
• Telford R, Boote J, Cooper C. (2004) What does it mean to involve consumers successfully in NHS research? A consensus study. Health Expectations, 7 (3), 209-220.
• Santos J, Boote J (2003) A theoretical exploration and model of consumer expectations, post-purchase affective states and affective behaviours. Journal of Consumer Behaviour: An International Research Review 3(2), 142-156.
• Boote J, Telford R, Cooper C (2002) Consumer involvement in health research: a review and research agenda. Health Policy, 61 (2), 213-236.
• Telford R, Beverley C, Cooper C, Boote J (2002) Consumer involvement in health research: fact or fiction? Clinical Governance: An International Journal 7 (2), 92-103.