Dr Dimitar Karadzhov

  • University Lecturer (Mental Health & Wellbeing)

Biography

Dr Dimitar Karadzhov is a Lecturer in the School of Health & Wellbeing, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences. He teaches in the Global Mental Health MSc Programme (both on-campus and online distance learning), and has contributed to those programmes since 2016.

He is also School Employability Champion.

Dr Karadzhov's primary research interests include mental health recovery and health inequalities; global mental health; homelessness; qualitative and smartphone-assisted methodologies; and employability (specifically, future skills).

Background

Dr Karadzhov obtained a PhD in Public Health and Health Policy from the Centre for Health Policy, University of Strathclyde, in 2020. During this programme, he completed two long-term knowledge exchange secondments at the Silver School of Social Work, New York University. Prior to that, he completed a Master of Science degree in Global Mental Health (Distinction) and a Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree in Psychology (Distinction) - both from the University of Glasgow.

 

Research interests

  • Mental health recovery
  • Health inequalities
  • Global mental health
  • Homelessness
  • Qualitative and smartphone-assisted methodologies
  • Employability, including future skills

Dr Karadzhov was Lead on the LTDF-funded project, Enhancing Discipline-Specific Employability Skills and Awareness via the Virtual Learning Environment ('EEVE').

Publications

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Number of items: 37.

2025

Karadzhov, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Hatton, G., Sharp, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Langan-Martin, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 and Stubbs, F. (2025) Discipline-specific employability skills and awareness via the virtual learning environment: an innovative and transferable approach. In: Norton, S., Short, F. and Dalrymple, R. (eds.) Strengthening the Student Experience: Distilling the 3 Es. Advance HE.

Kolinska, Ula and Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 (2025) “You Feel Hopeless, When You Can't Access Healthcare”: International Students’ Experiences of Mental Health Help-Seeking Through Primary Healthcare Services in Scotland. ECQI2025 - 8th European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Edinburgh, Scotland, 8-10 January 2025.

2024

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Wilson, Mia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2155-8658, Foley, Ailsa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8413-9820, Langan Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 and Davies, Eric (2024) Applying 'A Multi-Pronged Approach to Plagiarism Prevention and Academic Integrity Training. Advance HE Webinar: Using the Framework for Enhancing Assessment, 4 December 2024.

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Wilson, Mia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2155-8658, Foley, Ailsa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8413-9820, Langan-Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 and Davies, Eric (2024) A Multi-Pronged Approach to Plagiarism Prevention and Academic Integrity Training. Advance HE Assessment and Feedback Symposium 2024, Online, 05 Nov 2024.

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Hatton-Wotham, George, Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Langan Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 and Stubbs, Fiona (2024) Discipline-Specific Employability Skills and Awareness via the Virtual Learning Environment: Piloting an Innovative and Transferable Approach. Advance HE Employability Symposium 2024: Distilling The 3Es, Leeds, UK, 25 Apr 2024.

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Hatton, George, Stubbs, Fiona and Langan Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 (2024) More than just an add-on: enhancing discipline-specific employability skills and awareness via the virtual learning environment. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 12(1), pp. 19-35. (doi: 10.56433/jpaap.v12i1.568)

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Lee, Joanne, Hatton-Wotham, George, White, Ross G., Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Jalloh, Abdul and Langan Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 (2024) Identifying core global mental health professional competencies: a multi-sectoral perspective. Global Mental Health, (doi: 10.1017/gmh.2024.26)

Davidson, Jennifer C., Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 and Wilson, Graham (2024) Short take: designing a multinational smartphone app survey during COVID-19: rewards, risks, and recommendations. Field Methods, (doi: 10.1177/1525822x231218192)

2023

Davidson, Jennifer, Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Collins, Hilllary and Brown, Aaron (2023) Complexities of protecting children from violence during the COVID-19 pandemic: providers' and policymakers' best practices, innovations and challenges in 12 countries. Child Abuse and Neglect, 146, 106480. (doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106480) (PMID:37801758)

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Wilson, Graham, Shields, Sophie, Lux, Erin and Davidson, Jennifer C. (2023) Effective child well-being practices, barriers and priority actions: survey findings from service providers and policymakers in 22 countries during COVID-19. Journal of Children's Services, 18(3-4), pp. 207-232. (doi: 10.1108/JCS-10-2022-0028)

Jalloh, Abdul and Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 (2023) Community Health Workers' Perceptions of Depression and of Barriers and Facilitators in Mental Health Care in Sierra Leone: A Qualitative Study. RCPsych International Congress 2023. BJPsych Open 9(Supplement S1), Liverpool, UK, 10-13 Jul 2023. S26. (doi: 10.1192/bjo.2023.137)

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 (2023) “Recovery is fearful to me...”: conceptualizations, concerns and hopes about personal recovery in adults who are chronically homeless. Social Work in Mental Health, 21(3), pp. 285-305. (doi: 10.1080/15332985.2022.2155096)

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 (2023) Personal recovery and socio-structural disadvantage: a critical conceptual review. Health, 27(2), pp. 201-225. (doi: 10.1177/13634593211014250) (PMID:33962518) (PMCID:PMC9923205)

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 (2023) ‘Trials and tribulations’: the ambivalent influence of temporary accommodation on mental health recovery in chronically homeless adults. Qualitative Health Research, 33(3), pp. 176-190. (doi: 10.1177/10497323221147127) (PMID:36644943) (PMCID:PMC9932610)

2022

Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 and Paterson, Helena ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7715-5973 (2022) Gathering feedback. In: Hughes, Patrick and Langan Martin, Julie (eds.) Teaching Psychiatry to Undergraduates. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 162-167. ISBN 9781108925976 (doi: 10.1017/9781108921206.025)

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Davidson, Jennifer C. and Wilson, Graham (2022) “You cannot pour from an empty cup!”: child well-being service providers’ and policymakers’ professional supervision, coping and well-being during COVID-19. Journal of Public Mental Health, 21(2), pp. 95-107. (doi: 10.1108/JPMH-08-2021-0095)

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141 and Langan Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 (2022) Harnessing Problem-Based Learning to Foster Student Adaptability and Inter-Cultural Awareness and Exchange. 15th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, 29 Mar 2022.

2021

Langan-Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464, Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, McNaughton, Laura, Weldon, Matthew and le Jeune d’Allegeershecque, Julien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5375-5907 (2021) Ensuring Learner Safety and Wellbeing When Teaching Sensitive Topics. Professionalism in Healthcare 2021: Adapting to the Seasons, 01 Oct 2021.

Davidson, Jennifer C., Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 and Wilson, Graham (2021) Practitioners’ and policymakers’ successes, challenges, innovations, and learning in promoting children’s well-being during COVID-19: protocol for a multinational smartphone app survey. JMIR Research Protocols, 10(7), e31013. (doi: 10.2196/31013) (PMID:34323850)

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141 and Langan Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 (2021) Integrating disciplinary practices to optimally deliver alternative assessments and embed graduate attributes in a global mental health master’s programme. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 9(1), pp. 18-35. (doi: 10.14297/jpaap.v9i1.438)

le Jeune D'Allegeershecque, Julien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5375-5907, Langan-Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464, Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, McNaughton, Laura and Weldon, Matthew (2021) Developing and Refining Course Content While Remote Working. 14th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, 18 Jun 2021.

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 (2021) Explaining mental health recovery in the context of structural disadvantage: the unrealised potential of critical realism. Social Theory and Health, 19(2), pp. 172-185. (doi: 10.1057/s41285-019-00122-z)

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 (2021) Expanding the methodological repertoire of participatory research into homelessness: the utility of the mobile phone diary. Qualitative Social Work, 20(3), pp. 813-831. (doi: 10.1177/1473325020913904)

2020

Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 and Langan-Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 (2020) Delivering the first internationally accessible Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) on suicide prevention: a case study and insights into best practice. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 8(2), pp. 72-80. (doi: 10.14297/jpaap.v8i2.439)

Langan-Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464, Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Cleare, Seonaid ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2728-9356, Syrett, Suzanne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-7883, Zortea, Tiago ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8451-0555 and O'Connor, Rory ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3650-4994 (2020) Designing a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): Understanding Suicide and Suicide Prevention Strategies in a Global Context. Findings from the March and Sep 2019 runs. 13th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, 25 Aug 2020.

Langan-Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464, Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, McNaughton, Laura, Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 and Weldon, Matthew (2020) Delivering Sensitive Course Content by Embedding Self-Care Resources for Students in Learning Materials. 13th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, 25 Aug 2020.

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 (2020) Reckoning with complexity: the intersection of homelessness and serious mental illness, and its implications for nursing practice. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 27(1), pp. 1-3. (doi: 10.1111/jpm.12575) (PMID:31693782)

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Yuan, Yeqing and Bond, Lynden (2020) Coping amidst an assemblage of disadvantage: a qualitative metasynthesis of first‐person accounts of managing severe mental illness while homeless. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 27(1), pp. 4-24. (doi: 10.1111/jpm.12524) (PMID:31099122)

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 and White, Ross ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4026-6439 (2020) Between the “whispers of the Devil” and “the revelation of the Word”: Christian clergy’s mental health literacy and pastoral support for BME congregants. Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 22(2), pp. 147-172. (doi: 10.1080/19349637.2018.1537755)

McGuire, Nicola, Melville, Craig A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7234-2382, Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 and Gumley, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8888-938X (2020) "She is more about my illness than me": a qualitative study exploring social support in individuals with experiences of psychosis. Psychosis, 12(2), pp. 128-138. (doi: 10.1080/17522439.2019.1699943)

2019

McClelland, H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2818-5230, Langan-Martin, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464, Sharp, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Karadzhov, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 and Cleare, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2728-9356 (2019) Mental Health, Suicide and Suicide Prevention in a Global Context. 3rd Annual Student’s One Health Conference, Glasgow, UK, 09-10 Nov 2019.

Langan-Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464, Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, McClelland, Heather ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2818-5230, Cleare, Seonaid ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2728-9356 and O'Connor, Rory ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3650-4994 (2019) Designing a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): Understanding Suicide and Suicide Prevention Strategies in a Global Context. 30th World Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention: Breaking Down Walls and Building Bridges (IASP 2019), Derry, Ireland, 17-21 Sep 2019.

Sharp, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Karadzhov, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 and Langan-Martin, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 (2019) Alternative (Authentic) Assessments: Professional Skill Enhancement and Development of Graduate Attributes. 12th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, Glasgow, UK, 2-3 Apr 2019.

Deeley, S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6712-3908, Fischbacher-Smith, M., Karadzhov, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 and Koristashevskaya, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5290-0401 (2019) Exploring the ‘wicked’ problem of student dissatisfaction with assessment and feedback in higher education. Higher Education Pedagogies, 4(1), pp. 385-405. (doi: 10.1080/23752696.2019.1644659)

2018

Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 and Langan-Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 (2018) The curious case of blended learning: an evaluation of a curriculum innovation in the Global Mental Health Master’s programme. Journal of Medical Education, 17(3), pp. 149-159.

Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Langan-Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 and Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 (2018) Staged Introduction of Blended Learning – To Blend or Not to Blend? 11th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, Glasgow, UK, 28-29 Mar 2018.

2015

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 (2015) Assessing resilience in war-affected children and adolescents: a critical review. Journal of European Psychology Students, 6(3), pp. 1-13. (doi: 10.5334/jeps.dc)

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Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Hatton, George, Stubbs, Fiona and Langan Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 (2024) More than just an add-on: enhancing discipline-specific employability skills and awareness via the virtual learning environment. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 12(1), pp. 19-35. (doi: 10.56433/jpaap.v12i1.568)

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Lee, Joanne, Hatton-Wotham, George, White, Ross G., Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Jalloh, Abdul and Langan Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 (2024) Identifying core global mental health professional competencies: a multi-sectoral perspective. Global Mental Health, (doi: 10.1017/gmh.2024.26)

Davidson, Jennifer C., Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 and Wilson, Graham (2024) Short take: designing a multinational smartphone app survey during COVID-19: rewards, risks, and recommendations. Field Methods, (doi: 10.1177/1525822x231218192)

Davidson, Jennifer, Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Collins, Hilllary and Brown, Aaron (2023) Complexities of protecting children from violence during the COVID-19 pandemic: providers' and policymakers' best practices, innovations and challenges in 12 countries. Child Abuse and Neglect, 146, 106480. (doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106480) (PMID:37801758)

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Wilson, Graham, Shields, Sophie, Lux, Erin and Davidson, Jennifer C. (2023) Effective child well-being practices, barriers and priority actions: survey findings from service providers and policymakers in 22 countries during COVID-19. Journal of Children's Services, 18(3-4), pp. 207-232. (doi: 10.1108/JCS-10-2022-0028)

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 (2023) “Recovery is fearful to me...”: conceptualizations, concerns and hopes about personal recovery in adults who are chronically homeless. Social Work in Mental Health, 21(3), pp. 285-305. (doi: 10.1080/15332985.2022.2155096)

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 (2023) Personal recovery and socio-structural disadvantage: a critical conceptual review. Health, 27(2), pp. 201-225. (doi: 10.1177/13634593211014250) (PMID:33962518) (PMCID:PMC9923205)

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 (2023) ‘Trials and tribulations’: the ambivalent influence of temporary accommodation on mental health recovery in chronically homeless adults. Qualitative Health Research, 33(3), pp. 176-190. (doi: 10.1177/10497323221147127) (PMID:36644943) (PMCID:PMC9932610)

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Davidson, Jennifer C. and Wilson, Graham (2022) “You cannot pour from an empty cup!”: child well-being service providers’ and policymakers’ professional supervision, coping and well-being during COVID-19. Journal of Public Mental Health, 21(2), pp. 95-107. (doi: 10.1108/JPMH-08-2021-0095)

Davidson, Jennifer C., Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 and Wilson, Graham (2021) Practitioners’ and policymakers’ successes, challenges, innovations, and learning in promoting children’s well-being during COVID-19: protocol for a multinational smartphone app survey. JMIR Research Protocols, 10(7), e31013. (doi: 10.2196/31013) (PMID:34323850)

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141 and Langan Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 (2021) Integrating disciplinary practices to optimally deliver alternative assessments and embed graduate attributes in a global mental health master’s programme. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 9(1), pp. 18-35. (doi: 10.14297/jpaap.v9i1.438)

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 (2021) Explaining mental health recovery in the context of structural disadvantage: the unrealised potential of critical realism. Social Theory and Health, 19(2), pp. 172-185. (doi: 10.1057/s41285-019-00122-z)

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 (2021) Expanding the methodological repertoire of participatory research into homelessness: the utility of the mobile phone diary. Qualitative Social Work, 20(3), pp. 813-831. (doi: 10.1177/1473325020913904)

Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 and Langan-Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 (2020) Delivering the first internationally accessible Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) on suicide prevention: a case study and insights into best practice. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 8(2), pp. 72-80. (doi: 10.14297/jpaap.v8i2.439)

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 (2020) Reckoning with complexity: the intersection of homelessness and serious mental illness, and its implications for nursing practice. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 27(1), pp. 1-3. (doi: 10.1111/jpm.12575) (PMID:31693782)

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Yuan, Yeqing and Bond, Lynden (2020) Coping amidst an assemblage of disadvantage: a qualitative metasynthesis of first‐person accounts of managing severe mental illness while homeless. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 27(1), pp. 4-24. (doi: 10.1111/jpm.12524) (PMID:31099122)

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 and White, Ross ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4026-6439 (2020) Between the “whispers of the Devil” and “the revelation of the Word”: Christian clergy’s mental health literacy and pastoral support for BME congregants. Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 22(2), pp. 147-172. (doi: 10.1080/19349637.2018.1537755)

McGuire, Nicola, Melville, Craig A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7234-2382, Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 and Gumley, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8888-938X (2020) "She is more about my illness than me": a qualitative study exploring social support in individuals with experiences of psychosis. Psychosis, 12(2), pp. 128-138. (doi: 10.1080/17522439.2019.1699943)

Deeley, S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6712-3908, Fischbacher-Smith, M., Karadzhov, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 and Koristashevskaya, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5290-0401 (2019) Exploring the ‘wicked’ problem of student dissatisfaction with assessment and feedback in higher education. Higher Education Pedagogies, 4(1), pp. 385-405. (doi: 10.1080/23752696.2019.1644659)

Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 and Langan-Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 (2018) The curious case of blended learning: an evaluation of a curriculum innovation in the Global Mental Health Master’s programme. Journal of Medical Education, 17(3), pp. 149-159.

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 (2015) Assessing resilience in war-affected children and adolescents: a critical review. Journal of European Psychology Students, 6(3), pp. 1-13. (doi: 10.5334/jeps.dc)

Book Sections

Karadzhov, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Hatton, G., Sharp, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Langan-Martin, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 and Stubbs, F. (2025) Discipline-specific employability skills and awareness via the virtual learning environment: an innovative and transferable approach. In: Norton, S., Short, F. and Dalrymple, R. (eds.) Strengthening the Student Experience: Distilling the 3 Es. Advance HE.

Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 and Paterson, Helena ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7715-5973 (2022) Gathering feedback. In: Hughes, Patrick and Langan Martin, Julie (eds.) Teaching Psychiatry to Undergraduates. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 162-167. ISBN 9781108925976 (doi: 10.1017/9781108921206.025)

Conference or Workshop Item

Kolinska, Ula and Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 (2025) “You Feel Hopeless, When You Can't Access Healthcare”: International Students’ Experiences of Mental Health Help-Seeking Through Primary Healthcare Services in Scotland. ECQI2025 - 8th European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Edinburgh, Scotland, 8-10 January 2025.

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Wilson, Mia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2155-8658, Foley, Ailsa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8413-9820, Langan Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 and Davies, Eric (2024) Applying 'A Multi-Pronged Approach to Plagiarism Prevention and Academic Integrity Training. Advance HE Webinar: Using the Framework for Enhancing Assessment, 4 December 2024.

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Wilson, Mia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2155-8658, Foley, Ailsa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8413-9820, Langan-Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 and Davies, Eric (2024) A Multi-Pronged Approach to Plagiarism Prevention and Academic Integrity Training. Advance HE Assessment and Feedback Symposium 2024, Online, 05 Nov 2024.

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Hatton-Wotham, George, Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Langan Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 and Stubbs, Fiona (2024) Discipline-Specific Employability Skills and Awareness via the Virtual Learning Environment: Piloting an Innovative and Transferable Approach. Advance HE Employability Symposium 2024: Distilling The 3Es, Leeds, UK, 25 Apr 2024.

Jalloh, Abdul and Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 (2023) Community Health Workers' Perceptions of Depression and of Barriers and Facilitators in Mental Health Care in Sierra Leone: A Qualitative Study. RCPsych International Congress 2023. BJPsych Open 9(Supplement S1), Liverpool, UK, 10-13 Jul 2023. S26. (doi: 10.1192/bjo.2023.137)

Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141 and Langan Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 (2022) Harnessing Problem-Based Learning to Foster Student Adaptability and Inter-Cultural Awareness and Exchange. 15th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, 29 Mar 2022.

Langan-Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464, Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, McNaughton, Laura, Weldon, Matthew and le Jeune d’Allegeershecque, Julien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5375-5907 (2021) Ensuring Learner Safety and Wellbeing When Teaching Sensitive Topics. Professionalism in Healthcare 2021: Adapting to the Seasons, 01 Oct 2021.

le Jeune D'Allegeershecque, Julien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5375-5907, Langan-Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464, Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, McNaughton, Laura and Weldon, Matthew (2021) Developing and Refining Course Content While Remote Working. 14th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, 18 Jun 2021.

Langan-Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464, Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, Cleare, Seonaid ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2728-9356, Syrett, Suzanne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-7883, Zortea, Tiago ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8451-0555 and O'Connor, Rory ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3650-4994 (2020) Designing a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): Understanding Suicide and Suicide Prevention Strategies in a Global Context. Findings from the March and Sep 2019 runs. 13th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, 25 Aug 2020.

Langan-Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464, Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, McNaughton, Laura, Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 and Weldon, Matthew (2020) Delivering Sensitive Course Content by Embedding Self-Care Resources for Students in Learning Materials. 13th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, 25 Aug 2020.

McClelland, H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2818-5230, Langan-Martin, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464, Sharp, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Karadzhov, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 and Cleare, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2728-9356 (2019) Mental Health, Suicide and Suicide Prevention in a Global Context. 3rd Annual Student’s One Health Conference, Glasgow, UK, 09-10 Nov 2019.

Langan-Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464, Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848, McClelland, Heather ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2818-5230, Cleare, Seonaid ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2728-9356 and O'Connor, Rory ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3650-4994 (2019) Designing a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): Understanding Suicide and Suicide Prevention Strategies in a Global Context. 30th World Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention: Breaking Down Walls and Building Bridges (IASP 2019), Derry, Ireland, 17-21 Sep 2019.

Sharp, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Karadzhov, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 and Langan-Martin, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 (2019) Alternative (Authentic) Assessments: Professional Skill Enhancement and Development of Graduate Attributes. 12th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, Glasgow, UK, 2-3 Apr 2019.

Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Langan-Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 and Karadzhov, Dimitar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-6848 (2018) Staged Introduction of Blended Learning – To Blend or Not to Blend? 11th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, Glasgow, UK, 28-29 Mar 2018.

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Supervision

Teaching

Global Mental Health MSc (on-campus and online distance learning) Courses

  • Improving Access to Mental Health Care in the Global Context - Course Co-ordinator
  • Research Methods (Qualitative, Quantitative and Health Economics) - Course Co-ordinator
  • Themes in Global Mental Health
  • Cultural, Social and Biological Determinants of Mental Health
  • Mental Health Promotion across the Lifespan
  • Mental Health and Disability: International Law and Policy

 

Open and Distance Learning

Dr Karadzhov is also a Lead Educator of the massive open online course (MOOC), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the Global Context.

Professional activities & recognition

Prizes, awards & distinctions

  • 2021: Teaching Excellence Award (Team) (University of Glasgow)
  • 2020: Student-led Training Fund Award (ESRC and Scottish Funding Council)
  • 2019: Best Conference Poster Prize (International Association of Suicide Prevention)
  • 2016: The Liz Campbell Memorial Prize (University of Glasgow Senate)
  • 2014: The Henry J. Watt Prize in Experimental Psychology (University of Glasgow)
  • 2013: Vacation Scholarship (Medical Research Scotland)

Selected international presentations

  • 2020: Victim Support Europe (VSE) Annual Conference 2020 (Virtual)
  • 2019: Mental health and inclusive society: Transatlantic perspectives (Pre-conference) (New York City, U.S.)
  • 2019: Refocus on Recovery International Conference (Nottingham, U.K.)
  • 2017: Growing resilience: Researching beyond academia (Pre-conference) (Zagreb, Croatia)
  • 2017: European Conference for Social Work Research (Aalborg, Denmark)

Dimitar Karadzhov