School of Health & Wellbeing

Mrs Dawn Haughton

  • SHINE Network Manager (Mental Health & Wellbeing)

telephone: 0141 353 7502
email: Dawn.Haughton@glasgow.ac.uk

90 Byres Road, Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom, G12 8TB

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Biography

Dawn is the Manager of the Schools Health and Wellbeing Improvement Research Network (SHINE) and has played a key role in the development of SHINE, working within  Mental Health and Wellbeing at the School of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow. The SHINE network aims to support schools in addressing their health and wellbeing needs, with a focus on mental health, by using a data-driven, systems-level approach to health improvement. Dawn has taken a lead in developing the SHINE infrastructure from 2018 to the current structure which includes over 770 schools, 5 fully registered Local Authorities and includes acorss all 32 Local Authorities. To manage the Network’s development, Dawn has built relationships with high level key health and education stakeholders, bringing schools together with health researchers across a range of online and in-person activities. The SHINE network benefits from hybrid funding, including grant awards and Local Authority research partnerships, and is led by Dr Jo Inchley.

Before joining the SHINE team, Dawn had a 25 year career in teaching, culminating in her final post as a Depute Headteacher in an all-through school for 3 to 18 year old students. In this role, she had responsibility for whole-school pastoral care, safeguarding and Child Protection. 

Dawn’s key professional interests are bringing people and organisations together to facilitate improvements in young people’s health and wellbeing, by providing schools with up-to-date, local data and an infrastructure to share good practice.

Publications

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Jump to: 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2020
Number of items: 10.

2026

Malley, Bethan, Brown, Judith ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4092-9685, Haughton, Dawn, Chambers, Stephanie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9607-6242 and Inchley, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8322-8817 (2026) Emotionally based school non-attendance in a Scottish local authority context: a policy document analysis. Frontiers in Education, (Accepted for Publication)

Lang, Jason, Wood, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8160-6212, Inchley, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8322-8817, Haughton, Dawn, Turner, Fiona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4972-3926, Gajwani, Ruchika ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1199-320X, Minnis, Helen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2377-8945 and Press, Melea ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5540-290X (2026) More than inclusion: reimagining secondary education through neurodiversity-affirming practice. London Review of Education, 24(1), 6. (doi: 10.14324/LRE.24.1.06)

Wilson, Mary, Long, Sara, Hewitt, Gillian, Haughton, Dawn, Mabelis, Judith ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1596-7770, Brown, Judith ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4092-9685, Macdonald, Sarah, Murphy, Simon and Inchley, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8322-8817 (2026) Exploring the use of interactive data dashboards as a tool to support a data-driven approach to whole-school health improvement: case studies from the DATAMIND project in Wales and Scotland. British Educational Research Journal, (doi: 10.1002/berj.70091) (Early Online Publication)

2025

Lang, Jason, Press, Melea ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5540-290X, Wood, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8160-6212, Inchley, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8322-8817, Haughton, Dawn, MacIntyre, Alison and Russell, Hazel (2025) Neurodiversity in Scottish Schools: A framework for the implementation of a neurodiversity affirming change project in Scottish secondary schools. Project Report. University of Glasgow.

Lang, Jason, Press, Melea ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5540-290X, Wood, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8160-6212, Inchley, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8322-8817, Haughton, Dawn, MacIntyre, Alison and Russell, Hazel (2025) Neurodiversity in Scottish Schools: Executive Summary. Project Report. University of Glasgow.

2024

Caddick, L. et al. (2024) Ambient Teens Sleep Study: Protocol for a co-produced feasibility study in adolescents using a contactless radar-based sleep sensor. PLoS ONE, 19(11), e0313286. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0313286) (PMID:39541279) (PMCID:PMC11563468)

2023

Shore, Colin B. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4058-1009, Martin, Anne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1614-6525, Rigby, Ben ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6997-5194, Blake, Carolyn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7231-4290, Scott, Holly, Cleland Woods, Heather ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3382-5925, Haughton, Dawn, Evans, Rhiannon E., O'Brien, Alyson and Simpson, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6219-1768 (2023) A Peer Influence Approach to Reduce Night-time Use of Interactive Electronic Devices and Social Media Among Adolescents (CLOCK OFF): Intervention Development Using Causal Loop Diagrams. 18th UK Society for Behavioural Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting, Birmingham, UK, 28-29 March 2023.

2022

Chambers, Stephanie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9607-6242, Haughton, Dawn, Mabelis, Judith ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1596-7770, Brown, Judith ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4092-9685 and Inchley, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8322-8817 (2022) Feasibility of using health and wellbeing data for school planning: the SHINE pilot in Scotland. Health Promotion International, 37(6), daac149. (doi: 10.1093/heapro/daac149) (PMID:36440898) (PMCID:PMC9703801)

Huggins, C. F. et al. (2022) TeenCovidLife: a resource to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescents in Scotland. Wellcome Open Research, 6, 277. (doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17252.2) (PMID:35999909) (PMCID:PMC9360910)

2020

Lyall, L. M. et al. (2020) Accelerometry-assessed sleep duration and timing in late childhood and adolescence in Scottish schoolchildren: a feasibility study. PLoS ONE, 15(12), e0242080. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0242080) (PMID:33259503) (PMCID:PMC7707491)

This list was generated on Tue Apr 21 21:10:57 2026 BST.
Jump to: Articles | Research Reports or Papers | Conference or Workshop Item
Number of items: 10.

Articles

Malley, Bethan, Brown, Judith ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4092-9685, Haughton, Dawn, Chambers, Stephanie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9607-6242 and Inchley, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8322-8817 (2026) Emotionally based school non-attendance in a Scottish local authority context: a policy document analysis. Frontiers in Education, (Accepted for Publication)

Lang, Jason, Wood, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8160-6212, Inchley, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8322-8817, Haughton, Dawn, Turner, Fiona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4972-3926, Gajwani, Ruchika ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1199-320X, Minnis, Helen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2377-8945 and Press, Melea ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5540-290X (2026) More than inclusion: reimagining secondary education through neurodiversity-affirming practice. London Review of Education, 24(1), 6. (doi: 10.14324/LRE.24.1.06)

Wilson, Mary, Long, Sara, Hewitt, Gillian, Haughton, Dawn, Mabelis, Judith ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1596-7770, Brown, Judith ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4092-9685, Macdonald, Sarah, Murphy, Simon and Inchley, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8322-8817 (2026) Exploring the use of interactive data dashboards as a tool to support a data-driven approach to whole-school health improvement: case studies from the DATAMIND project in Wales and Scotland. British Educational Research Journal, (doi: 10.1002/berj.70091) (Early Online Publication)

Caddick, L. et al. (2024) Ambient Teens Sleep Study: Protocol for a co-produced feasibility study in adolescents using a contactless radar-based sleep sensor. PLoS ONE, 19(11), e0313286. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0313286) (PMID:39541279) (PMCID:PMC11563468)

Chambers, Stephanie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9607-6242, Haughton, Dawn, Mabelis, Judith ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1596-7770, Brown, Judith ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4092-9685 and Inchley, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8322-8817 (2022) Feasibility of using health and wellbeing data for school planning: the SHINE pilot in Scotland. Health Promotion International, 37(6), daac149. (doi: 10.1093/heapro/daac149) (PMID:36440898) (PMCID:PMC9703801)

Huggins, C. F. et al. (2022) TeenCovidLife: a resource to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescents in Scotland. Wellcome Open Research, 6, 277. (doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17252.2) (PMID:35999909) (PMCID:PMC9360910)

Lyall, L. M. et al. (2020) Accelerometry-assessed sleep duration and timing in late childhood and adolescence in Scottish schoolchildren: a feasibility study. PLoS ONE, 15(12), e0242080. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0242080) (PMID:33259503) (PMCID:PMC7707491)

Research Reports or Papers

Lang, Jason, Press, Melea ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5540-290X, Wood, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8160-6212, Inchley, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8322-8817, Haughton, Dawn, MacIntyre, Alison and Russell, Hazel (2025) Neurodiversity in Scottish Schools: A framework for the implementation of a neurodiversity affirming change project in Scottish secondary schools. Project Report. University of Glasgow.

Lang, Jason, Press, Melea ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5540-290X, Wood, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8160-6212, Inchley, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8322-8817, Haughton, Dawn, MacIntyre, Alison and Russell, Hazel (2025) Neurodiversity in Scottish Schools: Executive Summary. Project Report. University of Glasgow.

Conference or Workshop Item

Shore, Colin B. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4058-1009, Martin, Anne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1614-6525, Rigby, Ben ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6997-5194, Blake, Carolyn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7231-4290, Scott, Holly, Cleland Woods, Heather ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3382-5925, Haughton, Dawn, Evans, Rhiannon E., O'Brien, Alyson and Simpson, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6219-1768 (2023) A Peer Influence Approach to Reduce Night-time Use of Interactive Electronic Devices and Social Media Among Adolescents (CLOCK OFF): Intervention Development Using Causal Loop Diagrams. 18th UK Society for Behavioural Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting, Birmingham, UK, 28-29 March 2023.

This list was generated on Wed Apr 22 21:25:54 2026 BST.

Research datasets

Jump to: 2025 | 2020
Number of items: 2.

2025

Ofili, S. , Haughton, D., Brown, J. , Inchley, J. and Mabelis, J. (2025) Schools Health and Wellbeing Improvement Research Network (SHINE) Online Pupil Mental Health Survey National Dataset. [Data Collection]

2020

Lyall, L., Sangha, N., Wyse, C., Hindle, E., Haughton, D., Campbell, K., Brown, J. , Moore, L. , Simpson, S. , Inchley, J. and Smith, D. (2020) Accelerometry-assessed sleep duration and timing in late childhood and adolescence in Scottish schoolchildren: a feasibility study. [Data Collection]

This list was generated on Tue Apr 21 23:34:43 2026 BST.