Joshua Robert Moon

University of Sussex · Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU)

[This thesis has undergone viva voce examination, corrections have been made, PhD has been awarded, and the work is published as a thesis on Sussex Research Online.] This thesis explores the dynamics of knowledge accumulation from disease outbreak responses. It explores the development of a paradigm of disease outbreak response over the last 20 y...

Test and Trace' systems are key components of national responses to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Each country has its own set of measures for testing Covid-19 cases, finding contacts, and isolating and supporting those affected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This article presents early results from a comparative analysis of six countries; Germany, Irel...

Concerns that biological weapons will be used has focused attention on the need to develop a capability to independently investigate any allegation of use. The United Nations Secretary-General’s Mechanism is one such tool, and efforts to revitalize and strengthen it have acknowledged a wide range of technical difficulties to overcome. This article...

Problems framed as societal challenges have provided fresh impetus for transdisciplinary research. In response, funders have started programmes aimed at increasing transdisciplinary research capacity. However, current programme evaluations do not adequately measure the skills and characteristics of individuals and collectives doing this research. A...

Background: Quarantine and isolation is an effective method of controlling outbreaks of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. However, the effectiveness of these interventions depends on a high compliance rate, which is often compromised by multiple reasons to break quarantine or refuse isolation. In this systematic review, we highlight pub...

Sometimes doing interdisciplinary work feels like trying to lasso unicorns. Working with big players from foreign disciplines and interdepartmental drifters. Negotiating over language and frameworks. Agreeing common research questions. All the while trying to gather data and do good work. Building on methods developed in ESRC and Horizon 2020 funde...

This paper from the SPRU Working Paper Series is about the research capabilities needed to actually do societal challenges. In the paper we describe an evaluative framework with which to assess such capabilities. The framework is operationalised through a three-stage mixed method procedure which evaluates transdisciplinary capabilities as they are...

Research framed to address global, grand and societal challenges has brought fresh impetus to calls by funding agencies for transdisciplinary research. Yet the urgency of such calls is not matched by sufficient knowledge of how to foster and maintain the capabilities to do transdisciplinary work. Significant gaps exist in how to cultivate and maint...

Global health security and universal health coverage have been frequently considered as “two sides of the same coin”. Yet, greater analysis is required as to whether and where these two ideals converge, and what important differences exist. A consequence of ignoring their individual characteristics is to distort global and local health priorities i...

This article contributes to the development of methods for analysing research funding systems by exploring the robustness and comparability of emerging approaches to generate funding landscapes useful for policy making. We use a novel data set of manually extracted and coded data on the funding acknowledgements of 7,510 publications representing UK...

Over the last decade, the desire to address complex societal problems, achieve impact, and create value from working across disciplines has led to an increased emphasis on interdisciplinary research (IDR) among researchers, funders, and higher education institutions (HEIs) in the UK (Nurse, 2015; British Academy, 2016). Simultaneously, there has be...

This article contributes to the development of methods for analysing research funding systems by exploring the robustness and comparability of emerging approaches to generate funding landscapes useful for policy making. We use a novel dataset of manually extracted and coded data on the funding acknowledgements of 7,510 publications representing UK...

This article contributes to the development of methods for analysing research funding systems by exploring the robustness and comparability of emerging approaches to generate funding landscapes useful for policy making. We use a novel dataset of manually extracted and coded data on the funding acknowledgements of 7,510 publications representing UK...

This article contributes to the development of methods for analysing research funding systems by exploring the robustness and comparability of emerging approaches to generate funding landscapes useful for policy making. We use a novel dataset of manually extracted and coded data on the funding acknowledgements of 7,510 publications representing UK...

Poster summarising the results of the technical report for Cancer Research-UK: Shah K, Sussex J, Hernandez-Villafuerte K, Garau M, Rotolo D, Hopkins MM, Grassano N, Crane P, Lang F, Hutton J, Pateman C, Mawer A, Farrell C, Sharp, TA. (2014). Exploring Interdependencies of research funders in the UK. Availbel at https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/site...

Investment in medical research is vital to the continuing improvement of the UK‟s health and wealth. It is through research that we expand our understanding of disease and develop new treatments for patients. Medical research charities currently contribute over £1 billion annually to medical research in the UK, of which over £350 million is provide...

Investment in medical research is vital to the continuing improvement of the UK's health and wealth. It is through research that we expand our understanding of disease and develop new treatments for patients. Medical research charities currently contribute over £1 billion annually to medical research in the UK, of which over £350 million is provide...