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.

Dr Karadzhov's primary research interests include mental health recovery and health inequalities; global mental health; public health; homelessness; child welfare and human rights; qualitative and smartphone-assisted research methodologies; and learning technologies.

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
  • Public health
  • Homelessness
  • Human rights
  • Qualitative and smartphone-assisted research methodologies
  • Learning technologies

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, (doi: 10.1108/JCS-10-2022-0028) (Early Online Publication)

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, (doi: 10.1108/JCS-10-2022-0028) (Early Online Publication)

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 , and an Educator of the microcredential, Impact of Trauma on Mental Health. 

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