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Research Team
DPMP Team
Chief Investigators
| KING, Trevor | DPMP Deputy Director |
| BOUCHARD, Martin | Senior Research Officer, located at SFU, Canada |
| BRIGHT, David | Research Fellow, Central Team |
| CAULKINS, Jonathan | Technical Advisor |
| CHALMERS, Jenny | Project Leader, Central Team |
| DEANE, Peter | Research Assistant, located at ANU |
| DRAY, Anne | Research Assistant, located at ANU |
| DREW, Jacqueline | Co-Chief Investigator, Demonstration Project 2 |
| FAES, Colleen | Administrative Officer |
| FERGUSON, Patricia | Research Assistant, located at Griffith University |
| GONG, Wendy | Research Fellow, Central Team |
| GRECH, Katrina | Research Officer, Central Team |
| GREGORY, Wendy | DPMP Associate Investigator |
| HAMILTON, Margaret | Chair, DPMP Advisory Group |
| HARVEY, ROSS | PhD Student, located at Griffith University |
| HUGHES, Caitlin | Project Leader, Central Team |
| JACKSON, Simon | Research Assistant, located at Griffith University |
| LANCASTER, Kari | Research Assistant, Central Team |
| LODGE, Michael | Senior Research Policy Officer, Central Team |
| MANNING, Matthew | Research Fellow, Griffith University |
| MATTHEW-SIMMONS, Francis | PhD Student, Central Team |
| MAZEROLLE, Paul | Co-Chief Investigator, Demonstration Project 1 |
| MCDONALD, David | Project leader, located at ANU |
| MCGUFFOG, Ingrid | Research Assistant, located at Griffith University |
| MCSWEENEY, Tim | PhD Student, located at Kings College, UK |
| MIDGLEY, Gerald | DPMP Associate Investigator |
| MOORE, Tim | PhD Student, located at University of Maryland,USA |
| NGUI, Rachel | Senior Research Officer, Central Team |
| RANSLEY, Janet | Co-Chief Investigator, Demonstration Project 2 |
| REUTER, Peter | Technical Advisor |
| ROLLINGS, Kiah | Part-time PhD Candidate, located at Griffith University |
| SHANAHAN, Marian | Project Leader, PhD Student, Central Team |
| SPICER, Bridget | Research Officer, Central Team |
| WEBSTER, Julianne | PhD Student, located at Griffith University |
Visiting Scholars
Associate Professor Alison Ritter
BA (Hons), MA (Clin Psych), MAPS, PhD
Director, DPMP
Acting Director, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
University of New South Wales
NHMRC Career Development Award
Visiting Fellow, Regulatory Institutions Network
The Australian National University
Tel: +61 (2) 9385 0236
Fax: +61 (2) 9385 0222
Email: alison.ritter@unsw.edu.au |  |
Alison Ritter is Acting Director of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, with adjunct appointments with the Regulatory Institutions Network, The Australian National University and the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, Griffith University. After completing her Masters in Clinical Psychology, she worked full-time as a clinical psychologist. During this time, she commenced her PhD in treatment outcomes associated with acquired brain injury. A subsequent move to a policy position with the Victorian Department of Human Services led to a secondment to establish the Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre on behalf of Government in 1994. As Deputy Director of Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre from 1995 to 2005, Alison completed numerous clinical research projects, including trials of new medications for the treatment of heroin dependence and managed epidemiological, health services research and evaluation.
With an NHMRC Research Fellowship and a significant philanthropic grant, Alison is currently director of a major illicit drug policy research program, the Drug Policy Modelling Program in collaboration with scholars from The ANU, Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre and Griffith University School of Criminology. The goal of the work is to advance illicit drug policy through improving the evidence-base, developing new policy decision-making tools and understanding the best mix of policy options (law enforcement, prevention, treatment and harm reduction) and the ways in which these different policy options dynamically interact.
Associate Professor Ritter is Executive Editor of the Drug and Alcohol Review, President of the Australian Professional Society on Alcohol & Drugs and a member of the College of Problems on Drug Dependence (CPDD). A/Prof Ritter reviews for a range of competitive funding bodies and international addictions journals. |
Professor Gabriele Bammer
BSc, BA, PhD
Professor, National Centre for Epidemiology and
Population Health
ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment
The Australian National University
Tel: +61 (2) 6125 0716
Fax: +61 (2) 6125 0740
Email: Gabriele.Bammer@anu.edu.au
http://nceph.anu.edu.au
http://www.anu.edu.au/iisn/ |  |
DPMP has been instrumental in supporting the development of and being a test-bed for the new discipline of Integration and Implementation Sciences (I2S) which Professor Gabriele Bammer has founded. I2S concerns itself with enhancing research contributions to complex real-world problems through a systematic approach to improved understanding by synthesis of disciplinary and stakeholder knowledge, as well as explicitly taking into account remaining unknowns. I2S also deals with the implementation of that improved understanding in policy and practice change. Two DPMP products from the development of I2S are the books: Bammer, G. and M. Smithson (eds) 2008 Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, London: Earthscan and McDonald, D., Bammer, G., Deane P. 2009 Research Integration Using Dialogue Methods, ANU E-Press; the latter is available free on line at http://epress.anu.edu.au/dialogue_methods_citation.html. Current research includes examining how the insights in these books can enhance DPMP’s research and further developing I2S concepts and methods. Gabriele is also a Research Fellow at the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. |
Associate Professor Paul Dietze
BSc (Hons), PhD, Registered Psychologist
VicHealth Public Health Research Fellow
Burnet Institute &
Monash Institute of Health Services Research
Tel: +61 (3) 9282 2134
Fax: +61 (3) 9282 2138
Email: pauld@burnet.edu.au
http://www.burnet.edu.au
http://www.mihsr.monash.org/ |  |
Associate Professor Paul Dietze is an epidemiologist working in the field of alcohol and other drugs. He has established new surveillance systems as well as conducted specific research projects that break new ground in the epidemiology of heroin overdose in particular. He has been involved in numerous reference groups and given numerous public presentations, lectures and seminars around alcohol and other drug use and related harms. He has also supervised a range of students from honours to PhD levels. Associate Professor Dietze has been involved in the development and implementation of a variety of heroin overdose prevention initiatives including the Direct Response to Overdose (DROP) project. He currently co-convenes the Victorian Injecting Drug Harm Reduction Network with the Victorian Department of Human Services through which research findings on injecting drug use are disseminated to the alcohol and drug field. These activities culminated in Associate Professor Dietze being awarded a Victoria Fellowship in 1999 to conduct a study tour of heroin overdose prevention initiatives in Europe. In 2001 Associate Professor Dietze was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Lionel Murphy Foundation and he was subsequently made Secretary and Treasurer in 2006. He is also a reviewer of articles submitted for publication in Addiction, the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, the Journal of Urban Health, Drug and Alcohol Review, the Australian Journal of Psychology and Law and Human Behaviour as well as grant applications submitted to the NH&MRC and Healthway. He has also made numerous radio and TV appearances. In 2001 Associate Professor Dietze was awarded a VicHealth Public Health Research Fellowship and in 2005 he was awarded a NH&MRC Career Development Award. |
Professor Lorraine Mazerolle
BA (Hons), MA, PhD
Chair in Criminology, Institute for Social Science Research
Foundation Director & Chief Investigator,
Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS)
Tel: +61 (7) 3346 7877
Email: l.mazerolle@uq.edu.au |  |
Professor Lorraine Mazerolle is a Chair in Criminology at the Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Queensland and the Foundation Director of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS). She received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University, New Jersey in 1993 and spent an additional seven years as an academic in the USA (at Northeastern University and the University of Cincinnati). She is the recipient of numerous US and Australian national competitive research grants on topics such as problem-oriented policing, police technologies (e.g crime mapping, gunshot detection systems, 3-1-1 call systems), community crime control, civil remedies, street-level drug enforcement and policing public housing sites. In 2003, Professor Mazerolle was admitted as a Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminologists and now serves as the Vice President of the Academy. She also serves on the Board of Studies for the Australian Institute for Police Management, on the Capital Cities Lord Mayors Drug Advisory Board and as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental Criminology. Professor Mazerolle is the lead author (with Janet Ransley) of Third Party Policing (Cambridge University Press), sole author of Policing Places with Drug Problems (Sage Publications) and a co-editor, with Jan Roehl, of Civil Remedies and Crime Prevention (Criminal Justice Press). She has written many scholarly articles on policing, drug law enforcement, displacement of crime, and crime prevention. |
Associate Professor Pascal Perez
Diplôme d'Agronomie Approfondie, Diplôme d'Agronomie Tropicale, PhD (Advanced Agronomy)
CIRAD Representative in Australia
RMAP/RSPAS, Coombs building
Australian National University
Tel: +61 (2) 6125 8705
Fax: +61 (2) 6125 9846
Email: pascal.perez@anu.edu.au
http://rspas.anu.edu.au/people/personal/perep_rmap.php
http://www.hemaconsulting.com.au/ |  |
Associate Professor Pascal Perez is presently developing an international research network called "Human Ecosystems Modelling with Agents (HEMA)". Multi-Agent System approaches are used to implement companion modelling with local communities in the Asia-Pacific region. Field research is used to nurture a postgraduate course based on these innovative methodologies. Associate Professor Perez’s research interests include water management, cropping systems and evaluation of irrigation efficiency, crop water balance modelling, and simulation of social/environmental interactions through a Multi Agent Systems approach. He has worked extensively in Western Africa, Middle East, South East Asia (Indonesia, Thailand). His published papers have appeared in Environmental Modelling & Software, Agronomie, and Agri, Ecos & Env |
Trevor King
BBSc, GradDip App Psych, MHSc
Deputy Director, DPMP
Location: Burnet Institute
Centre for Population Health
Tel: +61 (3) 8506 2384
Fax: +61 (3) 9282 2100
Email: trevork@burnet.edu.au |  |
Trevor King has worked in the drug and alcohol sector since 1980. Over this time he has held senior positions in the government and non-government sectors. He commenced working in clinical and clinical educator roles in the early 1980’s. He was the manager of methadone and needle syringe programs for the Victorian Department of Human Services in the mid 1980’s, with responsibility for rapid program expansion in response to the HIV/AIDS threat. He was Director of Community Programs - Drug Services Victoria in the early 1990’s. In this role he was responsible for the development of new community programs and management of the government methadone services. Trevor was Head of Education and Training Services at Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre from 1995-2005. During this period he was responsible for Turning Point’s registration as a Training Organisation and Private Provider of Higher Education. He provided workforce development advice at a state and national level during this time. Trevor was appointed Deputy Director of Turning Point in 2006. He continued in this role until February 2009. During this time he was also Associate Director of Research Translation.
Examples of his recent work include: Team manager and co-author (with Hamilton, M and Vandenberg, B) of the national alcohol strategy (National Alcohol Strategy: Towards Safer Drinking Cultures -2006-2009); membership of the Capital City Lord Mayor’s Drug Advisory Committee; Australian representative on the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime: Global Network of Drug Treatment Centre’s (TreatNet); and co-author of Drug Use in Australia: Preventing Harm (Hamilton, M, King, T, Ritter, A, 2003), Oxford University Press. |
Assistant Professor Martin Bouchard
BSc, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Criminology
Simon Fraser University
Tel: +1 778 782 8135
Fax: +1 778 782 4140
Email: mbouchard@sfu.ca |  |
Martin Bouchard is Assistant Professor at the School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University. Prior to this appointment, he received his PhD in Criminology from Universite de Montreal, and completed his postdoctoral studies in criminology at the University of Maryland. Professor Bouchard’s work specializes in all aspects of illegal drug markets, with a special emphasis on cannabis cultivation. Other areas of interest include achievement in criminal careers, criminal innovations, and methodologies to estimate the size of criminal populations. Recent work on illegal drug markets appeared in Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Drug Issues, and Global Crime. |
Dr David Bright
BSc (Psych) (Hons), MPsych (Forensic) (Hons), PhD, MAPS
Research Fellow
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
University of New South Wales
Tel: +61 2 9385 0105
Fax: +61 2 9385 0222
Email: david.bright@unsw.edu.au |  |
David Bright is a Research Fellow with the Drug Policy Modelling Program. David completed a Masters degree in Forensic Psychology in 2002 and a PhD in 2008. His doctoral thesis, which examined the influence of gruesome evidence on juror emotion and decision making, was awarded the 2007 Maconochie Prize by the APS College of Forensic Psychologists. David has worked as a psychologist in a range of clinical and clinical-forensic settings including community mental health, police, and corrective services. From 2003 to 2008 he was Therapeutic Manager of the NSW custody-based intensive treatment program for sexual offenders (CUBIT). David is currently working on a project which examines the effectiveness of law enforcement strategies designed to combat methamphetamine production and supply. |
Professor Jonathan Caulkins
BS, MS, SM, PhD
Professor of Operations Research & Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar &
Heinz School of Public Policy
Tel: +97 (4) 492 8977
Fax: +97 (4) 492 8255
Email: caulkins@cmu.edu
http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/
http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/ |  |
Jonathan P. Caulkins, is Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University’s Qatar campus in Doha and its Heinz School of Public Policy. Professor Caulkins specializes in mathematical modeling and systems analysis of social policy problems with a particular focus on issues pertaining to drugs, crime, violence, and prevention – work that won the David Kershaw Award from the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management. Other interests include optimal control, software quality, airline operations, and personnel performance evaluation. Professor Caulkins has published a number of monographs through RAND and over 70 journal articles in Operations Research, Management Science, JASA, JPAM, The American Journal of Public Health, Mathematical Biosciences, The Journal or Urban Economics, The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, The Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, among other outlets. At RAND he has been a consultant, visiting scientist, co-director of RAND’s Drug Policy Research Center (1994 – 1996), and founding director of RAND’s Pittsburgh office (1999-2001).
Professor Caulkins received a B.S., and M.S. in Systems Science from Washington University, an S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Ph.D., in Operations Research both from M.I.T. |
Dr Jenny Chalmers
BEc (Hons), MEc, PhD
Senior Research Fellow
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
University of New South Wales
Tel: +61 (2) 9385 0189
Fax: +61 (2) 9385 0222
Email: jenny.chalmers@unsw.edu.au |  |
Jenny has a background in labour market economics and substantial experience in undertaking policy-relevant research. She worked for the Social Policy Research Centre for eight years. There she primarily undertook contract research for the Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services, focusing on the experiences of Australian families as they navigate the interface of the labour market and the income support system. Much of that research was based on her analysis of large cross-sectional and longitudinal data sets. Most recently she worked on an ARC project exploring the quality of part-time work in Australia, particularly through interviews with part-time retail workers. Her research interests include social policy and labour market disadvantage, the divide between good and bad jobs and the economics of gender. |
Peter Deane
BAppSci (Hons), MA (Prelim), MPhil
Research Assistant, National Centre for Epidemiology and
Population Health
ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences
The Australian National University
Tel: +61 (2) 6125 5600
Fax: +61 (2) 6125 0740
Email: peter.deane@anu.edu.au
http://nceph.anu.edu.au
http://www.anu.edu.au/iisn/ |  |
Peter is working on the integrative science components of the Drug Policy Modelling Program. He is responsible for maintaining the Integrative and Implementation Sciences Network web-site (at http://www.anu.edu.au/iisn/) and ancillary components dealing with integration. Peter also assists across the I2S project areas of dialogue methods, change processes, common metrics, decision support, framing and scoping, modeling, and uncertainty. |
Anne Dray
MSc
Consultant for HEMA Consulting
PhD student, Australian National University
Tel: +61 405 136 017
Email: anne.dray@anu.edu.au |  |
Anne Dray is a part-time PhD student at the Australian National University and also works as a consultant for HEMA consulting. An agronomist by training, her current research focuses on exploring complex systems using agent-based modelling. Relevant stakeholders and policy makers are involved in the early stages of models development through participatory modelling. She has applied this approach in diverse contexts including equitable water allocation in Tarawa (Republic of Kiribati), coral reef conservation in Mexico and groundwater salinity control in Western Australia. In the field of illicit drugs, she has developed SimDrug, an agent-based model dedicated to explore illicit drug markets in Australia. |
Dr Jacqueline Drew
PhD
Lecturer
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Griffith University
Tel: +61 (7) 3735 5957
Fax: +61 (7) 3735 5608
Email: j.drew@griffith.edu.au |  |
Jacqueline Drew is a Lecturer in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University. She is trained as a psychologist and received her PhD in Organisational Psychology from Griffith University in 2003. Dr Drew worked with the Queensland Police Service from 1996 to 2006 in the Human Resource Management Branch and as a Police Facilitator at the Queensland Police Service Academy. Her research interests include attraction and retention of police personnel; performance management within police organisations; and organisational structure and systems as they relate to innovative police strategies and operational practice. |
Patricia Ferguson
BCCJ (Hons)
Senior Research Officer
Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security
Institute for Social Science Research
University of Queensland
Tel: +61 (7) 3365 4546
Fax: +61 (7) 3346 7646
Email: patricia.ferguson@uq.edu.au |  |
Patricia Ferguson is a Senior Research Officer at The Institute for Social Science Research at The University of Queensland. From 2005 to 2009, Patricia worked at Griffith University across the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Goverance. She has worked across a variety of projects, including those studying problem-oriented policing, strategic problem-solving in police agencies, civil remedies policing, police legitimacy and procedural justice, community vulnerability and resilience to crime, violence in regional/remote communities, as well as studying the relationship between drug disorder and violence in licensed premises precincts and the impact of police partnerships on illicit drug markets.
In her work with the Drug Policy Modelling Program, Patricia is a research officer on Problem-Oriented and Partnership Policing: LEAPS Evaluation and Reducing the Methamphetamine Problem in Australia: Evaluating Innovative Partnerships Between Police, Pharmacies and Other Third Parties. |
Dr Wendy Gong
MEc, PhD
Research Fellow
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
University of New South Wales
Tel: +61 (2) 9385 0106
Fax: +61 (2) 9385 0222
Email: w.gong@unsw.edu.au
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Wendy Gong is a Research Fellow with the Drug Policy Modelling Program. Wendy has completed a Master degree in Economics in 2004 and a PhD in 2007. Wendy has worked as a research economist in Department of Environment and Climate Change, NSW, and was responsible for providing economic analysis of environmental issues, policies and regulations, especially focusing on developing a satellite account for air pollution. Prior to that, she worked as post-doc research fellow in the University of New England (UNE) to examine the economic impact of invasive animals to Australian agricultural production and environmental systems. Wendy is currently working on a project which examines the effectiveness of law enforcement towards methamphetamine. |
Dr Katrina Grech
BSc, PhD
Research Officer
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
University of New South Wales
Tel: +61 (2) 9385 0246
Fax: +61 (2) 9385 0222
Email: katrina.grech@unsw.edu.au
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Katrina Grech is a Research Officer at DPMP. Prior to this she completed a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Science and then went on to complete a PhD at the University of Edinburgh. During this time Katrina’s main research interests were in the epidemiology and control of infectious diseases. After many years as an evolutionary biologist, Katrina has recently joined DPMP to pursue her interest in statistical analyses and will be assessing illicit drug use through analysis of databases including the National Drug Strategy Household Survey. |
Dr Wendy Gregory
BSc (Hons), PhD
Senior Scientist, Systems Research
Institute of Environmental Science and Research, New Zealand
Tel: +64 (3) 351 0070
Fax: +64 (3) 351 0010
Email: Wendy.Gregory@esr.cri.nz
http://www.esr.cri.nz |  |
Dr Wendy Gregory is a Senior Scientist (Systems Research) in the Integrative Research for Sustainability Group at the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR), a government research institute in New Zealand. With more than twenty years experience of conducting action research in multi-agency settings in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, Wendy has over 40 publications in refereed journals and edited books. She has been a visiting researcher in Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, South Africa, the UK and the USA. Wendy has received research funding from a wide range of government agencies, funding organisations, public sector and not-for-profit organisations. Her research often entails applying systems methodologies (using an action research frame) to problems identified by groups of stakeholders drawn from different parts of a single organisation or from different organisations focusing on a shared issue. She is applying insights on boundary judgments to DPMP (with Gabriele Bammer and Gerald Midgley), and will contribute to capacity building in systems thinking and methods for the DPMP team. She is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Systems Studies at the University of Hull Business School. |
Professor Margaret Hamilton
BA, DipSocStuds, MSW
School of Population Health
University of Melbourne
Tel: +61 (3) 8601 5223
Fax: +61 (3) 8601 5224
Email: hamilton@unimelb.edu.au |  |
Professor Margaret Hamilton has spent thirty five years in alcohol & other drug sector working in clinical work, education, research, policy development and advice. She began her career at St. Vincent’s Hospital, working in the ‘Special Clinic’ (Alcoholism Clinic), and in 1973 published her first research publication. From there, Professor Margaret Hamilton has been involved in research into epidemiology, policy, evaluation, alcohol problems in remote Australia, evaluation of therapeutic communities and self-help. She has produced numerous publications including articles, research monographs, reports and text book now in its second edition - Hamilton, M., King, T. and Ritter, M. (2003). Drug Use in Australia: Preventing Harm. Oxford University Press, Australia. Professor Margaret Hamilton has contributed to many committees including as Chair of the Human Research Ethics Committees over a total of seven years (University of Melbourne Social and Behavioural Science; Royal Women’s Hospital); Editorial Committee Drug & Alcohol Review; Reviewer of International Alcohol/Drug Research Centres in Ireland and New Zealand. NH&MRC National Illicit Drug Strategy Working Committee and Panel member (Public Health). Professor Margaret Hamilton was the initiator of the Drug Policy Modeling Program and is now Chair of the Advisory Group of DPMP.
Professor Margaret Hamilton was the Foundation Director of Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre and then went on to take up a position as Chair of the Multiple and Complex Needs Panel, Victoria. She has been involved in extensive policy advice including the first evaluation National Campaign Against Drug Abuse 1986 and program development bodies including Chair of National Alcohol Campaign Reference Group. Professor Margaret Hamilton is currently serving a third term as an Executive member of the Australian National Council on Drugs and in this capacity also Chair National Illicit Drug Campaign Reference Group; Chair Project Reference Group (responsible for commissioning research) and Chair of the Editorial Reference Group for ‘Of Substance’. She had been Co-Deputy Chair of the ANCD from 2005 (ongoing) and Member of the Victorian Premier’s Drug Prevention Council. |
Ross Harvey
BJS, BA (Hons)
PhD Student, Research Assistant
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Griffith University
Mt Gravatt Campus, Brisbane QLD
Tel: +61 (7) 3735 5807
Email: r.harvey@griffith.edu.au |  |
Ross is a PhD Student at Griffith University. In 2004 he completed a Bachelor of Justice Studies (Critical Criminology) at the Queensland University of Technology and in 2006 graduated from Griffith University with a Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice with Honours. His Honours thesis focused on the tool of policy transfer and how it related to policy making within the Australian drug community. His PhD will continue investigating the role of policy transfer during the policy making process by tracking the national roll-out of ProjectSTOP. His main research interests include criminal justice policy making, illicit drug markets and drug law enforcement. |
Dr Caitlin Hughes
BA (Hons), BSc, PhD
Research Fellow
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
University of New South Wales
Tel: +61 (2) 9385 0132
Fax: +61 (2) 9385 0222
Email: caitlin.hughes@unsw.edu.au |  |
Caitlin Hughes is a Criminologist and Research Fellow at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre. After completing her undergraduate BA(Hons)BSc degree in 2001 Caitlin worked as a Needle and Syringe Strategy Officer for the City of Maribyrnong Council. She then returned to the Department of Criminology, The University of Melbourne, to undertake her PhD, examining the process and outcomes of drug policy reform in Portugal and Australia. Recipient of scholarships including the Post-Graduate Overseas Research Experience Scheme, Caitlin spent 3.5 months in Portugal collaborating with the Portuguese Institute for Drugs and Drug Addiction. Caitlin joined DPMP in January 2007 and since that time has undertaken research into the diversion of drug and drug-related offenders, the impacts of the Portuguese decriminalisation of illicit drugs and development of a Cannabis Diversion Model. She is currently heading up a Department of Health and Ageing funded project into the impact of print media reporting on youth attitudes to illicit drug use and is undertaking a number of projects including a critical analysis of barriers to improving drug law enforcement performance monitoring and policy practice projects with NSW Police and Queensland Health and Police. |
Simon Jackson
BA (Hons)
Research Assistant
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Griffith University
Mt Gravatt Campus, Brisbane QLD
Tel: +61 (7) 3735 6976
Email: s.jackson@griffith.edu.au | |
Simon Jackson completed an undergraduated degree with honours in Psychology at Griffith University in 2007. He works as a research assistant at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University in Queensland. Simon's research interests include: licit and illicit drug use and youth culture, youth remand policy and procedures, drug law enforcement, and mental illness and drug use. Simon's honours thesis was titled, 'The effect of alcohol, cannabis and stimulants on duration of untreated psychosis in schizophrenia.' |
Kari Lancaster
BA, LLB (Hons), MPP
Research Assistant
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
University of New South Wales
Tel: +61 (2) 9385 0476
Fax: +61 (2) 9385 0222
Email: k.lancaster@unsw.edu.au |  |
Kari Lancaster joined NDARC in September 2009 as a Research Assistant. She is currently working with the Drug Policy Modelling Program investigating media portrayals of illicit drug use in Australia and the media’s capacity to influence youth attitudes to illicit drugs. Kari completed a Bachelor of Arts in 2003 and a Bachelor of Laws with Honours in 2006 at the University of Sydney. In February 2009 she completed a Master of Public Policy with Merit, also at the University of Sydney. Kari has an interest in media, policy, intellectual property, law and political theory and prior to joining NDARC worked in the arts. |
Michael Lodge
BA
Senior Research Policy Officer
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
University of New South Wales
Tel: +61 (2) 9385 0198
Fax: +61 (2) 9385 0222
Email: michael.lodge@unsw.edu.au |  |
Michael Lodge has worked in the alcohol and other drugs field since 1985. After completing his bachelor degree at the University of Wollongong, he joined the Wollongong Crisis Centre where he stayed until 1988. Since that time Michael has held positions across the sector in community development, professional development, social marketing, treatment services, policy analysis and senior management. Most recently he was the General Manager of the NSW Users and AIDS Association (NUAA) and is a past President of the Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League (AIVL). While at NUAA Michael held memberships on the NSW Ministerial Advisory Committee on Hepatitis and the Health Promotion Sub-Committee of the NSW Ministerial Advisory Committee on HIV and Sexually Transmissible Infections. Prior to his work at NUAA, Michael spent a number of years as a policy analyst in alcohol and other drugs in NSW Health and the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. |
Matthew Manning
BCom (Econ), MA (Hons), PhD
Economist
Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance
Griffith University
Tel: +61 (7) 3735 5617
Fax: +61 (7) 3735 5608
Email: m.manning@griffith.edu.au |  |
Matthew Manning is an economist in the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, Griffith University, Brisbane. Matthew is currently the Project Manager of the Griffith University DPMP projects: Demo Project 1 - Measuring the impact of the Liquor Enforcement Proactive Strategies (LEAPS) project; and Demo 2 - Measuring the impact of a drug law enforcement, namely Project Stop, with respect to its impact on suppressing the supply of amphetamines across Queensland and Victoria. Matthew’s recent research also involved the development of an economic methodology for measuring utility values from outcomes associated with early-in-life interventions across the life course, and the development of an economic model for analysing complex multiple criteria problems. Prior to this, Matthew worked on a number of projects employing economic analysis methodologies. Most notable, was his work on the Pathways to Prevention project. This involved the development of a methodology for conducting cost analysis, cost-comparison analysis, cost-savings analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-benefit analysis of community-based early childhood developmental intervention projects. Outcomes of this research were significant and resulted in a series of both published papers and major government reports. Matthew’s interests in applied microeconomics, decision analysis, operations research, health economics, and economic analysis techniques (e.g. cost-benefit analysis) has provided cross-disciplinary links with researchers and academics in the areas of criminology, psychology, special education, and operations research. |
Francis Matthew-Simmons
BA, BPPM (Hons)
PhD Student, Research Assistant
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
University of New South Wales
Tel: +61 (2) 9385 0188
Fax: +61 (2) 9385 0222
Email: francis.simmons@unsw.edu.au |  |
Francis Matthew-Simmons is a Research Assistant and a PhD student at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre. In 2006 he completed a Bachelor of Arts (Political Science) and a Bachelor of Public Policy and Management (Hons) at the University of Melbourne. His honours thesis focused on the accuracy of newspaper coverage of ecstasy use in Australia. His PhD will focus more broadly on the policy making process in the illicit drug arena, particularly the role of the media and public opinion in drug policy reform. His interests include politics, public policy, ecstasy and related drugs, 'rave' culture, and the sociological aspects of drug use. |
Professor Paul Mazerolle
BA, MS, PhD
Director, Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice, and Governance
Griffith University
Tel: +61 (7) 3735 6994
Fax: +61 (7) 3735 6985
Email: p.mazerolle@griffith.edu.au
Centre website: http://www.gu.edu.au/centre/kceljag/ |  |
Paul Mazerolle is a criminologist with particular interest and experience in the dimensions of criminal careers and processes that shape criminal offending across the lifecourse, the consequences of violent victimisation for criminal offending, and aspects of intimate partner violence. Professor Mazerolle is currently the Director of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University, a Research Associate at the Centre for Youth at Risk, St Thomas University, Canada and the Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. Within DPMP, Professor Mazerolle acts as Co-Chief Investigator on Demonstration 1 of the Fortitude Valley Problem and Partnership Policing Project which is evaluating the LEAPS law enforcement initiative. |
David McDonald
BA, DipSocWk, MA, GradDip PoplnHealth
Director, Social Research & Evaluation Pty Ltd, Wamboin, NSW
Visiting Fellow, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
ANU College of Medicine, Biology and the Environment
The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT
Tel: +61 (2) 6238 3706
Fax: +61 (2) 9475 4274
Email: david.mcdonald@socialresearch.com.au
http://www.socialresearch.com.au |  |
David McDonald is currently the researcher on the AIVL/DPMP 'Track Marks' project, investigating the meaningful engagement of people who use illicit drugs, and drug user organisations, in policy activity. He is also supporting other DPMP activities. He is a co-author (with Gabriele Bammer and Peter Deane) of the DPMP- Land & Water Australia- supported study that has culminated with the recent publication by ANU E Press of the book Research Integration Using Dialogue Methods. In Stage 1 of DPMP he undertook research into mapping Australian drug policy structures and process (with Bammer and Breen), as well as developing taxonomies of illicit drugs interventions (with Ritter). He is a social scientist with research interests in domains where public health and criminology/criminal justice intersect, particularly alcohol, tobacco and other drugs policy, research integration and building evidence-based public policy. He has wide experience in research, policy and program development and evaluation in the alcohol and other drugs, criminal justice and related fields. He is a consultant, a Visiting Fellow at ANU and an Associate of the Australian Institute of Criminology. |
Ingrid McGuffog
MSoc Sc
Senior Research Associate
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Griffith University
Mt Gravatt Campus, Brisbane QLD
Tel: +61 (7) 3735 5833
Email: i.mcguffog@griffith.edu.au |  |
Ingrid completed a Master of Social Science degree in 1994. She spent a number of years in private consulting undertaking research design and analysis, and program evaluation. In addition she has researched and published in the field of public health. She currently works as a Senior Research Associate for Professor Lorraine Mazerolle at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Brisbane's Griffith University. Her research interests include: the social ecology of crime, drug policy, inequality and crime, and research methods. |
Tim McSweeney
BSc (Hons)
Senior Research Fellow
Institute for Criminal Policy Research
King’s College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS
UK
Tel: +44 (0)207 848 1757
Fax: +44 (0)207 848 1770
Email: tim.mcsweeney@kcl.ac.uk
Web: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/law/research/icpr | |
Tim McSweeney is a PhD candidate under scholarship with both DPMP and UNSW. His thesis will involve a comparative analysis of processes and outcomes for court-ordered drug treatment options in Sydney and London. A key theoretical strand of the work will be to explore the development of perspectives on desistance from offending and narratives on recovery from dependent patterns of drug use within the context of court-mandated treatment, and consider the extent to which these paradigms contradict or complement each other.
Tim has ten years' experience of conducting and managing social science research with local, national and international dimensions using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. His research activities to date have focused on substance misuse, its treatment and the role played by criminal justice interventions in tackling these and related issues. He has served as an advisor on ‘coerced’ drug treatment options to both the Council of Europe and UN Office on Drugs and Crime. He is also a regular contributor to the MA Criminology and Criminal Justice course at King’s College London. |
Professor Gerald Midgley
BA (Hons), MPhil, PhD
Senior Science Leader
Institute of Environmental Science and Research, New Zealand
Tel: +64 (3) 351 0071
Fax: +64 (3) 351 0010
Email: Gerald.Midgley@esr.cri.nz
http://www.esr.cri.nz |  |
Gerald Midgley is a Senior Science Leader at the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR), New Zealand. He also has Adjunct Professorships at the University of Queensland (Australia), the University of Hull (UK), the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) and the Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). He has had over 250 papers published in international journals, edited books and practitioner magazines, and his research on the methodology of systemic intervention has been informed by his involvement in a wide variety of public sector and community development projects. Amongst other books, he is the author of Systemic Intervention: Philosophy, Methodology, and Practice (Kluwer/Plenum, 2000); the editor of Systems Thinking, Volumes I-IV (Sage, 2003); and the co-editor of Community Operational Research: OR and Systems Thinking for Community Development (Kluwer/Plenum, 2004). As part of the Drug Policy Modelling Program, Gerald is working with Wendy Gregory and Graeme Nicholas on a policy-practice project in New Zealand. |
Tim Moore
BComm (Hons), BSc, MEc (Hons)
PhD Student
Department of Economics
University of Maryland, USA
Tel: +1 301 442 1785
Email: moore@econ.umd.edu |  |
Tim Moore worked for the Drug Policy Modelling Program for two years, and was responsible for several projects during the feasibility stage of the program. His tasks included estimating the size of drug markets and the social costs associated with them, estimated the size and mix of Australian government drug policy spending, and developing new price data. This research has been published in DPMP monographs, The Australian Economic Review and Applied Health Economics and Health Policy (with more under review at other academic journals).
Since August 2006, Tim has been a PhD student in the Department of Economics at the University of a Maryland in Washington DC. His dissertation will be on economic aspects of drug policy and illicit drug markets. |
Rachel Ngui
BBus (Econ), BBus (Hons), MHEcon
Senior Research Officer
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
University of New South Wales
Tel: +61 (2) 9385 0101
Fax: +61 (2) 9385 0222
Email: rachel.ngui@unsw.edu.au |  |
Rachel Ngui joined DPMP to work on developing a model to assess the health and economic consequences of cannabis policy options. Prior to this, she was an evaluator of Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) submissions with the Queensland Evaluation Group at the University of Queensland (UQ). After working as a research assistant in health economics at Griffith University, Rachel was involved in the development of courses in the Master of Health Economics program, research in illicit drugs and a project within the Assessing Cost Effectiveness (ACE)-Prevention Study at the Centre for Burden of Disease and Cost Effectiveness at UQ. She has also worked in the area of health funding policies at Queensland Health and has experience in various roles within other government departments and the private sector both in Australia and overseas. |
Dr Janet Ransley
PhD
Senior Lecturer
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Griffith University
Mt Gravatt Campus, Brisbane, QLD
Tel: +61 (7) 3735 5612
Fax: +61 (7) 3735 5608
Email: j.ransley@griffith.edu.au |  |
Janet Ransley is a senior lecturer in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University, and a researcher within both the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, and the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance. She was a practising lawyer for 10 years and then worked in policy-making before receiving her PhD in law and public policy from Griffith University in 2001. Her main research interests are in criminal justice policy making, investigating corruption, and innovative policing strategies, and some of her publications in these areas include co-authoring (with Lorraine Mazerolle) Third Party Policing (Cambridge University Press) and co-editing (with Tim Prenzler) Police Reform: Building Integrity (Hawkins Press). Within DPMP, Dr Ransley acts as Co-Chief Investigator on Demonstration 2: Reducing the Methamphetamine Problem in Australia which seeks to evaluate innovative partnerships between police, pharmacies and other third parties. |
Professor Peter Reuter
BA (Hons), MPhil, PhD
School of Public Policy
Department of Criminology
University of Maryland, USA
Tel: +1 301 405 6367
Email: preuter@umd.edu |  |
Peter Reuter is Professor in the School of Public Policy and in the Department of Criminology at the University of Maryland. He is Director of the Program on the Economics of Crime and Justice Policy at the University and also Senior Economist at RAND.
He founded and directed RAND’s Drug Policy Research Center from 1989-1993; the Center is a multi-disciplinary research program begun in 1989 with funding from a number of foundations. His early research focused on the organization of illegal markets and resulted in the publication of Disorganized Crime: The Economics of the Visible Hand (MIT Press, 1983), which won the Leslie Wilkins award as most outstanding book of the year in criminology and criminal justice. Since 1985 most of his research has dealt with alternative approaches to controlling drug problems, both in the United States and Western Europe. He is co-author (with Letizia Paoli and Victorial Greenfield) of a new book from Oxford University Press: The World Heroin Market: Can Supply be Cut? His other books are (with Robert MacCoun) Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other Places, Times and Vices (Cambridge University Press, 2001 and (with Edwin Truman) Chasing Dirty Money: The Fight Against Money Laundering (Institute for International Economics, 2004). From 1999 to 2004 he was editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. In 2007 he was elected the first president of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy.
He has been an advisor to the Drug Policy Modeling Program since it began. Recently he has been working with Jonathan Caulkins on a fuller examination of the 2001 heroin drought in Australia, using a number of price and purity data sets that have not been incorporated in prior analyses. |
Kiah Rollings
BSc, BA, MPopStudies
Part-time PhD Candidate
Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice, and Governance
Griffith University
Email: k.rollings@griffith.edu.au |  |
Kiah commenced her PhD part-time at the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice, and Governance Griffith University in 2008. Her thesis will examine the impacts of community policing on local-level drug markets. Kiah completed both her undergraduate studies and her Masters of Population Studies at the ANU and currently works at the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) as a research analyst and has worked on a diverse range of topic areas including drugs and crime, the costs of crime, and family violence. Kiah began working at the AIC in 2000 but spent three years working in the private sector and in a policy area of the federal government. She rejoined the AIC in early 2007. |
Marian Shanahan
BA (Hons), MA (Econ)
Health Economist
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
University of New South Wales
Tel: +61 (2) 9385 0229
Fax: +61 (2) 9385 0222
Email: m.shanahan@unsw.edu.au |  |
Marian Shanahan has been employed at NDARC as a Health Economist for several years. In that time she has worked on a number of projects exploring the social and economic impacts associated with the treatment for and misuse of illicit drugs and alcohol. Projects include assessing the economic costs of treatment in the ATOS, assessing the cost-offset of methadone treatment compared to cost of crime prevented. Marian has a MA in Economics with a focus in health economics. Currently Marian is enrolled as a PhD candidate. The topic of her thesis is assessing the costs and benefits of cannabis policy options. The project involves estimating the costs to the criminal justice system of enforcing cannabis policies, quantifying societal preferences for different cannabis polices and estimating shifts in costs and benefits under various policy options. |
Bridget Spicer
BSocSc, BPsych(Hons)
Research Officer
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
University of New South Wales
Tel: +61 (2) 9385 0481
Fax: +61 (2) 9385 0222
Email: b.spicer@unsw.edu.au |  |
Bridget Spicer is a Research Officer at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre. She completed a Bachelor of Social Science and Criminology at the University of New South Wales in 2005, and a Bachelor of Psychology with Honours in 2008, for which she received the Dean’s Honours Year Scholarship. She spent six months on exchange in 2007 at the University of Exeter in England. Her Honours thesis was titled, ‘Role of context-reinforcer associations in renewal of alcohol-seeking behaviour’. Bridget commenced research for NDARC in January 2009 and joined DPMP in August. She is currently involved in a project examining the influence of the media on youth attitudes to illicit drug use. Her areas of interest include social inequality and homelessness, drug addiction in relation to crime, and human trafficking. |
Julianne Webster
BA, MA
PhD Student
Key Centre for Ethics, Justice, Law and Governance
Griffith University
Tel: +61 (7) 3735 1040
Fax: +61 (7) 3735 6985
Email: j.webster@griffith.edu.au |  |
Julianne Webster has experience in criminal justice statistics and research. She worked for the Queensland Office of Economic and Statistical Research (OESR) and the Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) for a combined 12 years. Julianne graduated from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in 2000 with a Masters Degree and has commenced PhD studies in November 2007 with the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University. |
Assistant Professor Doris Behrens
MS, PhD
Institute of Economics
Klagenfurt University, Austria
Research Unit for OR and Nonlinear Dynamic Systems (ORDYS)
Institute of Mathematical Methods in Economics
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Tel: +43 (463) 2700 4123
Fax: +43 (463) 2700 4148
Email: doris.behrens@uni-klu.ac.at
http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/vwl/
http://www.eos.tuwien.ac.at/OR/research/EoC/ |  |
Doris Behrens is currently Assistant Professor of Economics at Klagenfurt University, Austria. Doris specializes in mathematical modeling and systems analysis of (socio- and bio-)economic, ecological and epidemiologic problems. A significant subgroup of her publications in refereed journal articles focuses on issues pertaining to drugs, health, addiction, and prevention. Methodologically, her main interests lie in analytical and numerical optimization (including optimal control theory and dynamic games) and the theory of nonlinear dynamic systems. Doris received a MS in Applied Mathematics and a PhD in Operations Research both from the Vienna University of Technology." |
Associate Professor Craig McDonald
BA, MScSoc, PhD, FACS
Associate Professor of Information Systems
School of Information Sciences and Engineering
University of Canberra
Tel: +61 (2) 6201 5285
Email: craig.mcdonald@canberra.edu.au
http://www.canberra.edu.au/schools/ise/research |  |
Associate Professor Craig McDonald is Associate Professor of Information Systems at the University of Canberra. For nearly four decades he has been developing, teaching, researching and consulting in systems that embody data, information and knowledge. These systems have been effective in the public service, NGOs, private enterprise and in research organisations. His continuing work is in the foundations of the informatics field (especially semantics, modelling and ontologies, and information ethics) and in the applications of informatics to the domains of government, health, education and research.
Programs for research in 2007 include a semantic analysis of drug intervention policies to reveal the conceptual structure of the illicit drug system (e-Health), the incorporation of ethics into project management teaching (e-Education), the nature of board-level information systems (e-Government), the human aspects of e-Research and, from a theoretical perspective, an investigation of 'virtuality' and an approach to concept analysis. |
Irmgard Zeiler
MS, PhD
Research Unit for OR and Nonlinear Dynamic Systems (ORDYS)
Institute of Mathematical Methods in Economics
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Tel: +43 (1) 58801 11929
Email: zeiler@eos.tuwien.ac.at
http://www.eos.tuwien.ac.at/ |  |
Irmgard Zeiler is a research fellow at the University of Technology in Vienna, Austria with a specialization in Operations Research and in the analysis of nonlinear dynamical systems. Her research interests are in the application of optimal dynamic control in mathematical models of socio-economic and epidemiological problems. In particular, in her PhD thesis she focused on behaviour and behavioral change in epidemiological models of HIV/AIDS and illicit drug use.
Irmgard holds a MS in Applied Mathematics and PhD in Operations Research both from the Vienna University of Technology. She did postdoctoral studies with Professor Jonathan P. Caulkins at the Heinz School of Public Policy & Management at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA and Doha, Qatar. At DPMP she is working on a model that investigates the dynamics of Hepatitis C infections and treatment in a population of injecting drug users. |
Colleen Faes
BSc (Psych)
Administrative Officer
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
University of New South Wales
Tel: +61 (2) 9385 0186
Fax: +61 (2) 9385 0222
Email: colleen.faes@unsw.edu.au |  |
| Colleen is an Administrative Officer at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre. She received a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Davidson College in 2004 and is currently pursuing a Master of Business Administration. |
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