New article: Young people, intoxication and everyday life

A new article by DruGS Program Lead Adrian Farrugia in collaboration with Mats Ekendahl (Stockholm University), Helen Keane (Australian National University) and Mary Lou Rasmussen (Australian National University) explores young people’s articulations of alcohol and other drugs and intoxication as part of everyday life. This article responds to a research dynamic in which much sociological…

New article: Health professional discourses on performance and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs), health, and masculinity

A new article by DruGS team members Gemma Nourse, David Moore and Suzanne Fraser examines health professional understandings of performance and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs) in Australia. The article has been developed from Gemma’s PhD thesis, supervised by Suzanne and David, which examined what it means to be a man who consumes PIEDs, a practice commonly pathologised…

PhD scholarship: Apply now

PhD Scholarship: Call for expressions of interest The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University invites expressions of interest and applications from suitably qualified candidates for a PhD scholarship. Based within the Drugs, Gender and Sexuality (DruGS) research program, the scholarship will be awarded to support a qualitative project focusing…