Austyn Snowden
Austyn Snowden

Prof Austyn Snowden

Professor

Biography

I am chair in mental health at 麻豆社区. 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鈥檚 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


149 results

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...

The Visualisation of Rasch Model Analysis.

Presentation / Conference
Soflano, M., Snowden, A., & Connolly, T. M. (2014, November)
The Visualisation of Rasch Model Analysis. Paper presented at European Conference in the Applications of Enabling Technologies, Glasgow, Scotland

IMatter: validation of the NHS Scotland Employee Engagement Index.

Journal Article
Snowden, A., & MacArthur, E. (2014)
IMatter: validation of the NHS Scotland Employee Engagement Index. BMC Health Services Research, 14, 535. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-014-0535-z
Background Employee engagement is a fundamental component of quality healthcare. In order to provide empirical data of engagement in NHS Scotland an Employee Engagement Index ...

Ethics or Creativity? The art of doing the right thing.

Presentation / Conference
Snowden, A. (2014, November)
Ethics or Creativity? The art of doing the right thing. Paper presented at 3rd Horatio European Festival of Psychiatric Nursing, Malta

The relationship between emotional intelligence, previous caring experience and mindfulness in student nurses and midwives: a cross sectional analysis

Journal Article
Snowden, A., Stenhouse, R., Young, J., Carver, H., Carver, F., & Brown, N. (2015)
The relationship between emotional intelligence, previous caring experience and mindfulness in student nurses and midwives: a cross sectional analysis. Nurse Education Today, 35(1), 152-158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2014.09.004
Background: Emotional Intelligence (EI), previous caring experience and mindfulness training may have a positive impact on nurse education. More evidence is needed to support ...

Developing and sustaining a culture of innovation in Health Higher Education literature review.

Report
Lewitt, M. S., Snowden, A. & Sheward, L. (2014)
Developing and sustaining a culture of innovation in Health Higher Education literature review. Scotland: Higher Education Academy/ Council of Deans
This literature review set out to review the recent literature on cultures of innovation and summarise how they are developed, sustained and extended, including the associated...

Combining Factor and Rasch Analysis in Validating the NHS Scotland Employee Engagement Index.

Presentation / Conference
Snowden, A., Reilly, L., & MacArthur, E. (2014, April)
Combining Factor and Rasch Analysis in Validating the NHS Scotland Employee Engagement Index. Paper presented at RCN 2014 Annual International Nursing Research Conference, Glasgow, Scotland

Adjustment to the need for an ICD.

Journal Article
McCaig, M., Orr, J., Snowden, A., Collins, G., Thomson, A., & Marland, G. (2014)
Adjustment to the need for an ICD. British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, 9(3), 117-122. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjca.2014.9.3.117
The implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is an electrical medical device designed to monitor the electrical activity of the heart and is set to deliver a programmed, c...

Tracking emotional intelligence.

Presentation / Conference
Stenhouse, R., Snowden, A., & Young, J. (2014, January)
Tracking emotional intelligence. Paper presented at Research, Innovation, recruitment, retention: student nurse and midwives, Heriot Watt, Edinburgh

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 ...

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
  • Res: Brian Johnston. A european study of Nursing in families
  • Lorna Reid: Institutional Ethnography of Care Homes in Scotland
  • MRes: Eileen Salmon. Service User involvement in Student Assessment
  • Deirdre Wild: Gulf War Reservists and Mental health