Sally Sheard
Biographic Data
| ID | 352986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sally Sheard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sally |
| FAMILY NAME | Sheard |
| SIGNATURE | SHEARD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8116-9120 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Response to commentary
Women in UK academic health economics: An evaluation of progress since the 1970s
Health Economics emerged as a topic and sub-discipline in Britain in the mid-twentieth century. Until the 1980s it was dominated by men - both in terms of numbers of academics employed and their prominence as heads of units, positions on editorial boards and organisation committees and their contributions to events. Since then it has been a relative success story for gender equality, unlike other economics sub-disciplines. This paper uses mixed m…
How do Healthcare Workers ‘Do’ Guidelines? Exploring How Policy Decisions Impacted UK Healthcare Workers During the First Phase of the Covid-19 Pandemic
We describe how COVID-19-related policy decisions and guidelines impacted healthcare workers (HCWs) during the UK’s first COVID-19 pandemic phase. Guidelines in healthcare aim to streamline processes, improve quality and manage risk. However, we argue that during this time the guidelines we studied often fell short of these goals in practice. We analysed 74 remote interviews with 14 UK HCWs over 6 months (February–August 2020). Reframing guidelin…
How did UK policymaking in the Covid-19 response use science? Evidence from scientific advisers
Background: Responses to COVID-19 have invested heavily in science. How this science was used is therefore important. Our work extends existing knowledge on the use of science in the pandemic by capturing scientific advisers’ experiences in real time. Aims and objectives: Our aim was to present generalisable messages on key qualifications or difficulties involved in speaking of ‘following the science’. Methods: Ninety-three interviews with UK sci…
Making Genetics and Genomics Policy in Britain: From Personal to Population Health
Perspectives on Covid-19 testing policies and practices: A qualitative study with scientific advisors and NHS health care workers in England
Consideration must be given to the implications of mass NHS staff testing, including the accuracy of information communicated to HCWs; how HCWs interpret, manage, and act on testing guidance; and the influence these have on health care organisations and services
From “Honeymoon Period” to “Stable Marriage”: The Rise of Management Consultants in British Health Policymaking
Since the creation of the National Health Service in 1948, different groups of experts have competed to inform the development of British health policy. This article analyzes the long-term rise of one of these groups-management consultants. The scale and regularity of their engagement has increased considerably over time, strikingly in recent years, and the functions fulfilled by consultants have become ever more diverse. At important moments the…
Identifying how Covid-19-related misinformation reacts to the announcement of the UK national lockdown: An interrupted time-series study
COVID-19 is unique in that it is the first global pandemic occurring amidst a crowded information environment that has facilitated the proliferation of misinformation on social media. Dangerous misleading narratives have the potential to disrupt 'official' information sharing at major government announcements. Using an interrupted time-series design, we test the impact of the announcement of the first UK lockdown (8-8.30 p.m. 23 March 2020) on sh…
Understanding the policy dynamics of Covid-19 in the UK: Early findings from interviews with policy makers and health care professionals
Roma populations and health inequalities: A New Perspective
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the emergence of “Roma health and wellbeing” as a focus of attention in European research and in policy and the possible detrimental consequences of action founded on a generic representation of “Roma health.” Design/methodology/approach Based on discussions with and research conducted by scholars who work directly with Roma communities across European regions from a wide range of academic disciplin…
The politics of health policy knowledge transfer: The evolution of the role of British health economics academic units
Economics is now central to health policy decision making, within government departments and the National Health Service. We examine how and why a health economics academic unit – the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) at the University of York, England – was created in 1983, funded and commissioned to provide research evidence to the British government, specifically the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) and its successors. Building …
Quantifying life: Understanding the history of Quality-Adjusted Life-Years (Qalys)
Quality-Adjusted Life-Years (QALYs) are central to healthcare decision-making in Britain and abroad, yet their history is poorly understood. In this paper, we argue that a more in-depth and political history of the QALY is needed to allow a critical evaluation of its current dominance. Exploiting rich data from archives and 44 semi-structured interviews conducted between 2015 and 2018, we employ Multiple Streams Analysis to construct a complex an…
Quacks and Clerks: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Structure and Function of the British Medical Civil Service
The British government's requirement for expert medical advice from the 1850s led to the development of a medical civil service, which reached its peak in size and authority in the 1970s. By this time the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) had direct management of a staff of over 170 medically qualified civil servants, who provided expertise on the development and implementation of new medical treatments as well as on broader health protection and promo…
Public Health and Municipal Policy Making: Britain and Sweden, 1900-1940
Book titles are tricky things, and balancing attractiveness with accuracy has often vexed authors and publishers. Niemi's book is not really about Britain and Sweden, but the public health experiences of Birmingham and Gothenburg. Yet it would have been wrong to package this as a local study—this is an ambitious comparative analysis, albeit with a rather odd choice of cities. Birmingham is on a very different urban scale to Gothenburg; they have …
History in health and health services: Exploring the possibilities
Historical skills—especially the methodologies involved in interpreting a wide range of sources—can provide a useful analysis of the structure and function of health services, and be used as a means of improving public understanding of the expectations and experiences of health and health care. This paper discusses some key examples of different strategies used by historians to show how they can collaborate effectively with health professionals
Profit is a Dirty Word: The Development of Public Baths and Wash-houses in Britain 1847–1915
Researh on sanitary reform in nineteenth-century Britain has focused mainly on the introduction of large-sanitary infrastructure, especially waterworks and sewage systems. Other sanitary measures such as the provision of public baths and wash-houses have been ignored, or discussed in the limited context of working-class responses to middle-class sanitarianism. Yet by 1915 public baths and wash-houses were to be found in nearly every British town …
High rates and a healthy city
The year 1874 was a good one for the British city of Birmingham. Because of the entrepreneurial spirit of Joseph Chamberlain, the long awaited public health infrastructure was installed in the city-paid for from the profits of the recently municipalised gas works. It is the sort of civic story that ought to be recounted more often. At a time of renewed interest in public health it is instructive to look at the British experience at the end of the…
The urban fiscal problem, 1870-1914: Government expenditure and finance in England and Wales
Robert Millward, Sally Sheard, The Urban Fiscal Problem, 1870-1914: Government Expenditure and Finance in England and Wales, The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 48, No. 3 (Aug., 1995), pp. 501-535
Municipal sanitary surveillance, Asian resistance and the control of the urban environment in colonial Singapore
Understanding the policy dynamics of Covid-19 in the UK: Early findings from interviews with policy makers and health care professionals
Profit is a Dirty Word: The Development of Public Baths and Wash-houses in Britain 1847–1915
Researh on sanitary reform in nineteenth-century Britain has focused mainly on the introduction of large-sanitary infrastructure, especially waterworks and sewage systems. Other sanitary measures such as the provision of public baths and wash-houses have been ignored, or discussed in the limited context of working-class responses to middle-class sanitarianism. Yet by 1915 public baths and wash-houses were to be found in nearly every British town …
Roma populations and health inequalities: A New Perspective
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the emergence of “Roma health and wellbeing” as a focus of attention in European research and in policy and the possible detrimental consequences of action founded on a generic representation of “Roma health.” Design/methodology/approach Based on discussions with and research conducted by scholars who work directly with Roma communities across European regions from a wide range of academic disciplin…
The urban fiscal problem, 1870-1914: Government expenditure and finance in England and Wales
Robert Millward, Sally Sheard, The Urban Fiscal Problem, 1870-1914: Government Expenditure and Finance in England and Wales, The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 48, No. 3 (Aug., 1995), pp. 501-535
Quantifying life: Understanding the history of Quality-Adjusted Life-Years (Qalys)
Quality-Adjusted Life-Years (QALYs) are central to healthcare decision-making in Britain and abroad, yet their history is poorly understood. In this paper, we argue that a more in-depth and political history of the QALY is needed to allow a critical evaluation of its current dominance. Exploiting rich data from archives and 44 semi-structured interviews conducted between 2015 and 2018, we employ Multiple Streams Analysis to construct a complex an…
Public Health and Municipal Policy Making: Britain and Sweden, 1900-1940
Book titles are tricky things, and balancing attractiveness with accuracy has often vexed authors and publishers. Niemi's book is not really about Britain and Sweden, but the public health experiences of Birmingham and Gothenburg. Yet it would have been wrong to package this as a local study—this is an ambitious comparative analysis, albeit with a rather odd choice of cities. Birmingham is on a very different urban scale to Gothenburg; they have …
Quacks and Clerks: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Structure and Function of the British Medical Civil Service
The British government's requirement for expert medical advice from the 1850s led to the development of a medical civil service, which reached its peak in size and authority in the 1970s. By this time the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) had direct management of a staff of over 170 medically qualified civil servants, who provided expertise on the development and implementation of new medical treatments as well as on broader health protection and promo…
Women in UK academic health economics: An evaluation of progress since the 1970s
Health Economics emerged as a topic and sub-discipline in Britain in the mid-twentieth century. Until the 1980s it was dominated by men - both in terms of numbers of academics employed and their prominence as heads of units, positions on editorial boards and organisation committees and their contributions to events. Since then it has been a relative success story for gender equality, unlike other economics sub-disciplines. This paper uses mixed m…
How did UK policymaking in the Covid-19 response use science? Evidence from scientific advisers
Background: Responses to COVID-19 have invested heavily in science. How this science was used is therefore important. Our work extends existing knowledge on the use of science in the pandemic by capturing scientific advisers’ experiences in real time. Aims and objectives: Our aim was to present generalisable messages on key qualifications or difficulties involved in speaking of ‘following the science’. Methods: Ninety-three interviews with UK sci…
Identifying how Covid-19-related misinformation reacts to the announcement of the UK national lockdown: An interrupted time-series study
COVID-19 is unique in that it is the first global pandemic occurring amidst a crowded information environment that has facilitated the proliferation of misinformation on social media. Dangerous misleading narratives have the potential to disrupt 'official' information sharing at major government announcements. Using an interrupted time-series design, we test the impact of the announcement of the first UK lockdown (8-8.30 p.m. 23 March 2020) on sh…
The politics of health policy knowledge transfer: The evolution of the role of British health economics academic units
Economics is now central to health policy decision making, within government departments and the National Health Service. We examine how and why a health economics academic unit – the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) at the University of York, England – was created in 1983, funded and commissioned to provide research evidence to the British government, specifically the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) and its successors. Building …
History in health and health services: Exploring the possibilities
Historical skills—especially the methodologies involved in interpreting a wide range of sources—can provide a useful analysis of the structure and function of health services, and be used as a means of improving public understanding of the expectations and experiences of health and health care. This paper discusses some key examples of different strategies used by historians to show how they can collaborate effectively with health professionals
Municipal sanitary surveillance, Asian resistance and the control of the urban environment in colonial Singapore
The urban fiscal problem, 1870-1914: Government expenditure and finance in England and Wales
Robert Millward, Sally Sheard, The Urban Fiscal Problem, 1870-1914: Government Expenditure and Finance in England and Wales, The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 48, No. 3 (Aug., 1995), pp. 501-535
High rates and a healthy city
The year 1874 was a good one for the British city of Birmingham. Because of the entrepreneurial spirit of Joseph Chamberlain, the long awaited public health infrastructure was installed in the city-paid for from the profits of the recently municipalised gas works. It is the sort of civic story that ought to be recounted more often. At a time of renewed interest in public health it is instructive to look at the British experience at the end of the…
Profit is a Dirty Word: The Development of Public Baths and Wash-houses in Britain 1847–1915
Researh on sanitary reform in nineteenth-century Britain has focused mainly on the introduction of large-sanitary infrastructure, especially waterworks and sewage systems. Other sanitary measures such as the provision of public baths and wash-houses have been ignored, or discussed in the limited context of working-class responses to middle-class sanitarianism. Yet by 1915 public baths and wash-houses were to be found in nearly every British town …
Public Health and Municipal Policy Making: Britain and Sweden, 1900-1940
Book titles are tricky things, and balancing attractiveness with accuracy has often vexed authors and publishers. Niemi's book is not really about Britain and Sweden, but the public health experiences of Birmingham and Gothenburg. Yet it would have been wrong to package this as a local study—this is an ambitious comparative analysis, albeit with a rather odd choice of cities. Birmingham is on a very different urban scale to Gothenburg; they have …
History in health and health services: Exploring the possibilities
Historical skills—especially the methodologies involved in interpreting a wide range of sources—can provide a useful analysis of the structure and function of health services, and be used as a means of improving public understanding of the expectations and experiences of health and health care. This paper discusses some key examples of different strategies used by historians to show how they can collaborate effectively with health professionals
Quacks and Clerks: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Structure and Function of the British Medical Civil Service
The British government's requirement for expert medical advice from the 1850s led to the development of a medical civil service, which reached its peak in size and authority in the 1970s. By this time the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) had direct management of a staff of over 170 medically qualified civil servants, who provided expertise on the development and implementation of new medical treatments as well as on broader health protection and promo…
The politics of health policy knowledge transfer: The evolution of the role of British health economics academic units
Economics is now central to health policy decision making, within government departments and the National Health Service. We examine how and why a health economics academic unit – the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) at the University of York, England – was created in 1983, funded and commissioned to provide research evidence to the British government, specifically the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) and its successors. Building …
Quantifying life: Understanding the history of Quality-Adjusted Life-Years (Qalys)
Quality-Adjusted Life-Years (QALYs) are central to healthcare decision-making in Britain and abroad, yet their history is poorly understood. In this paper, we argue that a more in-depth and political history of the QALY is needed to allow a critical evaluation of its current dominance. Exploiting rich data from archives and 44 semi-structured interviews conducted between 2015 and 2018, we employ Multiple Streams Analysis to construct a complex an…
Roma populations and health inequalities: A New Perspective
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the emergence of “Roma health and wellbeing” as a focus of attention in European research and in policy and the possible detrimental consequences of action founded on a generic representation of “Roma health.” Design/methodology/approach Based on discussions with and research conducted by scholars who work directly with Roma communities across European regions from a wide range of academic disciplin…
Understanding the policy dynamics of Covid-19 in the UK: Early findings from interviews with policy makers and health care professionals
Perspectives on Covid-19 testing policies and practices: A qualitative study with scientific advisors and NHS health care workers in England
Consideration must be given to the implications of mass NHS staff testing, including the accuracy of information communicated to HCWs; how HCWs interpret, manage, and act on testing guidance; and the influence these have on health care organisations and services
From “Honeymoon Period” to “Stable Marriage”: The Rise of Management Consultants in British Health Policymaking
Since the creation of the National Health Service in 1948, different groups of experts have competed to inform the development of British health policy. This article analyzes the long-term rise of one of these groups-management consultants. The scale and regularity of their engagement has increased considerably over time, strikingly in recent years, and the functions fulfilled by consultants have become ever more diverse. At important moments the…
Identifying how Covid-19-related misinformation reacts to the announcement of the UK national lockdown: An interrupted time-series study
COVID-19 is unique in that it is the first global pandemic occurring amidst a crowded information environment that has facilitated the proliferation of misinformation on social media. Dangerous misleading narratives have the potential to disrupt 'official' information sharing at major government announcements. Using an interrupted time-series design, we test the impact of the announcement of the first UK lockdown (8-8.30 p.m. 23 March 2020) on sh…
How do Healthcare Workers ‘Do’ Guidelines? Exploring How Policy Decisions Impacted UK Healthcare Workers During the First Phase of the Covid-19 Pandemic
We describe how COVID-19-related policy decisions and guidelines impacted healthcare workers (HCWs) during the UK’s first COVID-19 pandemic phase. Guidelines in healthcare aim to streamline processes, improve quality and manage risk. However, we argue that during this time the guidelines we studied often fell short of these goals in practice. We analysed 74 remote interviews with 14 UK HCWs over 6 months (February–August 2020). Reframing guidelin…
How did UK policymaking in the Covid-19 response use science? Evidence from scientific advisers
Background: Responses to COVID-19 have invested heavily in science. How this science was used is therefore important. Our work extends existing knowledge on the use of science in the pandemic by capturing scientific advisers’ experiences in real time. Aims and objectives: Our aim was to present generalisable messages on key qualifications or difficulties involved in speaking of ‘following the science’. Methods: Ninety-three interviews with UK sci…
Making Genetics and Genomics Policy in Britain: From Personal to Population Health
Response to commentary
Women in UK academic health economics: An evaluation of progress since the 1970s
Health Economics emerged as a topic and sub-discipline in Britain in the mid-twentieth century. Until the 1980s it was dominated by men - both in terms of numbers of academics employed and their prominence as heads of units, positions on editorial boards and organisation committees and their contributions to events. Since then it has been a relative success story for gender equality, unlike other economics sub-disciplines. This paper uses mixed m…
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