Category: Researchers

Alcohol

Interview

Researchers

02/07/2020 (02/07/2020)

Qualitative methods conference: Dr Caitlin Notley

This is the fourth in the series of videos from the Qualitative Methods Conference from March 2020. Dr Caitlin Notley from the university of East Anglia talks about using qualitative methods to develop a holistic understanding of the complex web of interactions that influence human behaviour. Caitlin talks about her PhD studying substance misuse behaviours

Alcohol

Interview

Researchers

26/06/2020

Flashback Friday: Professor Moira Plant on the history of women and alcohol

Today we head back two years for a conversation with Professor Moira Plant. Moira talks about the history of women, alcohol and alcohol adverting. She starts in the 1930s when adverts began to focus on women, with some adverts suggesting that drinking alcohol could make you the “mainstay of the public library”. Moira then talks

Interview

Research

Researchers

25/06/2020

Qualitative methods conference: Professor Gerda Reith

The third video in our qualitative methods series features Professor Gerda Reith from the University of Glasgow. Gerda talks about using qualitative research to gain an in-depth understanding of people who gamble. She also talks about working on a five-year longitudinal qualitative study exploring how the social contexts of gambling behaviours can evolve and how

Researchers

Treatment & therapies

19/06/2020

Flashback Friday: Dr Albert Garcia-Romeu talks about therapeutic uses of psilocybin

This week we cast back to 2017. Dr Albert Garcia-Romeu talks about his research using psychedelic drugs for therapeutic purposes. He discusses the meaningful experiences that people can have when using psilocybin and how these might be used to treat depression and addictive disorders. If you can get your head around a video from the

Interview

Research

Researchers

18/06/2020

Qualitative methods conference: Dr Polly Radcliffe

This second video in our new series on qualitative addiction research features Dr Polly Radcliffe from King’s College London. Polly discusses ethnographic research with parents who use drugs and who access treatment services. And how to deal with rejection from journals! We will continue to upload one video every week from the qualitative methods conference

Gambling

Interview

Researchers

Treatment & therapies

12/06/2020

Flashback Friday video: meta-cognitive therapy with Professor Marcantonio Spada

This week we head back to last year’s Lisbon Addictions conference. Professor Marcantonio Spada talks about how metacognitive techniques work to change our relationship with negative thoughts. In this case about problematic gambling, but with all the extra time we have spent with our thoughts recently, this has never been more relevant. So, minimise your

Research

Researchers

Videos

11/06/2020 (11/06/2020)

New series: qualitative methods conference

In a new series to promote interest in, and understanding of, qualitative addiction research, we will upload one video every week from the recent qualitative methods conference. The conference took place on 6th March 2020 and was organised and chaired by Professor Jo Neale. In the first video, Professor Carol Emslie from Glasgow Caledonian University

Interview

Researchers

Videos

05/06/2020

Flashback Friday video: Dr Qiana Brown

In 2019, as part of the SSA Women in Addiction series, Dr Sally Marlow talked to Dr Qiana Brown about her career ‘chasing the drug’. This inspiring five minute video will definitely improve your Friday, so plug in your headphones, grab a cup of tea and press play. Qiana talks about the importance of mentors,

Drugs

News

Researchers

02/06/2020 (03/06/2020)

Dr Magdalena Harris wins the SSA Impact prize 2020

The SSA has awarded the 2020 Impact Prize to Dr Magdalena Harris. Dr Harris currently has an NIHR Career Development Fellowship Award (2017-2020) for the “Care and Prevent Study”, has been investigating injecting related harms in 455 people who inject drugs and carrying out in-depth qualitative interviews in a sub-sample of this group (n=36) to

Alcohol

Interview

Researchers

20/05/2020

Studying alcohol and mental health as a 2nd year PhD student: Jo-Anne Puddephatt talks to the SSA

Jo-Anne Puddephatt is an SSA funded PhD student in the Addictions group at the University of Liverpool. What is your PhD about? It is about the relationship between alcohol and mental health. I am looking at the prevalence of depression, anxiety, bi-polar disorder and so on, and whether people with a mental health problem misuse