Category: Researchers

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Researchers

25/09/2020 (24/09/2020)

Professor Malcolm Lader OBE, 1936-2020

Professor Malcolm Lader OBE died on 7 August 2020 following a short illness. Professor Lader was a leader in addictions research with a focus on psychopharmacology. He became world renowned for his research on benzodiazepines when they were being promoted as a harm-free alternative to barbiturates. His work on dependence and withdrawal from benzodiazepine drugs

Alcohol

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Treatment & therapies

07/08/2020

Flashback Friday: Colin Drummond at the 2019 SSA conference

This Friday we look back just 1 year to the 2019 SSA conference. In this video, Professor Colin Drummond reflects on his career and his current research programme ahead of giving the society lecture. He talks about funding for alcohol treatment and the commissioning challenges of providing both specialist services and brief interventions. He also

Cannabis

Research

Researchers

06/08/2020

Cannabis potency research: Tom Freeman talks to the SSA

“Some of the work that I’ve been doing with the SSA is to develop the concept of a standard THC unit.” Dr Tom Freeman is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bath. Tom completed his SSA funded fellowship in 2020; you can read about his fellowship experiences here.  SSA: Can you tell us a

Drugs

Research

Researchers

31/07/2020 (31/07/2020)

Qualitative methods lecture: Dr Polly Radcliffe

In the eighth, and final, instalment of the qualitative methods conference series, Dr Polly Radcliffe talks about her qualitative research on pregnancy and substance use. This lecture focuses on discourse analysis, and how it was used to explore how pregnant women who used drugs managed their identity. Polly talks about conducting interviews with pregnant and

Interview

Researchers

SSA funding

30/07/2020 (30/07/2020)

Completing an SSA fellowship: Dr Tom Freeman talks to the SSA

Dr Tom Freeman is a Senior Lecturer at the university of Bath and finished his SSA fellowship in early 2020.   SSA: When did you start your fellowship, and why did you apply for the SSA fellowship? Tom Freeman: “I started my fellowship in April 2017.” “The SSA are very good at supporting addiction researchers

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Smoking

23/07/2020

Qualitative methods lecture: Dr Caitlin Notley

Welcome to week seven of the qualitative methods conference series. This is the third lecture of the series. Dr Caitlin Notley talks about the ECtra study that explored the perceptions of people using e-cigarettes for smoking cessation. The lecture covers the research team’s use of photo elicitation, Thematic Analysis, Iterative Categorisation, and ethnography. Caitlin also demonstrates,

Gambling

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Researchers

16/07/2020

Qualitative methods lecture: Professor Gerda Reith

Welcome to week six of the qualitative methods conference series. The second lecture sees Professor Gerda Reith talk about the gambling careers study. This longitudinal qualitative study ran from 2006 to 2011 and involved 176 interviews. Gerda talks about how the research team managed, and analysed, large amounts of qualitative data using a matrix-based approach

Alcohol

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Researchers

09/07/2020 (09/07/2020)

Qualitative methods lecture: Professor Carol Emslie

Welcome to week five of the qualitative methods conference series! In the first full lecture of  the series, Professor Carol Emslie talks about using qualitative methods to research alcohol use and social identity among LGBT+ people in Scotland. The lecture gives an overview of the qualitative methods (including thematic analysis) that were used, and includes

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