Professor Jason Scott

Jason is a Professor of Applied Health Research, with expertise in the development, implementation and evaluation of innovations in the organisation and delivery of health and social care. His research spans patient safety in care transitions, frequent use of emergency and ambulance services, social prescribing, stroke and cardiovascular care, and the safe transfer of older adults between hospitals and care homes. He holds or has held various leadership roles, including being Deputy Director of the IDEAS National Evaluation Team, Academic Lead of the Frequent Caller National Network, Programme Lead for the MSc Healthcare Leadership and Management, and School Postgraduate Research Co-Lead.

He has received funding from prestigious funders including the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), The Dunhill Medical Trust and The Health Foundation, spanning large-scale national evaluations through to smaller seed-funded and charity-backed studies. In his research, he utilises a range of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods, drawing upon and developing theories from the social sciences. He has a particular interest in co-design, having led and contributed to numerous studies that bring patients, practitioners and other stakeholders together to co-design solutions to complex problems in care — including a national study co-designing systems-level responses to safety issues for care home residents, co-design of a patient safety reporting tool now validated across multiple sites, and co-design work shaping the pathway and implementation of mobile stroke units across the NHS. This participatory approach reflects his broader commitment to ensuring that research is grounded in the perspectives of those who deliver and receive care, and that resulting innovations are usable, implementable and sustainable in practice.

Jason is an experienced doctoral supervisor, having supervised four completed and five ongoing PhD students, and has acted as external examiner for doctoral theses and for the MSc Quality and Safety programme at the University of Leicester. He contributes to the wider research community as an academic editor for BMC Emergency Medicine, as a regular peer reviewer for funders including NIHR and UKRI, and as deputy chair of the NIHR BRACE Rapid Evaluation Centre Steering Group.