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

  • 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

 

Date


148 results

Symposium: MEDICODE A comprehensive coding method to describe content and dialogue in medication discussions in healthcare provider-patient encounters: Perspectives from Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy.

Presentation / Conference
Lussier, M., Richard, C., Guirguis, L., Goldman, R., Snowden, A., Latter, S., & Sibley, A. (2013, September)
Symposium: MEDICODE A comprehensive coding method to describe content and dialogue in medication discussions in healthcare provider-patient encounters: Perspectives from Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy. Paper presented at International Conference on Communication in Healthcare, Montreal, Canada

Developing a Patient Reported Outcome measure of complex intervention.

Presentation / Conference
Snowden, A. (2013, March)
Developing a Patient Reported Outcome measure of complex intervention. Paper presented at RCN 2013 Annual International Nursing Research Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Concordance. What’s the point?

Presentation / Conference
Snowden, A. (2013, February)
Concordance. What’s the point?

Concurrent analysis: a pragmatic justification

Journal Article
Snowden, A., & Atkinson, J. (2012)
Concurrent analysis: a pragmatic justification. Nursing Philosophy, 13, 126-141. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-769X.2011.00523.x
Concurrent analysis (CA) is a process of synthesizing conceptually equivalent data for the purpose of producing a coherent and predictive model in social science. The process ...

Measuring Concordance in Clinical Practice

Journal Article
Barron, D. T., & Snowden, A. (2012)
Measuring Concordance in Clinical Practice. British Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 1, 88-94. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjmh.2012.1.2.88
This article describes the construction of a tool to measure concordance in clinical practice. The second of two parts, it details the strategic background underpinning concor...

No decision about me without me: concordance operationalised

Journal Article
Snowden, A., & Marland, G. (2012)
No decision about me without me: concordance operationalised. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 22, 1353-1360. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2702.2012.04337.x
Aims and objectives To demonstrate that concordance can be operationalised to the benefit of patients. Concordance can be understood as a composite of knowledge, health belief...

Debating mental health nurses’ role in medicines management

Journal Article
Hemingway, S., & Snowden, A. (2012)
Debating mental health nurses’ role in medicines management. British Journal of Nursing, 21, 1219-1223. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2012.21.20.1219
This article delineates concordance and adherence; two fundamental positions pertaining to the role of the nurse in medicine management. Taking the form of a debate, it uses m...

An exploration of palliative care provision in Scottish care homes

Journal Article
Reid, L., Snowden, A., & Kydd, A. (2012)
An exploration of palliative care provision in Scottish care homes. British Journal of Nursing, 21, 8-15. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2012.21.1.8
This paper suggests that there is an imbalance between the ideal and the actual palliative care provision for some older people living and dying in care homes in Scotland. Suc...

Validation of the NHS Scotland Employee Engagement Index.

Report
Snowden, A. & MacArthur, E. (2012)
Validation of the NHS Scotland Employee Engagement Index. Edinburgh, Scotland: NHS SCotland
Using a novel combination of Rasch and factor analysis showed the index to a) measure the latent trait of employee engagement and b) be constructed from the four factors under...

Is concordance possible?

Presentation / Conference
Snowden, A. (2012, September)
Is concordance possible?. Paper presented at 16th International Philosophy of Nursing Conference, Universtiy of Leeds, Leeds, UK

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
  • 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
  • Deirdre Wild: Gulf War Reservists and Mental health