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Published on: 3/9/2009
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Dr Lisa Williams
Teaching Fellow and Research Associate
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In 2007, Lisa completed her ESRC funded PhD research which was based upon the North West England Longitudinal Study (NWELS) at the University of Manchester.
Her research investigated patterns of recreational drug use across the life course.
The aim of her research was to explain why and how some people decide to take drugs and continue to take them, others desist and others remain abstinent over time.
She has used a multi-disciplinary approach to explain onset, continuity, change, desistance and abstinence.
At the beginning of the NWELS, the sample were aged 14.
Further quantitative and qualitative data has been collected by Lisa from the sample when they were aged 28.
The collection of further qualitative data by Lisa has created a longitudinal qualitative dataset.
In 1996, Lisa graduated from Sheffield Hallam University with a Social and Cultural Studies degree.
She completed a Masters in Criminology at Keele University in 1997.
Prior to undertaking her PhD research, Lisa worked as a Research Fellow at SPARC, Department of Applied Social Science, University of Manchester.
Her work there focused upon both recreational and dependent drug use.
Lisa also has extensive teaching experience within the field of criminology and has been employed part-time as a Lecturer and Teaching Assistant in the School of Law and an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Currently, Lisa is employed as a part-time Research Associate in the School of Law for an ESRC funded research project exploring the development, operation and impact of the Drugs Intervention Programme and concepts of risk in policy and practice in relation to drug offenders.
She is also currently employed part-time as a Teaching Fellow in the School of Law and is joint Course Director for Drugs and Society.
Lisa is also a member of the Regulation, Security and Justice Research Centre within the School of Law.
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Lisa is currently joint Course Director for Drugs and Society (LAWS 30602).
She is also the seminar leader for Using Social Research Methods (LAWS 20441) and Data Analysis (LAWS 20452)
She has previously been employed as a Teaching Assistant within the School of Law and at the Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University delivering a range of criminology related seminars and lectures since 1999.
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