Dr Heather May Morgan | The University of Aberdeen

Dr Heather May Morgan

LLB (Hons), CertHE, MRes, PhD, FHEA, FRSA

Vice-Principal (Regional Engagement & Innovation)

About

Email Address: h.morgan@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number: +44 (0)1224 437860
Office Address: 178 University Office
Old Aberdeen Campus
Regent Walk
AB24 3FX
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School/Department: Provost

Qualifications

PhD Sociology
2013 - University of Aberdeen
MRes Social Research
2007 - University of Aberdeen
CertHE Gender Studies and Philosophy
2006 - University of Aberdeen
LLB (Hons) Law with Options in French Language and Forensic Medicine
2005 - University of Aberdeen
FRSA Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
2018 - Royal Society of Arts
FHEA Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
2011 - Advance HE/HEA

Latest Publications

Methodological review of the design, objectives and sample size of Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) applications that use an external randomised controlled pilot trial design: A protocol
2026 - Published
Chan, C. L., Eddy, S., Hejdenberg, J., Morgan, B., Morgan, H., Lancaster, G. A., Robinson, C., Eldridge, S.
PloS ONE, vol. 21, no. 3, e0343981
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0343981
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/525b9f2c-e6eb-460e-bf96-ae38f1854aef/download
Disagreements about paediatric treatment: an exploration of the causes of conflict between parents and clinicians and pathways to dispute resolution
2026 - E-pub ahead of print
Sivers, S., Downie, M., Morgan, H., Herd, F., Turner, S.
Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, pp. 1-21
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2026.2614857
Perspective Chapter: The FGM Education Project: A Women-Led Initiative to Address a Gap in Education about Female Genital Mutilation
2025 - E-pub ahead of print
Naik, V., Morgan, H. M., Kinkaid, V.
The Role of Women in Research and Innovation. IntechOpen, 22 pages
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.1012789
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/20a48ae0-dd72-4f90-bf39-9851fe655105/download
Promoting and protecting mental health of people living with adventitious blindness and low vision: a scoping review of protective and risk factors
2025 - Published
Dike, N., D'Ambruoso, L., Morgan, H. M., Skea, Z., Ekpenyong, B. N., Muhammad-Aji, M.
Journal of Community Systems for Health, vol. 2, no. 1, 1213
Contributions to Journals: Review articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.36368/jcsh.v2i1.1213
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/83e51725-af77-43d7-849e-17b9e1653e17/download
Sparking ‘Aha’ Moments: A Resource for Teaching Research Methods
2025 - Published
Nind, M., Shanks, R. K., Lee, Y., Edson Ferrie, J., Dogaru, C., English, K. K., Perez del Aguila, R., Spreckelsen, T. F., Rose, J., Jones, A., Silver, C., Morgan, H. M., Pizzolati, M., Brown, N., Edwards, R., Mancuso, J., Johnson, R.
Commissioned by National Centre for Research Methods. National Centre for Research Methods. 83 pages
Books and Reports: Commissioned Reports
- [ONLINE] https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/trainers/aha.php
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/9cad3717-4ec0-4764-a257-583d9755f69b/download

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Latest Publications

Methodological review of the design, objectives and sample size of Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) applications that use an external randomised controlled pilot trial design: A protocol

Disagreements about paediatric treatment: an exploration of the causes of conflict between parents and clinicians and pathways to dispute resolution

Perspective Chapter: The FGM Education Project: A Women-Led Initiative to Address a Gap in Education about Female Genital Mutilation

Promoting and protecting mental health of people living with adventitious blindness and low vision: a scoping review of protective and risk factors

Sparking ‘Aha’ Moments: A Resource for Teaching Research Methods

Methodological review of the design, objectives and sample size of Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) applications that use an external randomised controlled pilot trial design: A protocol

Disagreements about paediatric treatment: an exploration of the causes of conflict between parents and clinicians and pathways to dispute resolution

Perspective Chapter: The FGM Education Project: A Women-Led Initiative to Address a Gap in Education about Female Genital Mutilation

Promoting and protecting mental health of people living with adventitious blindness and low vision: a scoping review of protective and risk factors

Sparking ‘Aha’ Moments: A Resource for Teaching Research Methods

How does the Nigerian health system serve people living with disabilities? A socio-ecological analysis on people living with visual impairment

Protective and risk factors of mental health of working age adults with adventitious total bilateral blindness and low vision: a scoping review protocol

Barriers and facilitators of adherence to the use of ASICA, a digital app designed to support melanoma survivors: concise report of a qualitative study.

Enhancing Resilience through reflective thinking and writing support for MSc Research Project students

Active Assessment in Postgraduate applied health sciences: Embedding university practices that connect the "outside world"

Developing strategies to address disparities in retention communication during the consent discussion: development of a behavioural intervention

Factors influencing the implementation of the EuroFIT lifestyle change program in professional football clubs in Europe: a qualitative study in four European countries

How European Fans in Training (EuroFIT), a lifestyle change program for men delivered in football clubs, achieved its effect: a mixed methods process evaluation embedded in a randomised controlled trial

User Experiences of a Digital Intervention to Support Total-Skin-Self-Examination by Melanoma Survivors: Nested Qualitative Evaluation Embedded in a Randomized Controlled Trial

A qualitative process evaluation within a clinical trial that used healthcare technologies for children with asthma: insights and implications

Graduate Attributes from the perspectives of Students

The Baby Box Scheme in Scotland: A Study of Public Attitudes and Social Value

An interview study within a clinical trial that used healthcare technologies for children with asthma – insights and implications

What influences communication about retention in randomised trials: a multi-trial, theory-based analysis exploring trial staff perspectives

Developing research skills with weekly online seminars over the summer

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) education – a collaborative approach to FutureLearn Course Development for medics and multisector practitioners

Reducing asthma attacks in children using exhaled nitric oxide (RAACENO) as a biomarker to inform treatment strategy: a multicentre, parallel, randomised, controlled, phase 3 trial

Treatment guided by fractional exhaled nitric oxide in addition to standard care in 6- to 15-year-olds with asthma: the RAACENO RCT

Behavioural approaches to recruitment and retention in clinical trials: a systematic mapping review

The Recruitment, Enlistment, and Deployment of HIV-Positive Military Service Members: An Evaluation of South African and U.S. National, Alongside International, Policies

Sometimes I don’t have a pulse… and I’m still alive!: Interviews with healthcare professionals to explore their experiences of and views on population-based digital health technologies

The impact of austerity on disabled, elderly and immigrants in the United Kingdom: A Literature Review

Women’s perspectives on smartphone apps for fertility tracking and predicting conception: a mixed methods study

Some aspects of simulation based learning in medicine on the example of basic invasive skills

Sometimes I don’t have a pulse, and I’m still alive!: Healthcare providers on digital health techs

Using the Onitor® Track for weight loss: A mixed methods study among overweight and obese women

Ethical barriers to artificial intelligence in the national health service, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Can Tech Help You Sleep Better?

Electronic health records in ambulances: the ERA multiple-methods study

Higher Education, Human Employment - podcast

Simulation-based learning of invasive procedures skills: A critical appraisal of its organization in undergraduate medical education

Socio-Cultural Coaching to enhance Careers and Employability: Supporting Success.

Bridging barriers to advance multisector approaches to improve food security, nutrition and population health in Nepal: transdisciplinary perspectives

Financial Incentives for Patients

InS:PIRE - Evaluation of the scaling up of a quality improvement initiative: abridged report

Reducing Asthma Attacks in Children using Exhaled Nitric Oxide as a biomarker to inform treatment strategy: a randomised trial (RAACENO)

Transitioning postgraduate students: Enhanced student support through socio-cultural coaching

New Apple Watch adds heart tracking: here’s why we should welcome ECG for everyone

Physician and Parental Decision—Making Prior to Acute Medical Paediatric Admission

"The more you know, the more you realise it is really challenging to do": tensions and uncertainties in person-centred support for people with long-term conditions

A mixed methods exploratory study of women’s relationships with and uses of fertility tracking apps

Cyber-Trolling as Symbolic Violence: Deconstructing Gendered Abuse Online

Apakah hak tinggi buruk bagi kesehatan?: Dua ahli menelaah buktinya

Are high heels bad for your health?: Two experts review the evidence

The 2016 HIGh Heels: Health effects and psychosexual benefITS (HIGH HABITS) study: systematic review of reviews and additional primary studies

The intervention process in the European Fans in Training (EuroFIT) trial: a mixed method protocol for evaluation

We need to talk about purpose: a critical interpretive synthesis of health and social care professionals’ approaches to self-management support for people with long-term conditions

“Was that a success or not a success?”: a qualitative study of health professionals’ perspectives on support for people with long-term conditions

‘Is that it?’ Using ‘explorachoc’ to engage the public with clinical trials and health services research

Media framing of trolling and online abuse: silencing strategies, symbolic violence, and victim blaming

Researching CCTV Control Rooms: An Ethnographic Approach, SAGE Research Methods

Development and piloting of a food-based intervention to increase vitamin E intake in pregnant women in a randomised controlled trial

An interview study of pregnant women who were provided with indoor air quality measurements of second hand smoke to help them quit smoking

Breast pumps as an incentive for breastfeeding: a mixed methods study of acceptability

Why the NHS should prescribe wearable fitness trackers

Financial incentives to support smoking cessation in pregnant women – size matters

Combining PPI with qualitative research to engage ‘harder-to-reach’ populations: service user groups as co-applicants on a platform study for a trial

Confessions of a Fitness Tracker: An auto-ethnographic research blog

[M]apping Aberdeen

‘Pushed’ self-tracking using digital technologies for chronic health condition management: a critical interpretive synthesis

@selfhealthtech: Using self-administered health monitoring technologies to support the self-management of long-term conditions: what about behaviour change?: 2nd Behaviour Change Conference: Digital Health and Wellbeing.

The only way is app - Using new health technologies to manage chronic conditions

Will fitness trackers damage our relationships with our doctors?

A ladder logic model to inform the design of incentive interventions for breastfeeding

Breast pumps as an incentive for breastfeeding: a mixed methods investigation

Perspectives on financial incentives to health service providers for increasing breastfeeding and smoking quit rates during pregnancy: a mixed methods study

Perspectives on financial incentives to health service providers for increasing breastfeeding and smoking quit rates during pregnancy: a mixed methods study

Trends in acute medical paediatric admissions to Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital 2000-2013- Better safe than sorry?