Potential supervisors and their fields of research are featured below.
Dr Lucy Burns: l.burns@unsw.edu.au
Drugs and homelessness; drug use and gender; drug use and ageing; epidemiology of drug use and trends; alcohol and other drugs during pregnancy.
Dr Jenny Chalmers: j.chalmers@unsw.edu.au
Implications of alcohol and pricing policy for alcohol and illicit drug use.
Professor Jan Copeland: j.copeland@unsw.edu.au
Cannabis, evaluation of information dissemination methodologies, psycho-social and pharmacotherapy intervention trials for cannabis use related problems and disorder, measurement and monitoring of treatment outcome, and women’s treatment.
Professor Shane Darke: s.darke@unsw.edu.au
Physical and psychological harms of illicit drug use.
Professor Kate Dolan: k.dolan@unsw.edu.au
HIV prevention and drug treatment in developing countries; hepatitis C research and prison research.
Dr John Howard: john.howard@unsw.edu.au
Young people and substance use, residential treatment, self-managed change, same-sex attracted populations, young drugs users with multiple and complex needs, resilience, comorbidity/co-occurring disorders, capacity building for community based treatment in developing countries.
Dr Caitlin Hughes: caitlin.hughes@unsw.edu.au
Assessing impacts of laws and policing on drug and drug-related harm.
Dr Delyse Hutchinson: d.hutchinson@unsw.edu.au
Effects of drug use on children and families.
Dr Sharlene Kaye: s.kaye@unsw.edu.au
Psychostimulant use and associated harms. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and substance use disorders.
Professor Richard Mattick: r.mattick@unsw.edu.au
Pharmacotherapies and other treatment for Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Effects of drug use on children and families.
Dr Katherine Mills: k.mills@unsw.edu.au
Co-occurring substance use and post traumatic stress disorder: Epidemiology and treatment.
Dr Melissa Norberg: M.Norberg@unsw.edu.au
Co-occurrence of social anxiety disorder and alcohol problems; co-occurrence of anxiety, depression, and cannabis use; cognitive behavioural therapy; motivational interviewing; acceptance and commitment therapy; single-subject research.
Associate Professor Alison Ritter: Alison.ritter@unsw.edu.au
Drug policy – improving the evidence, studying policy making, developing models.
Associate Professor Anthony Shakeshaft: a.shakeshaft@unsw.edu.au
Indigenous drug and alcohol issues.
Dr Tim Slade: tims@unsw.edu.au
Alcohol consumption and alcohol use disorders in young people, classification of mental and substance use disorders, latent variable statistical techniques.
Dr Wendy Swift: w.swift@unsw.edu.au
Epidemiology of cannabis use and related harms.
Professor Maree Teesson: m.teesson@unsw.edu.au
Mental disorders and drug and alcohol use; prevention; trials in adolescents; clinical trials of new treatments; adolescent brain development and drug use.
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