Professor Daniel Wight
- Honorary Senior Research Fellow (School of Health & Wellbeing)
email:
Danny.Wight@glasgow.ac.uk
MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Berkeley Square, 99 Berkeley Street, G3 7HR
Biography
Daniel studied Social Anthropology at Edinburgh University, involving four months fieldwork in rural Jamaica, and graduated in 1981. He later conducted a community study in central Scotland, focussing on working class culture, unemployment, consumption and masculinity, which became a PhD (Edinburgh University, 1987). After working on applied social science projects in the fields of education, community development and nursing, in 1990 he joined the MRC Medical Sociology Unit to conduct a qualitative study of young Glaswegian men's sexual behaviour. From this he came to lead an inter-disciplinary team to develop and rigorously evaluate the school sex education programme SHARE, in collaboration with the Health Education Board for Scotland.
Since 1997 Daniel has been involved in descriptive and intervention research in Tanzania and Uganda on sexual health and parent-child relationships. He led the process evaluation of a multi-component sexual health programme in Tanzania (Mema kwa Vijana), in collaboration with the National Institute for Medical Research, Tanzania, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and from 2001-2010 he led the Unit's partnership in two Department for International Development programmes on HIV and sexual health in low income countries.
From 2006-2015 Daniel led the Sexual Health and Families Programme and then the Children, Young People, Families and Health Programme in the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit. He is part of the Complexity Programme and now leading a research theme on the transferability of interventions.
Daniel’s research interests have always competed with many others beyond academia, and he has now reduced his employment to three days a week. The remaining time is largely devoted to horticulture and Green politics.
Research interests
Current substantive research topics include early years interventions, early prevention of gender based violence, and the health outcomes of parent-child relationships in high and low income countries. Methodologically Daniel is interested in the development, evaluation and transferability of interventions, and he retains a concern with strengthening social science research capacity in Africa.
Publications
2024
Collins, H., Wight, D. and Hilton, S. (2024) Mothers’ endorsement of the ideals and expected practices of parental determinism. Families, Relationships and Societies, (Accepted for Publication)
Blair, S. et al. (2024) The Social and Emotional Education and Development intervention to address wellbeing in primary school age children: the SEED cluster RCT. Public Health Research, 12(6), (doi: 10.3310/LYRQ5047) (PMID:38940833)
Siu, G., Nsubuga, R. N., Lachman, J. M. , Namutebi, C., Sekiwunga, R., Zalwango, F., Riddell, J. and Wight, D. (2024) The impact of the Parenting for Respectability programme on violent parenting and intimate partner relationships in Uganda: a pre-post study. PLoS ONE, 19(5), e0299927. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0299927) (PMID:38787892) (PMCID:PMC11125497)
2023
Dundas, R. et al. (2023) Evaluation of the Healthy Start Voucher Scheme in UK: a natural experiment using the Growing Up in Scotland record linkage study and the Infant Feeding Survey. Public Health Research, 11(11), (doi: 10.3310/RTEU2107) (PMID:37953640)
Devlin, A. M. and Wight, D. (2023) Transfer and adaptation of a drug recovery model from San Patrignano, Italy to River Garden, Scotland: a qualitative study. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 30(2), pp. 141-153. (doi: 10.1080/09687637.2021.1991889)
2022
Wight, D. , Sekiwunga, R., Namutebi, C., Zalwango, F. and Siu, G. E. (2022) A Ugandan parenting programme to prevent gender-based violence: description and formative evaluation. Research on Social Work Practice, 32(4), pp. 448-464. (doi: 10.1177/10497315211056246) (PMID:35431527) (PMCID:PMC7612614)
2021
Anderson, M. , Devlin, A. M. , Pickering, L. , McCann, M. and Wight, D. (2021) 'It’s not 9 to 5 recovery': the role of a recovery community in producing social bonds that support recovery. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 28(5), pp. 475-485. (doi: 10.1080/09687637.2021.1933911) (PMID:34675456) (PMCID:PMC8522802)
Devlin, A. M. and Wight, D. (2021) Mechanisms and context in the San Patrignano drug recovery community, Italy: a qualitative study to inform transfer to Scotland. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 28(1), pp. 85-96. (doi: 10.1080/09687637.2020.1747397) (PMID:34824492) (PMCID:PMC7612027)
Sikana, L., Lembo, T. , Hampson, K. , Lushasi, K., Mtenga, S., Sambo, M., Wight, D. , Coutts, J. and Kreppel, K. (2021) Dog ownership practices and responsibilities for children’s health in terms of rabies control and prevention in rural communities in Tanzania. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 15(3), e0009220. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009220) (PMID:33690720) (PMCID:PMC7946275)
2020
Lachman, J. M. , Wamoyi, J., Spreckelsen, T. F. , Wight, D. , Maganga, J. and Gardner, F. (2020) Combining parenting and economic strengthening programmes to reduce violence against children: a cluster randomised controlled trial with predominantly male caregivers in rural Tanzania caregivers. BMJ Global Health, 5, e002349. (doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002349) (PMID:32641291) (PMCID:PMC7348478)
2019
Anderson, M. , Devlin, A.M. , McCann, M. , Pickering, L. and Wight, D. (2019) It’s Not Nine-to-Five Recovery: How Recovery Communities Help Sustain Long-Term Recovery From Problem Alcohol and Other Drug Use. Faculty of Public Health (Scotland) Annual Conference, Dunblane, Scotland, 28-29 Nov 2019.
Henderson, M. et al. (2019) Trial of healthy relationship initiatives for the very early years (THRIVE), evaluating Enhanced Triple P for Baby and Mellow Bumps for those with additional social and care needs during pregnancy and their infants who are at higher risk of maltreatment: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 20, 499. (doi: 10.1186/s13063-019-3571-5) (PMID:31412902) (PMCID:PMC6694522)
O'Brien, R., Buston, K. , Wight, D. , McGee, E., White, J. and Henderson, M. (2019) A realist process evaluation of Enhanced Triple P for Baby and Mellow Bumps, within a Trial of Healthy Relationship Initiatives for the Very Early-years (THRIVE): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials, 20, 351. (doi: 10.1186/s13063-019-3395-3) (PMID:31196169) (PMCID:PMC6567913)
Henderson, M. , Nixon, C., McKee, M. J., Smith, D., Wight, D. and Elliott, L. (2019) Poly-substance use and sexual risk behaviours: a cross-sectional comparison of adolescents in mainstream and alternative education settings. BMC Public Health, 19, 564. (doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-6892-0) (PMID:31088403) (PMCID:PMC6518733)
Buston, K. , O'Brien, R., Wight, D. and Henderson, M. (2019) The reflective component of the Mellow Bumps parenting intervention: implementation, engagement and mechanisms of change. PLoS ONE, 14(4), e0215461. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215461) (PMID:30990855) (PMCID:PMC6467403)
2018
Devlin, A.M. , Wight, D. and Fenton, C. (2018) Are parenting practices associated with the same child outcomes in Sub-Saharan African countries as in high income countries? A review and synthesis. BMJ Global Health, 3(6), e000912. (doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2018-000912) (PMID:30687520) (PMCID:PMC6326425)
Devlin, A. M. and Wight, D. (2018) Developing a new drug recovery community in the UK: A qualitative study of the transferability of an intervention from San Patrignano, Italy, to Scotland. Lancet, 392(S2), S29. (doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32155-X)
Craig, P. et al. (2018) Development of guidance for feasibility studies to decide whether and how to proceed to full-scale evaluation of complex public health interventions: a systematic review. The Lancet 392(S2):S7. Meeting abstract: Public Health Science 2018, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 23 Nov 2018. (doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(18)32265-7)
Moore, L. , Hallingberg, B., Wight, D. , Turley, R., Segrott, J., Craig, P. , Robling, M., Murphy, S., Simpson, S. M. and Moore, G. (2018) Exploratory studies to inform full-scale evaluations of complex public health interventions: the need for guidance. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 72(10), pp. 865-866. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2017-210414) (PMID:30030296) (PMCID:PMC6161652)
Hallingberg, B., Turley, R., Segrott, J., Wight, D. , Craig, P. , Moore, L. , Murphy, S., Robling, M., Simpson, S. and Moore, G. (2018) Exploratory studies to decide whether and how to proceed with full-scale evaluations of public health interventions: a systematic review of guidance. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 4, 104. (doi: 10.1186/s40814-018-0290-8) (PMID:29854417) (PMCID:PMC5971430)
Craig, P. et al. (2018) Taking account of context in population health intervention research: guidance for producers, users and funders of research. Project Report. NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre. (doi: 10.3310/CIHR-NIHR-01).
Zuma, T., Wight, D. , Rochat, T. and Moshabela, M. (2018) Navigating multiple sources of healing in the context of HIV/AIDS and wide availability of antiretroviral treatment: a qualitative study of community participants’ perceptions and experiences in rural South Africa. Frontiers in Public Health, 6, 73. (doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2018.00073) (PMID:29594094) (PMCID:PMC5857548)
2017
Boydell, N. , Nalukenge, W., Siu, G., Seeley, J. and Wight, D. (2017) How mothers in poverty explain their use of corporal punishment: a qualitative study in Kampala, Uganda. European Journal of Development Research, 29(5), pp. 999-1016. (doi: 10.1057/s41287-017-0104-5) (PMID:29213191) (PMCID:PMC5714261)
Sui, G. E., Wight, D. , Seeley, J., Namutebi, C., Sekiwunga, R., Zalwango, F. and Kasule, S. (2017) Men’s involvement in a parenting programme to reduce child maltreatment and gender-based violence: formative evaluation in Uganda. European Journal of Development Research, 29(5), pp. 1017-1037. (doi: 10.1057/s41287-017-0103-6)
Buston, K. , Parkes, A. , Riddell, J. and Wight, D. (2017) Father-Child Relationships and Child Socio-Emotional Wellbeing: Adding to Longitudinal Evidence on the Role of Fathers in Shaping Child Outcomes. Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies Conference, Stirling, UK, 11-13 Oct 2017.
Devlin, A.M. and Wight, D. (2017) Investigating the Transferability of a Drug Recovery Community from Italy (San Patrignano) to Scotland (IFDAS). 16th European Federation of Therapeutic Communities (EFTC) Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 20-22 Sep 2017. p. 30.
Parkes, A. , Riddell, J. , Wight, D. and Buston, K. (2017) Father-Child Relationships and Child Socio-Economic Wellbeing. Scottish Government, Edinburgh, UK, 22 Mar 2017.
Parkes, A. , Riddell, J. , Wight, D. and Buston, K. (2017) New Findings From the Growing up in Scotland - Father-Child Relationships and Child Wellbeing. Strengthening Father-Child Relationships: What the Evidence Suggests, Edinburgh, UK, 16 Mar 2017.
Parkes, A. , Riddell, J. , Wight, D. and Buston, K. (2017) Growing Up in Scotland: Father-child Relationships and Child Socio-emotional Wellbeing. Discussion Paper. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.
Devlin, A. M. and Wight, D. (2017) How Context Specific are Therapeutic Communities for Drug Recovery? Investigating the Transfer of the ‘San Patrignano’ Model from Italy to Scotland (IFDAS). Faculty of Public Health (Scotland) Annual Conference, Aviemore, Scotland, 2-3 Nov 2017.
Wight, D. and Devlin, A. M. (2017) Are Parenting Practices associated with the same Child Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa as in High Income Countries? A Systematic Review. Institute for Human Development (Aga Khan University), Second International Conference, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, 7-9 Nov 2017.
Zuma, T., Wight, D. , Rochat, T. and Moshabela, M. (2017) Traditional health practitioners’ management of HIV/AIDS in rural South Africa in the era of widespread antiretroviral therapy. Global Health Action, 10(1), 1352210. (doi: 10.1080/16549716.2017.1352210) (PMID:28771116) (PMCID:PMC5645651)
2016
Parkes, A. , Sweeting, H. and Wight, D. (2016) Early childhood precursors and school age correlates of different internalising problem trajectories among young children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 44(7), pp. 1333-1346. (doi: 10.1007/s10802-015-0116-6) (PMID:26747450) (PMCID:PMC5007267)
Parkes, A. , Sweeting, H. and Wight, D. (2016) What shapes seven-year-olds' subjective well-being? Prospective analysis of early childhood and parenting using the Growing Up in Scotland Study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 51(10), pp. 1417-1428. (doi: 10.1007/s00127-016-1246-z) (PMID:27357821) (PMCID:PMC5047922)
Parkes, A. , Sweeting, H. , Young, R. and Wight, D. (2016) Does parenting help to explain socioeconomic inequalities in children's body mass index trajectories? Longitudinal analysis using the Growing Up in Scotland study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 70(9), pp. 868-873. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2015-206616) (PMID:27056682) (PMCID:PMC5013155)
van Rooyen, H., Essack, Z., Rochat, T., Wight, D. , Knight, L., Bland, R. and Celum, C. (2016) Taking HIV testing to families: designing a family-based intervention to facilitate HIV testing, disclosure and intergenerational communication. Frontiers in Public Health, 4, 154. (doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2016.00154) (PMID:27547750) (PMCID:PMC4974258)
Zuma, T., Wight, D. , Rochat, T. and Moshabela, M. (2016) The role of traditional health practitioners in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: generic or mode specific? BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2016(16), 304. (doi: 10.1186/s12906-016-1293-8) (PMID:27549895) (PMCID:PMC4994274)
Wight, D. , Wimbush, E., Jepson, R. and Doi, L. (2016) Six steps in quality intervention development (6SQuID). Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 70(5), pp. 520-525. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2015-205952) (PMID:26573236) (PMCID:PMC4853546)
O'Brien, R., Buston, K. , Wight, D. and Henderson, M. (2016) Collaborative Ethnography: Identifying Implicit Processes Influencing THRIVE. 15th Annual Qualitative Methods Conference, Glasgow, UK, 03-05 Mar 2016.
Henderson, M. , Tweedie, S. , Smillie, S. and Wight, D. (2016) Social and Emotional Education and Development (SEED): A Stratified, Cluster Randomised Trial of a Multi-Component Primary School Intervention in Scotland. ICSEI International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI 2016), Glasgow, UK, 7-10 Jan 2016.
Wight, D. and Devlin, A. M. (2016) The Transferability of Complex Interventions: A Case Study of Parenting Programmes. In: 2nd International Conference on Realist Evaluation and Synthesis; Advancing Principles, Strengthening Practice, London, UK, 3-5 Oct 2016, pp. 20-21.
2015
Parkes, A. , Sweeting, H. and Wight, D. (2015) Parenting stress and parent support among mothers with high and low education. Journal of Family Psychology, 29(6), pp. 907-918. (doi: 10.1037/fam0000129) (PMID:26192130) (PMCID:PMC4671474)
Moore, G. et al. (2015) Process evaluation of complex interventions: a summary of Medical Research Council guidance. In: Richards, D.A. and Hallberg, I.R. (eds.) Complex Interventions in Health: An Overview of Research Methods. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9780415703147
Moore, G. F. et al. (2015) Process evaluation of complex interventions: Medical Research Council guidance. British Medical Journal, 2015(350), h1258. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.h1258) (PMID:25791983) (PMCID:PMC4366184)
Wamoyia, J., Wight, D. and Remes, P. (2015) The structural influence of family and parenting on young people's sexual and reproductive health in rural northern Tanzania. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 17(6), pp. 718-732. (doi: 10.1080/13691058.2014.992044) (PMID:25597368) (PMCID:PMC4419469)
2014
Buston, K. , Parkes, A. and Wight, D. (2014) High and low contraceptive use amongst male young offenders: a qualitative interview study. Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, 40, pp. 248-253. (doi: 10.1136/jfprhc-2013-100696)
Wight, D. , Ahikire, J. and Kwesiga, J. C. (2014) Consultancy research as a barrier to strengthening social science research capacity in Uganda. Social Science and Medicine, 116(2014), pp. 32-40. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.06.002)
Hartley, J. E. K., Wight, D. and Hunt, K. (2014) Presuming the influence of the media: teenagers’ constructions of gender identity through sexual/romantic relationships and alcohol consumption. Sociology of Health and Illness, 36(5), pp. 772-756. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12107)
Parkes, A. , Waylen, A., Sayal, K., Heron, J., Henderson, M. , Wight, D. and Macleod, J. (2014) Which behavioral, emotional and school problems in middle-childhood predict early sexual behavior? Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 43(4), pp. 507-527. (doi: 10.1007/s10964-013-9973-x)
Moore, G. et al. (2014) Process evaluation in complex public health intervention studies: the need for guidance. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 68(2), pp. 101-102. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2013-202869)
Moore, G. et al. (2014) Process Evaluation of Complex Interventions Guidance: UK Medical Research Council (MRC) Guidance. Project Report. MRC Population Health Sciences Research Network, London.
Parkes, A. , Sweeting, H. and Wight, D. (2014) Growing up in Scotland: Family and school influences on children’s social and emotional well-being. Project Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.
Siu, G. E., Wight, D. and Seeley, J. (2014) ‘Dented’ and ‘resuscitated’ masculinities: the impact of HIV diagnosis and/or enrolment on antiretroviral treatment on masculine identities in rural eastern Uganda. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS, 11(1), pp. 211-221. (doi: 10.1080/17290376.2014.986516) (PMID:25444303) (PMCID:PMC4272191)
Siu, G. E., Wight, D. and Seeley, J. A. (2014) Masculinity, social context and HIV testing: an ethnographic study of men in Busia district, rural eastern Uganda. BMC Public Health, 14(33), (doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-33)
Wamoyi, J. and Wight, D. (2014) "Dying a hero": parents’ and young people’s discourses on concurrent sexual partnerships in rural Tanzania. BMC Public Health, 14(742), (doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-742)
Wamoyi, J. and Wight, D. (2014) 'Mum never loved me.' How structural factors influence adolescent sexual and reproductive health through parent–child connectedness: a qualitative study in rural Tanzania. African Journal of AIDS Research, 13(2), pp. 169-178. (doi: 10.2989/16085906.2014.945387)
2013
Parkes, A. , Wight, D. , Hunt, K. , Henderson, M. and Sargent, J. (2013) Are sexual media exposure, parental restrictions on media use and co-viewing TV and DVDs with parents and friends associated with teenagers' early sexual behaviour? Journal of Adolescence, 36(6), pp. 1121-1133. (doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2013.08.019)
Tweedie, S. , Smillie, S. , Henderson, M. and Wight, D. (2013) Social and Emotional Education and Development (SEED): A Stratified, Cluster Randomised Trial of a Multi-Component Primary School Intervention in Scotland. Growing Up In Scotland And Scandinavia: What Do Our Longitudinal Studies Tell Us About Our Children's Wellbeing?, Edinburgh, UK, 13 Nov 2013.
Siu, G.E., Seeley, J. and Wight, D. (2013) Dividuality, masculine respectability and reputation: How masculinity affects men's uptake of HIV treatment in rural eastern Uganda. Social Science and Medicine, 89, pp. 45-52. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.04.025) (PMID:23726215)
Parkes, A. , Sweeting, H. , Wight, D. and Henderson, M. (2013) Do television and electronic games predict children's psychosocial adjustment? Longitudinal research using the UK Millennium Cohort Study. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 98(5), pp. 341-348. (doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2011-301508)
Elliott, L., Henderson, M. , Nixon, C. and Wight, D. (2013) Has untargeted sexual health promotion for young people reached its limit? A quasi-experimental study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 67(5), pp. 398-404. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2012-201034)
Parkes, A. , Sweeting, H. and Wight, D. (2013) OP43 Explaining high parenting stress in the Growing up in Scotland study for mothers with both high and low educational levels: the role of employment and social support for parenting. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 67(Sup 1), A22-A22. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2013-203126.43)
Parkes, A. , Sweeting, H. and Wight, D. (2013) Parenting. In: Growing up in Scotland: Birth Cohort 2. Results from the First Year. Scottish Government: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 118-142. ISBN 9781782563617
Wight, D. and Fullerton, D. (2013) A review of interventions with parents to promote the sexual health of their children. Journal of Adolescent Health, 52(1), pp. 4-27. (doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2012.04.014)
2012
Buston, K., Parkes, A., Thomson, H., Wight, D. and Fenton, C. (2012) Parenting interventions for male young offenders: a review of the evidence on what works. Journal of Adolescence, 35(3), pp. 731-742. (doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2011.10.007)
Parkes, A. , Sweeting, H. and Wight, D. (2012) Growing up in Scotland: Overweight, Obesity and Activity - Main Report. Other. Scottish Government, Edinburgh, UK.
Buston, K. and Wight, D. (2012) Young fathers in prison: helping them parent. In: Henderson, S. (ed.) Scotland: the Best Place in the World to Bring up Children? A collection of essays about parenting in Scotland. Parenting across Scotland: Edinburgh, pp. 128-30.
Desmond, N., Prost, A. and Wight, D. (2012) Managing risk through treatment-seeking in rural north-western Tanzania: categorising health problems as malaria and nzoka. Health, Risk and Society, 14(2), pp. 149-170. (doi: 10.1080/13698575.2012.661042)
Desmond, N., Prost, A. and Wight, D. (2012) Managing risk through treatment-seeking in rural north-western Tanzania: Categorising health problems as malaria andnzoka. Health, Risk and Society, 14(2), pp. 149-170. (doi: 10.1080/13698575.2012.661042)
Parkes, A. , Sweeting, H. and Wight, D. (2012) Growing up in Scotland: overweight, obesity and activity - Research Findings no. 4. Technical Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.
Parkes, A. , Sweeting, H. and Wight, D. (2012) Growing up in Scotland: overweight, obesity and activity - Technical Appendix. Technical Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.
Plummer, M. and Wight, D. (2012) Intervention recommendations. In: Plummer, M. (ed.) Promoting Abstinence, being Faithful, and Condom Use with Young Africans: Qualitative Findings from an Intervention Trial in Rural Tanzania. Lexington Books. ISBN 9780739168448
Remes, P., Selestine, V., Changalucha, J., Ross, D.A., Wight, D. , de Sanjosé, S., Kapiga, S., Hayes, R.J. and Watson-Jones, D. (2012) A qualitative study of HPV vaccine acceptability among health workers, teachers, parents, female pupils, and religious leaders in northwest Tanzania. Vaccine, 30(36), pp. 5363-5367. (doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.06.025)
Siu, G.E., Wight, D. and Seeley, J. (2012) How a masculine work ethic and economic circumstances affect uptake of HIV treatment: experiences of men from an artisanal gold mining community in rural eastern Uganda. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 15(3(S.1)), p. 17368. (doi: 10.7448/IAS.15.3.17368)
Watson-Jones, D. et al. (2012) Human papillomavirus vaccination in Tanzanian schoolgirls: Cluster-randomized trial comparing 2 vaccine-delivery strategies. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 206(5), pp. 678-686. (doi: 10.1093/infdis/jis407)
Wight, D. , Plummer, M. and Ross, D. (2012) The need to promote behaviour change at the cultural level: one factor explaining the limited impact of the MEMA kwa Vijana adolescent sexual health intervention in rural Tanzania. A process evaluation. BMC Public Health, 12, p. 788. (doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-788)
2011
Tweedie, S. , Henderson, M. , Wight, D. and Bond, L. (2011) Whole School Approaches to Reducing Risk Behaviour and Promoting Social and Emotional Development. SCPHRP Reflections and Next Steps Working Group Meeting, Edinburgh, UK, 21 Nov 2011.
Hunt, K. , Henderson, M. , Wight, D. and Sargent, J.D. (2011) Exposure to smoking in films and own smoking among Scottish adolescents: a cross-sectional study. Thorax, 66(10), pp. 866-874. (doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200095)
Parkes, A. et al. (2011) Comparison of teenagers' early same-sex and heterosexual behavior: UK data from the SHARE and RIPPLE studies. Journal of Adolescent Health, 48(1), pp. 27-35. (doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2010.05.010)
Henderson, M. , Smith, D., Elliott, L., Nixon, C. and Wight, D. (2011) Vulnerable Young People in Alternative Education Settings: Their Sexual Health Needs, Experience and Use of Sex Education and Sexual Health Services. Technical Report. Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, UK.
Nurse, K. and Wight, D. (2011) Development assistance and research capacity strengthening: the commissioning of health research in East Africa. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 5(2), pp. 233-251. (doi: 10.1080/17531055.2011.571387)
Parkes, A. , Henderson, M. , Wight, D. and Nixon, C. (2011) Is parenting associated with teenagers’ early sexual risk-taking, autonomy and relationship with sexual partners? Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 43(1), pp. 30-40. (doi: 10.1363/4303011)
Parkes, A. and Wight, D. (2011) Growing up in Scotland: parenting and children's health - Main Report. Technical Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.
Parkes, A. and Wight, D. (2011) Growing up in Scotland: Parenting and Children's Health - Research Findings No.3/2011. Technical Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.
Parkes, A. and Wight, D. (2011) Growing up in Scotland: Parenting and Children's Health - Technical Appendix. Technical Report. Scottish Government.
Plummer, M. and Wight, D. (2011) Young People's Lives and Sexual Relationships in Rural Africa: Findings from a Large Qualitative Study in Tanzania. Lexington Books: Lanham, MD. ISBN 9780739135785
Plummer, M.L. and Wight, D. (2011) Young People's Lives and Sexual Relationships in Rural Africa: Findings from a Large Qualitative Study in Tanzania. Lexington Books. ISBN 9780739135785
Wight, D. (2011) The effectiveness of school based sex education: what do rigorous evaluations in Britain tell us? Education and Health, 29, pp. 67-73.
2010
Parkes, A. , Wight, D. , Henderson, M. and West, P. (2010) Does early sexual debut reduce teenagers' participation in tertiary education? Evidence from the SHARE longitudinal study. Journal of Adolescence, 33(5), pp. 741-754. (doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2009.10.006) (PMID:19897236) (PMCID:PMC2946557)
Henderson, M. , Wight, D. and Nixon, C. (2010) Evaluation of Healthy Respect phase 2: Final Report. Other. NHS Health Scotland.
Buston, K. and Wight, D. (2010) Self-reported sexually transmitted infection testing behaviour amongst incarcerated young male offenders: findings from a qualitative study. Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, 36(1), pp. 7-11. (doi: 10.1783/147118910790290957)
Henderson, M. , Wight, D. , Nixon, C. and Hart, G. (2010) Retaining young people in a longitudinal sexual health survey: a trial of strategies to maintain participation. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 10, p. 9. (doi: 10.1186/1471-2288-10-9)
Plummer, M.L., Wamoyi, J., Shigongo, Z.S., Mshana, G., Obasi, A.N., Ross, D.A. and Wight, D. (2010) 'Seek any means, and keep it your secret' young women’s attempts to control their reproduction through contraceptive and fertility practices in rural Tanzania. Tanzania Journal of Health Research, 12, pp. 178-193.
Remes, P., Renju, J., Nyalali, K., Medard, L., Kimaryo, M., Changalucha, J., Obasi, A. and Wight, D. (2010) Dusty discos and dangerous desires: community perceptions of adolescent sexual and reproductive health risks and vulnerability and the potential role of parents in rural Mwanza, Tanzania. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 12(3), pp. 279-292. (doi: 10.1080/13691050903395145)
Wamoyi, J., Wight, D. , Plummer, M., Mshana, G. and Ross, D. (2010) Transactional sex amongst young people in rural northern Tanzania: an ethnography of young women's motivations and negotiation. Reproductive Health, 7(1), p. 2. (doi: 10.1186/1742-4755-7-2)
2009
Parkes, A. , Strange, V., Wight, D. , Henderson, M. and Buston, K. (2009) Comparison of Teenagers' Early Same Sex and Heterosexual Behaviour in the UK: Data from the SHARE and RIPPLE Studies. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 63(Suppl 2). Society for Social Medicine, 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting, Newcastle, UK, 09-11 Sep 2009. A15-A16. (doi: 10.1136/jech.2009.096719m)
Bond, L., Leyland, A.H., Macintyre, S. and Wight, D. (2009) Evaluation of a youth development programme demonstrates the need for the randomised roll-out of community interventions [rapid response] ID - 870. British Medical Journal,
Simpson, J., Fraser, S., Church, S., Wight, D. and Eaglesham, P. (2009) The Sexual Health and Wellbeing of Vulnerable Groups in Scotland: A Scoping Review of Research Literature. Other. NHS Health Scotland.
McDaid, L. M. , Parkes, A. , Wight, D. , Petticrew, M. and Hart, G. J. (2009) Limits to modern contraceptive use among young women in developing countries: a systematic review of qualitative research. Reproductive Health, 6, 3. (doi: 10.1186/1742-4755-6-3) (PMID:19228420) (PMCID:PMC2652437)
Nyalali, K., Remes, P. and Wight, D. (2009) Developing Methods to Study Parent-Child Relationships in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: An Exploratory Project in Mwanza, Northern Tanzania. Technical Report. MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, UK.
Parkes, A. , Wight, D. , Henderson, M. , Stephenson, J. and Strange, V. (2009) Contraceptive method at first sexual intercourse and subsequent pregnancy risk: findings from a secondary analysis of 16-year-old girls from the RIPPLE and SHARE studies. Journal of Adolescent Health, 44(1), pp. 55-63. (doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2008.06.006)
Prost, A., Griffiths, C.J., Anderson, J., Wight, D. and Hart, G.J. (2009) Feasibility and acceptability of offering rapid HIV tests to patients registering with primary care in London (UK): a pilot study. Sexually Transmitted Infections, 85(5), pp. 326-329. (doi: 10.1136/sti.2008.033233)
2008
Wight, D. , Parkes, A. , Strange, V., Allen, E., Bonell, C. and Henderson, M. (2008) The quality of young people’s heterosexual relationships: a longitudinal analysis of characteristics shaping subjective experience. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 40(4), pp. 226-237. (doi: 10.1363/4022608)
Wight, D. (2008) Most of our social scientists are not institution based … they are there for hire—Research consultancies and social science capacity for health research in East Africa. Social Science and Medicine, 66(1), pp. 110-116. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.07.019)
Henderson, M. , Butcher, I., Wight, D. , Williamson, L. and Raab, G. (2008) What explains between-school differences in rates of sexual experience? BMC Public Health, 8, p. 53. (doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-53)
Henderson, M. , Ecob, R., Wight, D. and Abraham, C. (2008) What explains between-school differences in rates of smoking? BMC Public Health, 8(1), p. 218. (doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-218)
Parkes, A. , Henderson, M. , Wight, D. and Nixon, C. (2008) Evaluation of Healthy Respect Phase Two: Interim Report. Other. NHS Health Scotland.
Plummer, M.L., Wamoyi, J., Nyalali, K., Mshana, G., Shigongo, Z.S., Ross, D.A. and Wight, D. (2008) Aborting and suspending pregnancy in rural tanzania: an ethnography of young people's beliefs and practices. Studies in Family Planning, 39(4), pp. 281-292. (doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4465.2008.00175.x)
Weiss, H.A., Plummer, M.L., Changalucha, J., Mshana, G., Shigongo, Z.S., Todd, J., Wight, D. , Hayes, R.J. and Ross, D.A.. (2008) Circumcision among adolescent boys in rural northwestern Tanzania. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 13(8), pp. 1054-1061. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2008.02107.x)
Wight, D. (2008) Theoretical bases for teacher- and peer-delivered sexual health promotion. Health Education, 108(1), pp. 10-28. (doi: 10.1108/09654280810842102)
2007
Henderson, M. , Wight, D. , Raab, G.M., Abraham, C., Parkes, A. , Scott, S. and Hart, G. (2007) Impact of a theoretically based sex education programme (SHARE) delivered by teachers on NHS registered conceptions and terminations: final results of cluster randomised trial. British Medical Journal, 334(7585), p. 133. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.39014.503692.55)
Parkes, A. , Wight, D. , Henderson, M. and Hart, G. (2007) Explaining associations between adolescent substance use and condom use. Journal of Adolescent Health, 40(2), 180.e1-180.e18. (doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2006.09.012)
Plummer, M.L., Wight, D. , Obasi, A.I.N., Wamoyi, J., Mshana, G., Todd, J., Mazige, B.C., Makokha, M., Hayes, R.J. and Ross, D.A. (2007) A process evaluation of a school-based adolescent sexual health intervention in rural Tanzania: the MEMA kwa Vijana programme. Health Education Research, 22(4), pp. 500-512. (doi: 10.1093/her/cyl103)
Plummer, M.L., Wight, D. , Wamoyi, J., Nyalali, K., Ingall, K., Mshana, G., Shigongo, Z. and Obasi, A. (2007) Are schools a good setting for adolescent sexual health promotion in rural Africa? A qualitative assessment from Tanzania. Health Education Research, 22(4), pp. 483-499. (doi: 10.1093/her/cyl099)
Ross, D.A. et al. (2007) Biological and behavioural impact of an adolescent sexual health intervention in Tanzania: a community-randomized trial. AIDS, 21(14), pp. 1943-1955. (doi: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e3282ed3cf5)
Wight, D. and Stephenson, J. (2007) School-based sex education: evaluating teacher-delivered (SHARE) and peer-delivered (RIPPLE) programmes. In: Baker, P., Guthrie, K., Hutchinson, C., Kane, R. and Wellings, K. (eds.) Teenage Pregnancy and Reproductive Health. RCOG Press: London, UK, pp. 263-274. ISBN 9781904752387
2006
Buston, K. and Wight, D. (2006) The salience and utility of school sex education to young men. Sex Education, 6(2), pp. 135-150. (doi: 10.1080/14681810600578818)
Mshana, G., Plummer, M. L., Wamoyi, J., Shigongo, Z.S., Ross, D.A. and Wight, D. (2006) ‘She was bewitched and caught an illness similar to AIDS’: AIDS and sexually transmitted infection causation beliefs in rural northern Tanzania. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 8(1), pp. 45-58. (doi: 10.1080/13691050500469731)
Obasi, A.I. et al. (2006) Rationale and design of the MEMA kwa Vijanaadolescent sexual and reproductive health intervention in Mwanza Region, Tanzania. AIDS Care, 18(4), pp. 311-322. (doi: 10.1080/09540120500161983)
Plummer, M.L., Mshana, G., Wamoyi, J., Shigongo, Z., Hayes, R., Ross, D. and Wight, D. (2006) 'The man who believed he had AIDS was cured': AIDS and sexually-transmitted infection treatment-seeking behaviour in rural Mwanza, Tanzania. AIDS Care, 18(5), pp. 460-466. (doi: 10.1080/09540120500220367)
Plummer, M.L., Wight, D. , Wamoyi, J., Mshana, G., Hayes, R.J. and Ross, D.A. (2006) Farming with your hoe in a sack: condom attitudes, access, and use in rural Tanzania. Studies in Family Planning, 37(1), pp. 29-40. (doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4465.2006.00081.x)
Ross, D.A., Wight, D. , Dowsett, G., Buvé, A. and Obasi, A.I.N. (2006) The weight of evidence: a method for assessing the strength of evidence on the effectiveness of HIV prevention interventions among young people. In: Ross, D.A., Dick, B. and Ferguson, J. (eds.) Preventing HIV/AIDS in young people: a systematic review of the evidence from developing countries. (WHO Technical Report Series no. 938). Series: WHO technical report series (938). World Health Organization. ISBN 9789241209380
Wight, D. , Plummer, M.L., Mshana, G., Wamoyi, J., Shigongo, Z.S. and Ross, D.A. (2006) Contradictory sexual norms and expectations for young people in rural Northern Tanzania. Social Science and Medicine, 62(4), pp. 987-997. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.06.052)
Wight, D. , Williamson, L. and Henderson, M. (2006) Parental influences on young people's sexual behaviour: A longitudinal analysis. Journal of Adolescence, 29(4), pp. 473-494. (doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2005.08.007)
Wimbush, E., Harper, H., Wight, D. , Gruer, L., Lowther, M., Fraser, S. and Gordon, J. (2006) Evidence, policy and practice: developing collaborative approaches in Scotland. In: Killoran, A. and Swann, C. (eds.) Public Health Evidence: Tackling Health Inequalities. Oxford University Press, pp. 201-216. ISBN 9780198520832
2005
Hayes, R.J., Changalucha, J., Ross, D.A., Gavyole, A., Todd, J., Obasi, A.I.N., Plummer, M.L., Wight, D. , Mabey, D.C. and Grosskurth, H. (2005) The MEMA kwa Vijana Project: Design of a community randomised trial of an innovative adolescent sexual health intervention in rural Tanzania. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 26(4), pp. 430-442. (doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2005.04.006)
Lees, S., Wight, D. , Allen, C., Desmond, N., Chiduo, B., Vallely, A., Der, G. , Knight, L., Hayes, R. and Ross, D.A. (2005) The reliability of coital diaries in collecting sexual behaviour data in a microbicides trial feasibility study in Mwanza, Tanzania. HIV/AIDS and STI News, 9, pp. 3-4.
Parkes, A. , Henderson, M. and Wight, D. (2005) Do sexual health services encourage teenagers to use condoms? A longitudinal study. Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, 31(4), pp. 271-280. (doi: 10.1783/jfp.31.2.271)
Wight, D. (2005) Impediments to developing social science research capacity in East Africa. Technical Report. MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit.
Wight, D. (2005) Peer-led sex education did not reduce the proportion of pupils having unprotected first intercourse before age 16: a review. Evidence-Based Obstetrics and Gynecology, 7(2), pp. 72-73. (doi: 10.1016/j.ebobgyn.2005.03.007)
Wimbush, E., Harper, H., Wight, D. , Gruer, L., Lowther, M., Fraser, S. and Gordon, J. (2005) Evidence, policy and practice: developing collaborative approaches in Scotland. Evidence and Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 1(3), pp. 391-408. (doi: 10.1332/1744264054851540)
2004
Buston, K. and Wight, D. (2004) Pupils' participation in sex education lessons: Understanding variation across classes'. Sex Education, 4(3), pp. 285-301. (doi: 10.1080/1468181042000243367)
Parkes, A. , Wight, D. and Henderson, M. (2004) Teenagers' use of sexual health services: perceived need, knowledge and ability to access. Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, 30(4), pp. 217-24. (doi: 10.1783/0000000042177225)
Plummer, M. et al. (2004) 'A bit more truthful': The validity of adolescent sexual behaviour data collected in rurual northern Tanzania using five methods. Sexually Transmitted Infections, 80(2), pp. 49-56.
Plummer, M. et al. (2004) Asking semi-literate adolescents about sexual behaviour: The validity of assisted self-completion questionnaire (ASCQ) data in rural Tanzania. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 9(6), pp. 737-754. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2004.01254.x)
Wight, D. and Dixon, H. (2004) SHARE: Sexual Health And RElationships: Safe, Happy And REsponsible. Education and Health, 22(1), pp. 3-7.
Wight, D. and Henderson, M. (2004) The diversity of young people's heterosexual behaviour. In: Burtney, E. and Duffy, M. (eds.) Young People and Sexual Health: Individual, Social, and Policy Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK, pp. 15-33. ISBN 9780333993576
2003
Ross, D. and Wight, D. (2003) What is the role of randomised trials in assessing sexual health interventions: developing countries perspective. In: Stephenson, J., Bonell, C. and Imrie, J. (eds.) Effective Sexual Health Interventions: Issues in Experimental Evaluation. Series: Oxford medical publications. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 35-48. ISBN 9780198508496
Wight, D. and Buston, K. (2003) Meeting needs but not changing goals: evaluation of inservice teacher training for sex education. Oxford Review of Education, 29(4), pp. 521-543. (doi: 10.1080/0305498032000153061)
Wight, D. and Obasi, A. (2003) Unpacking the black box: the importance of process data to explain outcomes. In: Stephenson, J.M., Imrie, J. and Bonell, C. (eds.) Effective Sexual Health Interventions: Issues in Experimental Evaluation. Series: Oxford medical publications. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 151-166. ISBN 9780198508496
2002
Wight, D. (2002) Limits of teacher delivered sex education: interim behavioural outcomes from randomised trial. British Medical Journal, 324, p. 1430. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1430)
Abraham, C., Wight, D. and Scott, S. (2002) Developing the SHARE sex education programme: from theory to classroom implementation. In: Rutter, D.R. and Quine, L. (eds.) Changing Health Behaviour: Intervention and Research with Social Cognition Models. Open University Press: Buckingham, UK. ISBN 9780335204335
Buston, K. and Wight, D. (2002) The salience and utility of school sex education to young women. Sex Education, 2(3), pp. 233-50. (doi: 10.1080/1468181022000025794)
Buston, K., Wight, D. and Hart, G. (2002) Inside the sex education classroom: the importance of context in engaging pupils. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 4(3), pp. 317-335. (doi: 10.1080/13691050110113332)
Buston, K., Wight, D., Hart, G. and Scott, S. (2002) Implementation of a teacher-delivered sex education programme: obstacles and facilitating factors. Health Education Research, 17(1), pp. 59-72. (doi: 10.1093/her/17.1.59)
Henderson, M., Wight, D., Raab, G., Abraham, C., Buston, K., Hart, G. and Scott, S. (2002) Heterosexual risk behaviour among young teenagers in Scotland. Journal of Adolescence, 25(5), pp. 483-494. (doi: 10.1006/jado.2002.0493)
Wight, D., Raab, G.M., Henderson, M. , Abraham, C., Buston, K., Hart, G. and Scott, S. (2002) Limits of teacher delivered sex education: interim behavioural outcomes from randomised trial. British Medical Journal, 324, p. 1430. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1430)
2001
Buston, K., Wight, D. and Scott, S. (2001) Difficulty and diversity: the context and practice of sex education. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 22(3), pp. 353-368. (doi: 10.1080/01425690125134)
Mshana, G., Wamoyi, J., Plummer, M., Wight, D. and Ross, D. (2001) Sexual health-related traditional beliefs among young people in Northwestern Tanzania. International Journal of STD and AIDS, 12(Suppl.), p. 177.
Wamoyi, J., Mshana, G., Plummer, M., Wight, D. and Ross, D. (2001) Sexual acts among young people in Northwestern Tanzania. International Journal of STD and AIDS, 12, pp. 178-179.
2000
Wight, D. , Henderson, M. , Raab, G., Abraham, C., Buston, K. , Scott, S. and Hart, G. (2000) Extent of regretted sexual intercourse among young teenagers in Scotland: a cross sectional survey. British Medical Journal, 320(7244), pp. 1243-1244. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7244.1243)
Wight, D. and Abraham, C. (2000) From psycho-social theory to sustainable classroom practice: developing a research-based teacher-delivered sex education programme. Health Education Research, 15(1), pp. 25-38. (doi: 10.1093/her/15.1.25)
1999
Wight, D. (1999) Cultural factors in young heterosexual men's perception of HIV risk. Sociology of Health and Illness, 21(6), pp. 735-758. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.00181)
Wight, D. (1999) Limits to empowerment-based sex education. Health Education, 99(6), pp. 233-243. (doi: 10.1108/09654289910302291)
Wight, D. (1999) Poor recall, misunderstandings and embarrassment: Interpreting discrepancies in young men's reported heterosexual behaviour. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 1(1), pp. 55-78. (doi: 10.1080/136910599301166)
1998
Abraham, C., Sheeran, P. and Wight, D. (1998) Designing research-based materials to promote safer sex amongst young people. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 3(1), pp. 127-131. (doi: 10.1080/13548509808400596)
Wight, D. , Abraham, C. and Scott, S. (1998) Towards a psycho-social theoretical framework for sexual health promotion. Health Education Research, 13(3), pp. 317-330. (doi: 10.1093/her/13.3.317-a)
Wight, D. and Buston, K. (1998) The SHARE project: a rigorous evaluation of teacher-led sex education. Sex Education Matters, 16(1), pp. 10-11.
1997
Wight, D. (1997) School-based sex education: Vancouver Conference Review. AIDS Care, 9(1), pp. 66-69.
1996
Abraham, C. and Wight, D. (1996) Developing HIV-preventive behavioural interventions for young people in Scotland. International Journal of STD and AIDS, 7(S.2), pp. 39-42.
Hart, G.J. and Wight, D. (1996) Ethical issues in setting up a randomised controlled trial of health education for children: the case of teacher-led sex education in Scotland. In: Oakley, A. and Roberts, H. (eds.) Evaluating Social Interventions : a report of two workshops funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Barnardos, pp. 66-81. ISBN 9780902046320
Wight, D. (1996) Beyond the predatory male: the diversity of young Glaswegian men's discourses to describe heterosexual relationships. In: Adkins, L. and Merchant, V. (eds.) Sexualising the Social: Power and the Organisation of Sexuality. MacMillan: London.
Wight, D. (1996) Tempering ideology with pragmatism: research-based sex education. Venereology, 9, pp. 158-161.
Wight, D. and Scott, S. (1996) The development and piloting of SHARE, a teacher-led sex education programme for S3 and S4. Health Education Board for Scotland.
Wight, D. , Scott, S., Abraham, C., Raab, G. and Hart, G.J. (1996) Does sex education affect behaviour? AIDS Letter(54),
1995
Green, G., Kitzinger, J., Macaulay, L. and Wight, D. (1995) Desperately seeking sperm: informal screening procedures. British Journal of Midwifery, 3, pp. 646-659.
Macaulay, L., Kitzinger, J., Green, G. and Wight, D. (1995) Unconventional conceptions and HIV. AIDS Care, 7(3), pp. 261-276. (doi: 10.1080/713612974)
Wight, D. (1995) Young people, health and family life (Book). Sociology of Health and Illness, 17(3), pp. 436-437. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.ep10933347)
1994
Wight, D. (1994) Boys' thoughts and talk about sex in a working class locality of Glasgow. Sociological Review, 42(4), pp. 703-737. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.1994.tb00107.x)
Wight, D. (1994) Assimilating 'safer sex': young heterosexual men's understanding of 'safer sex'. In: Aggleton, P., Davies, P. and Hart, G.J. (eds.) AIDS: Foundations for the Future. Series: Social aspects of AIDS. Falmer Press, pp. 97-109. ISBN 0748402284
Wight, D. and Scott, S. (1994) Mandates and Constraints on Sex Education in the East of Scotland : Preliminary Study for a Sex Education Initiative. Medical Research Council, Medical Sociology Unit.
1993
Gilloran, A.J., McGlew, T., McKee, K., Robertson, A. and Wight, D. (1993) Measuring the quality of care in psychogeriatric wards. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 18(2), pp. 269-275. (doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1993.18020269.x)
West, P., Wight, D. and Macintyre, S. (1993) Heterosexual behaviour of 18-year olds in the Glasgow area. Journal of Adolescence, 16, pp. 367-396.
Wight, D. (1993) Constraints or cognition? Young men and safer heterosexual sex. In: Aggleton, P., Davies, P. and Hart, G.J. (eds.) AIDS: Facing the Second Decade. Series: Social aspects of AIDS. Falmer Press, pp. 41-60. ISBN 9780750701310
Wight, D. (1993) The limits to participant observation in HIV/AIDS research. Practising Anthropology, 15, pp. 66-69.
Wight, D. (1993) A re-assessment of health education on HIV/AIDS for young heterosexuals. Health Education Research, 8(4), pp. 473-483. (doi: 10.1093/her/8.4.473)
Wight, D. (1993) Workers not Wasters: Masculine Respectability, Consumption and Unemployment in Central Scotland. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0748604448
1992
Wight, D. (1992) Impediments to safer heterosexual sex: a review of research with young people. AIDS Care, 4(1), pp. 11-23. (doi: 10.1080/09540129208251616)
1990
McMichael, P., Lynch, B. and Wight, D. eds. (1990) Building Bridges into Work: the Role of the Community Worker. Longman. ISBN 0582071151
Wight, D. (1990) The Impact of HIV /AIDS on Young People's Heterosexual Behaviour in Britain : a literature review. Series: Working paper (20). Medical Research Council, Medical Sociology Unit.
Articles
Collins, H., Wight, D. and Hilton, S. (2024) Mothers’ endorsement of the ideals and expected practices of parental determinism. Families, Relationships and Societies, (Accepted for Publication)
Blair, S. et al. (2024) The Social and Emotional Education and Development intervention to address wellbeing in primary school age children: the SEED cluster RCT. Public Health Research, 12(6), (doi: 10.3310/LYRQ5047) (PMID:38940833)
Siu, G., Nsubuga, R. N., Lachman, J. M. , Namutebi, C., Sekiwunga, R., Zalwango, F., Riddell, J. and Wight, D. (2024) The impact of the Parenting for Respectability programme on violent parenting and intimate partner relationships in Uganda: a pre-post study. PLoS ONE, 19(5), e0299927. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0299927) (PMID:38787892) (PMCID:PMC11125497)
Dundas, R. et al. (2023) Evaluation of the Healthy Start Voucher Scheme in UK: a natural experiment using the Growing Up in Scotland record linkage study and the Infant Feeding Survey. Public Health Research, 11(11), (doi: 10.3310/RTEU2107) (PMID:37953640)
Devlin, A. M. and Wight, D. (2023) Transfer and adaptation of a drug recovery model from San Patrignano, Italy to River Garden, Scotland: a qualitative study. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 30(2), pp. 141-153. (doi: 10.1080/09687637.2021.1991889)
Wight, D. , Sekiwunga, R., Namutebi, C., Zalwango, F. and Siu, G. E. (2022) A Ugandan parenting programme to prevent gender-based violence: description and formative evaluation. Research on Social Work Practice, 32(4), pp. 448-464. (doi: 10.1177/10497315211056246) (PMID:35431527) (PMCID:PMC7612614)
Anderson, M. , Devlin, A. M. , Pickering, L. , McCann, M. and Wight, D. (2021) 'It’s not 9 to 5 recovery': the role of a recovery community in producing social bonds that support recovery. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 28(5), pp. 475-485. (doi: 10.1080/09687637.2021.1933911) (PMID:34675456) (PMCID:PMC8522802)
Devlin, A. M. and Wight, D. (2021) Mechanisms and context in the San Patrignano drug recovery community, Italy: a qualitative study to inform transfer to Scotland. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 28(1), pp. 85-96. (doi: 10.1080/09687637.2020.1747397) (PMID:34824492) (PMCID:PMC7612027)
Sikana, L., Lembo, T. , Hampson, K. , Lushasi, K., Mtenga, S., Sambo, M., Wight, D. , Coutts, J. and Kreppel, K. (2021) Dog ownership practices and responsibilities for children’s health in terms of rabies control and prevention in rural communities in Tanzania. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 15(3), e0009220. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009220) (PMID:33690720) (PMCID:PMC7946275)
Lachman, J. M. , Wamoyi, J., Spreckelsen, T. F. , Wight, D. , Maganga, J. and Gardner, F. (2020) Combining parenting and economic strengthening programmes to reduce violence against children: a cluster randomised controlled trial with predominantly male caregivers in rural Tanzania caregivers. BMJ Global Health, 5, e002349. (doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002349) (PMID:32641291) (PMCID:PMC7348478)
Henderson, M. et al. (2019) Trial of healthy relationship initiatives for the very early years (THRIVE), evaluating Enhanced Triple P for Baby and Mellow Bumps for those with additional social and care needs during pregnancy and their infants who are at higher risk of maltreatment: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 20, 499. (doi: 10.1186/s13063-019-3571-5) (PMID:31412902) (PMCID:PMC6694522)
O'Brien, R., Buston, K. , Wight, D. , McGee, E., White, J. and Henderson, M. (2019) A realist process evaluation of Enhanced Triple P for Baby and Mellow Bumps, within a Trial of Healthy Relationship Initiatives for the Very Early-years (THRIVE): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials, 20, 351. (doi: 10.1186/s13063-019-3395-3) (PMID:31196169) (PMCID:PMC6567913)
Henderson, M. , Nixon, C., McKee, M. J., Smith, D., Wight, D. and Elliott, L. (2019) Poly-substance use and sexual risk behaviours: a cross-sectional comparison of adolescents in mainstream and alternative education settings. BMC Public Health, 19, 564. (doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-6892-0) (PMID:31088403) (PMCID:PMC6518733)
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van Rooyen, H., Essack, Z., Rochat, T., Wight, D. , Knight, L., Bland, R. and Celum, C. (2016) Taking HIV testing to families: designing a family-based intervention to facilitate HIV testing, disclosure and intergenerational communication. Frontiers in Public Health, 4, 154. (doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2016.00154) (PMID:27547750) (PMCID:PMC4974258)
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Wimbush, E., Harper, H., Wight, D. , Gruer, L., Lowther, M., Fraser, S. and Gordon, J. (2005) Evidence, policy and practice: developing collaborative approaches in Scotland. Evidence and Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 1(3), pp. 391-408. (doi: 10.1332/1744264054851540)
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Henderson, M., Wight, D., Raab, G., Abraham, C., Buston, K., Hart, G. and Scott, S. (2002) Heterosexual risk behaviour among young teenagers in Scotland. Journal of Adolescence, 25(5), pp. 483-494. (doi: 10.1006/jado.2002.0493)
Wight, D., Raab, G.M., Henderson, M. , Abraham, C., Buston, K., Hart, G. and Scott, S. (2002) Limits of teacher delivered sex education: interim behavioural outcomes from randomised trial. British Medical Journal, 324, p. 1430. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1430)
Buston, K., Wight, D. and Scott, S. (2001) Difficulty and diversity: the context and practice of sex education. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 22(3), pp. 353-368. (doi: 10.1080/01425690125134)
Mshana, G., Wamoyi, J., Plummer, M., Wight, D. and Ross, D. (2001) Sexual health-related traditional beliefs among young people in Northwestern Tanzania. International Journal of STD and AIDS, 12(Suppl.), p. 177.
Wamoyi, J., Mshana, G., Plummer, M., Wight, D. and Ross, D. (2001) Sexual acts among young people in Northwestern Tanzania. International Journal of STD and AIDS, 12, pp. 178-179.
Wight, D. , Henderson, M. , Raab, G., Abraham, C., Buston, K. , Scott, S. and Hart, G. (2000) Extent of regretted sexual intercourse among young teenagers in Scotland: a cross sectional survey. British Medical Journal, 320(7244), pp. 1243-1244. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7244.1243)
Wight, D. and Abraham, C. (2000) From psycho-social theory to sustainable classroom practice: developing a research-based teacher-delivered sex education programme. Health Education Research, 15(1), pp. 25-38. (doi: 10.1093/her/15.1.25)
Wight, D. (1999) Cultural factors in young heterosexual men's perception of HIV risk. Sociology of Health and Illness, 21(6), pp. 735-758. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.00181)
Wight, D. (1999) Limits to empowerment-based sex education. Health Education, 99(6), pp. 233-243. (doi: 10.1108/09654289910302291)
Wight, D. (1999) Poor recall, misunderstandings and embarrassment: Interpreting discrepancies in young men's reported heterosexual behaviour. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 1(1), pp. 55-78. (doi: 10.1080/136910599301166)
Abraham, C., Sheeran, P. and Wight, D. (1998) Designing research-based materials to promote safer sex amongst young people. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 3(1), pp. 127-131. (doi: 10.1080/13548509808400596)
Wight, D. , Abraham, C. and Scott, S. (1998) Towards a psycho-social theoretical framework for sexual health promotion. Health Education Research, 13(3), pp. 317-330. (doi: 10.1093/her/13.3.317-a)
Wight, D. and Buston, K. (1998) The SHARE project: a rigorous evaluation of teacher-led sex education. Sex Education Matters, 16(1), pp. 10-11.
Wight, D. (1997) School-based sex education: Vancouver Conference Review. AIDS Care, 9(1), pp. 66-69.
Abraham, C. and Wight, D. (1996) Developing HIV-preventive behavioural interventions for young people in Scotland. International Journal of STD and AIDS, 7(S.2), pp. 39-42.
Wight, D. (1996) Tempering ideology with pragmatism: research-based sex education. Venereology, 9, pp. 158-161.
Wight, D. , Scott, S., Abraham, C., Raab, G. and Hart, G.J. (1996) Does sex education affect behaviour? AIDS Letter(54),
Green, G., Kitzinger, J., Macaulay, L. and Wight, D. (1995) Desperately seeking sperm: informal screening procedures. British Journal of Midwifery, 3, pp. 646-659.
Macaulay, L., Kitzinger, J., Green, G. and Wight, D. (1995) Unconventional conceptions and HIV. AIDS Care, 7(3), pp. 261-276. (doi: 10.1080/713612974)
Wight, D. (1995) Young people, health and family life (Book). Sociology of Health and Illness, 17(3), pp. 436-437. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.ep10933347)
Wight, D. (1994) Boys' thoughts and talk about sex in a working class locality of Glasgow. Sociological Review, 42(4), pp. 703-737. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.1994.tb00107.x)
Gilloran, A.J., McGlew, T., McKee, K., Robertson, A. and Wight, D. (1993) Measuring the quality of care in psychogeriatric wards. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 18(2), pp. 269-275. (doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1993.18020269.x)
West, P., Wight, D. and Macintyre, S. (1993) Heterosexual behaviour of 18-year olds in the Glasgow area. Journal of Adolescence, 16, pp. 367-396.
Wight, D. (1993) The limits to participant observation in HIV/AIDS research. Practising Anthropology, 15, pp. 66-69.
Wight, D. (1993) A re-assessment of health education on HIV/AIDS for young heterosexuals. Health Education Research, 8(4), pp. 473-483. (doi: 10.1093/her/8.4.473)
Wight, D. (1992) Impediments to safer heterosexual sex: a review of research with young people. AIDS Care, 4(1), pp. 11-23. (doi: 10.1080/09540129208251616)
Books
Plummer, M. and Wight, D. (2011) Young People's Lives and Sexual Relationships in Rural Africa: Findings from a Large Qualitative Study in Tanzania. Lexington Books: Lanham, MD. ISBN 9780739135785
Plummer, M.L. and Wight, D. (2011) Young People's Lives and Sexual Relationships in Rural Africa: Findings from a Large Qualitative Study in Tanzania. Lexington Books. ISBN 9780739135785
Wight, D. and Scott, S. (1996) The development and piloting of SHARE, a teacher-led sex education programme for S3 and S4. Health Education Board for Scotland.
Wight, D. and Scott, S. (1994) Mandates and Constraints on Sex Education in the East of Scotland : Preliminary Study for a Sex Education Initiative. Medical Research Council, Medical Sociology Unit.
Wight, D. (1993) Workers not Wasters: Masculine Respectability, Consumption and Unemployment in Central Scotland. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0748604448
McMichael, P., Lynch, B. and Wight, D. eds. (1990) Building Bridges into Work: the Role of the Community Worker. Longman. ISBN 0582071151
Wight, D. (1990) The Impact of HIV /AIDS on Young People's Heterosexual Behaviour in Britain : a literature review. Series: Working paper (20). Medical Research Council, Medical Sociology Unit.
Book Sections
Moore, G. et al. (2015) Process evaluation of complex interventions: a summary of Medical Research Council guidance. In: Richards, D.A. and Hallberg, I.R. (eds.) Complex Interventions in Health: An Overview of Research Methods. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9780415703147
Parkes, A. , Sweeting, H. and Wight, D. (2013) Parenting. In: Growing up in Scotland: Birth Cohort 2. Results from the First Year. Scottish Government: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 118-142. ISBN 9781782563617
Buston, K. and Wight, D. (2012) Young fathers in prison: helping them parent. In: Henderson, S. (ed.) Scotland: the Best Place in the World to Bring up Children? A collection of essays about parenting in Scotland. Parenting across Scotland: Edinburgh, pp. 128-30.
Plummer, M. and Wight, D. (2012) Intervention recommendations. In: Plummer, M. (ed.) Promoting Abstinence, being Faithful, and Condom Use with Young Africans: Qualitative Findings from an Intervention Trial in Rural Tanzania. Lexington Books. ISBN 9780739168448
Wight, D. and Stephenson, J. (2007) School-based sex education: evaluating teacher-delivered (SHARE) and peer-delivered (RIPPLE) programmes. In: Baker, P., Guthrie, K., Hutchinson, C., Kane, R. and Wellings, K. (eds.) Teenage Pregnancy and Reproductive Health. RCOG Press: London, UK, pp. 263-274. ISBN 9781904752387
Ross, D.A., Wight, D. , Dowsett, G., Buvé, A. and Obasi, A.I.N. (2006) The weight of evidence: a method for assessing the strength of evidence on the effectiveness of HIV prevention interventions among young people. In: Ross, D.A., Dick, B. and Ferguson, J. (eds.) Preventing HIV/AIDS in young people: a systematic review of the evidence from developing countries. (WHO Technical Report Series no. 938). Series: WHO technical report series (938). World Health Organization. ISBN 9789241209380
Wimbush, E., Harper, H., Wight, D. , Gruer, L., Lowther, M., Fraser, S. and Gordon, J. (2006) Evidence, policy and practice: developing collaborative approaches in Scotland. In: Killoran, A. and Swann, C. (eds.) Public Health Evidence: Tackling Health Inequalities. Oxford University Press, pp. 201-216. ISBN 9780198520832
Wight, D. and Henderson, M. (2004) The diversity of young people's heterosexual behaviour. In: Burtney, E. and Duffy, M. (eds.) Young People and Sexual Health: Individual, Social, and Policy Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK, pp. 15-33. ISBN 9780333993576
Ross, D. and Wight, D. (2003) What is the role of randomised trials in assessing sexual health interventions: developing countries perspective. In: Stephenson, J., Bonell, C. and Imrie, J. (eds.) Effective Sexual Health Interventions: Issues in Experimental Evaluation. Series: Oxford medical publications. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 35-48. ISBN 9780198508496
Wight, D. and Obasi, A. (2003) Unpacking the black box: the importance of process data to explain outcomes. In: Stephenson, J.M., Imrie, J. and Bonell, C. (eds.) Effective Sexual Health Interventions: Issues in Experimental Evaluation. Series: Oxford medical publications. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 151-166. ISBN 9780198508496
Abraham, C., Wight, D. and Scott, S. (2002) Developing the SHARE sex education programme: from theory to classroom implementation. In: Rutter, D.R. and Quine, L. (eds.) Changing Health Behaviour: Intervention and Research with Social Cognition Models. Open University Press: Buckingham, UK. ISBN 9780335204335
Hart, G.J. and Wight, D. (1996) Ethical issues in setting up a randomised controlled trial of health education for children: the case of teacher-led sex education in Scotland. In: Oakley, A. and Roberts, H. (eds.) Evaluating Social Interventions : a report of two workshops funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Barnardos, pp. 66-81. ISBN 9780902046320
Wight, D. (1996) Beyond the predatory male: the diversity of young Glaswegian men's discourses to describe heterosexual relationships. In: Adkins, L. and Merchant, V. (eds.) Sexualising the Social: Power and the Organisation of Sexuality. MacMillan: London.
Wight, D. (1994) Assimilating 'safer sex': young heterosexual men's understanding of 'safer sex'. In: Aggleton, P., Davies, P. and Hart, G.J. (eds.) AIDS: Foundations for the Future. Series: Social aspects of AIDS. Falmer Press, pp. 97-109. ISBN 0748402284
Wight, D. (1993) Constraints or cognition? Young men and safer heterosexual sex. In: Aggleton, P., Davies, P. and Hart, G.J. (eds.) AIDS: Facing the Second Decade. Series: Social aspects of AIDS. Falmer Press, pp. 41-60. ISBN 9780750701310
Research Reports or Papers
Craig, P. et al. (2018) Taking account of context in population health intervention research: guidance for producers, users and funders of research. Project Report. NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre. (doi: 10.3310/CIHR-NIHR-01).
Parkes, A. , Riddell, J. , Wight, D. and Buston, K. (2017) Growing Up in Scotland: Father-child Relationships and Child Socio-emotional Wellbeing. Discussion Paper. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.
Moore, G. et al. (2014) Process Evaluation of Complex Interventions Guidance: UK Medical Research Council (MRC) Guidance. Project Report. MRC Population Health Sciences Research Network, London.
Parkes, A. , Sweeting, H. and Wight, D. (2014) Growing up in Scotland: Family and school influences on children’s social and emotional well-being. Project Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.
Parkes, A. , Sweeting, H. and Wight, D. (2012) Growing up in Scotland: Overweight, Obesity and Activity - Main Report. Other. Scottish Government, Edinburgh, UK.
Parkes, A. , Sweeting, H. and Wight, D. (2012) Growing up in Scotland: overweight, obesity and activity - Research Findings no. 4. Technical Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.
Parkes, A. , Sweeting, H. and Wight, D. (2012) Growing up in Scotland: overweight, obesity and activity - Technical Appendix. Technical Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.
Henderson, M. , Smith, D., Elliott, L., Nixon, C. and Wight, D. (2011) Vulnerable Young People in Alternative Education Settings: Their Sexual Health Needs, Experience and Use of Sex Education and Sexual Health Services. Technical Report. Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, UK.
Parkes, A. and Wight, D. (2011) Growing up in Scotland: parenting and children's health - Main Report. Technical Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.
Parkes, A. and Wight, D. (2011) Growing up in Scotland: Parenting and Children's Health - Research Findings No.3/2011. Technical Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.
Parkes, A. and Wight, D. (2011) Growing up in Scotland: Parenting and Children's Health - Technical Appendix. Technical Report. Scottish Government.
Henderson, M. , Wight, D. and Nixon, C. (2010) Evaluation of Healthy Respect phase 2: Final Report. Other. NHS Health Scotland.
Simpson, J., Fraser, S., Church, S., Wight, D. and Eaglesham, P. (2009) The Sexual Health and Wellbeing of Vulnerable Groups in Scotland: A Scoping Review of Research Literature. Other. NHS Health Scotland.
Nyalali, K., Remes, P. and Wight, D. (2009) Developing Methods to Study Parent-Child Relationships in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: An Exploratory Project in Mwanza, Northern Tanzania. Technical Report. MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, UK.
Parkes, A. , Henderson, M. , Wight, D. and Nixon, C. (2008) Evaluation of Healthy Respect Phase Two: Interim Report. Other. NHS Health Scotland.
Wight, D. (2005) Impediments to developing social science research capacity in East Africa. Technical Report. MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit.
Conference or Workshop Item
Anderson, M. , Devlin, A.M. , McCann, M. , Pickering, L. and Wight, D. (2019) It’s Not Nine-to-Five Recovery: How Recovery Communities Help Sustain Long-Term Recovery From Problem Alcohol and Other Drug Use. Faculty of Public Health (Scotland) Annual Conference, Dunblane, Scotland, 28-29 Nov 2019.
Craig, P. et al. (2018) Development of guidance for feasibility studies to decide whether and how to proceed to full-scale evaluation of complex public health interventions: a systematic review. The Lancet 392(S2):S7. Meeting abstract: Public Health Science 2018, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 23 Nov 2018. (doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(18)32265-7)
Buston, K. , Parkes, A. , Riddell, J. and Wight, D. (2017) Father-Child Relationships and Child Socio-Emotional Wellbeing: Adding to Longitudinal Evidence on the Role of Fathers in Shaping Child Outcomes. Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies Conference, Stirling, UK, 11-13 Oct 2017.
Devlin, A.M. and Wight, D. (2017) Investigating the Transferability of a Drug Recovery Community from Italy (San Patrignano) to Scotland (IFDAS). 16th European Federation of Therapeutic Communities (EFTC) Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 20-22 Sep 2017. p. 30.
Parkes, A. , Riddell, J. , Wight, D. and Buston, K. (2017) Father-Child Relationships and Child Socio-Economic Wellbeing. Scottish Government, Edinburgh, UK, 22 Mar 2017.
Parkes, A. , Riddell, J. , Wight, D. and Buston, K. (2017) New Findings From the Growing up in Scotland - Father-Child Relationships and Child Wellbeing. Strengthening Father-Child Relationships: What the Evidence Suggests, Edinburgh, UK, 16 Mar 2017.
Devlin, A. M. and Wight, D. (2017) How Context Specific are Therapeutic Communities for Drug Recovery? Investigating the Transfer of the ‘San Patrignano’ Model from Italy to Scotland (IFDAS). Faculty of Public Health (Scotland) Annual Conference, Aviemore, Scotland, 2-3 Nov 2017.
Wight, D. and Devlin, A. M. (2017) Are Parenting Practices associated with the same Child Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa as in High Income Countries? A Systematic Review. Institute for Human Development (Aga Khan University), Second International Conference, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, 7-9 Nov 2017.
O'Brien, R., Buston, K. , Wight, D. and Henderson, M. (2016) Collaborative Ethnography: Identifying Implicit Processes Influencing THRIVE. 15th Annual Qualitative Methods Conference, Glasgow, UK, 03-05 Mar 2016.
Henderson, M. , Tweedie, S. , Smillie, S. and Wight, D. (2016) Social and Emotional Education and Development (SEED): A Stratified, Cluster Randomised Trial of a Multi-Component Primary School Intervention in Scotland. ICSEI International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI 2016), Glasgow, UK, 7-10 Jan 2016.
Tweedie, S. , Smillie, S. , Henderson, M. and Wight, D. (2013) Social and Emotional Education and Development (SEED): A Stratified, Cluster Randomised Trial of a Multi-Component Primary School Intervention in Scotland. Growing Up In Scotland And Scandinavia: What Do Our Longitudinal Studies Tell Us About Our Children's Wellbeing?, Edinburgh, UK, 13 Nov 2013.
Tweedie, S. , Henderson, M. , Wight, D. and Bond, L. (2011) Whole School Approaches to Reducing Risk Behaviour and Promoting Social and Emotional Development. SCPHRP Reflections and Next Steps Working Group Meeting, Edinburgh, UK, 21 Nov 2011.
Parkes, A. , Strange, V., Wight, D. , Henderson, M. and Buston, K. (2009) Comparison of Teenagers' Early Same Sex and Heterosexual Behaviour in the UK: Data from the SHARE and RIPPLE Studies. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 63(Suppl 2). Society for Social Medicine, 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting, Newcastle, UK, 09-11 Sep 2009. A15-A16. (doi: 10.1136/jech.2009.096719m)
Conference Proceedings
Wight, D. and Devlin, A. M. (2016) The Transferability of Complex Interventions: A Case Study of Parenting Programmes. In: 2nd International Conference on Realist Evaluation and Synthesis; Advancing Principles, Strengthening Practice, London, UK, 3-5 Oct 2016, pp. 20-21.
Grants
Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.
- Combined non-randomised factorial experiment - RCT evaluation of PFR to test its effectiviness and cost-effectiviness for reducing violence against children and gender based violence
Oak Foundation
2021 - 2023
- Uganda Parenting for Respectability Implementation Science Evaluation (UPRISE)
The Evaluation Fund
2020 - 2021
- Providing strategic direction to optimize parenting interventions to prevent violence in Uganda
Oak Foundation
2019 - 2021
- "Mellow Babies" improve the psychosocial health of mothers and their children? The Mellow Babies Trial
National Institute for Health Research
2018 - 2022
- Does Mellow Parenting for stressed parents reduce social and emotional problems in preschoolers? A cluster randomised trial. Stressed PArents Reducing soCiaL/Emotional pRoblems Study ¿ SPARCLERS
National Institute for Health Research
2018 - 2022
- Exploratory trials of complex public health interventions: development of guidance for researchers and funders
Medical Research Council
2016 - 2018
- Outcome evaluation of community based parenting programme in Uganda
South African Medical Research Council
2016 - 2018
- Systematic review of interventions to improve health, happiness and wellbeing in the transition from adolescence to adulthood - individual interventions
The Royal Society of Edinburgh
2016 - 2016
- Evaluation of the Healthy Start Voucher Scheme in UK: a natural experiment using the Growing Up in Scotland record linkage study and the Infant Feeding Survey.
National Institute for Health Research
2015 - 2017
- Quinquennial Core Funds
Medical Research Council
2015 - 2020
- SPHSU Core Renewal: Complexity in Health Improvement Research Programme
Medical Research Council
2015 - 2020
- Measuring Physical Activity in Growing Up in Scotland Study
Scottish Government
2015 - 2017
- ESRC-IAA: Nature vs Nurture? How to build a child
Economic and Social Research Council
2014 - 2018
- Children, Young People, Families and Health Programme
Medical Research Council
2013 - 2015
- Growing up in Scotland
Scottish Government
2013 - 2014
- Trial of Healthy Relationship Initiatives for the Very Early-years (THRIVE): a Three-Arm Randomised Control Trial for Mothers Identified as Vulnerable in Pregnancy and their Babies who are at High...
National Institute for Health Research
2013 - 2019
- Social and Emotional Education and Development (SEED): a Stratified, Cluster Randomised Trial of a Multi-component Primary School Intervention that follows the Pupils Transition into Secondary School
National Institute for Health Research
2012 - 2020
Teaching
Daniel leads the Masters Programme in Developing and Evaluating Interventions and one of its three core courses: Fundamentals of Evaluation. He lectures on this course and another core course: Improving Health and Society: Programme Development. Daniel also contributes to various other masters courses.