2018

Brown, J. , Katikireddi, S. V. , Leyland, A. H. , McQuaid, R. W., Frank, J. and Macdonald, E. B. (2018) Age, health and other factors associated with return to work for those engaging with a welfare-to-work initiative: a cohort study of administrative data from the UK’s Work Programme. BMJ Open, 8(10), e024938. (doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024938) (PMID:30368452) (PMCID:PMC6224745)

Brown, J. , Katikireddi, S.V., Leyland, A.H., McQuaid, R.W., Frank, J. and Macdonald, E.B. (2018) The Role of Age and Health in Returning to Work: Results from the Supporting Older People into Employment (sopie) Cohort. 32nd Triennial Congress of the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH), Dublin, Ireland, 29 Apr - 04 May 2018. (doi:10.1136/oemed-2018-ICOHabstracts.132)

Parkin, T.D.H. , Brown, J. and Macdonald, E.B. (2018) Occupational risks of working with horses: A questionnaire survey of equine veterinary surgeons. Equine Veterinary Education, 30(4), pp. 200-205. (doi:10.1111/eve.12891)

Demou, E. , Smith, S., Bhaskar, A., Mackay, D. F. , Brown, J. , Hunt, K. , Vargas-Prada, S. and Macdonald, E. B. (2018) Evaluating sickness absence duration by musculoskeletal and mental health issues. A retrospective cohort study of Scottish Healthcare Workers. BMJ Open, 8(1), e018185. (doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018085) (PMID:29374662) (PMCID:PMC5829784)

2017

Brown, J. , McQuaid, R., Katikireddi, S. V., Leyland, A., Frank, J., Molaodi, O. R. and Macdonald, E. B. (2017) Visualising the Unemployment-to-employment Transitions to Explore Factors Influencing Return to Work in the Work Programme: Results from the Supporting Older People Into Employment (SOPIE) Cohort. Eliminating Occupational Disease: Translating Research into Action (EPICOH 2017), Edinburgh, UK, 28-31 Aug 2017. (doi:10.1136/oemed-2017-104636.211)

2016

Brown, J. , McQuaid, R., Katikireddi, S. V., Leyland, A., Frank, J., Jeavons, L., de Pellette, P. and Macdonald, E. (2016) Establishment of a Cohort to Identify Factors Influencing Return to Work in the Over 50s Participating in the UK Work Programme: Supporting Older People into Employment (SOPIE). 25th EPICOH Conference: Epidemiology in Occupation Health Conference - "Occupational Health, Think Globally, Act Locally", Barcelona, Spain, 4-7 Sept 2016. A166. (doi:10.1136/oemed-2016-103951.454)

Demou, E. , Brown, J. , Sanati, K., Kennedy, M., Murray, K. and Macdonald, E. B. (2016) A novel approach to early sickness absence management: the EASY (early access to support for you) way. Work, 53(3), pp. 597-608. (doi:10.3233/WOR-152137) (PMID:26409380) (PMCID:PMC4927878)

2015

Brown, J. et al. (2015) Protocol for a mixed-methods longitudinal study to identify factors influencing return to work in the over 50s participating in the UK work programme: supporting older people into employment (SOPIE). BMJ Open, 5(12), e010525. (doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010525) (PMID:26674507) (PMCID:PMC4691729)

Brown, J. , Mackay, D. , Demou, E. , Craig, J., Frank, J. and Macdonald, E. (2015) The EASY (Early Access to Support for You) sickness absence service: a four-year evaluation of the impact on absenteeism. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health, 41(2), pp. 204-215. (doi:10.5271/sjweh.3480) (PMID:25626136)

Quasim, T. , Brown, J. and Kinsella, J. (2015) Employment, social dependency and return to work after intensive care. Journal of Intensive Care Society, 16(1), pp. 31-36. (doi:10.1177/1751143714556238)

2013

Webster, D., Brown, J. , Macdonald, E. and Turok, I. (2013) The Interaction of Health, Labour Market Conditions, and Long-Term Sickness Benefit Claims in a Post-Industrial City: A Glasgow Case Study. In: Lindsay, C. and Houston, D. (eds.) Disability Benefits, Welfare Reform and Employment Policy. Series: Work and Welfare in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, Hampshire, pp. 111-133. ISBN 9780230349940

2012

Brown, J. , Demou, E. , Tristram, M.A., Gilmour, H., Sanati, K.A. and Macdonald, E. (2012) Employment status and health: understanding the health of the economically inactive population in Scotland. BMC Public Health, 12, p. 327. (doi:10.1186/1471-2458-12-327)

2011

Brown, J. , Smith, J., Mitchell, R. , Webster, D., Arnott, J., Turok, I. and Macdonald, E. (2011) Medical reason for claiming employment support allowance in the UK, Scotland and Glasgow. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 68(Sup. 1), A96. (doi:10.1136/oemed-2011-100382.315)

2010

Brown, J. , Burke, F.J.T., Macdonald, E. , Gilmour, H., Hill, K. B., Morris, A. J., White, D. A., Muirhead, E. K. and Murray, K. (2010) Dental practitioners and ill health retirement: causes, outcomes and re-employment. British Dental Journal, 209(5; E7), pp. 1-8. (doi:10.1038/sj.bdj.2010.813)

Webster, D., Arnott, J., Brown, J. , Turok, I., Mitchell, R. and Macdonald, E.B. (2010) Falling Incapacity Benefit claims in a former industrial city: policy impacts or labour market improvement? Policy Studies, 31(2), pp. 163-185. (doi:10.1080/01442870903429611)

Hill, K.B., Burke, F.J.T., Brown, J. , Macdonald, E.B. , Morris, A.J., White, D.A. and Murray, K. (2010) Dental practitioners and ill health retirement: a qualitative investigation into the causes and effects. British Dental Journal, 209(5), E8. (doi:10.1038/sj.bdj.2010.814)

2009

Brown, J. , Hanlon, P.W., Turok, I., Webster, D., Arnott, J. and Macdonald, E.B. (2009) Mental health as a reason for claiming incapacity benefit--a comparison of national and local trends. Journal of Public Health, 31(1), pp. 74-80. (doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdn098)

2008

Brown, J. , Hanlon, P., Turok, I., Webster, D., Arnott, J. and Macdonald, E. (2008) Establishing the potential for using routine data on Incapacity Benefit to assess the local impact of policy initiatives. Journal of Public Health, 30(1), pp. 54-59. (doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdm074)

2007

Brown, J. , Hanlon, P., Webster, D., Turok, I., Arnott, J. and Macdonald, E. (2007) Turning the Tap off! Incapacity Benefit in Glasgow and Scotland - Trends Over the Past Five Years. Project Report. Glasgow Centre for Population Health, Glasgow.

2006

Brown, J. , Gilmour, W.H. and Macdonald, E.B. (2006) Ill health retirement in Scottish teachers: process, outcomes and re-employment. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 79(5), pp. 433-440. (doi:10.1007/s00420-005-0060-9)

Brown, J. , Gilmour, W.H. and Macdonald, E.B. (2006) Return to work after ill-health retirement in Scottish NHS staff and teachers. Occupational Medicine, 56(7), pp. 480-484. (doi:10.1093/occmed/kql075)

2005

Brown, J. , Reetoo, K. N., Murray, K. J., Thom, W. and Macdonald, E. B. (2005) The involvement of occupational health services prior to ill-health retirement in NHS staff in Scotland and predictors of re-employment. Occupational Medicine, 55(5), pp. 357-363. (doi:10.1093/occmed/kqi069)

2003

Brown, J. , O'Prey, J. and Harrison, P. (2003) Enhanced sensitivity of human oral tumours to the flavonol, morin, during cancer progression: involvement of the Akt and stress kinase pathways. Carcinogenesis, 24(2), pp. 171-177. (doi:10.1093/carcin/24.2.171)

O'Prey, J., Brown, J. , Fleming, J. and Harrison, P.R. (2003) Effects of dietary flavonoids on major signal transduction pathways in human epithelial cells. Biochemical Pharmacology, 66(11), pp. 2075-2088.

2002

Harrison, P., Muntoni, A., McGregor, F., Fleming, J., Brown, J. , Hunter, K., Gordon, K. and Parkinson, K. (2002) Molecular changes associated with oral dysplasia progression and acquisition of immortality: Potential for its reversal by 5-azacytidine. Cancer Research, 62(16), pp. 4757-4766.

1998

Fuller, S. J., Gillespie-Brown, J. and Sugden, P. H. (1998) Oncogenic src, raf, and ras stimulate a hypertrophic pattern of gene expression and increase cell size in neonatal rat ventricular myocytes. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 273(29), pp. 18146-18152. (doi:10.1074/jbc.273.29.18146)

1997

Fuller, S. J., Davies, E. L., Gillespie-Brown, J. , Sun, H. and Tonks, N. K. (1997) Mitogen-activated protein kinase phosphatase 1 inhibits the stimulation of gene expression by hypertrophic agonists in cardiac myocytes. Biochemical Journal, 323(2), pp. 313-319.

1996

Bogoyevitch, M. A., Gillespie-Brown, J. , Ketterman, A. J., Fuller, S. J., Ben-Levy, R., Ashworth, A., Marshall, C. J. and Sugden, P. H. (1996) Stimulation of the stress-activated mitogen-activated protein kinase subfamilies in perfused heart: p38/RK mitogen-activated protein kinases and c-Jun N-terminal kinases are activated by ischemia/reperfusion. Circulation Research, 79(2), pp. 162-173. (doi:10.1161/01.res.79.2.162)

Clerk, A., Gllespie-Brown, J. , Fuller, S. J. and Sugden, P. H. (1996) Stimulation of phosphatidylinositol hydrolysis, protein kinase C translocation, and mitogen-activated protein kinase activity by bradykinin in rat ventricular myocytes: dissociation from the hypertrophic response. Biochemical Journal, 317(1), pp. 109-118.

Bogoyevitch, M. A., Andersson, M. B., Gillespie-Brown, J. , Clerk, A., Glennon, P. E., Fuller, S. J. and Sugden, P. H. (1996) Adrenergic receptor stimulation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade and cardiac hypertrophy. Biochemical Journal, 314(1), pp. 115-121.

1995

Gillespie-Brown, J. , Fuller, S. J., Bogoyevitch, M. A., Cowley, S. and Sugden, P. H. (1995) The mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase MEK1 stimulates a pattern of gene expression typical of the hypertrophic phenotype in rat ventricular cardiomyocytes. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 270(47), pp. 28092-28096. (doi:10.1074/jbc.270.47.28092)

1994

Decock, J. B.J., Gillespie-Brown, J. , Parker, P. J., Sugden, P. H. and Fuller, S. J. (1994) Classical, novel and atypical isoforms of PKC stimulate ANF- and TRE/AP-1-regulated-promoter activity in ventricular cardiomyocytes. FEBS Letters, 356(2-3), pp. 275-278. (doi:10.1016/0014-5793(94)01283-0) (PMID:7805853)

1993

Gillespie, J. , Dye, J.F., Schachter, M. and Guillou, P.J. (1993) Inhibition of pancreatic cancer cell growth in vitro by the tyrphostin group of tyrosine kinase inhibitors. British Journal of Cancer, 68(6), pp. 1122-1126. (doi:10.1038/bjc.1993.491)

1992

Gillespie, J. , Poston, G.J., Schachter, M. and Guillou, P.J. (1992) Human pancreatic cancer cell lines do not express receptors for somatostatin. British Journal of Cancer, 66(3), pp. 483-487. (doi:10.1038/bjc.1992.300)

1991

Poston, G.J., Gillespie, J. and Guillou, P.J. (1991) Biology of pancreatic cancer. Gut, 32(7), pp. 800-812. (doi:10.1136/gut.32.7.800)

Articles

Brown, J. , Katikireddi, S. V. , Leyland, A. H. , McQuaid, R. W., Frank, J. and Macdonald, E. B. (2018) Age, health and other factors associated with return to work for those engaging with a welfare-to-work initiative: a cohort study of administrative data from the UK’s Work Programme. BMJ Open, 8(10), e024938. (doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024938) (PMID:30368452) (PMCID:PMC6224745)

Parkin, T.D.H. , Brown, J. and Macdonald, E.B. (2018) Occupational risks of working with horses: A questionnaire survey of equine veterinary surgeons. Equine Veterinary Education, 30(4), pp. 200-205. (doi:10.1111/eve.12891)

Demou, E. , Smith, S., Bhaskar, A., Mackay, D. F. , Brown, J. , Hunt, K. , Vargas-Prada, S. and Macdonald, E. B. (2018) Evaluating sickness absence duration by musculoskeletal and mental health issues. A retrospective cohort study of Scottish Healthcare Workers. BMJ Open, 8(1), e018185. (doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018085) (PMID:29374662) (PMCID:PMC5829784)

Demou, E. , Brown, J. , Sanati, K., Kennedy, M., Murray, K. and Macdonald, E. B. (2016) A novel approach to early sickness absence management: the EASY (early access to support for you) way. Work, 53(3), pp. 597-608. (doi:10.3233/WOR-152137) (PMID:26409380) (PMCID:PMC4927878)

Brown, J. et al. (2015) Protocol for a mixed-methods longitudinal study to identify factors influencing return to work in the over 50s participating in the UK work programme: supporting older people into employment (SOPIE). BMJ Open, 5(12), e010525. (doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010525) (PMID:26674507) (PMCID:PMC4691729)

Brown, J. , Mackay, D. , Demou, E. , Craig, J., Frank, J. and Macdonald, E. (2015) The EASY (Early Access to Support for You) sickness absence service: a four-year evaluation of the impact on absenteeism. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health, 41(2), pp. 204-215. (doi:10.5271/sjweh.3480) (PMID:25626136)

Quasim, T. , Brown, J. and Kinsella, J. (2015) Employment, social dependency and return to work after intensive care. Journal of Intensive Care Society, 16(1), pp. 31-36. (doi:10.1177/1751143714556238)

Brown, J. , Demou, E. , Tristram, M.A., Gilmour, H., Sanati, K.A. and Macdonald, E. (2012) Employment status and health: understanding the health of the economically inactive population in Scotland. BMC Public Health, 12, p. 327. (doi:10.1186/1471-2458-12-327)

Brown, J. , Smith, J., Mitchell, R. , Webster, D., Arnott, J., Turok, I. and Macdonald, E. (2011) Medical reason for claiming employment support allowance in the UK, Scotland and Glasgow. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 68(Sup. 1), A96. (doi:10.1136/oemed-2011-100382.315)

Brown, J. , Burke, F.J.T., Macdonald, E. , Gilmour, H., Hill, K. B., Morris, A. J., White, D. A., Muirhead, E. K. and Murray, K. (2010) Dental practitioners and ill health retirement: causes, outcomes and re-employment. British Dental Journal, 209(5; E7), pp. 1-8. (doi:10.1038/sj.bdj.2010.813)

Webster, D., Arnott, J., Brown, J. , Turok, I., Mitchell, R. and Macdonald, E.B. (2010) Falling Incapacity Benefit claims in a former industrial city: policy impacts or labour market improvement? Policy Studies, 31(2), pp. 163-185. (doi:10.1080/01442870903429611)

Hill, K.B., Burke, F.J.T., Brown, J. , Macdonald, E.B. , Morris, A.J., White, D.A. and Murray, K. (2010) Dental practitioners and ill health retirement: a qualitative investigation into the causes and effects. British Dental Journal, 209(5), E8. (doi:10.1038/sj.bdj.2010.814)

Brown, J. , Hanlon, P.W., Turok, I., Webster, D., Arnott, J. and Macdonald, E.B. (2009) Mental health as a reason for claiming incapacity benefit--a comparison of national and local trends. Journal of Public Health, 31(1), pp. 74-80. (doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdn098)

Brown, J. , Hanlon, P., Turok, I., Webster, D., Arnott, J. and Macdonald, E. (2008) Establishing the potential for using routine data on Incapacity Benefit to assess the local impact of policy initiatives. Journal of Public Health, 30(1), pp. 54-59. (doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdm074)

Brown, J. , Gilmour, W.H. and Macdonald, E.B. (2006) Ill health retirement in Scottish teachers: process, outcomes and re-employment. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 79(5), pp. 433-440. (doi:10.1007/s00420-005-0060-9)

Brown, J. , Gilmour, W.H. and Macdonald, E.B. (2006) Return to work after ill-health retirement in Scottish NHS staff and teachers. Occupational Medicine, 56(7), pp. 480-484. (doi:10.1093/occmed/kql075)

Brown, J. , Reetoo, K. N., Murray, K. J., Thom, W. and Macdonald, E. B. (2005) The involvement of occupational health services prior to ill-health retirement in NHS staff in Scotland and predictors of re-employment. Occupational Medicine, 55(5), pp. 357-363. (doi:10.1093/occmed/kqi069)

Brown, J. , O'Prey, J. and Harrison, P. (2003) Enhanced sensitivity of human oral tumours to the flavonol, morin, during cancer progression: involvement of the Akt and stress kinase pathways. Carcinogenesis, 24(2), pp. 171-177. (doi:10.1093/carcin/24.2.171)

O'Prey, J., Brown, J. , Fleming, J. and Harrison, P.R. (2003) Effects of dietary flavonoids on major signal transduction pathways in human epithelial cells. Biochemical Pharmacology, 66(11), pp. 2075-2088.

Harrison, P., Muntoni, A., McGregor, F., Fleming, J., Brown, J. , Hunter, K., Gordon, K. and Parkinson, K. (2002) Molecular changes associated with oral dysplasia progression and acquisition of immortality: Potential for its reversal by 5-azacytidine. Cancer Research, 62(16), pp. 4757-4766.

Fuller, S. J., Gillespie-Brown, J. and Sugden, P. H. (1998) Oncogenic src, raf, and ras stimulate a hypertrophic pattern of gene expression and increase cell size in neonatal rat ventricular myocytes. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 273(29), pp. 18146-18152. (doi:10.1074/jbc.273.29.18146)

Fuller, S. J., Davies, E. L., Gillespie-Brown, J. , Sun, H. and Tonks, N. K. (1997) Mitogen-activated protein kinase phosphatase 1 inhibits the stimulation of gene expression by hypertrophic agonists in cardiac myocytes. Biochemical Journal, 323(2), pp. 313-319.

Bogoyevitch, M. A., Gillespie-Brown, J. , Ketterman, A. J., Fuller, S. J., Ben-Levy, R., Ashworth, A., Marshall, C. J. and Sugden, P. H. (1996) Stimulation of the stress-activated mitogen-activated protein kinase subfamilies in perfused heart: p38/RK mitogen-activated protein kinases and c-Jun N-terminal kinases are activated by ischemia/reperfusion. Circulation Research, 79(2), pp. 162-173. (doi:10.1161/01.res.79.2.162)

Clerk, A., Gllespie-Brown, J. , Fuller, S. J. and Sugden, P. H. (1996) Stimulation of phosphatidylinositol hydrolysis, protein kinase C translocation, and mitogen-activated protein kinase activity by bradykinin in rat ventricular myocytes: dissociation from the hypertrophic response. Biochemical Journal, 317(1), pp. 109-118.

Bogoyevitch, M. A., Andersson, M. B., Gillespie-Brown, J. , Clerk, A., Glennon, P. E., Fuller, S. J. and Sugden, P. H. (1996) Adrenergic receptor stimulation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade and cardiac hypertrophy. Biochemical Journal, 314(1), pp. 115-121.

Gillespie-Brown, J. , Fuller, S. J., Bogoyevitch, M. A., Cowley, S. and Sugden, P. H. (1995) The mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase MEK1 stimulates a pattern of gene expression typical of the hypertrophic phenotype in rat ventricular cardiomyocytes. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 270(47), pp. 28092-28096. (doi:10.1074/jbc.270.47.28092)

Decock, J. B.J., Gillespie-Brown, J. , Parker, P. J., Sugden, P. H. and Fuller, S. J. (1994) Classical, novel and atypical isoforms of PKC stimulate ANF- and TRE/AP-1-regulated-promoter activity in ventricular cardiomyocytes. FEBS Letters, 356(2-3), pp. 275-278. (doi:10.1016/0014-5793(94)01283-0) (PMID:7805853)

Gillespie, J. , Dye, J.F., Schachter, M. and Guillou, P.J. (1993) Inhibition of pancreatic cancer cell growth in vitro by the tyrphostin group of tyrosine kinase inhibitors. British Journal of Cancer, 68(6), pp. 1122-1126. (doi:10.1038/bjc.1993.491)

Gillespie, J. , Poston, G.J., Schachter, M. and Guillou, P.J. (1992) Human pancreatic cancer cell lines do not express receptors for somatostatin. British Journal of Cancer, 66(3), pp. 483-487. (doi:10.1038/bjc.1992.300)

Poston, G.J., Gillespie, J. and Guillou, P.J. (1991) Biology of pancreatic cancer. Gut, 32(7), pp. 800-812. (doi:10.1136/gut.32.7.800)

Book Sections

Webster, D., Brown, J. , Macdonald, E. and Turok, I. (2013) The Interaction of Health, Labour Market Conditions, and Long-Term Sickness Benefit Claims in a Post-Industrial City: A Glasgow Case Study. In: Lindsay, C. and Houston, D. (eds.) Disability Benefits, Welfare Reform and Employment Policy. Series: Work and Welfare in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, Hampshire, pp. 111-133. ISBN 9780230349940

Research Reports or Papers

Brown, J. , Hanlon, P., Webster, D., Turok, I., Arnott, J. and Macdonald, E. (2007) Turning the Tap off! Incapacity Benefit in Glasgow and Scotland - Trends Over the Past Five Years. Project Report. Glasgow Centre for Population Health, Glasgow.

Conference or Workshop Item

Brown, J. , Katikireddi, S.V., Leyland, A.H., McQuaid, R.W., Frank, J. and Macdonald, E.B. (2018) The Role of Age and Health in Returning to Work: Results from the Supporting Older People into Employment (sopie) Cohort. 32nd Triennial Congress of the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH), Dublin, Ireland, 29 Apr - 04 May 2018. (doi:10.1136/oemed-2018-ICOHabstracts.132)

Brown, J. , McQuaid, R., Katikireddi, S. V., Leyland, A., Frank, J., Molaodi, O. R. and Macdonald, E. B. (2017) Visualising the Unemployment-to-employment Transitions to Explore Factors Influencing Return to Work in the Work Programme: Results from the Supporting Older People Into Employment (SOPIE) Cohort. Eliminating Occupational Disease: Translating Research into Action (EPICOH 2017), Edinburgh, UK, 28-31 Aug 2017. (doi:10.1136/oemed-2017-104636.211)

Brown, J. , McQuaid, R., Katikireddi, S. V., Leyland, A., Frank, J., Jeavons, L., de Pellette, P. and Macdonald, E. (2016) Establishment of a Cohort to Identify Factors Influencing Return to Work in the Over 50s Participating in the UK Work Programme: Supporting Older People into Employment (SOPIE). 25th EPICOH Conference: Epidemiology in Occupation Health Conference - "Occupational Health, Think Globally, Act Locally", Barcelona, Spain, 4-7 Sept 2016. A166. (doi:10.1136/oemed-2016-103951.454)