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Personal profile
Research overview
My research interests include experiences of heroin and polysubstance use, addiction, and structural vulnerability, in addition to time, temporality, and memory. I am currently working on a CSO-funded project relating to experiences and perceptions of smoking heroin as a harm reduction intervention.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Social Science, Echoes of Endlessness: Time, Memory, and Experience for Heroin Users in Scotland, Social Anthropology
1 Sept 2015 → 30 Jun 2020
Award Date: 30 Jun 2020
Master of Arts, Social Anthropology
18 Sept 2010 → 26 Jun 2014
Award Date: 26 Jun 2014
External positions
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of the West of Scotland
1 Apr 2022 → …
Social Researcher, Scottish Government
18 Oct 2021 → 1 Apr 2022
Keywords
- GN Anthropology
- Addiction
- substance use
- temporality
- memory
- ethnography
- H Social Sciences (General)
- qualitative methods
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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A pan-European review of good practices in early intervention safeguarding practice with children, young people and families: evidence gathering to inform a multi-disciplinary training programme (the ERICA project) in preventing child abuse and neglect in seven European countries
Appleton, J. V., Bekaert, S., Hucker, J., Zlatkute, G., Paavilainen, E., Schecke, H., Specka, M., Scherbaum, N., Jouet, E., Zabłocka-Żytka, L., Woźniak-Prus, M., Czabała, J. C., Kluczyńska, S., Bachi, B., Bartoli, F., Carrà, G., Cioni, R. M., Crocamo, C., Rantanen, H. E. & Kaunonen, M. & 5 others, , 1 Mar 2023, In: International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice. 6, 1, p. 119-130 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Fractals for an ethnography of time and addiction: recursive and self-similar temporalities in heroin and poly-substance use
Roe, L., Dobroski, S., Manley, G., Warner, H., Dritschel, H. J. & Baldacchino, A. M., 2 Feb 2023, In: Frontiers in Psychiatry. 14, 6 p., 1116142.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Substance use policy and practice in the COVID-19 pandemic: learning from early pandemic responses through internationally comparative field data
Aronowitz, S. V., Carroll, J. J., Hansen, H., Jauffret-Roustide, M., Parker, C. M., Suhail-Sindhu, S., Albizu-Garcia, C., Alegria, M., Arrendondo, J., Baldacchino, A., Bluthental, R., Bourgois, P., Burraway, J., Chen, J.-S., Ekhtiari, H., Elkhoy, H., Farhoudian, A., Friedman, J., Jordan, A. & Kato, L. & 12 others, , 24 Jan 2023, In: Global Public Health. 17, 12, p. 3654-3669 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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ERICA (Stopping Child Maltreatment through Pan-European Multiprofessional Training Programme: Early Child Protection Work with Families at Risk) Training Programme Design
Zlatkute, G., Bekaert, S., Appleton, J., Paavilainen, E., Schecke, H., Specka, M., Scherbaum, N., Jouet, E., Zabłocka-Żytka, L., Wozniak-Prus, M., Czabala, C., Kluczyńska, S., Bachi, B., Bartoli, F., Carrà, G., Cioni, R. M., Crocamo, C., Rantanen, H., Kaunonen, M. & Nieminen, I. & 4 others, , 15 Oct 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) PsyArXiv.Research output: Working paper › Preprint
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Isolation, solitude and social distancing for people who use drugs: an ethnographic perspective
Roe, L., Proudfoot, J., Tay Wee Teck, J. B., Irvine, R. D. G., Frankland, S. & Baldacchino, A. M., 13 Jan 2021, In: Frontiers in Psychiatry. 11, 7 p., 623032.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile22 Citations (Scopus)14 Downloads (Pure)
Projects
- 1 Finished
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An Anthropological Study of Time: Time and the Addict: An Anthropological Study of Time and Heroin Addiction in Scotland
Roe, L. (PI)
Economic & Social Research Council
1/10/20 → 30/09/21
Project: Fellowship
Activities
- 1 Participation in or organising a public festival/exhibition/event
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Being Human Festival 2021
Field, S. (Organiser), Cole, L. (Participant), Sayfutdinova, L. (Participant), Donovan, V. S. (Participant), Roe, L. (Participant), Skrzypek, E. (Participant) & Awuku, N. (Participant)
17 Nov 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organising a public festival/exhibition/event
Press/Media
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RPD responded to historically high number of overdose calls in 2020. They've exceeded it already this year.
Roe, L., Tay Wee Teck, J. B., Irvine, R. D. G., Frankland, S. & Baldacchino, A. M.
29/09/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Relating to Research
Thesis
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Echoes of endlessness : time, memory, and experience for heroin users in Scotland
Roe, L. (Author), Frankland, S. (Supervisor) & Baldacchino, A. M. (Supervisor), 27 Jul 2020Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis (PhD)