Professor Richard Cooper

All publications

• Edited books
• Journal articles
• Chapters
• Conference proceedings papers
• Reports
• Preprints

Journal articles

• Tuck CZ, Akparibo R, Gray LA, Suraj H, Iddrisu ART, Abane TR, Deedat AA, Aryeetey RNO, Abubakari BB, Azure A & Cooper R (2025) What are the lived experiences of patients with cancer and their families in northern Ghana? A qualitative study using narrative interview and creative task approach. BMJ Open, 15(2).
• Cooper R, Matheson C, Pagan E & Radford H (2025) Resentful, resigned and respectful: Opioid analgesics, pain and control, a qualitative study. Pharmacy, 13(1). View this article in WRRO
• Jayasooriya S, Inoue M, Allen H, Bojang M, Ceesay A, Touray S, Mortimer K, Cooper R & Balen J (2024) Beliefs surrounding the use of inhaled asthma medication in The Gambia: a qualitative study of asthma patients and healthcare workers. npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, 34(1). View this article in WRRO
• Tuck C, Gray L, Suraj H, Timtoni Iddrisu A-R, Tampuri A-R, Aryeetey R, Baba BA, Akparibo R & Cooper R (2024) A cross-sector approach to explore socio-ecological associations with treatment engagement behaviours in Northern Ghana. Journal of Cancer Policy, 41. View this article in WRRO
• Tuck C, Cooper R, Aryeetey R, Gray L & Akparibo R (2023) A critical review and analysis of the context, current burden, and application of policy to improve cancer equity in Ghana. International Journal for Equity in Health, 22(1). View this article in WRRO
• Wang M, Cooper R & Green D (2023) Insomnia medication use by university students: a systematic review. Pharmacy, 11(6).
• Kirkcaldy AJ, Wilson M, Cooper R, Baxter SK & Campbell F (2023) Strategies for reducing pain at dressing change in chronic wounds: protocol for a mapping review. BMJ Open, 13(10). View this article in WRRO
• Cooper RJ (2022) Pharmacists and pandemic misinformation. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 30(6), 489-491. View this article in WRRO
• Tuck C, Akparibo R, Gray L, Aryeetey R & Cooper R (2022) What influences cancer treatment service access in Ghana? A critical interpretive synthesis. BMJ Open, 12(10). View this article in WRRO
• Osasu Y, Mitchell C & Cooper R (2022) Use of DOACs in primary care: an integration of patient and practitioner perspectives. BJGP Open, 6(4). View this article in WRRO
• David G, Cooper R, Dixon S & Holmes J (2022) Exploring the implementation of public involvement in local alcohol availability policy: the case of alcohol licensing decision-making in England. Addiction, 117(4), 1163-1172. View this article in WRRO
• Osasu Y, Cooper R & Mitchell C (2021) Patients’ and clinicians’ perceptions of oral anticoagulants in atrial fibrillation: a systematic narrative review and meta-analysis. BMC Family Practice, 22. View this article in WRRO
• Quah M, Marney B, Cooper R & Dickson J (2021) Chronic pain and opioid analgesic use : a case report. Clinical Case Reports, 9(7).
• Booth E, Halliday V & Cooper RJ (2021) Headteachers' and chairs of governors' perspectives on adolescent obesity and its prevention in English secondary school settings.. J Public Health (Oxf), 43(2), e213-e223.
• Milevska-Kostova N, Devi R & Cooper R (2020) Role of patients’ organizations in Health Technology Assessment: a Habermasian system and lifeworld perspective. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 37(1). View this article in WRRO
• Ajabnoor AM & Cooper R (2020) Pharmacists’ prescribing in Saudi Arabia : cross-sectional study describing current practices and future perspectives. Pharmacy, 8(3). View this article in WRRO
• Cooper RJ (2020) Pestle and mortal: the demise of community pharmacy in the UK. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 28(3), 205-206.
• Coombes H & Cooper RJ (2019) Staff perceptions of prescription and over-the-counter drug dependence services in England : a qualitative study. Addiction Science and Clinical Practice, 14. View this article in WRRO
• Lee E & Cooper R (2019) Codeine Addiction and Internet Forum Use and Support: Qualitative Netnographic Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research Mental Health, 6(4). View this article in WRRO
• Sherlaw W, Fernandez A, McColl K & Cooper R (2018) Learning from transnational differences in how risk of harm is viewed in human research ethics. European Journal of Public Health, 28(suppl_4), 255-255. View this article in WRRO
• Sprake E, Russell MJ, Cecil J, Cooper R, Grabowski PS, Pourshahidi LK & Barker M (2018) Dietary patterns of university students inthe UK: a cross-sectional study. Nutrition Journal, 17(90). View this article in WRRO
• Cooper R & Tsoneva J (2017) Benefits and Tensions in Delivering Public Health in Community Pharmacies - a Qualitative Study of Healthy Living Pharmacy Staff Champions. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 25(5), 351-357. View this article in WRRO
• Green MA, Little E, Cooper R, Relton C & Strong M (2016) Investigation of social, demographic and health variations in the usage of prescribed and over-the-counter medicines within a large cohort (South Yorkshire, UK). BMJ Open, 6. View this article in WRRO
• Parry CDH, Deluca P, Cooper R & Van Hout MC (2015) Do we have sufficient information to optimally inform regulatory or other policy decisions about medications containing codeine?. Addiction, 110(10), 1690-1691. View this article in WRRO
• Relton C, Li J, Strong M, Holdsworth M, Cooper R, Green M & Bissell P (2014) Deprivation, clubs and drugs: results of a UK regional population-based cross-sectional study of weight management strategies.. BMC Public Health, 14, 444.
• Cooper RJ (2013) 'I can't be an addict. I am.' Over-the-counter medicine abuse: a qualitative study.. BMJ Open, 3(6).
• Cooper R (2013) Surveillance and uncertainty: Community pharmacy responses to over the counter medicine abuse. Health and Social Care in the Community, 21(3), 254-262.
• Cooper RJ (2013) Over-the-counter medicine abuse - a review of the literature.. J Subst Use, 18(2), 82-107.
• Cooper RJ, Bissell P, Ward P, Murphy E, Anderson C, Avery T, James V, Lymn J, Guillaume L, Hutchinson A & Ratcliffe J (2012) Further challenges to medical dominance? The case of nurse and pharmacist supplementary prescribing.. Health (London), 16(2), 115-133.
• Cooper R (2012) Making the case for ethical decision-making models. Nurse Prescribing, 10(12), 607-611.
• Cooper R (2011) In praise of the prescription: The symbolic and boundary object value of the traditional prescription in the electronic age. Health Sociology Review, 20(4), 462-474.
• Cooper R & O'Hara R (2010) Patients' and staffs' experiences of an automated telephone weather forecasting service.. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 15(Suppl 2), 41-46.
• Cooper RJ, Bissell P, Ward P, Guillaume L, Anderson C, Avery T, Hutchinson A, Lymn J & Murphy E (2009) A challenge to medical dominance? The case pharmacist and nurse supplementary prescribing. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 17(Supp 2), B30. View this article in WRRO
• Cooper RJ (2009) Solo doctors and ethical isolation.. J Med Ethics, 35(11), 692-695.
• Cooper RJ, Bissell P & Wingfield J (2009) 'Islands' and 'doctor's tool': the ethical significance of isolation and subordination in UK community pharmacy.. Health (London), 13(3), 297-316.
• Cooper RJ, Guillaume L, Avery A, Anderson C, Bissell P, Hutchinson A, James V, Lymn J, McIntosh A, Murphy E , Ratcliffe J et al (2008) The safety climate of pharmacist supplementary prescribing in England. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 16(Supp 1), A21. View this article in WRRO
• Cooper RJ, Lymn J, Anderson C, Avery A, Bissell P, Guillaume L, Hutchinson A, Murphy E, Ratcliffe J & Ward P (2008) Learning to prescribe - pharmacists' experiences of supplementary prescribing training in England.. BMC Med Educ, 8, 57.
• Cooper R, Anderson C, Avery T, Bissell P, Guillaume L, Hutchinson A, Lymn J, Murphy E, Ratcliffe J & Ward P (2008) Stakeholders' views of UK nurse and pharmacist supplementary prescribing. J HEALTH SERV RES PO, 13(4), 215-221.
• Cooper R, Guillaume L, Avery T, Anderson C, Bissell P, Hutchinson A, Lymn J, Murphy E, Ward P & Ratcliffe J (2008) Nonmedical prescribing in the United kingdom: developments and stakeholder interests.. J Ambul Care Manage, 31(3), 244-252.
• Cooper RJ, Bissell P & Wingfield J (2008) Ethical decision-making, passivity and pharmacy.. J Med Ethics, 34(6), 441-445.
• Guillaume L, Cooper R, Avery A, Mitchell S, Ward P, Anderson C, Bissell P, Hutchinson A, James V, Lymn J , McIntosh A et al (2008) Supplementary prescribing by community and primary care pharmacists: an analysis of PACT data, 2004-2006.. J Clin Pharm Ther, 33(1), 11-16.
• Anderson C, Cooper RJ, Guillaume L, Avery A, Bissell P, Hutchinson A, James V, Lymn J, McIntosh A & Murphy E (2008) The views of pharmacists in England on their supplementary prescribing training. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 16(SUPPL. 1), A6-A7.
• Cooper RJ, Bissell P & Wingfield J (2008) Ethical, religious and factual beliefs about the supply of emergency hormonal contraception by UK community pharmacists. Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, 34(1), 47-50.
• Cooper RJ, Anderson C, Avery T, Bissell P, Guillaume L, Hutchinson A, James V, Lymn J, McIntosh A, Murphy E , Ratcliffe J et al (2008) Nurse and pharmacist supplementary prescribing in the UK - A thematic review of the literature. HEALTH POLICY, 85(3), 277-292.
• Cooper RJ & Guillaume L (2007) Stakeholders' views of pharmacist supplementary prescribing - benefits, barriers, facilitors and challenges. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 15(Supp 2), B25. View this article in WRRO
• Guillaume L, Cooper RJ, Avery A, Ward P, Anderson C, Bissell P, Hutchinson A, James V, Lymn J, McIntosh A , Murphy E et al (2007) Community and primary care nurse prescribing - an analysis of PACT data - 2002-2006. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 15(Supp 2), B62. View this article in WRRO
• Cooper R (2007) Ethical issues in the use of electronic health records for pharmacy medicines sales.. J. Inf. Commun. Ethics Soc., 5, 7-19.
• Cooper RJ, Bissell P & Wingfield J (2007) A new prescription for empirical ethics research in pharmacy: a critical review of the literature.. J Med Ethics, 33(2), 82-86.
• COOPER RJ, BISSELL P & WINGFIELD J (2007) Dilemmas in Dispensing, Problems in Practice? Ethical Issues and Law in UK Community Pharmacy. CLINICAL ETHICS, 2(2), 103-108.
• Tuck C, Timtoni Iddrisu AR, Moro SA, Akparibo R, Aryeetey R, Gray L & Cooper R () A public health call for action to address liver cancer and hepatitis in northern Ghana. Communications Medicine.

Chapters

• Cooper R (2021) Opioid Analgesics, Stigma, Shame and Identity In Ballantyne P & Ryan K (Ed.), Living Pharmaceutical Lives (pp. 154-168). Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge.
• Cooper R (2019) Measuring health and illness In van Teijlingen E & Humphris G (Ed.), Psychology and Sociology Applied to Medicine Elsevier
• Cooper R (2018) Misuse and Abuse of Over-the-Counter Medicines (pp. 69-82). ABC-CLIO, LLC
• Cooper R (2010) The Ethics of Prescribing In Bath-Hextall F (Ed.), New Prescriber Wiley-Blackwell
• Cooper R (2008) Information technology, ethics and pharmacy medicine sales In Robinson S & Strain J (Ed.), Ethics for Living and Working (pp. 15-30). Troubador Publishing

Conference proceedings papers

• Tuck C, Baba A, Cooper R, Gray L, Akparibo R, Aryeetey R, Timtoni A & Rahman T (2023) The feasibility of applying individual patient data to assess inequity in cancer treatment retention in Northern Ghana - early results. Population Medicine, Vol. 5(Supplement) (pp 439-440). Rome, Italy, 2 May 2023 - 2 May 2023. View this article in WRRO
• Tuck C, Boadu I, Akparibo R, Gray L, Aryeetey R & Cooper R (2023) Positionality, reflexivity and ethics in global public health research. Population Medicine, Vol. 5(Supplement) (pp 519-520). Rome, Italy, 2 May 2023 - 2 May 2023. View this article in WRRO
• Nagumo W-R, Cooper R & Akparibo R (2020) Determinants of adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting among healthcare professionals in Ghanaian hospitals: A presentation of preliminary qualitative findings. PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY AND DRUG SAFETY, Vol. 29 (pp 644-644)
• Nagumo W-R, Cooper R & Akparibo R (2018) Factors Influencing Low Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Among Healthcare Professionals in Ghana. DRUG SAFETY, Vol. 41(11) (pp 1152-1153)
• Lymn J, Cooper R, Anderson C, Avery T, Bissell P, Guillaume L, Hutchinson A, James V, McIntosh A, Murphy E , Ratcliffe J et al (2008) No more pharmacology? Pharmacists' and stakeholders' views on supplementary prescribing course content. BRITISH JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY, Vol. 65(6) (pp 976-976)
• Cooper R (2008) The Safety Climate of Pharmacist Supplementary Prescribing in England. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, Vol. s1(16) (pp A21). Liverpool
• Boston HC, Gillam J, Boston AJ, Cooper RJ, Cresswell J, Grint AN, Mather AR, Nolan PJ, Scraggs DP, Lazarus I , Berry A et al (2006) Orthogonal Strip HPGe Planar SmartPET Detectors in Compton Configuration. 2006 IEEE NUCLEAR SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM CONFERENCE RECORD, VOL 1-6 (pp 3884-3887)
• Cooper RJ, McGill K, Michie P & Todd J (2004) Auditory sensory memory and the ageing brain: A mismatch negativity study. AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, Vol. 56 (pp 171-171)
• Cooper RJ, Xu Y, Hartwell JR, Cai SB, Wang HY, Kelley MR & Pollok KE (2003) Mitochondrial-localized O⁶-methylguanine DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) protects human hematopoietic progenitor cells from alkylator-mediated DNA damage. MOLECULAR THERAPY, Vol. 7(5) (pp S140-S140)
• Cai SB, Hartwell JR, Cooper RJ & Pollok KE (2003) Mutant O⁶ methylguanine DNA methyltransferase (MGMT^P140K) protects myeloid but not lymphoid cells derived from G-CSF mobilized peripheral blood in a chemotherapy dose-escalation xenograft model. BLOOD, Vol. 102(11) (pp 993A-+)
• Cai SB, Hartwell JR, Cooper RJ & Pollok KE (2003) Mutant O⁶-methylguanine DNA Methlytransferase (MGMTP^140K) protects myeloid but not lymphoid cells derived from G-CSF-mobilized peripheral blood in a chemotherapy dose-escalation xenograft model.. BLOOD, Vol. 102(11) (pp 993A-993A)
• Hartwell JR, Kreklau EL, Cooper RJ, Erickson LC, Williams DA & Pollok KE (2002) Mutant O⁶-methylguanine DNA methyltransferase (MGMT^P140K) confers in vivo protection to human hematopoietic cells in a chemotherapy dose-escalation xenograft model.. BLOOD, Vol. 100(11) (pp 184A-184A)
• Pollok KE, van der Loo JCM, Cooper RJ, Hartwell JR, Miles KR, Breese R & Williams DA (2000) Comparative analysis of gene marking and lineage development in SCID-repopulating cells derived from cord blood or mobilized peripheral blood.. BLOOD, Vol. 96(11) (pp 589A-+)
• Cooper RJ, Murphy KC, Roy GR, Doherty JJ & C'lark JM (1998) Determination of volatile and dislodgeable residues from pesticide-treated turfgrass.. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Vol. 216 (pp U119-U119)
• MURPHY KC, COOPER RJ & CLARK JM (1994) DISLODGEABLE AND VOLATILE RESIDUES FROM INSECTICIDE-TREATED TURFGRASS. SCIENCE AND GOLF II (pp 505-510)
• SHEPARD S, COOPER RJ & MCCLURE J (1992) INFECTION OF CHICK OSTEOCLASTS WITH PARAMYXOVIRUSES. JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY, Vol. 168 (pp A109-A109)
• JENKINS JJ, CURTIS AS & COOPER RJ (1992) COMPARISON OF 2 SMALL PLOT TECHNIQUES USED FOR THE DETERMINATION OF AIRBORNE AND DISLODGEABLE RESIDUES OF PENDIMETHALIN FOLLOWING APPLICATION TO TURFGRASS. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Vol. 203 (pp 148-AGRO)
• JENKINS JJ, CURTIS AS & COOPER RJ (1988) COMPARISON OF AIRBORNE AND DISLODGEABLE RESIDUES OF CHLOROTHALONIL AND PENDIMETHALIN FOLLOWING APPLICATION TO TURFGRASS. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Vol. 196 (pp 141-AGRO)
• COOPER RJ, VITTUM PJ & BHOWMIK PC (1987) URBAN LAWN INTEGRATED PEST-MANAGEMENT (IPM) - RESULTS OF A PILOT PROGRAM. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Vol. 194 (pp 192-ENVR)
• WEIBLEN PW, COOPER RJ & CHURCHILL RK (1978) RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MINERALIZATION AND STRUCTURE IN DULUTH COMPLEX. ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, Vol. 73(2) (pp 316-316)
• COOPER RJ (1971) EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON CAUSTIC DISPLACEMENT OF A VISCOUS CRUDE OIL. JOURNAL OF PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGY, Vol. 23(NOCT) (pp 1230-&)
• Milevska-Kostova N, Cooper K & Cooper R () Nostalgia for the Past: Prescribing and Dispensing Practices in Macedionia. Nostalgia for the Past: Prescribing and Dispensing Practices in Macedonia

Reports

• Ali P, Ariss S, Powell K, Crowder M & Cooper R (2017) Doncaster Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Programme: Evaluation Report, 2017 View this article in WRRO
• Cooper RJ (2011) 'Respectable Addiction' - a qualitative study of over the counter medicine abuse in the UK.
• bissell P, Cooper R, preston L, anderson C, avery A, james V, hutchinson A, lymn J, murphy E, ratcliffe J , ward P et al () An Evaluation of Supplementary Prescribing in Nursing and Pharmacy. Final Report for the Department of Health

Preprints

• Lee E & Cooper RJ () Codeine Addiction and Internet Forum Use and Support: Qualitative Netnographic Study (Preprint).