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

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

 

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?
  • Prof Doc, Karen Roome: A grounded theory of Arnstein’s ladder of participation
  • PhD Aisha Abdul Razak: Enhancing Teaching and Learning using Digital Games-Based Learning (DGBL) Within the Curriculum for Excellence (CfE): An Exploratory Study
  • PhD Jane Ross: Exploration of mental health nurse prescribing

 

Visiting Positions

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

 

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Mental health nurse prescribing: a difficult pill to swallow?

Journal Article
Snowden, A., & Martin, C. R. (2010)
Mental health nurse prescribing: a difficult pill to swallow?. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 17, 543-553. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2850.2010.01561.x
This paper develops an interpretation of the impact of mental health nurse prescribing in the UK. A constructivist-grounded theory methodology was applied to 13 semi-structure...

Concurrent analysis: towards generalisable qualitative research

Journal Article
Snowden, A., & Martin, C. R. (2010)
Concurrent analysis: towards generalisable qualitative research. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 20, 2868-2877. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2702.2010.03513.x
Aims and objectives.  This study develops an original method of qualitative analysis coherent with its interpretivist principles. The objective is to increase the likelihood o...

The construction of competence in mental health nurse prescribing

Thesis
Snowden, A. The construction of competence in mental health nurse prescribing. (Thesis)
University of the West of Scotland. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9184

Clinical utility of the distress thermometer.

Presentation / Conference
Snowden, A., White, C. A., & Christie, Z. (2010, December)
Clinical utility of the distress thermometer. Paper presented at BPOS Annual Conference, Chester, UK

The NHS Lothian PROM.

Working Paper
Snowden, A. & Telfer, I. (2010)
The NHS Lothian PROM.

Akinsaya abstract: the construction of competence in mental health nurse prescribing.

Report
Snowden, A. (2010)
Akinsaya abstract: the construction of competence in mental health nurse prescribing.

Macmillan distress management report.

Working Paper
Snowden, A., White, C. & Christie, Z. (2010)
Macmillan distress management report.

Slavish application of protocols is far from genuine evidence-based care

Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2010)
Slavish application of protocols is far from genuine evidence-based care. Nursing Standard, 25, 32
A letter to the editor is presented in response to an article on evidence-based nursing practice by Joy Milligan in the September 15, 2010 issue.

Integrating Medicines Management Into Mental Health Nursing in UK

Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2010)
Integrating Medicines Management Into Mental Health Nursing in UK. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 24, 178-188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2009.12.003
There is increasing concern that mental health nurses in UK are inadequately trained in medicines management. Recommended solutions entail proposals for further training to im...

Medication.

Book
Snowden, A. (2009)
Medication. In P. Barker (Ed.), Mental Health Ethics: the Human ContextRoutledge

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
  • MRes: Eileen Salmon. Service User involvement in Student Assessment
  • Lorna Reid: Institutional Ethnography of Care Homes in Scotland
  • MRes Lorna Bruce: Dancing not wrestling, and exploration of Concordance in Mental Health
  • Res: Brian Johnston. A european study of Nursing in families
  • Deirdre Wild: Gulf War Reservists and Mental health