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
  • Is Understanding an Intervention?
  • The Scottish PROM: a measure of chaplaincy interventions in Scotland

 

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?
  • 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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Nurse prescribing in mental health

Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2006)
Nurse prescribing in mental health. Nursing Standard, 20(29), 41-46. https://doi.org/10.7748/ns2006.03.20.29.41.c4106
This article presents a suggested clinical management plan for a community psychiatric nurse who is prescribing for older adults with mental health needs. The scope of the cli...

Mental health nurse prescribing in Scotland : time for change.

Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2005)
Mental health nurse prescribing in Scotland : time for change. Nurse Prescribing. 5, 1-6. ISSN 1479-9189

Transforming Cancer Care (TCC) Data Collation, Analysis and Synthesis: Executive Summary

Report
Snowden, A., Campbell, K., Dicksit, D., & Thomson, K. (2023)
Transforming Cancer Care (TCC) Data Collation, Analysis and Synthesis: Executive Summary. Edinburgh: Macmillan Cancer Support

Longitudinal Study of the Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Student Progression: Performance Data Year 1

Conference Proceeding
Stenhouse, R. & Snowden, A. (2013)
Longitudinal Study of the Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Student Progression: Performance Data Year 1

Construction of the Lothian PROM.

Journal Article
Snowden, A., Telfer, I., Kelly, E., Bunniss, S. & Mowat, H. (2012)
Construction of the Lothian PROM. Scottish Journal of Healthcare Chaplaincy. 16, 3
What we know already Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) are an increasingly popular and prevalent method of ascertaining the impact of an intervention in health. For ex...

Emotional Intelligence, Recruitment & Retention.

Conference Proceeding
Stenhouse, R., Snowden, A., Brown, N., Carver, H., Carver, F. & Young, J. (2013)
Emotional Intelligence, Recruitment & Retention

Tracking the Impact of Emotional Intelligence of Student Progression.

Conference Proceeding
Stenhouse, R., Carver, F., Snowden, A., Carver, H., Young, J. & Brown, N. (2013)
Tracking the Impact of Emotional Intelligence of Student Progression

The end of the algorithm: a mixed methods analysis of distress management in cancer.

Conference Proceeding
Snowden, A., White, C., Christie, Z., Murray, E., McGowan, C. & Scott, R. (2010)
The end of the algorithm: a mixed methods analysis of distress management in cancer
Distress Management (DM) begins by the patient completing the Distress Thermometer (DT). The DT is a screening tool (Lynch et al, 2010), but in this project its function was e...

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