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Engaging young working class men in the delivery of sex and relationships education

Journal Article
Brown, S., & McQueen, F. (2020)
Engaging young working class men in the delivery of sex and relationships education. Sex Education, 20(2), 186-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2019.1636780
Despite a substantial body of research on young people’s wishes about the content and delivery of sex and relationships education (SRE), studies still indicate dissatisfaction...

Differentiating Symptom Profiles of ICD-11 PTSD, Complex PTSD and Borderline Personality Disorder: A Latent Class Analysis in a Multiply Traumatised Sample

Journal Article
Jowett, S., Karatzias, T., Shevlin, M., & Albert, I. (2020)
Differentiating Symptom Profiles of ICD-11 PTSD, Complex PTSD and Borderline Personality Disorder: A Latent Class Analysis in a Multiply Traumatised Sample. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 11(1), 36-45. https://doi.org/10.1037/per0000346
Background: Complex PTSD (CPTSD) has been included as a diagnostic category in the ICD-11 consisting of six symptom clusters; the three PTSD criteria of Re-experiencing, Avoid...

The distribution of Psychosis, ICD-11 PTSD and Complex PTSD symptoms among a trauma-exposed UK general population sample

Journal Article
Frost, R., Louison Vang, M., Karatzias, T., Hyland, P., & Shevlin, M. (2019)
The distribution of Psychosis, ICD-11 PTSD and Complex PTSD symptoms among a trauma-exposed UK general population sample. Psychosis, 11(3), 187-198. https://doi.org/10.1080/17522439.2019.1626472
Background: Co-occurrence of psychosis and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms has been demonstrated, but the ICD-11 marks a significant divergence in the formulatio...

Smoking cessation programmes for women living in disadvantaged communities, “We Can Quit 2”: A systematic review protocol [version 3]

Journal Article
Burke, E., Dobbie, F., Dougall, N., Adebolu Oluwaseun, M., Mockler, D., Vance, J., …Hayes, C. (2019)
Smoking cessation programmes for women living in disadvantaged communities, “We Can Quit 2”: A systematic review protocol [version 3]. HRB Open Research, 2, https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.12901.3
Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in Ireland with almost 6,000 smokers dying each year from smoking-related diseases. Amongst younger Irish women, smoking ...

Translation and validation of the Chinese ICD-11 International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ) for the Assessment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD (CPTSD)

Journal Article
Ho, G. W. . K., Karatzias, T., Cloitre, M., Chan, A. C. Y., Bressington, D., Chien, W. T., …Shevlin, M. (2019)
Translation and validation of the Chinese ICD-11 International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ) for the Assessment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD (CPTSD). European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 10(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2019.1608718
Two stress related disorders have been proposed for inclusion in the revised ICD11: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD (CPTSD). The International Trauma Que...

People with severe problematic personality traits and offending histories: What influences occupational participation?

Journal Article
Connell, C., McKay, E. A., Furtado, V., & Singh, S. P. (2019)
People with severe problematic personality traits and offending histories: What influences occupational participation?. European Psychiatry, 60, 14-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2019.05.002
Background: Occupational participation is important for personality disordered offenders (PDOs) because it is integral to health and desistance from offending. What influences...

Are mental health tribunals operating in accordance with international human rights standards? A systematic review of the international literature

Journal Article
Macgregor, A., Brown, M., & Stavert, J. (2019)
Are mental health tribunals operating in accordance with international human rights standards? A systematic review of the international literature. Health and Social Care in the Community, 27(4), e494-e513. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12749
Mental health tribunals are responsible for making decisions about compulsory treatment for individuals considered a risk to themselves and others due to mental disorder. They...

Mental Health Act review in Scotland: some initial observations

Report
Stavert, J. (2019)
Mental Health Act review in Scotland: some initial observations. Essex Chambers
Provides some initial observations on and recommendations for the scope of the forthcoming review of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment)(Scotland) Act 2003, with particular...

Health help-seeking by men in Brunei Darussalam: masculinities and ‘doing’ male identities across the life course.

Journal Article
Idris, D. R., Forrest, S., & Brown, S. (2019)
Health help-seeking by men in Brunei Darussalam: masculinities and ‘doing’ male identities across the life course. Sociology of health and illness, 41(6), 1071-1087. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12885
Using data collected through semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions with 37 adult men living in Brunei Darussalam, this paper explores how masculinities and ex...

Positive changes and appreciation of life among economic immigrants in Scotland.

Journal Article
Bak-Klimek, A., Karatzias, T., Elliott, L., Dickson, A., & MacLean, R. (2020)
Positive changes and appreciation of life among economic immigrants in Scotland. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 21, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-019-00669-w
Objectives: Existing qualitative studies focussed predominantly on exploring immigrants’ stress, distress and coping aimed at reducing stress. Little attention has been paid t...

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Evaluation of the impact of BRAVEHOUND on Veteran Mental Health

2023 - 2024
The grant will be used to fund an evaluation, led by Napier University (Centre for Military Research) which will provide an evidence base report for Bravehound.
Funder: The Veterans Foundation | Value: £11,928

The Future of Mental Health Law: a comparative analysis of law reform debates in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, England and Wales

2023 - 2023
Mental Health Law and its relationship to human rights has become increasingly contested following the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Human rights argume...
Funder: British Academy | Value: £18,959

South Node Lead, Mental Health National Research Scotland Network

2022 - 2025
I have been appointed to NRS as the south node lead for mental health research network. This is a CSO infrastructure to support recruitment to mental health research in the NHS. I sit on the national ...
Funder: Chief Scientists Office

MORE RESPECT: A Randomised controlled trial of a sexual health promotion intervention for people with severe mental illness delivered in community mental health settin

2022 - 2026
This study focuses on people with severe mental illness (SMI) which includes problems like bipolar affective disorder, psychosis and other long-term problems that severely impact on ...
Funder: National Institute for Health Research | Value: £361,235

Mental health and substance use care pathways and outcomes for people released from prison

2022 - 2024
Lay summary: It is important that people released from prison get help for mental health and substance use. This will protect their health and help them live life away from crime. People released from...
Funder: Chief Scientists Office | Value: £42,581

Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre

2022 - 2027
The police have always dealt with vulnerable people but over the past decade, the nature and extent of this involvement has changed dramatically. Increasingly, the police have been drawn into policing...
Funder: Economic and Social Research Council | Value: £97,675

iMAgery focused therapy for PSychosis (iMAPS-2): A feasibility randomised controlled trial

2022 - 2023
Our research aims to improve the current treatments for people with psychosis and schizophrenia. Our main aim is to assess whether it is feasible to conduct a randomised trial to examine the (clinical...
Funder: National Institute for Health Research | Value: £6,281

How cross-service collaboration can improve community safety and wellbeing

2022 - 2022
The Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR) in partnership with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and the Scottish Ambulance Service is providing funding to support a Rapid Research Project...
Funder: Scottish Institute for Policing Research | Value: £15,999

Scotland's Witches Voices - a follow up in depth study of two cases of significant interest in early nursing history - Christian Saidler (1597) and Bartie Patersoune (1607)

2022 - 2022
Background: the Witches Voices Study (Jan - Aug 2021) investigated healers/midwives accused of witchcraft in Scotland between 1563-1736. That study revealed some healers with unexpected healing pract...
Funder: Royal College of Nursing Foundation | Value: £995

Naloxone in Police Scotland - a Pilot Evaluation

2022 - 2022
This study will be a mixed methods process evaluation of a test of change (pilot project) for the carriage, and use, of intra-nasal spray Naloxone by Police Scotland officers. The evaluation will foc...
Funder: Scottish Government | Value: £80,769

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Developing a multisensory smell retraining programme

2022 - date
Miss Emily Spencer | Director of Studies: Dr Duncan Carmichael | Second Supervisor: Dr Eleanor Drake

Evaluating ALBA: A pragmatic evaluation of a behaviour change intervention designed to increase physical activity to improve mental wellbeing

2016 - 2020
Introduction: Physical activity (PA) is beneficial for impr...
Dr Nicola Peddie | Director of Studies: Dr Tony Westbury | Second Supervisor: Prof Austyn Snowden

Trauma and psychosis: synthesising evidence, network modelling and expanding into an interventionist-causal paradigm to investigate mediating mechanisms

2016 - 2021
Dr Amanda Woodrow | Director of Studies: Prof Paul Hutton | Second Supervisor: Prof Thanos Karatzias

Exploring the experiences of male caregivers caring for a partner with Alzheimer's dementia: An interpretative phenomenological analysis

2015 - 2020
Mrs Gwenne McIntosh | Director of Studies: Dr Norrie Brown | Second Supervisor: Dr Zoe Chouliara

Real-time 3D graphic augmentation of music therapy sessions for people on the autism spectrum

2015 - 2019
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a lifelong neurodevelopmental disorder that can affect people in a number...
Dr John McGowan | Director of Studies: Dr Gregory Leplatre | Second Supervisor: Dr Iain McGregor

A meta-analysis and controlled evaluation of short term pyschological intervention for acute mental health inpatients

2014 - 2018
There is evidence to suggest that psychological therapies for severe mental health ...
Charlotte Paterson | Director of Studies: Prof Thanos Karatzias | Second Supervisor: Prof Paul Hutton

Psychological distress in Polish immigrants in Scotland: a mixed methods study

2011 - 2015
Background: The available research on economic migration suggested that immigrants may be less happy than the indigenous p...
Dr Anna Bak-Klimek | Director of Studies: Prof Thanos Karatzias | Second Supervisor: Lawrence Elliott

Developing middle managers in the Hong Kong public sector: A critique of leadership development from a labour process perspective

2010 - 2017
Developing middle managers in the Hong Kong public sector: a critique o...
Dr Jennifer O'Neil | Director of Studies: Prof Thomas Garavan | Second Supervisor: Dr Janice McMillan

The impact of career guidance on well-being outcomes

2008 - 2013
Prof Peter Robertson

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Mrs Avril Montgomery