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

  • 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

  • PhD Michelle Beattie Development and testing of the Care Experience Feedback Improvement Tool (CEFIT)
  • Doctor of Nursing: Helen Oldknow Why don't mental health nurse prescribers prescribe?
  • 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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A grounded theory of the impact of prescribing in mental health nursing.

Presentation / Conference
Snowden, A. (2008, November)
A grounded theory of the impact of prescribing in mental health nursing. Poster presented at Horatio Festival of Psychiatric Nursing - the age of dialogue, Malta

The history of prescribing

Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2008)
The history of prescribing. Nurse Prescribing, 6, 530-537. https://doi.org/10.12968/npre.2008.6.12.31974
100 years ago responsibility for medication management lay with the individual. Patent medicines had been the norm for the previous 300 years. It was as a direct consequence o...

Constructivist grounded theory of prescribing in practice.

Presentation / Conference
Snowden, A. (2008, January)
Constructivist grounded theory of prescribing in practice. Paper presented at 14th International Network for Psychiatric Nursing Research

Prescribing and mental health nursing.

Book
Snowden, A. (2007)
Prescribing and mental health nursing. Quay Books
-The first section of this book integrates the histories of psychopharmacology, mental health nursing and medication legislation -The second section discusses prescription dec...

Mental health nurse prescribing.

Presentation / Conference
Snowden, A. (2008, January)
Mental health nurse prescribing. Paper presented at Mental Health Nurse Prescribing, Huddersfield, UK

Is mental health nurse prescribing qualitatively different?

Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2007)
Is mental health nurse prescribing qualitatively different?. Nurse Prescribing, 5, 66-73. https://doi.org/10.12968/npre.2007.5.2.23101
A total of 365 nurse prescribers (11 registered mental nurse (RMNs), 354 non-RMNs) in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde returned a questionnaire (55% response rate) on the impact ...

Exploring the impact of mental health nurse prescribing

Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2006)
Exploring the impact of mental health nurse prescribing. British Journal of Nursing, 15(20), 1114-1118. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2006.15.20.22296
To illuminate the process of developing a research proposal this article explains the rationale behind the research question: What is the impact of mental health nurse prescri...

Why mental health nurses should prescribe.

Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2006)
Why mental health nurses should prescribe. Nurse Prescribing. 5, 193-198. doi:10.12968/npre.2007.5.5.23737. ISSN 1479-9189
This article explores the reasons why mental health nurses in Scotland have been slow to engage with nurse prescribing. Although much of this has been blamed on practical and ...

The requirements for original doctoral research in nursing.

Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2006)
The requirements for original doctoral research in nursing. Nursing Times. 102, 38-40. ISSN 0954-7762
Clinical and academic doctorates (PhDs) demand an original piece of research. This article examines how to generate such research in nursing and proposes that it is not as elu...

Evaluating nurse prescribing in mental health patients: a pilot study

Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2006)
Evaluating nurse prescribing in mental health patients: a pilot study. Nurse Prescribing, 4(6), 250-255. https://doi.org/10.12968/npre.2006.4.6.21507
This article describes the process of piloting a questionnaire designed to establish certain demographic, quantitative and qualitative information about the impact of nurse pr...

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