Austyn Snowden
Austyn Snowden

Prof Austyn Snowden

Professor

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  A.Snowden@napier.ac.uk

   

Biography

I am chair in mental health at Edinburgh Napier University. I have held various senior roles within the school including head of mental health theme and head of nursing. I am currently head of enterprise and innovation, which is about making connections, often between disparate things. I am interested in how we learn, and how we don't, so we can spend more of our time facilitating the former.

School

Research Groups

Themes

Research Areas

Esteem

Conference Organising Activity

  • Organiser and chair of inaugural Scottish Mental Health Nurse Research Conference, Ayr

 

External Examining/Validations

  • Undergraduate MH nursing Abertay
  • Post graduate nursing in Dundee University

 

Grant Reviewer

  • Funding reviewer for Templeton Foundation 2018
  • Funding reviewer - NIHR 2017

 

Invited Speaker

  • Holistic Needs Assessment in Cancer Clinics: preliminary results of RCT
  • The Scottish PROM: a measure of chaplaincy interventions in Scotland
  • Is Understanding an Intervention?

 

Research Degree External Examining

  • Doctor of Nursing: Helen Oldknow Why don't mental health nurse prescribers prescribe?
  • PhD Michelle Beattie Development and testing of the Care Experience Feedback Improvement Tool (CEFIT)
  • MRes Lynne Carmichael: What are the barriers to dying at home in Ayrshire?
  • PhD Aisha Abdul Razak: Enhancing Teaching and Learning using Digital Games-Based Learning (DGBL) Within the Curriculum for Excellence (CfE): An Exploratory Study
  • Prof Doc, Karen Roome: A grounded theory of Arnstein’s ladder of participation
  • PhD Jane Ross: Exploration of mental health nurse prescribing

 

Visiting Positions

  • Visiting Professor Leuven University, Belgium & lead researcher in ERICH

 

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Medicine management in mental health: aligning perceived and actual competence.

Presentation / Conference
Snowden, A. (2012, January)
Medicine management in mental health: aligning perceived and actual competence. Paper presented at RCN Education Conference, Leeds, UK

Shared Decision Making: Concordance between Psychiatric Mental Health Advanced Practice Nurse (PMH-APRN) and Client.

Book
Snowden, A., & Tusaie, K. R. (2011)
Shared Decision Making: Concordance between Psychiatric Mental Health Advanced Practice Nurse (PMH-APRN) and Client. In K. R. Tusaie, & J. J. Fitzpatrick (Eds.), Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing, 32-58. Springer

Debating the mental health nurse role in medicine management.

Presentation / Conference
Snowden, A., & Hemingway, S. (2012, January)
Debating the mental health nurse role in medicine management. Paper presented at II European Festival of Psychiatric Nursing, Stockholm, Sweden

Medicines management in mental health

Journal Article
Snowden, A., & Barron, D. (2011)
Medicines management in mental health. Nursing Standard, 26, 35-40. https://doi.org/10.7748/ns2011.09.26.3.35.c8712
This article provides evidence to suggest that mental health nurses may not be as competent in medicines management as they believe themselves to be. A psychological model of ...

Medicine-taking and recovery-focused mental health practice

Journal Article
Marland, G., McNay, L., McCaig, M., & Snowden, A. (2011)
Medicine-taking and recovery-focused mental health practice. British Journal of Wellbeing, 2, 21-25. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjow.2011.2.2.21
This article was inspired by the need to revisit medicine-taking within the context of recovery-focused practice in mental health. Practice based on compliance is unlikely to ...

Tricyclic antidepressant self poisoning and admission for acute care

Journal Article
Marland, G., Snowden, A., McNay, L., McCaig, M., & Boyd, G. (2011)
Tricyclic antidepressant self poisoning and admission for acute care. British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, 6, 589-596. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjca.2011.6.12.589
Self-poisoning by ingestion of antidepressants is a common method of suicide. Although tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) are no longer the first choice treatment for depression...

The clinical utility of the Distress Thermometer: a review

Journal Article
Snowden, A., White, C. A., Christie, Z., Murray, E., McGowan, C., & Scott, R. (2011)
The clinical utility of the Distress Thermometer: a review. British Journal of Nursing, 20, 220-227. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2011.20.4.220
The Distress Thermometer (DT) is a well validated screening tool, demonstrably sensitive and reasonably specific to the construct of distress in cancer. Its brevity makes it i...

We need robust evidence of alternative therapy benefits.

Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2011)
We need robust evidence of alternative therapy benefits. Nursing Standard, 25, 33

Healthcare chaplaincy: the Lothian Chaplaincy Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM).

Report
Snowden, A., Telfer, I. & Kelly, E. (2011)
Healthcare chaplaincy: the Lothian Chaplaincy Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM). Edinburgh, Scotland: NHS Lothian/ Snowden&Snowden Research

Concurrent analysis: a pragmatic justification.

Presentation / Conference
Snowden, A. (2011, August)
Concurrent analysis: a pragmatic justification. Paper presented at 15th International Philosophy of Nursing Conference held in association with the International Philosophy of Nursing Society (IPONS

Previous Post Grad projects

Non-Napier PhD or MSc by Research supervisions

  • Barbara Sharp: Stress as experienced by people with dementia
  • Helen Walker: Psychosocial Interventions in Forensic Care
  • Res: Brian Johnston. A european study of Nursing in families
  • MRes Lorna Bruce: Dancing not wrestling, and exploration of Concordance in Mental Health
  • MRes: Eileen Salmon. Service User involvement in Student Assessment
  • Lorna Reid: Institutional Ethnography of Care Homes in Scotland
  • Deirdre Wild: Gulf War Reservists and Mental health