This year, DruGS Program Lead Dr Adrian Farrugia has been pleased to take up invitations to present keynote addresses at two conferences. The first, the Association of Alcohol and Other Drug Agencies Northern Territory annual conference was held in Darwin, Australia and the second, the Contemporary Drug Problems biennial conference was held in Manchester, UK.…
In September, DruGS team members travelled to Paris, France, to take part in the Contemporary Drug Problems conference. Co-convened by the journal’s co-editors Associate Professor Kate Seear and Professor kylie valentine along with the conference organising committee, this year’s conference theme was ‘Embracing trouble: New ways of doing, being and knowing’. The theme aimed to…
What is hepatitis C? How does it feel to be diagnosed with it? What is it like to have treatment and be cured? A ground-breaking new website sheds light on the stories of people affected hepatitis C and explores their experiences of treatment and cure. Launched at the 2022 Viral Hepatitis conference in Brisbane on…
This year the international Society for Social Studies of Science annual conference will be held for the first time in Sydney, Australia. Entitled ‘4S Sydney: TRANSnational STS’, the conference will foreground science and technology studies (STS). The event is a key one for a growing number of Australian alcohol and other drug researchers whose work…
In August SSAC team members travelled to Helsinki, Finland, to take part in the biennial Contemporary Drug Problems conference, this year’s theme being ‘Making alcohol and other drug realities’. This conference was particularly well suited to the SSAC team as it offers an avenue for presenting conceptually rich and challenging alcohol and other drug research…
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