🚨New paper!

In search of a ‘good number’: knowledge controversy and population estimates in the endgame of hepatitis C elimination.

In the race to elimination, numbers do not speak for themselves.

doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-…

🚨 New paper by Associate Prof. Kari Lancaster (Kari Lancaster) & Prof. Tim Rhodes (@tim__rhodes): In search of a ‘good number’: knowledge controversy & population estimates in the endgame of #hepatitisC elimination 💊 The BMJ

⬇️ twitter.com/kari_lancaster…

New paper from Jake Rance, Jason Grebely and me:

Full article: The time of cure: hepatitis C treatment and the matter of reinfection among people who inject drugs (tandfonline.com)

we examine the forces, frictions and legacies that endure for many people post-cure

New paper!🚨

Tinkering with care: Implementing extended-release buprenorphine depot treatment for opioid dependence

Technologies do not work alone, nor are their potentials given. We examine how BUP-XR is put to use and made to work in situated practices
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New paper, led by Tim rhodes now online in Soc Sci & Medicine:

“Exhausting care: On the collateral realities of caring in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic”

#OpenAccess

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

“Caring for coca, living with chemicals: Towards ecological harm reduction” by Tim rhodes et al (2023) via International Journal of Drug Policy…do you think coca should be legalized and regulated? Why or why not? Let us know!

Link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

#DrugPolicy

Application deadline 13th Dec! Please share, please apply! A great project, exciting data to work with & suportive team. A passion for stimulant use helpful but not required 😀 @lshtm Collaborative Centre for Inclusion Health UCL Centre for Addictive Behaviours Research National Addiction Centre Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation EuroNPUD International Network of People who Use Drugs

💊 'Dosing emerges as a practice of coordination...'

Fantastic paper on #PrEP dosing practices, drawing from 40 interviews with PrEP users in Australia. Anthony K J Smith Kari Lancaster Tim rhodes Martin Holt UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture

🔗: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

📢📢 Very happy to announce the birth of the new Centre for Critical Global Change at Sociology, Goldsmiths Goldsmiths, University of London ! List of events and brand new website coming up soon! Please follow us and retweet if you can!

SIPP: Safe Inhalation Pipe Provision @lshtm is recruiting! Most qual data generated: provides time to write, build publications & co-create outputs. Supportive, multidisciplinary team. High impact: change policy & practice for a highly stigmatised population. Please apply / share. jobs.ac.uk/job/DEG315/res…

I'm hiring a research assistant to work on various projects related to the health and well-being of people who us drugs - chumontreal.qc.ca/en/emplois/res…

Our #OpenAccess article on PrEP dosing practices is now in issue in Sociology of Health and Illness Journal. Considering the mundane domestic practices of dosing generates insight into how adherence is materialised and how conditions for capacitating dosing might be better supported.
dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9…

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is grappling with its colonial past and the impact on racism in its culture, Mun-Keat Looi asks if London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine decolonisation efforts are sufficient
bmj.com/content/383/bm…

Our (Tim rhodes Kari Lancaster) paper on how 'best practice' gets done (in times of uncertainty + disruption) is now out. We explore how healthcare in Covid-19 is made to work in its situation.

Read at SSM – Qualitative Research in Health: doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmq…

UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health

More on slow violence in drug policy: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Kari Lancaster Tim rhodes

Check out our (Kari Lancaster Tim rhodes) latest paper on the making of care environments during COVID-19. We investigate the movements and flows that organise care spaces to ask: What is 'the hospital'?

Read now (OA) at Health & Place: doi.org/10.1016/j.heal…

UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health

Tim rhodes & Kari Lancaster analyse the temporal assumptions & governing concepts underpinning logics of “crisis”, “early warnings” & “outbreaks” in relation to opioid overdose. How might we reassemble overdose outbreak in long view? #cdp2023 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… c

In our new paper on 'ecological harm reduction' published today in International Journal of Drug Policy we look at how farmers in Putumayo, Colombia experience and mitigate the risks from chemicals used to cultivate and process coca sciencedirect.com/science/articl… (1/5)

New #OpenAccess commentary in Global Public Health on evidence-making interventions and PrEP. Reflecting on PrEP implementation and social science, we argue that the situations of implementation are vital to understanding how PrEP is made 'successful'.

tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Job alert 🚨 We’re seeking an experienced social scientist to undertake qualitative research in a participatory approach with young people affected by Long Covid in the UK. Great critical social science project with Tim rhodes, Helen Ward + me London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…