Professor Magdalena Harris
BA(hons) MA PhD
Professor
of Inclusion Health Sociology
LSHTM
15-17 Tavistock Place
London
WC1H 9SH
United Kingdom
Magdalena Harris is a sociologist working with qualitative methods in the social science of drug use, health and harm reduction. She works in partnership with community organisations, and through peer research, in the fields of hepatitis C, opioid and crack use, and opioid substitution treatment service delivery. Magdalena is Professor of Inclusion Health Sociology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and holds an honorary Inclusion Health Consultant position at University College London Hospital NHS Trust. She is PI for two NIHR-funded research projects: iHOST (Improving Hospital OST) and SIPP (Safe Inhalation Pipe Provision), both commencing in 2022. In 2020 she received the Society for Study of Addiction Impact Prize "in recognition of her high-quality, innovative research and its positive, practical impact for people who inject drugs" and in 2022 was elected an Membership through Distinction of the Faculty of Public Health.
Some background about how she came to work in the harm reduction field can be found in this brief video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H51Nk-I7PA
Affiliations
Teaching
Magdalena is Module Co-Organiser, with Tim Rhodes, for the Qualitative Methodologies (1700) MSc Module. She leads the Introduction to Qualitative Interviewing and Qualitative Analysis workshops for the Transferable Skills Programme and is a guest lecturer for the LSHTM Sociology of Health Module and 4th year pharmacy students at the University of Bath.
Research
Magdalena is Principle Investigator for two NIHR funded research projects, both commencing in 2022: Improving Hospital Opiate Substitution Therapy (iHOST): implementation and assessment of an intervention to reduce late presentations, discharges against medical advice and repeat admissions among people who use opiates and Safe Inhallation Pipe Provision (SIPP): A mixed method evaluation of an intervention to reduce health harms and enhance service engagement among people who use crack cocaine in England.
She has previously held an NIHR Post Doctoral Fellowship ('the Hepatitis C Treatment Journey') and the recently completed NIHR Career Development Fellowship: "Promoting skin & soft tissue infection care and preventing AA amyloidosis among people who inject drugs in the UK: A mixed methods study."
Her research interests include: the social relations of harm reduction; community participation and mobilisation; stigma and discrimination; embodiment; autoethnography and qualitative methodologies.
Here she talks about her work on the Staying Safe project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsWn0_gOT4Q&feature=relmfu
Selected Publications
