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Daniel Wight is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within Medicine, Health Professions, and Social Sciences. The subfields of study include General Health Professions, Clinical Psychology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Epidemiology.

Wight's work covers a range of topics related to child and adolescent development, maternal mental health, and social issues affecting health outcomes. The main topics they have addressed include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement

Their frequent publication venues indicate a focus on public health and substance use policy, including:

  • Public Health Research
  • Drugs Education Prevention and Policy
  • Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • BMJ Global Health
  • PLoS neglected tropical diseases

Some recent publications by Wight and collaborators include:

  • A Ugandan Parenting Programme to Prevent Gender-Based Violence: Description and Formative Evaluation, 2022, Research on Social Work Practice
  • Dog ownership practices and responsibilities for children's health in terms of rabies control and prevention in rural communities in Tanzania, 2021, PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • 'It's not 9 to 5 recovery': the role of a recovery community in producing social bonds that support recovery, 2021, Drugs Education Prevention and Policy
  • Combining parenting and economic strengthening programmes to reduce violence against children: a cluster randomised controlled trial with predominantly male caregivers in rural Tanzania, 2020, BMJ Global Health
  • Mechanisms and context in the San Patrignano drug recovery community, Italy: a qualitative study to inform transfer to Scotland, 2020, Drugs Education Prevention and Policy

Wight has collaborated frequently with several researchers, reflecting interdisciplinary work across public health and social science disciplines. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Philip Wilson
  • Lucy Thompson
  • Jessica Tanner
  • Jamie M. Lachman
  • Alison M. Devlin

Best Publications

  • Process evaluation of complex interventions: Medical Research Council guidance

    Graham Moore;Suzanne Audrey;Mary Barker;Lyndal Bond

  • Limits to modern contraceptive use among young women in developing countries: a systematic review of qualitative research

    Lisa M Williamson;Alison Parkes;Daniel Wight;Mark Petticrew

  • Six steps in quality intervention development (6SQuID)

    Daniel Wight;Erica Wimbush;Ruth Jepson;Lawrence Doi

  • Process evaluation in complex public health intervention studies: The need for guidance

    Graham Moore;Suzanne Audrey;Mary Barker;Lyndal Bond

  • Parental influences on young people's sexual behaviour: a longitudinal analysis.

    Daniel Wight;Lisa Williamson;Marion Henderson

  • Limits of teacher delivered sex education: interim behavioural outcomes from randomised trial

    Daniel Wight;Gillian M Raab;Marion Henderson;Charles Abraham

  • Taking account of context in population health intervention research: guidance for producers, users and funders of research

    Peter Craig;Erica Di Ruggiero;Katherine L. Frohlich;Eric Mykhalovskiy

  • “A bit more truthful”: the validity of adolescent sexual behaviour data collected in rural northern Tanzania using five methods

    M L Plummer;D A Ross;D Wight;J Changalucha

  • Implementation of a teacher-delivered sex education programme: obstacles and facilitating factors

    Katie Buston;Daniel Wight;Graham Hart;Sue Scott

  • Do television and electronic games predict children's psychosocial adjustment? Longitudinal research using the UK Millennium Cohort Study

    Alison Parkes;Helen Sweeting;Daniel Wight;Marion Henderson

  • Transactional sex amongst young people in rural northern Tanzania: an ethnography of young women's motivations and negotiation.

    Joyce Wamoyi;Daniel Wight;Mary Plummer;Mary Plummer;Gerry Hilary Mshana

  • Boys' thoughts and talk about sex in a working class locality of Glasgow

    Daniel Wight

  • Contradictory sexual norms and expectations for young people in rural Northern Tanzania

    Daniel Wight;Mary L. Plummer;Gerry Mshana;Joyce Wamoyi

  • Parenting stress and parent support among mothers with high and low education.

    Alison Parkes;Helen Sweeting;Daniel Wight

  • A Review of Interventions With Parents to Promote the Sexual Health of Their Children

    Daniel Wight;Deirdre Fullerton

  • Impediments to safer heterosexual sex: a review of research with young people.

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  • Exploratory studies to decide whether and how to proceed with full-scale evaluations of public health interventions: a systematic review of guidance

    Britt Hallingberg;Ruth Turley;Jeremy Segrott;Daniel Wight

  • Is parenting associated with teenagers' early sexual risk-taking, autonomy and relationship with sexual partners?

    Alison Parkes;Marion Henderson;Daniel Wight;Catherine Nixon

  • Dividuality, masculine respectability and reputation: how masculinity affects men's uptake of HIV treatment in rural eastern Uganda.

    Godfrey E. Siu;Janet Seeley;Janet Seeley;Daniel Wight

  • Extent of regretted sexual intercourse among young teenagers in Scotland: a cross sectional survey

    Daniel Wight;Marion Henderson;Gillian Raab;Charles Abraham

  • Impact of a theoretically based sex education programme (SHARE) delivered by teachers on NHS registered conceptions and terminations: final results of cluster randomised trial

    M Henderson;D Wight;G M Raab;C Abraham

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles Abraham
Charles Abraham University of Exeter
Wendy Hardeman
Wendy Hardeman University of East Anglia
Sharon Anne Simpson
Sharon Anne Simpson University of Glasgow
Rachel Calam
Rachel Calam University of Manchester
Frances Gardner
Frances Gardner University of Oxford
James Law
James Law Newcastle University
Helen Minnis
Helen Minnis University of Glasgow
Anja Wittkowski
Anja Wittkowski University of Manchester

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