Professor Susanne MacGregor MA PhD AcSS

Professor of Social Policy (part-time)

My first degree was in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh, followed by a PhD in Politics also from Edinburgh. I have held academic posts at University of Edinburgh, University of London (Institute of Psychiatry, Birkbeck College and Goldsmiths College) and Middlesex University. I was Professor of Social Policy at Goldsmiths College and Director of Research and PostGraduate Studies (Health and Social Science) at Middlesex. I am an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Drug Policy and a member of the International Editorial Board of the journal Drugs: education, prevention and policy.

Affiliation

Teaching

I have taught on courses in Health Promotion and Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco on the Masters in Public Health. Over the years I have taught on several courses, including Political Sociology, Social Research Methods and Comparative Social Policy. I have previously acted as external examiner at numerous universities in England and Scotland (eg Edinburgh, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, LSE, Royal Holloway, Loughborough, Bristol, Hertfordshire, Westminster, Sheffield Hallam, Kent).

Research

I am currently working with Betsy Thom to prepare a six volume edited collection of Major Works in Drugs and Alcohol to be published by Sage in 2013.

I recently completed work on a project funded by the Department of Health (Policy Research Programme) to evaluate the Alcohol Improvement Programme (with Middlesex University and York University). The final report on this project was submitted to DH in April 2012 co-written with Betsy Thom, Charlie Lloyd, Rachel Herring, Christine Godfrey, Jordan Tchilingirian and Paul Toner.

I was supported by The Leverhulme Trust from 2007 to 2010 as an Emeritus Fellow in the Centre for History in Public Health. Based on this work (The Politics of Drugs), I am currently writing a book which looks at the contemporary history of the drugs problem in Britain and responses to it,  and, in particular, analyses political influences on policy processes.

I completed a period of time as Programme Coordinator for the UK Department of Health (Policy Research Programme) Drugs Misuse Research Initiative. Phase One of this programme (total budget £2.4 million) ran from 2000 to 2005 and included projects on treatment, co-morbidity/dual diagnosis, young people and waiting lists. Phase Two, entitled ROUTES (research on understanding treatment experiences and services) and valued at £1.4 million, began in 2005 and continued to 2009. ROUTES focused on experiences of treatment and service configuration and on children, young people, families and communities. Further information on this programme of research can be accessed via the website http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/dmri. I have edited a collection based on this programme of research which was published by Routledge - Responding to Drug Misuse: research and policy priorities in health and social care (2010). 

Research areas

  • Alcohol
  • Complex interventions
  • Evaluation
  • Health policy
  • Health promotion
  • Qualitative methods
  • Research : policy relationship
  • Substance abuse

Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • History
  • Policy analysis
  • Political science
  • Sociology

Disease and Health Conditions

  • Addiction
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