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

  • The Scottish PROM: a measure of chaplaincy interventions in Scotland
  • Holistic Needs Assessment in Cancer Clinics: preliminary results of RCT
  • 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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Assessment and care planning for cancer survivors: a concise evidence review.

Report
Snowden, A. & White, C. (2013)
Assessment and care planning for cancer survivors: a concise evidence review. London, UK: Macmillan Cancer
This concise review examines the evidence for Holistic Needs Assessment (HNA) in cancer survivors. It takes a structured approach by categorising levels of evidence pertaining...

I was able to talk about what was on my mind: the operationalisation of person centred care.

Journal Article
Snowden, A., Telfer, I., Kelly, E., Bunniss, S., & Mowat, H. (2013)
I was able to talk about what was on my mind: the operationalisation of person centred care. Scottish Journal of Healthcare Chaplaincy, 16, 13-22
What we know already Specialist spiritual care can be broken down into discrete items within a questionnaire when grounded in the theory developed in the previous paper. Howev...

Community Chaplaincy listening: practical theology in action.

Journal Article
Bunniss, S., Mowat, H., & Snowden, A. (2013)
Community Chaplaincy listening: practical theology in action. Scottish Journal of Healthcare Chaplaincy, 16, 42-51
What we know already Patients, GPs and chaplains reported very positively overall on the first pilot of the Community Chaplaincy Listening (CCL) service. NHS Managers, GPs and...

Empathy in mental health nursing: learned, acquired or lost?

Journal Article
Kane, G. M., Snowden, A., & Martin, C. R. (2013)
Empathy in mental health nursing: learned, acquired or lost?. British Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2, 28-36. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjmh.2013.2.1.28
Empathy is a key dimension within the philosophical architecture of everyday mental health nursing practice. Surprisingly, there have been few investigations on this important...

Recognizing and Meeting the Spiritual Needs of Hospital Inpatients.

Journal Article
Howard, N., Snowden, A., Telfer, I., & Waller, R. (2013)
Recognizing and Meeting the Spiritual Needs of Hospital Inpatients. Health and Social Care Chaplaincy, 1, https://doi.org/10.1558/hscc.v1i1.35
The aim of this project is to improve understanding of the spiritual needs of inpatients and to establish how well these are recognized and met. Interviews were carried out wi...

Operationalising Concordance: Testing the Utility of Bech's Pharmacopsychometric Triangle.

Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2013)
Operationalising Concordance: Testing the Utility of Bech's Pharmacopsychometric Triangle. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 82, 257-258. https://doi.org/10.1159/000348507
No abstract available.

The role of research in the mental health nurse consultant.

Journal Article
Barron, D., Snowden, A., & Martin, C. R. (2013)
The role of research in the mental health nurse consultant. British Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2, 93-98. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjmh.2013.2.2.93
Using a facilitated discussion forum, a group of mental health nurse consultants in Scotland, along with senior clinical nurse leaders, sought to better understand their colle...

Spiritual care as person centred care: a thematic analysis of interventions.

Journal Article
Snowden, A., Telfer, I., Kelly, E., Bunniss, S., & Mowat, H. (2013)
Spiritual care as person centred care: a thematic analysis of interventions. Scottish Journal of Healthcare Chaplaincy, 16, 23
What we know already. The Lothian PROM has shown us that chaplaincy benefitted all in this sample not just the faithful, religious or spiritual. However, this deduction arose ...

Research supervision without style

Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2013)
Research supervision without style. Nurse Education Today, 33(12), 1462-1464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2013.04.001

Concordance: A concept analysis.

Presentation / Conference
Snowden, A. (2013, October)
Concordance: A concept analysis. Paper presented at 39th International Mental Health Nursing Conference Collaboration and Partnership in Mental Health Nursing
Adherence based medicines interventions are known to be of limited success. Concordance offers an ethically superior approach as it is grounded in the principle of collaborati...

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
  • Lorna Reid: Institutional Ethnography of Care Homes in Scotland
  • 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
  • Deirdre Wild: Gulf War Reservists and Mental health