Adrian is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the Drugs, Gender and Sexuality program at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University. A sociologist of education and health, Adrian’s research focuses on health-related initiatives including alcohol and other drug education for young people, opioid overdose and take-home naloxone, and experiences of hepatitis C, including treatment and cure.

Alongside academic publishing, Adrian regularly translates novel research insights into accessible public resources, including Overdoselifesavers.org (2019) and VitalvoicesonhepC.org (2022), as well as workforce stigma-reduction resources (2022) and drug education development tools (2025).

For a full list of Adrian’s publications and projects, click here.

Supervision

Adrian welcomes supervision opportunities in the sociology of alcohol and other drug consumption, youth drug consumption, drug education and health promotion, gender and social approaches to health and illness more broadly. His theoretical interests include post-structural and post-human approaches to subjectivity, materiality and the body.

Qualifications

• PhD Health Sciences, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
• BEd (Hons), Monash University
• BA/BEd Indigenous studies, Politics, ESL education, Monash University

Research Interests

• Understandings of addiction, drug consumption and treatment, overdose and drug-related harm, drug education and health promotion, youth drug use, gender and the body, the sociology of health