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ID3604089
NAMERhiannon Evans
GIVEN NAMESRhiannon
FAMILY NAMEEvans
SIGNATUREEVANS R
AFFILIATIONSCardiff University
ORCID0000-0002-0239-6331
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS48
TOTAL CITATIONS94
AUTHOR COUNT48
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX6
  • Self-Organized Men’s Mental Health and Well-Being Groups—An Emerging Social Development

    Open Access•Richard Gater, Jonathan Scourfield et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Men s Health•2026

    Men’s mental health is a national and global concern amid consistently higher suicide rates and rising demand and long waiting times for state-funded services. Simultaneously, groups supporting men’s health and well-being, such as Men’s Sheds and community-led self-help and peer-support initiatives, have expanded. Despite their growth, research on the role of men’s peer-support groups in tackling mental health is still in the early stages, with l…

  • Mental Health and Well-Being-Related Social Support for Care-Experienced Children and Young People

    Open Access•Rebecca Anthony, Simone Willis et al.•ARTICLE•Trauma Violence & Abuse•2026

    Care-experienced children and young people (CYP), for example, those who have been under state care through foster, kinship, or residential placements, or adopted from care, experience disproportionately high levels of mental health difficulties. Yet little is known about the forms of social support that may protect or promote their mental health and well-being (MHW). This scoping review mapped the international evidence on the types, sources, an…

  • A Scoping Review and Synthesis of Qualitative Evidence Reporting Stakeholders’ Conceptualization of Child to Parent Violence and Abuse

    Open Access•Bethan Pell, Kelly Buckley et al.•ARTICLE•Trauma Violence & Abuse•2026

    Child and Adolescent to Parent Violence and Abuse (CAPVA) is a significant social issue, but to date, there is limited understanding of how it is conceptualized by different stakeholders. This scoping review and qualitative synthesis aimed to: (a) Map the concepts used by stakeholders to describe CAPVA and (b) Generate a theoretical model to explain how stakeholders conceptualize CAPVA in terms of context, conditions, mechanisms, and outcomes. Se…

  • Health Action in ScHools for a Thriving Adolescent Generation (HASHTAG)

    Open Access•Tatenda Mawoyo, Stefani Du Toit et al.•ARTICLE•Cambridge Prisms Global Mental…•2026

    Schools play a crucial role in supporting adolescent mental health, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where young people face structural and societal challenges. This study explores the feasibility and acceptability of the Health Action in Schools for a Thriving Adolescent Generation (HASHTAG), a multilevel intervention for at-risk adolescents aged 13–14 in South Africa. HASHTAG includes two components: thriving environment …

  • Multiagency Collaborations to Support Well‐Being Amongst Care‐Experienced Children and Young People in School and During Transition to Further Education College

    Open Access•Sarah Macdonald, Gwen Hewitt et al.•ARTICLE•Child & Family Social Work•2026•References: 7

    Multiagency collaboration to address care‐experienced children and young people's mental well‐being has been advocated as a way of attending to complex needs while avoiding fragmented support. Key sectors with a statutory role include education, mental health and social care, and there is increasing interest at a UK and global scale about stakeholder experiences of multiagency collaboration and how sectors work together when young people transiti…

  • Fathers’ Experiences of Help-seeking and Support Needs for Themselves and their Children Following Domestic Violence and Abuse

    Open Access•Bethan Pell, Emma Howarth et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Family Violence•2026•References: 6

    A growing body of literature highlights multiple barriers for men seeking help following experiences of Domestic Abuse (DA). Men’s intersectional identity as fathers may result in additional barriers to help-seeking, leading to unmet needs for themselves and their children. The current study explored fathers’ experiences of help-seeking, access to support, and existing provision, to understand what type of intervention support could, in principle…

  • Mental Wellbeing Needs and Support for Care‐Experienced Children and Young People in Secondary School and During the Transition to Further Education College

    Open Access•Sarah Macdonald, Gwen Hewitt et al.•ARTICLE•Children & Society•2025•References: 61

    Education settings are critical for supporting mental wellbeing, but there is limited support specifically for care‐experienced children and young people, including gaps in supporting the transition to Further Education (FE) colleges. Using a mixture of qualitative methods, this study aimed to understand mental wellbeing provision in secondary schools and FE colleges in Wales, UK, for those currently or formerly in foster, kinship or residential …

  • Development of a school-based programme for mental health promotion and prevention among adolescents in Nepal and South Africa

    Open Access•Christina Laurenzi, Stefani Du Toit et al.•ARTICLE•SSM - Mental Health•2024

    Introduction: Adolescence is a critical time for mental health promotion and prevention and establishing healthy behaviours. Implementing universal, school-based psychosocial interventions can improve short- and long-term health trajectories for adolescents. While these interventions may offer important opportunities for fostering skills and relationships, few school-based interventions have been developed for and tested in low- and middle-income…

  • Effectiveness of Mental Health and Wellbeing Interventions for Children and Young People in Foster, Kinship, and Residential Care

    Open Access•Rob Trubey, Rhiannon Evans et al.•ARTICLE•Trauma Violence & Abuse•2024

    The mental health and wellbeing of children and young people who have been in care, primarily foster care, kinship care or residential care, remains a public health priority. The Care-experienced cHildren and young people’s Interventions to improve Mental health and wEll-being outcomes Systematic review (CHIMES) synthesized evidence for the effectiveness of interventions targeting: subjective wellbeing; mental, behavioral and neurodevelopmental d…

  • Parenting Interventions During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open Access•Zuyi Fang, Mackenzie Martin et al.•ARTICLE•Trauma Violence & Abuse•2024

    Evidence shows that parenting interventions are an effective method of reducing caregiver-perpetrated child maltreatment. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has changed the provision of parenting interventions worldwide, with many interventions adapting to continue providing services during the crisis. This global systematic review examined how parenting interventions targeting child maltreatment and its risk and protective factors were adapted during …

  • Impacts from delivering a whole health response strategy to domestic violence and abuse

    G J Melendez-Torres, Bethan Pell et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Gender-Based Violence•2024

    In this brief report, we evaluate Health Pathfinder, a ‘whole health response’ to domestic violence and abuse (DVA) in the United Kingdom. We used two national datasets: monitoring data for high-risk cases, and a service-level database used to track the performance of DVA services across the UK. Drawing on a comparative interrupted time series analysis over 2018–2019, we considered the impact of implementation in each of the eight sites on rate o…

  • Interventions Targeting the Mental Health and Well-being of Care-Experienced Children and Young People

    Open Access•Rhiannon E Evans, Rhiannon Evans et al.•ARTICLE•The British Journal of Social Work•2024

    Care-experienced children and young people are at increased risk of poor mental health and well-being, and suicide-related outcomes. There is an evidence-base for intervention effectiveness, but this is primarily from the USA. The present systematic review synthesised evidence for international interventions, exploring potential transportability and adaptability to the UK. We constructed an evidence map, and syntheses of intervention effectivenes…

  • Secure futures? A mixed methods study on opportunities for helping young people referred to secure children’s homes for welfare reasons

    Open Access•Anne Williams, Hannah Bayfield et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Children s Services•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 2

    Purpose Using a mixed methodology comprising interviews, case file analysis and descriptive statistics, this study aims to examine the experiences of all 43 young people in Wales subject to secure accommodation orders between 1st April 2016 and 31st March 2018. Design/methodology/approach Children in the UK aged 10–17 years who are deemed to be at a significant level of risk to themselves or others may be subject to a secure accommodation order, …

  • Long‐term impact of the Fostering Healthy Futures for Preteens program on suicide‐related thoughts and behaviors for youth in out‐of‐home care

    Open Access•Heather N Taussig, Anthony Fulginiti et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Community…•2024•References: 56

    Youth in out‐of‐home care are at high risk for suicide‐related thoughts and behaviors (STB), yet there are no known efficacious interventions that reduce STB for this population. Fostering Healthy Futures for Preteens (FHF‐P) is a 9‐month community‐based mentoring and skills training preventive intervention for children in out‐of‐home care. A randomized controlled trial enrolled 156 participants aged 9–11 years who were placed in out‐of‐home care…

  • Family Group Conference Provision in UK Local Authorities and Associations with Children Looked after Rates

    Open Access•Sophie Wood, Jonathan Scourfield et al.•ARTICLE•The British Journal of Social Work•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 25

    Family group conferences (FGCs) in child welfare share decision-making with family members by bringing the immediate and wider family together to make a plan to meet a child’s needs. This paper reports survey findings on FGC provision in the UK in 2022 and explores whether in England the presence of an FGC service and the rate of FGC provision is associated with the rate of children in care, entering care, in kinship foster care and leaving care.…

  • A Realist Evaluation of a “Whole Health” Response to Domestic Violence and Abuse in the UK

    Open Access•Bethan Pell, G J Melendez-Torres et al.•ARTICLE•Violence Against Women•2024

    Health Pathfinder is a multilevel system change intervention initiated to transform the health response to domestic violence and abuse in eight sites in England. The current study drew upon interviews with health professionals ( n = 27) and victim-survivors ( n = 20) to provide a realist account of how this intervention achieved its goals. Findings show that five change mechanisms explain why Health Pathfinder was effective as an ecological inter…

  • I probably wouldn’t want to talk about anything too personal’

    Open Access•Lorna Stabler, Emily Cunningham et al.•ARTICLE•Adoption & Fostering•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 6

    This paper draws on a qualitative interview-based study that explored online mental health and wellbeing interventions and services for care-experienced young people. The study involved young people ( n = 4), foster carers ( n = 8), kinship carers ( n = 2) and social care professionals ( n = 9) in Wales, UK. The paper reflects on the complexities of online communication in the space of 'the home'. It documents the ways in which care-experienced y…

  • Sources and Types of Social Supports and Their Association with Mental Health Symptoms and Life Satisfaction among Young Adults with a History of Out-of-Home Care

    Open Access•Rhiannon Evans, Colleen C Katz et al.•ARTICLE•Children•2022

    Young adults with a history of out-of-home care report poorer mental health and life satisfaction compared to non-care-experienced peers. Social support is a known protective factor for mental health. There is limited evidence, however, on the relationship between sources (e.g., family members) and types (e.g., information) of social support and mental health symptoms and life satisfaction in this population. Reporting cross-sectional survey data…

  • A scoping review of system-level mechanisms to prevent children being in out-of-home care

    Open Access•Lorna Stabler, Rhiannon E Evans et al.•ARTICLE•The British Journal of Social Work•2022

    Identifying which approaches can effectively reduce the need for out-of-home care for children is critically important. Despite the proliferation of different interventions and approaches globally, evidence summaries on this topic are limited. This study is a scoping review using a realist framework to explore what research evidence exists about reducing the number of children and young people in care. Searches of databases and websites were used…

  • Contesting constructs and interrogating research methods

    Open Access•Rhiannon Evans, Catherine Sampson et al.•ARTICLE•Health An Interdisciplinary…•2022•References: 34

    Discourses of self-harm, and also suicide, are often underpinned by a central tenet: prevention is the priority. This belief is seemingly so inscribed in research that it is rarely interrogated. The present paper re-analyses qualitative data from a hospital-based study of self-harm management and prevention practice. It aims to reflect upon, and disrupt, the authors' latent assumptions about the construct of 'prevention', while reflecting on the …

  • Adapting interventions to new contexts—the Adapt guidance

    Open Access•Graham Moore, Mhairi Campbell et al.•ARTICLE•BMJ•2021

    Implementing interventions with a previous evidence base in new contexts might be more efficient than developing new interventions for each context. Although some interventions transfer well, effectiveness and implementation often depend on the context. Achieving a good fit between intervention and context then requires careful and systematic adaptation. This paper presents new evidence and consensus informed guidance for adapting and transferrin…

  • Developing a whole-school mental health and wellbeing intervention through pragmatic formative process evaluation

    Open Access•Nina H Gobat, Hannah Littlecott et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2021

    Formative, pragmatic process evaluations can support researchers, policy-makers and practitioners in developing robust scientific evidence-bases for acceptable and feasible local innovations that do not already have a clear evidence base. The case of a whole-school restorative approach provides a case example of how such an evaluation may be undertaken

  • Teaching historical literacies to digital learners via popular culture

    Open Access•Rhiannon Evans, Sarah Midford•ARTICLE•Arts and Humanities in Higher…•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 6

    We argue that students can understand an historical period by building on the foundations of their existing knowledge. Specifically, popular media can be used to develop students’ historical literacies – that is their ability to engage with past societies vastly different from their own. Our methodology takes inspiration from the ancient Romans’ own partial literacies and utilises pedagogy drawn from Classical Reception Studies, which examines ho…

  • Staff Wellbeing and Retention in Children’s Social Work

    Open Access•Ruth Turley, Sophie Roberts et al.•ARTICLE•Research on Social Work Practice•2021•Cited by: 9•References: 1

    Objective: To systematically review international evidence on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions targeting the mental health, wellbeing, and retention of child and family social workers and their impact on child and family outcomes.Method:Systematic review and narrative synthesis of quantitative comparative studies. Published or unpublished research was sought via 12 bibliographic databases, websites, contact with experts, …

  • Theorising health professionals' prevention and management practices with children and young people experiencing self-harm

    Open Access•Sarah Macdonald, Catherine Sampson et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 13

    Self-harm in young people remains a significant concern. Studies of emergency departments have centred on negative professional attitudes. There has been limited interrogation and theorisation of what drives such attitudes, and the contexts that sustain them. Adopting a complex systems lens, this study aimed to explore how systems shape professional and patient interactions. It draws upon interviews with healthcare and affiliated professionals (n…

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  • Comparison of suicidal ideation, suicide attempt and suicide in children and young people in care and non-care populations

    Open Access•Rhiannon E Evans, Rhiannon Evans et al.•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2017•Cited by: 24

    Suicide in children and young people is a major public health concern. However, it is unknown whether individuals who have been in the care of the child welfare system are at an elevated risk. Care is presently defined as statutory provision of in-home care (e.g. child living with birth family but in receipt of legal order involving supervision by social workers) or out-of-home care (e.g. foster care, residential care and kinship care). This pape…

  • The consequences of being labelled ‘looked‐after’

    Open Access•D Mannay, Rhiannon E Evans et al.•ARTICLE•British Educational Research…•2017•Cited by: 16•References: 26

    The educational experiences and attainment of looked‐after children and young people ( LACYP ) remains an issue of widespread international concern. Within the UK , children and young people in care achieve poorer educational outcomes compared to individuals not in care. Despite proliferation of research documenting the reasons for educational disadvantage amongst this population, there remains limited empirical consideration of the lived experie…

  • Staff Wellbeing and Retention in Children’s Social Work

    Open Access•Ruth Turley, Sophie Roberts et al.•ARTICLE•Research on Social Work Practice•2021•Cited by: 9•References: 1

    Objective: To systematically review international evidence on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions targeting the mental health, wellbeing, and retention of child and family social workers and their impact on child and family outcomes.Method:Systematic review and narrative synthesis of quantitative comparative studies. Published or unpublished research was sought via 12 bibliographic databases, websites, contact with experts, …

  • Gender, Relationship Breakdown, and Suicide Risk

    Open Access•Rhiannon Evans, Jonathan Scourfield et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Family Issues•2016•Cited by: 9•References: 45

    An association between divorce and suicide risk has been noted in numerous studies, but the gender profile of this risk has not been clearly established. This article reviews the evidence on gender differentials in suicide risk following the breakdown of an intimate relationship (including divorce and separation). Nineteen published articles that included individual-level data were identified. Twelve reported a greater risk of suicide in men foll…

  • School composition, school culture and socioeconomic inequalities in young people's health

    Open Access•Graham Moore, Graham F Moore et al.•ARTICLE•British Educational Research…•2017•Cited by: 7•References: 36

    Health inequalities emerge during childhood and youth, before widening in adulthood. Theorising, testing and interrupting the mechanisms through which inequalities are perpetuated and sustained is vital. Schools are viewed as settings through which inequality in young people's health may be addressed, but few studies examine the social processes via which institutional structures reproduce or mitigate health inequalities. Informed by Markham and …

  • Emotional pedagogy and the gendering of social and emotional learning

    Rhiannon E Evans, Rhiannon Evans•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology of…•2017•Cited by: 6•References: 21

    Social and emotional learning (SEL) has predominantly been conceptualised as a neurological process, which has precluded understanding of how social, cultural and material discourses inform the expression of emotional experiences. Gender remains a notable omission. This article explores the micro-practices through which gender structures the development of young people's emotional subjectivities within the context of a school-based SEL interventi…

  • Inter-professional practice in the prevention and management of child and adolescent self-harm

    Open Access•Stephen Jenning, Rhiannon Evans•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2020•Cited by: 5•References: 6

    Inter-professional collaboration remains a significant concern within healthcare and social care. However, there has been scant attention paid to practices at the interface of clinicians and carers, namely foster carers and residential carers. The present study considers child and adolescent self-harm management and prevention practices as a site of empirical interest due to reports that multi-agency teams are not effectively operating. Drawing u…

  • The unintended consequences of targeting

    Open Access•Rhiannon E Evans, Rhiannon Evans et al.•ARTICLE•British Educational Research…•2015•Cited by: 4•References: 35

    In the past twenty years there has been a proliferation of targeted school‐based social and emotional learning ( SEL ) interventions. However, the lived experience of young peoples’ participation is often elided, while the potential for interventions to confer unintended and even adverse effects remains under‐theorised and empirically under‐explored. This paper reports findings from a qualitative case study of students’ participation in a targete…

  • Pragmatic, formative process evaluations of complex interventions and why we need more of them

    Rhiannon Evans, Jonathan Scourfield et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•2015•Cited by: 3•References: 7

    Recently published guidance on process evaluations by the Medical Research Council's (MRC's) Population Health Sciences Research Network (PHSRN) marks a significant advance in the evaluation of complex public health interventions.1 ,2 In presenting programmes as not just a set of mechanisms of change across multiple socioecological domains, but as an interaction of theory, context and implementation, the guidance extends the remit of evaluation a…

  • I probably wouldn’t want to talk about anything too personal’

    Open Access•Lorna Stabler, Emily Cunningham et al.•ARTICLE•Adoption & Fostering•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 6

    This paper draws on a qualitative interview-based study that explored online mental health and wellbeing interventions and services for care-experienced young people. The study involved young people ( n = 4), foster carers ( n = 8), kinship carers ( n = 2) and social care professionals ( n = 9) in Wales, UK. The paper reflects on the complexities of online communication in the space of 'the home'. It documents the ways in which care-experienced y…

  • Survival, Signaling, and Security

    Open Access•Rhiannon E Evans, Rhiannon Evans•ARTICLE•Qualitative Health Research•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 43

    Research on clinicians' interpretations of self-harming practices has shown that they can often be negative. To date there has been limited consideration of other professionals' narratives, notably those working in social care. This article presents focus group and interview data generated with foster carers ( n = 15) and residential carers ( n = 15) to explore the symbolic meanings ascribed to self-harm among the children and young people they c…

  • Ethnography's Freak Show

    Open Access•Rhiannon E Evans, Rhiannon Evans•ARTICLE•Ramus•1999•Cited by: 2•References: 11

    Blemyis capita absunt, uultus in pectore est. Satyris praeter effigiem nihil humani. Aegipanum quae celebratur ea forma est. haec de Africa. Pomponius Mela Chorographia 1.48 The Blemyes lack heads: their faces are in their chests. There is nothing typical of humans about the Satyrs, apart from their superficial appearance. The Aegipanes have the shape described in stories. So much for Africa. How useful are Roman geographical texts? Outrageous cl…

  • Secure futures? A mixed methods study on opportunities for helping young people referred to secure children’s homes for welfare reasons

    Open Access•Anne Williams, Hannah Bayfield et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Children s Services•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 2

    Purpose Using a mixed methodology comprising interviews, case file analysis and descriptive statistics, this study aims to examine the experiences of all 43 young people in Wales subject to secure accommodation orders between 1st April 2016 and 31st March 2018. Design/methodology/approach Children in the UK aged 10–17 years who are deemed to be at a significant level of risk to themselves or others may be subject to a secure accommodation order, …

  • Family Group Conference Provision in UK Local Authorities and Associations with Children Looked after Rates

    Open Access•Sophie Wood, Jonathan Scourfield et al.•ARTICLE•The British Journal of Social Work•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 25

    Family group conferences (FGCs) in child welfare share decision-making with family members by bringing the immediate and wider family together to make a plan to meet a child’s needs. This paper reports survey findings on FGC provision in the UK in 2022 and explores whether in England the presence of an FGC service and the rate of FGC provision is associated with the rate of children in care, entering care, in kinship foster care and leaving care.…

  • Teaching historical literacies to digital learners via popular culture

    Open Access•Rhiannon Evans, Sarah Midford•ARTICLE•Arts and Humanities in Higher…•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 6

    We argue that students can understand an historical period by building on the foundations of their existing knowledge. Specifically, popular media can be used to develop students’ historical literacies – that is their ability to engage with past societies vastly different from their own. Our methodology takes inspiration from the ancient Romans’ own partial literacies and utilises pedagogy drawn from Classical Reception Studies, which examines ho…

  • Theorising health professionals' prevention and management practices with children and young people experiencing self-harm

    Open Access•Sarah Macdonald, Catherine Sampson et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 13

    Self-harm in young people remains a significant concern. Studies of emergency departments have centred on negative professional attitudes. There has been limited interrogation and theorisation of what drives such attitudes, and the contexts that sustain them. Adopting a complex systems lens, this study aimed to explore how systems shape professional and patient interactions. It draws upon interviews with healthcare and affiliated professionals (n…

  • Systematic review of economic evaluations of children’s social care interventions

    Open Access•Asmaa El-Banna, Stavros Petrou et al.•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2020•Cited by: 1

  • Does Canada Have Too Many Doctors

    Malcolm C Brown, Rhiannon E Evans et al.•ARTICLE•Canadian Public Policy•1977

  • Ethnography's Freak Show

    Open Access•Rhiannon E Evans, Rhiannon Evans•ARTICLE•Ramus•1999•Cited by: 2•References: 11

    Blemyis capita absunt, uultus in pectore est. Satyris praeter effigiem nihil humani. Aegipanum quae celebratur ea forma est. haec de Africa. Pomponius Mela Chorographia 1.48 The Blemyes lack heads: their faces are in their chests. There is nothing typical of humans about the Satyrs, apart from their superficial appearance. The Aegipanes have the shape described in stories. So much for Africa. How useful are Roman geographical texts? Outrageous cl…

  • Containment and Corruption

    Rhiannon Evans•CHAPTER•Flavian Rome•2003

    For Flavian rulers, the relationship between emperor and the acquisition of empire was particularly strong: Vespasian's nomination depended upon his military reputation and actual success in Judaea. Similarly much of Titus' popularity was accrued during his military service in Britain, Germany and Judaea, while Domitian is represented as an emperor desperately trying to extend the bounds of empire. For the Romans 'Thule' became a mythical 'point …

  • Utopia Antiqua

    Rhiannon E Evans, Rhiannon Evans•BOOK•Utopia Antiqua•2007

    Utopia Antiqua is a fresh look at narratives of the Golden Age and decline in ancient Roman literature of the late Republic and imperial period. Through the lens of utopian theory, Rhiannon Evans looks at the ways that Roman authors, such as Virgil, Ovid and Tacitus, use and reinvent Greek myths of the ages, considering them in their historical and artistic context. This book explores the meanings of the ‘Iron Age’ and dystopia for Roman authors,…

  • Exploring organisational influences on the implementation of gatekeeper training

    Open Access•Rhiannon E Evans, Rhiannon Evans et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Public Health•2012

    Suicide is a public health priority. International guidance on prevention, epidemiology and treatment-based research indicates the potential of gatekeeper training in this area. Whilst there is some evidence to suggest that interventions enhance the knowledge and skill set of gatekeepers, evidence regarding changes to intervention-related behaviour remains unclear. This disruption to the causal pathway between competency and action suggests the n…

  • Ecological public health

    Open Access•Rhiannon E Evans, Rhiannon Evans•ARTICLE•Critical Public Health•2012

    Ecological public health: Reshaping the conditions for good health, by Geof Rayner and Tim Lang." Critical Public Health, 23(1), pp. 123–124

  • The gender of suicide

    Open Access•Rhiannon Evans•ARTICLE•Critical Public Health•2014

    Never before has suicide been subjected to such extensive academic inquiry. Yet the knowledge that is constructed as part of this enterprise remains largely unchallenged. In Jaworski’s excellent ex

  • Pragmatic, formative process evaluations of complex interventions and why we need more of them

    Rhiannon Evans, Jonathan Scourfield et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•2015•Cited by: 3•References: 7

    Recently published guidance on process evaluations by the Medical Research Council's (MRC's) Population Health Sciences Research Network (PHSRN) marks a significant advance in the evaluation of complex public health interventions.1 ,2 In presenting programmes as not just a set of mechanisms of change across multiple socioecological domains, but as an interaction of theory, context and implementation, the guidance extends the remit of evaluation a…

  • The unintended consequences of targeting

    Open Access•Rhiannon E Evans, Rhiannon Evans et al.•ARTICLE•British Educational Research…•2015•Cited by: 4•References: 35

    In the past twenty years there has been a proliferation of targeted school‐based social and emotional learning ( SEL ) interventions. However, the lived experience of young peoples’ participation is often elided, while the potential for interventions to confer unintended and even adverse effects remains under‐theorised and empirically under‐explored. This paper reports findings from a qualitative case study of students’ participation in a targete…

  • What theory, for whom and in which context? Reflections on the application of theory in the development and evaluation of complex population health interventions

    Open Access•Graham Moore, Rhiannon Evans•ARTICLE•SSM - Population Health•2016

    Recent years have seen a growing emphasis on the value of building and testing middle range theory throughout the development and evaluation of complex population health interventions. We agree that a coherent theoretical basis for intervention development, and use of evaluation to test key causal assumptions and build theory, are crucial. However, in this editorial, we argue that such recommendations have often been operationalised in somewhat s…

  • Protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial of an intervention to improve the mental health support and training available to secondary school teachers – the Wise (Wellbeing in Secondary Educat…

    Open Access•Judi Kidger, Rhiannon E Evans et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2016

    International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number: ISRCTN95909211 registered 24/03/16

  • The acceptability of educational Interventions

    Open Access•Rhiannon E Evans, Rhiannon Evans et al.•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2016•References: 45

  • Gender, Relationship Breakdown, and Suicide Risk

    Open Access•Rhiannon Evans, Jonathan Scourfield et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Family Issues•2016•Cited by: 9•References: 45

    An association between divorce and suicide risk has been noted in numerous studies, but the gender profile of this risk has not been clearly established. This article reviews the evidence on gender differentials in suicide risk following the breakdown of an intimate relationship (including divorce and separation). Nineteen published articles that included individual-level data were identified. Twelve reported a greater risk of suicide in men foll…

  • Systematic review of educational interventions for looked‐after children and young people

    Open Access•Rhiannon E Evans, Rhiannon Evans et al.•ARTICLE•British Educational Research…•2017

    Looked‐after children and young people (LACYP) are educationally disadvantaged compared to the general population. A systematic review was conducted of randomised controlled trials evaluating interventions aimed at LACYP aged ≤18 years. Restrictions were not placed on delivery setting or delivery agent. Intervention outcomes were: academic skills; academic achievement and grade completion; special education status; homework completion; school att…

  • Comparison of suicidal ideation, suicide attempt and suicide in children and young people in care and non-care populations

    Open Access•Rhiannon E Evans, Rhiannon Evans et al.•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2017•Cited by: 24

    Suicide in children and young people is a major public health concern. However, it is unknown whether individuals who have been in the care of the child welfare system are at an elevated risk. Care is presently defined as statutory provision of in-home care (e.g. child living with birth family but in receipt of legal order involving supervision by social workers) or out-of-home care (e.g. foster care, residential care and kinship care). This pape…

  • Emotional pedagogy and the gendering of social and emotional learning

    Rhiannon E Evans, Rhiannon Evans•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology of…•2017•Cited by: 6•References: 21

    Social and emotional learning (SEL) has predominantly been conceptualised as a neurological process, which has precluded understanding of how social, cultural and material discourses inform the expression of emotional experiences. Gender remains a notable omission. This article explores the micro-practices through which gender structures the development of young people's emotional subjectivities within the context of a school-based SEL interventi…

  • The consequences of being labelled ‘looked‐after’

    Open Access•D Mannay, Rhiannon E Evans et al.•ARTICLE•British Educational Research…•2017•Cited by: 16•References: 26

    The educational experiences and attainment of looked‐after children and young people ( LACYP ) remains an issue of widespread international concern. Within the UK , children and young people in care achieve poorer educational outcomes compared to individuals not in care. Despite proliferation of research documenting the reasons for educational disadvantage amongst this population, there remains limited empirical consideration of the lived experie…

  • School composition, school culture and socioeconomic inequalities in young people's health

    Open Access•Graham Moore, Graham F Moore et al.•ARTICLE•British Educational Research…•2017•Cited by: 7•References: 36

    Health inequalities emerge during childhood and youth, before widening in adulthood. Theorising, testing and interrupting the mechanisms through which inequalities are perpetuated and sustained is vital. Schools are viewed as settings through which inequality in young people's health may be addressed, but few studies examine the social processes via which institutional structures reproduce or mitigate health inequalities. Informed by Markham and …

  • Survival, Signaling, and Security

    Open Access•Rhiannon E Evans, Rhiannon Evans•ARTICLE•Qualitative Health Research•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 43

    Research on clinicians' interpretations of self-harming practices has shown that they can often be negative. To date there has been limited consideration of other professionals' narratives, notably those working in social care. This article presents focus group and interview data generated with foster carers ( n = 15) and residential carers ( n = 15) to explore the symbolic meanings ascribed to self-harm among the children and young people they c…

  • Are youth suicide memorial sites on Facebook different from those for other sudden deaths

    Open Access•Jonathan Scourfield, Rhiannon Evans et al.•ARTICLE•Death Studies•2019•References: 7

    To explore possible distinctive features of online memorials for youth suicides, amid concerns about glorification, we compared public Facebook memorials for suicides and road traffic accident deaths, using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count software. People who posted on memorial sites wrote at greater length about suicides, using longer words and more quotation marks. Words suggesting causation and achievement were more prevalent in suicide memo…

  • Patients’ Experiences of Emergency Hospital Care Following Self-Harm

    Open Access•Sarah Macdonald, Catherine Sampson et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Health Research•2020

    Rates of hospital presentation for self-harm have increased in recent years, and although clinical practice guidelines on clinical provision prioritize positive patient experiences, the quality of provision remains variable. This systematic review provides an updated and extended synthesis of qualitative research on the following: (a) patients’ experiences of treatment following presentation to hospital; and (b) patients’ perceptions of the impac…

  • Systematic review of economic evaluations of children’s social care interventions

    Open Access•Asmaa El-Banna, Stavros Petrou et al.•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2020•Cited by: 1

  • Inter-professional practice in the prevention and management of child and adolescent self-harm

    Open Access•Stephen Jenning, Rhiannon Evans•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2020•Cited by: 5•References: 6

    Inter-professional collaboration remains a significant concern within healthcare and social care. However, there has been scant attention paid to practices at the interface of clinicians and carers, namely foster carers and residential carers. The present study considers child and adolescent self-harm management and prevention practices as a site of empirical interest due to reports that multi-agency teams are not effectively operating. Drawing u…

  • Adapting interventions to new contexts—the Adapt guidance

    Open Access•Graham Moore, Mhairi Campbell et al.•ARTICLE•BMJ•2021

    Implementing interventions with a previous evidence base in new contexts might be more efficient than developing new interventions for each context. Although some interventions transfer well, effectiveness and implementation often depend on the context. Achieving a good fit between intervention and context then requires careful and systematic adaptation. This paper presents new evidence and consensus informed guidance for adapting and transferrin…

  • Developing a whole-school mental health and wellbeing intervention through pragmatic formative process evaluation

    Open Access•Nina H Gobat, Hannah Littlecott et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2021

    Formative, pragmatic process evaluations can support researchers, policy-makers and practitioners in developing robust scientific evidence-bases for acceptable and feasible local innovations that do not already have a clear evidence base. The case of a whole-school restorative approach provides a case example of how such an evaluation may be undertaken

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