Austyn Snowden
Austyn Snowden

Prof Austyn Snowden

Professor

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.

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

 

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?
  • 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

 

Date


148 results

Improving the care of cancer patients: holistic needs assessment.

Journal Article
Young, J., Cund, A., Renshaw, M., Quigley, A., & Snowden, A. (2015)
Improving the care of cancer patients: holistic needs assessment. British Journal of Nursing, 24, S17-S20. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2015.24.Sup4.S17
This discussion paper presents a review of holistic needs assessments (HNAs) in the care of patients with cancer. HNAs entail a structured review of patient needs as articulat...

Distress management in cancer.

Presentation / Conference
Snowden, A., White, C. A., & Christie, Z. (2015, December)
Distress management in cancer. Paper presented at BPOS 2010 Annual Conference: Cancer Relationships with Others, Chester, UK

Evaluation of Glasgow: Improving the Cancer journey programme

Report
Snowden, A. & Young, J. (2015)
Evaluation of Glasgow: Improving the Cancer journey programme. Glasgow, Scotland: Glasgow City Council; Macmillan Cancer Support
This is the first report from a five-year evaluation of Glasgow’s ‘Improving the Cancer Journey’ programme. Improving the Cancer Journey (hereafter referred to as ICJ) was lau...

Validation of the electronic Holistic Needs Assessment.

Journal Article
Snowden, A., & Fleming, M. (2015)
Validation of the electronic Holistic Needs Assessment. SpringerPlus, 4, 623. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40064-015-1401-0
Macmillan Cancer Support UK have developed an electronic Holistic Needs Assessment (eHNA) to: (1) help people living with cancer express all their needs, (2) help those helpin...

Emotional Intelligence and Nurse Recruitment: Rasch and confirmatory factor analysis of the trait emotional intelligence questionnaire short form.

Journal Article
Snowden, A., Watson, R., Stenhouse, R., & Hale, C. (2015)
Emotional Intelligence and Nurse Recruitment: Rasch and confirmatory factor analysis of the trait emotional intelligence questionnaire short form. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 71, 2936-2949. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.12746
Aim To examine the construct validity of the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire Short form. Background Emotional intelligence involves the identification and regula...

Evaluating holistic needs assessment in outpatient cancer care--a randomised controlled trial: the study protocol

Journal Article
Snowden, W., Young, J., White, C., Murray, E., Richard, C., Lussier, M., …Ross, E. (2015)
Evaluating holistic needs assessment in outpatient cancer care--a randomised controlled trial: the study protocol. BMJ Open, 5(5), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006840
Introduction People living with and beyond cancer are vulnerable to a number of physical, functional and psychological issues. Undertaking a holistic needs assessment (HNA) is...

The art of maintaining creativity in a risk averse culture.

Presentation / Conference
Snowden, A. (2015, April)
The art of maintaining creativity in a risk averse culture. Paper presented at RCN International Nursing Research Conference, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Ethics and originality in doctoral research in the UK.

Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2014)
Ethics and originality in doctoral research in the UK. Nurse Researcher, 21, 12-15. https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.21.6.12.e1244
AIM: To show that the ethics governance process in the UK is not necessarily conducive to innovative investigation by doctoral students. BACKGROUND: Doctoral students nee...

Against intimacy: focusing on the task in hand in PhD supervision.

Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2014)
Against intimacy: focusing on the task in hand in PhD supervision. British Journal of Nursing, 23, 1126-1132. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2014.23.21.1126
Worldwide, more nurses are undertaking doctoral studies now than at any other time. However, there is little high-quality evidence focused on investigating successful completi...

Faith and belief in Scotland.

Report
Siddiqui, M., Allison, A., Snowden, A., & Fleming, M. (2014)
Faith and belief in Scotland. Edinburgh, Scotland: Scottish Government
The nature of Scottish society is changing. Scotland is becoming more ethnically and religiously diverse. Within an equalities framework, consideration must be given to servic...

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