Dr Nick Adams' Outputs (42)

Social capital and improved wellbeing: a qualitative investigation of the Wild Things! Silver Saplings Adventures programme in rural North-East Scotland. (2025)
Journal Article
ADAMS, N.N., MACIVER, E., DOUGLAS, F. and KENNEDY, C. [2025]. Social capital and improved wellbeing: a qualitative investigation of the Wild Things! Silver Saplings Adventures programme in rural North-East Scotland. Journal of gerontological social work [online], Latest Articles. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/01634372.2025.2488020

The Silver Saplings Adventures Programme (SSAP), run by Wild Things! charity in Scotland, enhances older adults' wellbeing through nature-based activities, lifelong learning and social cohesion. This study evaluates SSAP's 2023 impact using remote in... Read More about Social capital and improved wellbeing: a qualitative investigation of the Wild Things! Silver Saplings Adventures programme in rural North-East Scotland..

Men and the mask: dramaturgical mask-wearing, masculinities and oilmen's "stoical" emotional shielding practices in Scotland's offshore oilfields. (2025)
Journal Article
ADAMS, N.N. 2025. Men and the mask: dramaturgical mask-wearing, masculinities and oilmen's "stoical" emotional shielding practices in Scotland's offshore oilfields. Energy research and social science [online], 122, article number 103983. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.103983

Scotland's North Sea offshore oil-drilling-fields have long been stereotyped as sites reinforcing and reproducing unique forms of masculinities aligning with hegemonic masculinity (HM) descriptors: stoicism, competition and conflict. Oilfields encomp... Read More about Men and the mask: dramaturgical mask-wearing, masculinities and oilmen's "stoical" emotional shielding practices in Scotland's offshore oilfields..

I didn't leave inceldom; inceldom left me: examining male ex-incel navigations of complex masculinities identity rebuilding following rejection of incel-culture. (2025)
Journal Article
ADAMS, N.N. and SMITH, D.S. [2025]. I didn't leave inceldom; inceldom left me: examining male ex-incel navigations of complex masculinities identity rebuilding following rejection of incel-culture. Deviant behavior [online], Latest Articles. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2025.2453443

This study explores experiences of ex-incels - men who have withdrawn from incel communities - through eleven qualitative interviews analysed using R.W. Connell's hegemonic masculinity (HM) framework. Findings reveal some ex-incels adopt flexible mas... Read More about I didn't leave inceldom; inceldom left me: examining male ex-incel navigations of complex masculinities identity rebuilding following rejection of incel-culture..

DeusEx saved my life: a feminist-autoethnography of video-gaming through major depressive disorder. (2024)
Journal Article
ADAMS, N.N. [2024]. DeusEx saved my life: a feminist-autoethnography of video-gaming through major depressive disorder. Qualitative health research [online], OnlineFirst. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323241307193

Autoethnographic accounts of mental illness (MI) are sparse in academic scholarship, despite generating valuable insights into how MI can be experienced and coped-with in real-life contexts. First-person accounts from men are especially lacking, poss... Read More about DeusEx saved my life: a feminist-autoethnography of video-gaming through major depressive disorder..

Long COVID in healthcare workers: longitudinal mixed-methods study. (2024)
Journal Article
GRANT, A., ADAMS, N.N., MACIVER, E., SKÅTUN, D., SCOTT, N., KENNEDY, C., DOUGLAS, F., HERNANDEZ-SANTIAGO, V. and TORRANCE, N. [2024]. Long COVID in healthcare workers: longitudinal mixed-methods study. Occupational medicine [online], Advance Articles. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqae113

Healthcare workers (HCWs) report higher rates of Long COVID (LC) than other occupational groups. It is still unclear whether LC is a lifelong condition. Workforce shortfalls are apparent due to sick leave, reduced hours, and lower productivity. To in... Read More about Long COVID in healthcare workers: longitudinal mixed-methods study..

The beau idéal has been disconnected: a technology-capitalist realism perspective on immediate modernity's anxiety pandemic. (2024)
Journal Article
ADAMS, N.N. [2024]. The beau idéal has been disconnected: a technology-capitalist realism perspective on immediate modernity's anxiety pandemic. Culture unbound [online], (accepted).

Within immediate modernity, increases in the multitude of psychological, social, emotional and behavioural disruptions affecting human actors, categorised under the (reductive) label of "anxiety" are reaching an apex. This peak can be conceptualised... Read More about The beau idéal has been disconnected: a technology-capitalist realism perspective on immediate modernity's anxiety pandemic..

Unveiling "ex-incels": identity dynamics and juxtaposed hegemonic masculinity. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
SMITH, D.S. and ADAMS, N. 2024. Unveiling "ex-incels": identity dynamics and juxtaposed hegemonic masculinity. Presented at the 3rd Joint international annual conference of the LEX Network, Violence Against Women and Girls Research Network, Feminist Legal Research and Action Network, and the Centre for the Study of Emotion and Law (LEX-VAWGRN-FRAN-CSEL 2024): activism, change and feminist futures: remembering the past to reimagine the future, 7-8 November 2024, Liverpool, UK.

This study examines the experiences of former involuntary celibates (ex-incels) - men who frequented incel communities, but no longer identify with the label. We introduce a framework of Juxtaposed Hegemonic Masculinity to interrogate participants' s... Read More about Unveiling "ex-incels": identity dynamics and juxtaposed hegemonic masculinity..

Disrupted candidacy: a longitudinal examination of the constrained healthcare-access journeys of National Health Service workers in Scotland seeking supports for Long COVID illness. (2024)
Journal Article
ADAMS, N.N., MACIVER, E., DOUGLAS, F., KENNEDY, C., SKÅTUN, D., HERNANDEZ SANTIAGO, V., TORRANCE, N. and GRANT, A. 2024. Disrupted candidacy: a longitudinal examination of the constrained healthcare-access journeys of National Health Service workers in Scotland seeking supports for Long COVID illness. Health expectations [online], 27(5), article number e70050. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.70050

Evidence examines how persons experiencing Long COVID (LC) struggle to secure healthcare for symptoms; however, few studies examine healthcare workers experiencing LC, nor the complex and multiple difficulties faced when seeking and receiving healthc... Read More about Disrupted candidacy: a longitudinal examination of the constrained healthcare-access journeys of National Health Service workers in Scotland seeking supports for Long COVID illness..

Acknowledging multiple "masculine" organizational identities: moving beyond the singular model of workplace safety culture to a multiple safety cultures perspective. (2024)
Journal Article
ADAMS, N.N. 2024. Acknowledging multiple "masculine" organizational identities: moving beyond the singular model of workplace safety culture to a multiple safety cultures perspective. Occupational psychology outlook [online], 3(2), pages 46-56. Available from: https://doi.org/10.53841/bpsopo.2024.3.2.46

This research proposes a challenge to the singular notion of Workplace Safety Culture (WSC) recurrently popularised in Industrial Psychology and Human Factors scholarships. The investigation explores interconnections between workplace 'masculine' ide... Read More about Acknowledging multiple "masculine" organizational identities: moving beyond the singular model of workplace safety culture to a multiple safety cultures perspective..

Silver Saplings Adventures for Older People: a qualitative review and evaluation of intended positive interventional change and wellbeing effects for participants of the programme. (2024)
Report
ADAMS, N., MACIVER, E., KENNEDY, C. and DOUGLAS, F. 2024. Silver Saplings Adventures for Older People: a qualitative review and evaluation of intended positive interventional change and wellbeing effects for participants of the programme. Aberdeen: Robert Gordon University. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/2445905

The Silver Saplings Adventures (SSA) programme is a nature-based wellbeing intervention targeting older people, located in Moray, Aberdeenshire and areas of the Highlands. It consists of monthly day trips to outdoor settings, providing opportunities... Read More about Silver Saplings Adventures for Older People: a qualitative review and evaluation of intended positive interventional change and wellbeing effects for participants of the programme..

Silver Saplings Adventures for Older People: a qualitative review and evaluation of intended positive interventional change and wellbeing effects for participants of the programme: lay summary document. (2024)
Report
ADAMS, N., MACIVER, E., KENNEDY, C. and DOUGLAS, F. 2024. Silver Saplings Adventures for Older People: a qualitative review and evaluation of intended positive interventional change and wellbeing effects for participants of the programme: lay summary document. Aberdeen: Robert Gordon University. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/2625924

This is a lay summary of the qualitative review and evaluation of the Silver Saplings Adventures programme. The full report can be found elsewhere on OpenAIR: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/2445905

Silver Saplings Adventures for Older People: a qualitative evaluation on wellbeing effects for participants. [Infographic] (2024)
Digital Artefact
ADAMS, N., MACIVER, E., KENNEDY, C. and DOUGLAS, F. 2024. Silver Saplings Adventures for Older People: a qualitative evaluation on wellbeing effects for participants. [Infographic]. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/2625946

This infographic was produced to accompany the review and evaluation of the Silver Saplings Adventures programme, an outdoor activity initiative for older people.

Studying "closed" workplaces: "embedded-actualised" ethnography and reflections on "embeddedness" from the remote UK oilfields. (2024)
Journal Article
ADAMS, N.N. [2024]. Studying "closed" workplaces: "embedded-actualised" ethnography and reflections on "embeddedness" from the remote UK oilfields. Ethnography [online], Online First. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/14661381241266923

Energy-ethnographies of "closed" workplaces detail practices for achieving robust, authentic research. However, few publications highlight - experientially - benefits of developing connections; learning specifics of environments, peoples and customs... Read More about Studying "closed" workplaces: "embedded-actualised" ethnography and reflections on "embeddedness" from the remote UK oilfields..

Knowledge gaps in existing research exploring sexual fluidity and mental health among young adults. (2024)
Journal Article
COULAUD, P.-J., SALWAY, T., ADAMS, N., BALL, W., LARMARANGE, J., KELLY-IRVING, M. and KNIGHT, R. 2024. Knowledge gaps in existing research exploring sexual fluidity and mental health among young adults. Journal of epidemiology and community health [online], 78(9), pages 556-560. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2023-221844

While there is a large body of evidence indicating that sexual minority youth experience inequitably high rates of mental health problems (e.g. depression, suicidality), we know little about how temporal changes in sexual attractions, identities and... Read More about Knowledge gaps in existing research exploring sexual fluidity and mental health among young adults..

A uniquely positive, self-described patient experience with the R-MAOI Moclobemide, prescribed for treatment-resistant-depression-anxiety. (2024)
Journal Article
ADAMS, N.N. 2024. A uniquely positive, self-described patient experience with the R-MAOI Moclobemide, prescribed for treatment-resistant-depression-anxiety. Psychiatry research [online], 337, article number 115924. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2024.115924

Treatment-resistant clinical depression and linked-anxiety represents a serious debilitating illness. Individual presentation differs. Symptoms can be co-occurring depressive-state and high-anxiety [1], [2]. My own longitudinal experiences with depre... Read More about A uniquely positive, self-described patient experience with the R-MAOI Moclobemide, prescribed for treatment-resistant-depression-anxiety..

Unforeseen emotional labour: a collaborative autoethnography exploring researcher experiences of studying long COVID in health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. (2023)
Journal Article
MACIVER, E., ADAMS, N.N., TORRANCE, N., DOUGLAS, F., KENNEDY, C., SKATUN, D., SANTIAGO, V.H. and GRANT, A. 2024. Unforeseen emotional labour: a collaborative autoethnography exploring researcher experiences of studying long COVID in health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. SSM - qualitative research in health [online], 5, article 100390. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100390

The concept of "emotional labour" describes the regulation of feelings and expressions to fulfil a specific job role, discussed extensively in relation to commercial and caring professions, with more recent scholarship recognising the emotional role... Read More about Unforeseen emotional labour: a collaborative autoethnography exploring researcher experiences of studying long COVID in health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic..

Lived experience of work and long COVID in healthcare staff. (2023)
Journal Article
TORRANCE, N., MACIVER, E., ADAMS, N.N., SKÅTUN, D., SCOTT, N., KENNEDY, C., DOUGLAS, F., HERNANDEZ-SANTIAGO, V. and GRANT, A. 2024. Lived experience of work and long COVID in healthcare staff. Occupational medicine [online], 74(1), pages 78-85. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqad117

Healthcare workers (HCWs) had a greater occupational risk of exposure to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and reported higher rates of long COVID (LC). This has implications for the provision of health care in already stretched health services. Th... Read More about Lived experience of work and long COVID in healthcare staff..

Towards resilience: examining complex and hybridised coping strategies used by NHS workers experiencing long COVID illness. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ADAMS, N.N., MACIVER, E., KENNEDY, C., DOUGLAS, F., SKÅTUN, D., HERNANDEZ SANTIAGO, V., TORRANCE, N. and GRANT, A. 2023. Towards resilience: examining complex and hybridised coping strategies used by NHS workers experiencing long COVID illness. Presented at the 2023 Annual conference of the British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Study Group (BSA MedSoc 2023), 13-15 September 2023, Brighton, UK.

NHS workers faced an increased risk of contracting COVID-19 during the pandemic and many now experience long COVID (LC). Over 10,000 NHS workers are estimated absent from work due to LC. LC represents a complex, dynamic and often serious condition, f... Read More about Towards resilience: examining complex and hybridised coping strategies used by NHS workers experiencing long COVID illness..

Understanding and supporting NHS employees with long COVID return to and remain in work: key barriers and facilitators. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MACIVER, E., ADAMS, N.N., KENNEDY, C., DOUGLAS, F., SKÅTUN, D., HERNANDEZ SANTIAGO, V., TORRANCE, N. and GRANT, A. 2023. Understanding and supporting NHS employees with long COVID return to and remain in work: key barriers and facilitators. Presented at the 2023 Annual conference of the British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Study Group (BSA MedSoc 2023), 13-15 September 2023, Brighton, UK.

Long COVID (LC) is a debilitating illness with complex and dynamic symptoms, affecting all aspects of personal and work life. The process and implications of returning to work following chronic illness have been considered across various conditions;... Read More about Understanding and supporting NHS employees with long COVID return to and remain in work: key barriers and facilitators..

Constrained candidacy: exploring different barriers to attaining healthcare access and treatment for long COVID illness by NHS workers in Scotland. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ADAMS, N.N., MACIVER, E., KENNEDY, C., DOUGLAS, F., SKÅTUN, D., HERNANDEZ SANTIAGO, V., TORRANCE, N. and GRANT, A. 2023. Constrained candidacy: exploring different barriers to attaining healthcare access and treatment for long COVID illness by NHS workers in Scotland. Presented at the 67th Society for Social Medicine and Population Health annual scientific meeting (SSM Annual Scientific Meeting 2023), 6-8 September 2023, Newcastle, UK.

Long COVID (LC) affects 1.2 million people in the UK, including 120,000 NHS workers. LC remains poorly understood, comprising manifold symptoms ranging in severity, disrupting quality of life and work abilities. Emerging qualitative findings suggest... Read More about Constrained candidacy: exploring different barriers to attaining healthcare access and treatment for long COVID illness by NHS workers in Scotland..