Books 

• Grant J (2021). The New Power University. The social purpose of higher education in the 21st century. Pearson, London.

• Benner M, Grant J and O’Kane M (2022). Crisis Response in Higher Education. How the pandemic challenged university operations and organisation. Plagrave Macmillan, Cham.

• Davies SC, Grant J & Catchpole, M (2013). The Drugs Don’t Work. A Global Threat. Penguin, London. 

Peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters  

• Cohen, E., Williams, K. & Grant, J. (2025). Researcher identities and values in the impact agenda: the case of artificial intelligence academics. High Educ 90, 881–897. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01356-1. 

• Cohen E, Williams K, Grant J (2025). The cultural impact of the impact agenda in Australia, UK and USA, Research Evaluation, Volume 34, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvaf036. 

• Williams K, Michalska S, Cohen E, Szomszor M, Grant J (2023) Exploring the application of machine learning to expert evaluation of research impact. PLoS ONE 18(8): e0288469. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288469 

• Adams J, Johnson J and Grant J (2022). The rise of UK–China research collaboration: Trends, opportunities and challenges, Science and Public Policy, Volume 49, Issue 1, February 2022, Pages 132–147, https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scab069.  

• Zakaria S, Grant J and Luff J (2021). Fundamental challenges in assessing the impact of research infrastructure. Health Research Policy and Systems, 19 (1), https://health-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12961-021-00769-z. 

• Votruba N, Grant J, & Thornicroft, G (2021). EVITA 2.0, an updated framework for understanding evidence based mental health policy agenda setting: tested and informed by key informant interviews in a multilevel comparative case study. Health Research Policy and Systems, 19 (1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-020-00651-4. 

• Hanney SR, Wooding S, Sussex J and Grant J (2020). From COVID-19 research to vaccine application: Why might it take 17 months not 17 years and what are the wider lessons? Health Research Policy and Systems, 18(1) https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-020-00571-3. 

• Hinrichs-Krapels S, Bailey J, Boulding H, Duffy, B, Hesketh R, Kinloch E, Pollitt A, Rawlings S, van Rij A, Wilkinson B, Pow R and Grant J (2020). Using Policy Labs as a process to bring evidence closer to public policymaking: a guide to one approach. Palgrave Communication 6 (101). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0453-0. 

• Votruba N, Grant J & Thornicroft GJ (2020). The EVITA framework for evidence-based mental health policy agenda setting in low- and middle-income countries, Health Policy and Planning, 1 (16). https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czz179 

• Hinrichs-Krapels S, Pollitt AR, Grant J, Wilkinson BJ & Kinloch EA (2019). Impact by design: Planning your research impact in 7Cs. Emerald Open Research. https://doi.org/10.35241/emeraldopenres.13323.1