Dr Mark McCann

  • Senior Research Fellow (MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit)

telephone: 0141 353 7588
email: Mark.McCann@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: He/him/his

MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Clarice Pears Building, 90 Byres Road, Glasgow, G12 8TB

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6100-1416

Biography

Mark is the workstream lead for the Peer networks workstream in the SPHSU relationships programme.

His research focuses on network analysis, systems science methods, co-production approaches and working with peer researchers, and how these approaches help to understand and improve health.

Mark's current research looks at relationships and adolescent health. Mark was co-lead for the Social connections and relationships theme of the UK TRIUMPH network; and is Principal Investigator for SOCITS, a project developing new methods for understanding and measuring adolescent mental health, and Net4health, a study of how social relationships and health behaviour have changed over the past 20 years. 

He also conducts research on substance use, with recent studies looking at the effect of COVID19 on interactions with substance use treatment services (ICAROS), Understanding the complex system surrounding Drug Related Deaths in Scotland, and the evaluation of Minimum Unit Pricing for alcohol.  

Mark has a keen interest in developing his own and other's skills in research methods. He convenes an annual "Introduction to Networks and Health Improvement" short course; and provides methodological advice and support for projects looking at social connections and healthy ageing, Trans healthcare pathways, fear of relapse in psychosis, and whole system approaches to healthy weight. 

 

Research interests

Mark is interested in supervising PhD and Masters Students who would want to do work in one, or a combination of the following topics or areas. Mark would encourage those from disciplines not traditionally associated with public health (e.g. computing science, engineering, ecology) to get in touch to find out about interdisciplinary projects.

Substantive topics

Alcohol and other drug use, dependence and recovery.

Mental health, suicide, self-harm.

Family, friend, social and cultural influences on health and health behaviours.

Social isolation, social support and health.

Systems thinking methods and visualising complex systems.

Methodological areas

Social Network Analysis: Studying the formation of social networks, and how networks influence health outcomes and health behaviours. For example:

‘Peer pressure’ versus ‘choosing similar friends’ as explanations for friendship group structure and drinking & drug use among school pupils.

Social support and social isolation, and the influence they have on health behaviours and outcomes.

Methodology for collecting data on social networks.

Complex systems science: Understanding the interaction of individuals with each other, their environment, or with organisations leads to complex structures and patterns at the system level, and methods for understanding systems. Systems mapping and group model building.

Statistical methods: The application of advanced and novel statistical methods to the topics outlined above. For example:

Multilevel modelling, Latent Class, Latent Profile, and Latent Transition Analysis, Directed acyclic graphs and causal inference methods, Simulation Investigation for Empirical Network Analysis (SIENA).

Publications

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2025

Kwasnicka, D., O’Gorman, A., Anderson, M. , Bowman, L. and McCann, M. (2025) A N-of-1 social network approach to study the social dynamics of alcohol consumption in the context of Minimum Unit Pricing legislation. Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, (Accepted for Publication)

2024

Allan, S. et al. (2024) Co-designing a low-intensity psychological therapy for fear of recurrence in psychosis using translational learning from fear of recurrence in oncology: protocol for intervention development for future testing in a feasibility study. BMJ Open, 14(12), e090566. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-090566) (PMID:39732497) (PMCID:PMC11683982)

Olsen, J. R. et al. (2024) Individual, social and area level factors associated with older people’s walking: analysis of an UK household panel study (Understanding Society). Social Science and Medicine, 358, 117083. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117083) (PMID:39226800)

Letina, S., Long, E. , Mccrorie, P. , Mitchell, K. , Zucca, C., Riddell, J. , Simpson, S. A. , Moore, L. and McCann, M. (2024) Cross-sectional social network study of adolescent peer group variation in substance use and mental wellbeing: the importance of the meso-level. Social Networks, 78, pp. 119-137. (doi: 10.1016/j.socnet.2023.12.002)

McCann, M. , Bianchi, F., Letina, S., Stewart, S., McLeod, K. and Tranmer, M. (2024) A social network analysis approach to assess COVID19-related disruption to substance use treatment and informal social interactions among people who use drugs in Scotland. Addiction Science and Clinical Practice, 19, 42. (doi: 10.1186/s13722-024-00469-3) (PMID:38778422) (PMCID:PMC11110318)

Long, E. , Thomson, M. , Milicev, J. , Goodfellow, C. , Letina, S., Bradley, S. and McCann, M. (2024) Loneliness, social support, and social networks: Urban-rural variation and links to wellbeing in Scotland. Journal of Public Health, (doi: 10.1007/s10389-024-02236-9) (Early Online Publication)

2023

Griffiths, C. et al. (2023) A complex systems approach to obesity: a transdisciplinary framework for action. Perspectives in Public Health, 143(6), pp. 305-309. (doi: 10.1177/17579139231180761) (PMID:37395317) (PMCID:PMC10683338)

Anderson, M. , Long, E. and McCann, M. (2023) Social Network Characteristics Associated with Physical Activity in Adults Aged 55-75 Living in Two Deprived Communities in Scotland. 7th European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN 2023), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 04-08 Sep 2023.

Milicev, J. , McCann, M. , Simpson, S. A. , Biello, S. M. and Gardani, M. (2023) Evaluating mental health and wellbeing of postgraduate researchers: prevalence and contributing factors. Current Psychology, 42(14), pp. 12267-12280. (doi: 10.1007/s12144-021-02309-y)

Littlecott, H. J. et al. (2023) Perceptions of friendship, peers and influence on adolescent smoking according to tobacco control context: a systematic review and meta-ethnography of qualitative research. BMC Public Health, 23, 424. (doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14727-z) (PMID:36869343) (PMCID:PMC9983235)

2022

Taylor, A., McMellon, C., French, T., Maclachlan, A. , Evans, R., Lewis, R. , McCann, M. , Moore, L. , Simpson, S. and Inchley, J. (2022) Defining research priorities for youth public mental health: reflections on a coproduction approach to transdisciplinary working. Health Research Policy and Systems, 20, 72. (doi: 10.1186/s12961-022-00871-w) (PMID:35725482) (PMCID:PMC9207849)

Moriarty, J., Maguire, A., Edgar-Fitzsimons, N. and McCann, M. (2022) Health costs and benefits associated with economic transitions: linking records of address change, property value, and self-reported health. Population, Space and Place, 28(3), e2466. (doi: 10.1002/psp.2466)

Long, E. et al. (2022) COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on social relationships and health. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 76(2), pp. 128-132. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2021-216690) (PMID:34413184) (PMCID:PMC8380476)

Littlecott, H. J., Moore, G. F., McCann, M. , Melendez-Torres, G. J., Mercken, L., Reed, H., Mann, M., Dobbie, F. and Hawkins, J. (2022) Exploring the association between school-based peer networks and smoking according to socioeconomic status and tobacco control context: a systematic review. BMC Public Health, 22(1), 142. (doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-12333-z) (PMID:35057769) (PMCID:PMC8772141)

2021

Zucca, C. , Long, E. , Hilton, J. and McCann, M. (2021) Appraising the implementation of complexity approaches within the Public Health Sector in Scotland. An assessment framework for pre-implementation policy evaluation. Frontiers in Public Health, 9, 653588. (doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.653588) (PMID:34631638) (PMCID:PMC8492954)

Anderson, M. , Devlin, A. M. , Pickering, L. , McCann, M. and Wight, D. (2021) 'It’s not 9 to 5 recovery': the role of a recovery community in producing social bonds that support recovery. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 28(5), pp. 475-485. (doi: 10.1080/09687637.2021.1933911) (PMID:34675456) (PMCID:PMC8522802)

Higgins, K., O'Neill, N., O’Hara, L., Jordan, J.-A., McCann, M. , O’Neill, T., Clarke, M., O’Neill, T., Kelly, G. and Campbell, A. (2021) New psychoactives within polydrug use trajectories—evidence from a mixed‐method longitudinal study. Addiction, 116(9), pp. 2454-2462. (doi: 10.1111/add.15422) (PMID:33506985)

Smith, M. J. , Baxter, A. J. , Skivington, K. , McCann, M. , Hilton, S. and Katikireddi, S. V. (2021) Examining the sources of evidence in e-cigarette policy recommendations: a citation network analysis of international public health recommendations. PLoS ONE, 16(8), e0255604. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0255604) (PMID:34347823) (PMCID:PMC8336794)

Silverman, E. , Gostoli, U. , Picascia, S. , Almagor, J. , McCann, M. , Shaw, R. and Angione, C. (2021) Situating agent-based modelling in population health research. Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, 18, 10. (doi: 10.1186/s12982-021-00102-7) (PMID:34330302) (PMCID:PMC8325181)

Kwasnicka, D., Boroujerdi, M., O’Gorman, A., Anderson, M. , Craig, P. , Bowman, L. and McCann, M. (2021) An N-of-1 study of daily alcohol consumption following minimum unit pricing implementation in Scotland. Addiction, 116(7), pp. 1725-1733. (doi: 10.1111/add.15382) (PMID:33372333) (PMCID:PMC8248017)

Mitchell, K. R. et al. (2021) Feasibility study of peer-led and school-based social network Intervention (STASH) to promote adolescent sexual health. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 7, 125. (doi: 10.1186/s40814-021-00835-x) (PMID:34127082) (PMCID:PMC8201683)

Broccatelli, C. , Wang, P., McDaid, L. , McCann, M. , Simpson, S. A. , Elliott, L., Moore, L. and Mitchell, K. (2021) Social Network Research contribution to evaluating process in a feasibility study of a peer-led and school-based sexual health intervention. Scientific Reports, 11, 12244. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-90852-w) (PMID:34112848) (PMCID:PMC8192897)

2020

Mitchell, K. et al. (2020) A peer-led intervention to promote sexual health in secondary schools: the STASH feasibility study. Public Health Research, 8(15), (doi: 10.3310/phr08150) (PMID:33252893)

Vo, D.-B. , Lazarova, K., Purchase, H. C. and McCann, M. (2020) Visual Causality: Investigating Graph Layouts for Understanding Causal Processes. In: 11th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams (Diagrams 2020), Tallinn, Estonia, 24-28 Aug 2020, pp. 332-347. ISBN 9783030542481 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-54249-8_26)

Higgins, K., Perra, O., Jordan, J.-A., O'Neill, T. and McCann, M. (2020) School bonding and ethos in trajectories of offending: results from the Belfast Youth Development Study. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 90(2), pp. 424-448. (doi: 10.1111/bjep.12303) (PMID:32065389) (PMCID:PMC7317740)

Long, E. , Gardani, M. , McCann, M. , Sweeting, H. , Tranmer, M. and Moore, L. (2020) Mental health disorders and adolescent peer relationships. Social Science and Medicine, 253, 112973. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112973) (PMID:32283352) (PMCID:PMC7248572)

Ferguson, K. D., McCann, M. , Katikireddi, S. V. , Thomson, H. , Green, M. J. , Smith, D. J. and Lewsey, J. D. (2020) Evidence synthesis for constructing directed acyclic graphs (ESC-DAGs): a novel and systematic method for building directed acyclic graphs. International Journal of Epidemiology, 49(1), pp. 322-329. (doi: 10.1093/ije/dyz150) (PMID:31325312) (PMCID:PMC7124493)

Sinclair, J. M.A., Dutey-Magni, P. F., Anderson, A. S., Baird, J., Barker, M. E., Cutress, R. I., Kaner, E. F.S., McCann, M. , Priest, C. K. and Copson, E. R. (2020) A context-specific digital alcohol brief intervention in symptomatic breast clinics (Abreast of Health): development and usability study. JMIR Research Protocols, 9(1), e14580. (doi: 10.2196/14580) (PMID:32012091)

2019

Anderson, M. , Devlin, A.M. , McCann, M. , Pickering, L. and Wight, D. (2019) It’s Not Nine-to-Five Recovery: How Recovery Communities Help Sustain Long-Term Recovery From Problem Alcohol and Other Drug Use. Faculty of Public Health (Scotland) Annual Conference, Dunblane, Scotland, 28-29 Nov 2019.

McCann, M. , Jordan, J.-A., Higgins, K. and Moore, L. (2019) Longitudinal social network analysis of peer, family and school contextual influences on adolescent drinking frequency. Journal of Adolescent Health, 65(3), pp. 350-358. (doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2019.03.004) (PMID:31196786) (PMCID:PMC6710020)

Higgins, K., O’Neill, N., O’Hara, L., Jordan, J.-A., McCann, M. , O’Neill, T., Clarke, M., O’Neill, T. and Campbell, A. (2019) Evidence for public health on novel psychoactive substance use: a mixed-methods study. Public Health Research, 7(14), pp. 1-150. (doi: 10.3310/phr07140)

Sinclair, J., McCann, M. , Sheldon, E., Gordon, I., Brierley-Jones, L. and Copson, E. (2019) The acceptability of addressing alcohol consumption as a modifiable risk factor for breast cancer: a mixed method study within breast screening services and symptomatic breast clinics. BMJ Open, 9, e027371. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027371) (PMID:31209091) (PMCID:PMC6609127)

Jordan, J.-A., McCann, M. , Katikireddi, S. V. and Higgins, K. (2019) Harmonising alcohol consumption, sales and related outcomes data across the UK and Ireland: an insurmountable barrier to policy evaluation? Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 26(5), pp. 385-393. (doi: 10.1080/09687637.2018.1488948)

2018

Forsyth, R. et al. (2018) Peer-led intervention to prevent and reduce STI transmission and improve sexual health in secondary schools (STASH): protocol for a feasibility study. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 4, 180. (doi: 10.1186/s40814-018-0354-9) (PMID:30519482) (PMCID:PMC6264037)

Mccann, M. , Broccatelli, C., Moore, L. and Mitchell, K. (2018) Distribution of Sexual Health Knowledge and Attitudes in Adolescent Social Networks: Social Network Analysis of Data from the STIs and Sexual Health Feasibility Study. Lancet Public Health Science 2018, Belfast, UK, 23 Nov 2018. S60. (doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32047-6)

Higgins, K., McLaughlin, A., Perra, O., McCartan, C., McCann, M. , Percy, A. and Jordan, J. A. (2018) The Belfast Youth Development Study (BYDS): A prospective cohort study of the initiation, persistence and desistance of substance use from adolescence to adulthood in Northern Ireland. PLoS ONE, 13(5), e0195192. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0195192) (PMID:29791433) (PMCID:PMC5965826)

Tay Wee Teck, J. and Mccann, M. (2018) Tracking internet interest in anabolic-androgenic steroids using Google Trends. International Journal of Drug Policy, 51, pp. 52-55. (doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.11.001) (PMID:29197722) (PMCID:PMC5788329)

Yerima, S. Y. et al. (2018) MobiQ: a modular Android application for collecting social interaction, repeated survey, GPS and photographic data. SoftwareX, 7, pp. 143-149. (doi: 10.1016/j.softx.2018.04.006)

2017

Maguire, A., Moriaty, J., O'Reilly, D. and McCann, M. (2017) Education as a predictor of antidepressant and anxiolytic medication use after bereavement: a population-based record linkage study. Quality of Life Research, 26(5), pp. 1251-1262. (doi: 10.1007/s11136-016-1440-1) (PMID:27770330) (PMCID:PMC5376389)

2016

Vanderbloemen, L., Minton, J. , Green, M., Mccann, M. and Shaw, R. (2016) Visualising Age-Period-Cohort Patterns in Health Data Using Lexis Surfaces. 60th Anniversary of the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Social Medicine, York, UK, 14-16 Sep 2016. (Unpublished)

Maguire, L. K., Niens, U., Mccann, M. and Connolly, P. (2016) Emotional development among early school-age children: gender differences in the role of problem behaviours. Educational Psychology, 36(8), pp. 1408-1428. (doi: 10.1080/01443410.2015.1034090) (PMID:27570322) (PMCID:PMC4975098)

Mccann, M. , Perra, O., McLaughlin, A., McCartan, C. and Higgins, K. (2016) Assessing elements of a family approach to reduce adolescent drinking frequency: parent-adolescent relationship, knowledge management, and keeping secrets. Addiction, 111(5), pp. 843-853. (doi: 10.1111/add.13258) (PMID:26638189) (PMCID:PMC4949705)

2015

Moriarty, J., Maguire, A., O’Reilly, D. and McCann, M. (2015) Bereavement following informal care-giving: assessing mental health burden using linked population data. American Journal of Public Health, 105(8), pp. 1630-1637. (doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302597) (PMID:26066918) (PMCID:PMC4504303)

Dunne, L., Mccann, M. , Millen, S., Wilson, J. and Macdonald, G. (2015) Overconfidence, sexual health awareness and sexual health risk among young female users of sexual health clinics. International Journal of Educational Research, 71, pp. 26-31. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijer.2015.02.007)

Hintsa, T., Kouvonen, A., McCann, M. , Jokela, M., Elovainio, M. and Demakakos, P. (2015) Higher effort-reward imbalance and lower job control predict exit from the labour market at the age of 61 years or younger: evidence from the English longitudinal study of ageing. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 69(6), pp. 543-549. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2014-205148) (PMID:25631860) (PMCID:PMC4453492)

2014

McCann, M. , Grundy, E. and O’Reilly, D. (2014) Urban and rural differences in risk of admission to a care home: a census-based follow-up study. Health and Place, 30, pp. 171-176. (doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2014.09.009) (PMID:25299173)

Mccann, M. , Higgins, K., Perra, O., McCartan, C. and McLaughlin, A. (2014) Adolescent ecstasy use and depression: cause and effect, or two outcomes of home environment? European Journal of Public Health, 24(5), pp. 845-850. (doi: 10.1093/eurpub/cku062)

2012

McCann, M. , Donnelly, M. and O'Reilly, D. (2012) Gender differences in care home admission risk: partner's age explains the higher risk for women. Age and Ageing, 41(3), pp. 416-419. (doi: 10.1093/ageing/afs022)

McCann, M. , Grundy, E. and O'Reilly, D. (2012) Why is housing tenure associated with a lower risk of admission to a nursing or residential home? Wealth, health and the incentive to keep 'my home'. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 66(2), pp. 166-169. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2011-200315)

2011

McCann, M. and Wheeler, S. (2011) Gender diversity in the FTSE 100: the business case claim explored. Journal of Law and Society, 38(4), pp. 542-574. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6478.2011.00558.x)

McCann, M. , Donnelly, M. and O'Reilly, D. (2011) Living arrangements, relationship to people in the household and admission to care homes for older people. Age and Ageing, 40(3), pp. 358-363. (doi: 10.1093/ageing/afr031)

2009

McCann, M. , O'Reilly, D. and Cardwell, C. (2009) A Census-based longitudinal study of variations in survival amongst residents of nursing and residential homes in Northern Ireland. Age and Ageing, 38(6), pp. 711-717. (doi: 10.1093/ageing/afp173)

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Articles

Kwasnicka, D., O’Gorman, A., Anderson, M. , Bowman, L. and McCann, M. (2025) A N-of-1 social network approach to study the social dynamics of alcohol consumption in the context of Minimum Unit Pricing legislation. Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, (Accepted for Publication)

Allan, S. et al. (2024) Co-designing a low-intensity psychological therapy for fear of recurrence in psychosis using translational learning from fear of recurrence in oncology: protocol for intervention development for future testing in a feasibility study. BMJ Open, 14(12), e090566. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-090566) (PMID:39732497) (PMCID:PMC11683982)

Olsen, J. R. et al. (2024) Individual, social and area level factors associated with older people’s walking: analysis of an UK household panel study (Understanding Society). Social Science and Medicine, 358, 117083. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117083) (PMID:39226800)

Letina, S., Long, E. , Mccrorie, P. , Mitchell, K. , Zucca, C., Riddell, J. , Simpson, S. A. , Moore, L. and McCann, M. (2024) Cross-sectional social network study of adolescent peer group variation in substance use and mental wellbeing: the importance of the meso-level. Social Networks, 78, pp. 119-137. (doi: 10.1016/j.socnet.2023.12.002)

McCann, M. , Bianchi, F., Letina, S., Stewart, S., McLeod, K. and Tranmer, M. (2024) A social network analysis approach to assess COVID19-related disruption to substance use treatment and informal social interactions among people who use drugs in Scotland. Addiction Science and Clinical Practice, 19, 42. (doi: 10.1186/s13722-024-00469-3) (PMID:38778422) (PMCID:PMC11110318)

Long, E. , Thomson, M. , Milicev, J. , Goodfellow, C. , Letina, S., Bradley, S. and McCann, M. (2024) Loneliness, social support, and social networks: Urban-rural variation and links to wellbeing in Scotland. Journal of Public Health, (doi: 10.1007/s10389-024-02236-9) (Early Online Publication)

Griffiths, C. et al. (2023) A complex systems approach to obesity: a transdisciplinary framework for action. Perspectives in Public Health, 143(6), pp. 305-309. (doi: 10.1177/17579139231180761) (PMID:37395317) (PMCID:PMC10683338)

Milicev, J. , McCann, M. , Simpson, S. A. , Biello, S. M. and Gardani, M. (2023) Evaluating mental health and wellbeing of postgraduate researchers: prevalence and contributing factors. Current Psychology, 42(14), pp. 12267-12280. (doi: 10.1007/s12144-021-02309-y)

Littlecott, H. J. et al. (2023) Perceptions of friendship, peers and influence on adolescent smoking according to tobacco control context: a systematic review and meta-ethnography of qualitative research. BMC Public Health, 23, 424. (doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14727-z) (PMID:36869343) (PMCID:PMC9983235)

Taylor, A., McMellon, C., French, T., Maclachlan, A. , Evans, R., Lewis, R. , McCann, M. , Moore, L. , Simpson, S. and Inchley, J. (2022) Defining research priorities for youth public mental health: reflections on a coproduction approach to transdisciplinary working. Health Research Policy and Systems, 20, 72. (doi: 10.1186/s12961-022-00871-w) (PMID:35725482) (PMCID:PMC9207849)

Moriarty, J., Maguire, A., Edgar-Fitzsimons, N. and McCann, M. (2022) Health costs and benefits associated with economic transitions: linking records of address change, property value, and self-reported health. Population, Space and Place, 28(3), e2466. (doi: 10.1002/psp.2466)

Long, E. et al. (2022) COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on social relationships and health. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 76(2), pp. 128-132. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2021-216690) (PMID:34413184) (PMCID:PMC8380476)

Littlecott, H. J., Moore, G. F., McCann, M. , Melendez-Torres, G. J., Mercken, L., Reed, H., Mann, M., Dobbie, F. and Hawkins, J. (2022) Exploring the association between school-based peer networks and smoking according to socioeconomic status and tobacco control context: a systematic review. BMC Public Health, 22(1), 142. (doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-12333-z) (PMID:35057769) (PMCID:PMC8772141)

Zucca, C. , Long, E. , Hilton, J. and McCann, M. (2021) Appraising the implementation of complexity approaches within the Public Health Sector in Scotland. An assessment framework for pre-implementation policy evaluation. Frontiers in Public Health, 9, 653588. (doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.653588) (PMID:34631638) (PMCID:PMC8492954)

Anderson, M. , Devlin, A. M. , Pickering, L. , McCann, M. and Wight, D. (2021) 'It’s not 9 to 5 recovery': the role of a recovery community in producing social bonds that support recovery. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 28(5), pp. 475-485. (doi: 10.1080/09687637.2021.1933911) (PMID:34675456) (PMCID:PMC8522802)

Higgins, K., O'Neill, N., O’Hara, L., Jordan, J.-A., McCann, M. , O’Neill, T., Clarke, M., O’Neill, T., Kelly, G. and Campbell, A. (2021) New psychoactives within polydrug use trajectories—evidence from a mixed‐method longitudinal study. Addiction, 116(9), pp. 2454-2462. (doi: 10.1111/add.15422) (PMID:33506985)

Smith, M. J. , Baxter, A. J. , Skivington, K. , McCann, M. , Hilton, S. and Katikireddi, S. V. (2021) Examining the sources of evidence in e-cigarette policy recommendations: a citation network analysis of international public health recommendations. PLoS ONE, 16(8), e0255604. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0255604) (PMID:34347823) (PMCID:PMC8336794)

Silverman, E. , Gostoli, U. , Picascia, S. , Almagor, J. , McCann, M. , Shaw, R. and Angione, C. (2021) Situating agent-based modelling in population health research. Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, 18, 10. (doi: 10.1186/s12982-021-00102-7) (PMID:34330302) (PMCID:PMC8325181)

Kwasnicka, D., Boroujerdi, M., O’Gorman, A., Anderson, M. , Craig, P. , Bowman, L. and McCann, M. (2021) An N-of-1 study of daily alcohol consumption following minimum unit pricing implementation in Scotland. Addiction, 116(7), pp. 1725-1733. (doi: 10.1111/add.15382) (PMID:33372333) (PMCID:PMC8248017)

Mitchell, K. R. et al. (2021) Feasibility study of peer-led and school-based social network Intervention (STASH) to promote adolescent sexual health. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 7, 125. (doi: 10.1186/s40814-021-00835-x) (PMID:34127082) (PMCID:PMC8201683)

Broccatelli, C. , Wang, P., McDaid, L. , McCann, M. , Simpson, S. A. , Elliott, L., Moore, L. and Mitchell, K. (2021) Social Network Research contribution to evaluating process in a feasibility study of a peer-led and school-based sexual health intervention. Scientific Reports, 11, 12244. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-90852-w) (PMID:34112848) (PMCID:PMC8192897)

Mitchell, K. et al. (2020) A peer-led intervention to promote sexual health in secondary schools: the STASH feasibility study. Public Health Research, 8(15), (doi: 10.3310/phr08150) (PMID:33252893)

Higgins, K., Perra, O., Jordan, J.-A., O'Neill, T. and McCann, M. (2020) School bonding and ethos in trajectories of offending: results from the Belfast Youth Development Study. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 90(2), pp. 424-448. (doi: 10.1111/bjep.12303) (PMID:32065389) (PMCID:PMC7317740)

Long, E. , Gardani, M. , McCann, M. , Sweeting, H. , Tranmer, M. and Moore, L. (2020) Mental health disorders and adolescent peer relationships. Social Science and Medicine, 253, 112973. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112973) (PMID:32283352) (PMCID:PMC7248572)

Ferguson, K. D., McCann, M. , Katikireddi, S. V. , Thomson, H. , Green, M. J. , Smith, D. J. and Lewsey, J. D. (2020) Evidence synthesis for constructing directed acyclic graphs (ESC-DAGs): a novel and systematic method for building directed acyclic graphs. International Journal of Epidemiology, 49(1), pp. 322-329. (doi: 10.1093/ije/dyz150) (PMID:31325312) (PMCID:PMC7124493)

Sinclair, J. M.A., Dutey-Magni, P. F., Anderson, A. S., Baird, J., Barker, M. E., Cutress, R. I., Kaner, E. F.S., McCann, M. , Priest, C. K. and Copson, E. R. (2020) A context-specific digital alcohol brief intervention in symptomatic breast clinics (Abreast of Health): development and usability study. JMIR Research Protocols, 9(1), e14580. (doi: 10.2196/14580) (PMID:32012091)

McCann, M. , Jordan, J.-A., Higgins, K. and Moore, L. (2019) Longitudinal social network analysis of peer, family and school contextual influences on adolescent drinking frequency. Journal of Adolescent Health, 65(3), pp. 350-358. (doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2019.03.004) (PMID:31196786) (PMCID:PMC6710020)

Higgins, K., O’Neill, N., O’Hara, L., Jordan, J.-A., McCann, M. , O’Neill, T., Clarke, M., O’Neill, T. and Campbell, A. (2019) Evidence for public health on novel psychoactive substance use: a mixed-methods study. Public Health Research, 7(14), pp. 1-150. (doi: 10.3310/phr07140)

Sinclair, J., McCann, M. , Sheldon, E., Gordon, I., Brierley-Jones, L. and Copson, E. (2019) The acceptability of addressing alcohol consumption as a modifiable risk factor for breast cancer: a mixed method study within breast screening services and symptomatic breast clinics. BMJ Open, 9, e027371. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027371) (PMID:31209091) (PMCID:PMC6609127)

Jordan, J.-A., McCann, M. , Katikireddi, S. V. and Higgins, K. (2019) Harmonising alcohol consumption, sales and related outcomes data across the UK and Ireland: an insurmountable barrier to policy evaluation? Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 26(5), pp. 385-393. (doi: 10.1080/09687637.2018.1488948)

Forsyth, R. et al. (2018) Peer-led intervention to prevent and reduce STI transmission and improve sexual health in secondary schools (STASH): protocol for a feasibility study. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 4, 180. (doi: 10.1186/s40814-018-0354-9) (PMID:30519482) (PMCID:PMC6264037)

Higgins, K., McLaughlin, A., Perra, O., McCartan, C., McCann, M. , Percy, A. and Jordan, J. A. (2018) The Belfast Youth Development Study (BYDS): A prospective cohort study of the initiation, persistence and desistance of substance use from adolescence to adulthood in Northern Ireland. PLoS ONE, 13(5), e0195192. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0195192) (PMID:29791433) (PMCID:PMC5965826)

Tay Wee Teck, J. and Mccann, M. (2018) Tracking internet interest in anabolic-androgenic steroids using Google Trends. International Journal of Drug Policy, 51, pp. 52-55. (doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.11.001) (PMID:29197722) (PMCID:PMC5788329)

Yerima, S. Y. et al. (2018) MobiQ: a modular Android application for collecting social interaction, repeated survey, GPS and photographic data. SoftwareX, 7, pp. 143-149. (doi: 10.1016/j.softx.2018.04.006)

Maguire, A., Moriaty, J., O'Reilly, D. and McCann, M. (2017) Education as a predictor of antidepressant and anxiolytic medication use after bereavement: a population-based record linkage study. Quality of Life Research, 26(5), pp. 1251-1262. (doi: 10.1007/s11136-016-1440-1) (PMID:27770330) (PMCID:PMC5376389)

Maguire, L. K., Niens, U., Mccann, M. and Connolly, P. (2016) Emotional development among early school-age children: gender differences in the role of problem behaviours. Educational Psychology, 36(8), pp. 1408-1428. (doi: 10.1080/01443410.2015.1034090) (PMID:27570322) (PMCID:PMC4975098)

Mccann, M. , Perra, O., McLaughlin, A., McCartan, C. and Higgins, K. (2016) Assessing elements of a family approach to reduce adolescent drinking frequency: parent-adolescent relationship, knowledge management, and keeping secrets. Addiction, 111(5), pp. 843-853. (doi: 10.1111/add.13258) (PMID:26638189) (PMCID:PMC4949705)

Moriarty, J., Maguire, A., O’Reilly, D. and McCann, M. (2015) Bereavement following informal care-giving: assessing mental health burden using linked population data. American Journal of Public Health, 105(8), pp. 1630-1637. (doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302597) (PMID:26066918) (PMCID:PMC4504303)

Dunne, L., Mccann, M. , Millen, S., Wilson, J. and Macdonald, G. (2015) Overconfidence, sexual health awareness and sexual health risk among young female users of sexual health clinics. International Journal of Educational Research, 71, pp. 26-31. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijer.2015.02.007)

Hintsa, T., Kouvonen, A., McCann, M. , Jokela, M., Elovainio, M. and Demakakos, P. (2015) Higher effort-reward imbalance and lower job control predict exit from the labour market at the age of 61 years or younger: evidence from the English longitudinal study of ageing. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 69(6), pp. 543-549. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2014-205148) (PMID:25631860) (PMCID:PMC4453492)

McCann, M. , Grundy, E. and O’Reilly, D. (2014) Urban and rural differences in risk of admission to a care home: a census-based follow-up study. Health and Place, 30, pp. 171-176. (doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2014.09.009) (PMID:25299173)

Mccann, M. , Higgins, K., Perra, O., McCartan, C. and McLaughlin, A. (2014) Adolescent ecstasy use and depression: cause and effect, or two outcomes of home environment? European Journal of Public Health, 24(5), pp. 845-850. (doi: 10.1093/eurpub/cku062)

McCann, M. , Donnelly, M. and O'Reilly, D. (2012) Gender differences in care home admission risk: partner's age explains the higher risk for women. Age and Ageing, 41(3), pp. 416-419. (doi: 10.1093/ageing/afs022)

McCann, M. , Grundy, E. and O'Reilly, D. (2012) Why is housing tenure associated with a lower risk of admission to a nursing or residential home? Wealth, health and the incentive to keep 'my home'. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 66(2), pp. 166-169. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2011-200315)

McCann, M. and Wheeler, S. (2011) Gender diversity in the FTSE 100: the business case claim explored. Journal of Law and Society, 38(4), pp. 542-574. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6478.2011.00558.x)

McCann, M. , Donnelly, M. and O'Reilly, D. (2011) Living arrangements, relationship to people in the household and admission to care homes for older people. Age and Ageing, 40(3), pp. 358-363. (doi: 10.1093/ageing/afr031)

McCann, M. , O'Reilly, D. and Cardwell, C. (2009) A Census-based longitudinal study of variations in survival amongst residents of nursing and residential homes in Northern Ireland. Age and Ageing, 38(6), pp. 711-717. (doi: 10.1093/ageing/afp173)

Conference or Workshop Item

Anderson, M. , Long, E. and McCann, M. (2023) Social Network Characteristics Associated with Physical Activity in Adults Aged 55-75 Living in Two Deprived Communities in Scotland. 7th European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN 2023), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 04-08 Sep 2023.

Anderson, M. , Devlin, A.M. , McCann, M. , Pickering, L. and Wight, D. (2019) It’s Not Nine-to-Five Recovery: How Recovery Communities Help Sustain Long-Term Recovery From Problem Alcohol and Other Drug Use. Faculty of Public Health (Scotland) Annual Conference, Dunblane, Scotland, 28-29 Nov 2019.

Mccann, M. , Broccatelli, C., Moore, L. and Mitchell, K. (2018) Distribution of Sexual Health Knowledge and Attitudes in Adolescent Social Networks: Social Network Analysis of Data from the STIs and Sexual Health Feasibility Study. Lancet Public Health Science 2018, Belfast, UK, 23 Nov 2018. S60. (doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32047-6)

Vanderbloemen, L., Minton, J. , Green, M., Mccann, M. and Shaw, R. (2016) Visualising Age-Period-Cohort Patterns in Health Data Using Lexis Surfaces. 60th Anniversary of the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Social Medicine, York, UK, 14-16 Sep 2016. (Unpublished)

Conference Proceedings

Vo, D.-B. , Lazarova, K., Purchase, H. C. and McCann, M. (2020) Visual Causality: Investigating Graph Layouts for Understanding Causal Processes. In: 11th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams (Diagrams 2020), Tallinn, Estonia, 24-28 Aug 2020, pp. 332-347. ISBN 9783030542481 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-54249-8_26)

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Grants

Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.

  • Evaluation of the Whole Systems Approach to Obesity
    Public Health Wales
    2023 - 2025
     
  • Physical Activity, Social Connectedness and Healthy Ageing (PACES)
    Medical Research Council
    2023 - 2024
     
  • Collaboration network analysis for Child and Family Healthy Weight system interventions
    Public Health Wales
    2023 - 2023
     
  • SOCITS: A SOCial sITuational Systems approach to measuring and modelling relational influences on adolescent mental health
    UK Research and Innovation
    2022 - 2025
     
  • MRC Block award MRC UNIT: MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit
    Medical Research Council
    2022 - 2023
     
  • Socioemotional well-being as an individual factor in the assessment and amelioration of hearing loss
    Medical Research Foundation
    2022 - 2024
     
  • SPHSU/MRC EU - Participatory Systems Mapping
    Medical Research Council
    2021 - 2021
     
  • A systems approach to exploring syndemic health and social condition clustering among individuals who experience a drug-related death: developmental work for co-produced intervention(s)
    Chief Scientist Office
    2020 - 2022
     
  • Quinquennial Funding for Social and Public Health Sciences Unit
    Medical Research Council
    2020 - 2025
     
  • PHASE: The Population HeAlth Simulation nEtwork
    Medical Research Council
    2019 - 2023
     
  • Transdisciplinary Research for the Improvement of Youth Mental Public Health (TRIUMPH) Network
    Economic and Social Research Council
    2018 - 2022
     
  • An N of 1 study of the psychosocial determinants of `stopping, `switching and `seeking treatment behaviour following MUP implementation
    Alcohol Research UK
    2017 - 2018
     
  • Exploring the teachable moment for alcohol reduction in breast clinics: formative work to inform intervention design, development, and process evaluation 516776101 and MR/P016960/1
    Medical Research Council
    2017 - 2018
     
  • Harmonising alcohol-related outcomes data across the UK & Ireland
    Public Health Agency
    2015 - 2016
     
  • Variation and Determinants of Novel Psychoactive Substance (NPS) Use: Potential Implications for Policy and Practice
    National Institute for Health Research
    2015 - 2016
     
  • Know your own numbers (KYON): Adding primary prevention to the NHS Breast Screening Programme
    Cancer Research UK
    2014 - 2015
     
  • Scoping study for Deaf BSL User's cancer risks and prevention
    Cancer Research UK
    2014 - 2015
     
  • ESRC-IAA: Developing complex systems methods capacity in NHS Health Scotland
    Economic and Social Research Council
    2014 - 2019
     
  • MRC SPHSU/GU Transfer Fellowships
    Medical Research Council
    2013 - 2021
     

Supervision

Jelena Milicev – Using social network analysis to understand social support, wellbeing and academic progress of postgraduate researchers.

Dylan Lewis - Adolescent social networks and co-occurring health behaviours

Omiridou, Eleni - How do peers influence adolescent health behaviour? Using social network analysis to understand mechanisms in peer-led interventions.

  • Milicev, Jelena
    Using social network analysis to understand social support, wellbeing and academic progress of postgraduate researchers - a mixed method approach
  • Omiridou, Eleni
    How do peers influence adolescent health behaviour? Using social network analysis to understand mechanisms in peer-led interventions.

Karl Ferguson - Evidence Synthesis methods for constructing Directed Acyclic Graphs 

Sebastián Martinez Bustos - Causal Inferential Dynamic Network Analysis

Martin Anderson - Social networks and identity in Scotland's first 'recovery village' for Alcohol or other Drug (AOD) addiction.

 

Teaching

Mark teaches social network and systems science methods, regularly delivering short courses and methods seminars to public health bodies. He also runs an annual 'Introduction to Networks and Health Improvement' short course.

Research datasets

Jump to: 2021
Number of items: 1.

2021

Mitchell, K. , Purcell, C. , Forsyth, R., Barry, S., Hunter, R., Simpson, S. , McDaid, L. , Elliot, L., McCann, M. , Wetherall, K., Broccatelli, C., Bailey, J. V. and Moore, L. (2021) A peer-led intervention to promote sexual health in secondary schools: the STASH feasibility study. [Data Collection]

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Professional portrait of Mark McCann

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