Mr Lee Knifton
Co-Director - Centre For Health Policy
Management Science
Personal statement
Personal statement
I Joined Strathclyde in 2011 and my expertise is in public mental health. My main roles and contributions include:
- In 2014 I co-founded Strathclyde Centre for Health Policy, with Prof Neil Quinn, which I now lead with Prof Kat Smith. The Centre connects academics across the university to develop research and knowledge exchange initiatives.
- In 2016 I jointly established our International Centre for Doctoral Training, with Yale Medical School and New York University, funded with the NHS we have successfully supported a cohort of 7 PhD students
- Secured research grants from the NHS, Scottish Government, Police Scotland, European Union & several charities.
- Lead health research collaborations with our International Strategic Partner New York University.
- I maintain collaborations with a range of national and international organisations to enable important knowledge exchange and policy impact.
- Joint Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Public Mental Health, - previously Associate Editor where I led special editions with partners including the WHO.
- Co-Edited 'Public Mental Health: Global Perspectives' (2014). “It should be read by businessmen, teachers and politicians as much as by clinicians" (Prof Lord Layard)
My academic role is part-time (one day per week) and my primary role is as Director of The Mental Health Foundation for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Foundation are the UK's leading charity for research, policy and social interventions and we collaborate extensively with governments and national and international universities.
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Publications
- Work, welfare and mental health
- Knifton Lee, Boardman Jed
- Public Mental Health Conference (joint conference between UK Royal College Psychiatrists and Faculty of Public Health). (2025)
- Measurement invariance of the Self-Stigma of Mental Illness Scale (Short Form) across Scottish and Australian adults living with severe and enduring mental illness
- Hunter Simon, Groot Chris, Rehm Imogen, Findlay Jo, Knifton Lee
- Stigma and Health (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1037/sah0000605
- Testing the associations between poverty stigma and mental health : the role of received stigma and perceived structural stigma
- Inglis Greig, Sosu Edward, McHardy Fiona, Witteveen Isabel, Jenkins Pamela, Knifton Lee
- International Journal of Social Psychiatry Vol 71, pp. 554-563 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/00207640241296055
- Anticipated and experienced stigma and discrimination in the workplace among individuals with major depressive disorder in 35 countries : qualitative framework analysis of a mixed-method cross-sectional study
- Van Bortel Tine, Wickramasinghe Nuwan Darshana, Treacy Samantha, Khan Nashi, Ouali Uta, Sumathipala Athula, Svab Vesna, Nader Doaa, Kadri Nadia, Monteiro Maria Fatima, Knifton Lee, Quinn Neil, Van Audenhove Chantal, Lasalvia Antonio, Bonetto Chiara, Thornicroft Graham, van Weeghel Jaap, Brouwers Evelien
- BMJ Open Vol 14 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-077528
- Developing preventative and community models of care
- Knifton Lee
- Next Steps for Mental health in Scotland. Scotland Policy Conferences (2024)
- Priorities in public mental health
- Knifton Lee
- Northern Ireland Dept of Health, Early Intervention and Prevention Conference (2024)
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Professional Activities
- Special Edition Journal Public Mental Health on Health Inequalities in UK/USwith NYU (Journal)
- Guest editor
- 2025
- Health and Care Futures: thematic areas workshop
- Invited speaker
- 30/5/2024
- Scottish Government Mental Health Strategy Leadership Forum (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 2024
- Cabinet Secretary's NHS Reform Advisory Group (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 2024
- Mentally Health Schools Conference: Holyrood Insights
- Chair
- 13/9/2023
- Mental Health and Wellbeing Research Network Workshop
- Organiser
- 11/1/2023
Projects
- Mental Health Futures Collaborative
- Cogan, Nicola (Principal Investigator) Parra Rodriguez, Mario (Principal Investigator) Fleming, Leanne (Principal Investigator) Quinn, Neil (Principal Investigator) Tse, Dwight (Principal Investigator) Knifton, Lee (Principal Investigator) McCann, Lisa (Principal Investigator) Maguire, Roma (Principal Investigator) Smith, Matthew (Principal Investigator) Graham, Christopher Darryl (Principal Investigator) Grealy, Madeleine (Principal Investigator) Stephen, Susan (Principal Investigator) Weir, Natalie Mcfadyen (Principal Investigator) Donnachie, Craig (Principal Investigator) Cameron, Julie (Principal Investigator) Kane, Tony (Co-investigator) Lakey, Trevor (Academic) Donovan, Kevin (Fellow)
- This Engage with Strathclyde event is aimed at all those with an interest in mental health including people with lived experience, NHS and social care personnel and staff, occupational health and human resource management staff, student support services, university student and staff, academics, private and public sector and other personnel interested in mental health research and knowledge exchange.
- 12-Jan-2023 - 12-Jan-2023
- International Strategic Partnership (ISP) Joint PhD cluster - NYU & CUNY
- Quinn, Neil (Principal Investigator) Knifton, Lee (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2025
- Strathclyde COVID-19 Research Portfolio: Novel testing, digital health support and third sector collaboration for impact on social care
- Bedford, Tim (Principal Investigator) Corrigan, Damion (Co-investigator) Dunlop, Mark (Co-investigator) Egan, Kieren (Co-investigator) Fleming, Leanne (Co-investigator) Flowers, Paul (Co-investigator) Grealy, Madeleine (Co-investigator) Hoskisson, Paul (Co-investigator) Hunter, Iain (Co-investigator) Janssen, Xanne (Co-investigator) Kirk, Alison (Co-investigator) Knifton, Lee (Co-investigator) Lenhart, Otto (Co-investigator) Maguire, Roma (Co-investigator) Morton, Alec (Co-investigator) Quinn, Neil (Co-investigator) Scott, Fraser (Co-investigator) Suckling, Colin (Co-investigator) Ward, Andrew (Co-investigator) Williams, Lynn (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 16-Jan-2021
- International Strategic Partnership joint PhD cluster - City University of New York and NHS
- Quinn, Neil (Principal Investigator) Knifton, Lee (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2022
- Health citizenship and use of the arts
- Quinn, Neil (Principal Investigator) Knifton, Lee (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2016 - 31-Jan-2020
- Child and family health: prevention and inequalities
- Quinn, Neil (Principal Investigator) Knifton, Lee (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2016 - 31-Jan-2020
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Contact
Mr
Lee
Knifton
Co-Director - Centre For Health Policy
Management Science
Email: lee.knifton@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3615