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

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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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Pioneering theories in nursing.

Book
(2009)
A. Snowden, A. Donnell, & T. Duffy (Eds.), Pioneering theories in nursing. Quay Books

Florence Nightingale.

Book
Snowden, A. (2009)
Florence Nightingale. In A. Snowden, A. Donnell, & T. Duffy (Eds.), Pioneering Theories in Nursing, 3-10. Quay Books

Care Planning With Older Adults.

Book
Snowden, A. (2008)
Care Planning With Older Adults. In The Care and Wellbeing of Older People A Textbook for Health Care StudentsReflect Press

Medication management with older adults.

Book
Snowden, A. (2008)
Medication management with older adults. In The Care and Wellbeing of Older People A Textbook for Health Care StudentsReflect Press

Insomnia: management and treatments

Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2008)
Insomnia: management and treatments. Nurse Prescribing, 6, 382-389. https://doi.org/10.12968/npre.2008.6.9.31076
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guideline for treatment of insomnia suggests non-pharmacological interventions should take priority. This arti...

Medication management in older adults: a critique of concordance

Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2008)
Medication management in older adults: a critique of concordance. British Journal of Nursing, 17, 114-119. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2008.17.2.28140
This article shows that the terms compliance, adherence and concordance are used interchangeably in the medication management literature. As such, it is argued that nurses sho...

Quantitative analysis of mental health nurse prescribers in Scotland

Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2008)
Quantitative analysis of mental health nurse prescribers in Scotland. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 15, 471-478. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2850.2008.01251.x
The UK parliament approved legislation expanding prescribing rights for all registered nurses in 2006. Mental health nurses do not appear to be embracing prescribing to the sa...

Prescribing in anxiety

Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2008)
Prescribing in anxiety. Nurse Prescribing, 6, 349-356. https://doi.org/10.12968/npre.2008.6.8.30765
Anxiolytics are effective treatments for anxiety. This article discusses prescribing decisions against a backdrop of current NICE guideline for anxiety. As in treatment of psy...

Classification of schizophrenia. Part 2: the nonsense of mental health illness.

Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2008)
Classification of schizophrenia. Part 2: the nonsense of mental health illness. British Journal of Nursing. 18, 1228-1232. doi:10.12968/bjon.2009.18.20.45113. ISSN 0966-0461
The classification of schizophrenia is currently under review in a coordinated worldwide consultation for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM V) and...

Classification of schizophrenia. Part one: the enduring existence of madness.

Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2008)
Classification of schizophrenia. Part one: the enduring existence of madness. British Journal of Nursing. 18, 1176-1180. doi:10.12968/bjon.2009.18.19.44822. ISSN 0966-0461
The classification of schizophrenia is currently under review in a coordinated worldwide consultation for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM V) and...

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