Professor Richard Hammersley
Director of the Centre for Behavioural Aspects of Health and Disease
ROOM: M434
T: +44 141 331 8303
E: richard.hammersley@gcal.ac.uk
Profile
Richard Hammersley joined the Department in 2004, having previously worked at many Universities including Essex, where he was Head of the Department of Health and Human Sciences, Swansea, Sheffield, Glasgow and Strathclyde. Also in the USA and Canada in his previous life as a Cognitive Psychologist. Nowadays he is a Health Psychologist with interests in ingestion - food, drugs and alcohol - and in the evaluation of services and treatments. His work on drugs intersects with criminology and he is part of the ESRC Network 'Pathways into and out of offending: Risk, resilience and diversity'. He has also recently had research funding from the BBSRC, the Home Office and the Youth Justice Board amongst others.
He is still interested in the deceptively simple question of "Why people take drugs?" and looks for answers in the social processes that surround ingestion, from cognitive expectancy effects through to political discourse. He is currently writing a textbook for Polity Press called "Drugs and Crime: Theories and Practices".
Here are a couple of recent articles that have not been published
- Pleasure and suffering: Theorizing normal drug use (word document)
- Alcohol and other non medical drug use as health-related behaviours (word document)
Here are the overheads from some recent presentations
- Reducing youthful drinking (powerpoint presentation)
- What might work to reduce drug use (powerpoint presentation)
- Patterns of drug use (powerpoint presentation)
Here is a simple guide to reducing your drug use
Teaching
Richard supervises Doctorate and Masters Student Dissertations.
Publications Record
Recent books and published reports
Hammersley, R., Minkes, J., Reid, M., Oliver, A., Genova, A. & Raynor, P. (2004) Drug and alcohol projects for young offenders: The evaluation of development fund projects funded by the Youth Justice Board. London, Youth Justice Board.
Hammersley, R., Marsland, L. & Reid, M. (2003) Substance Use By Young Offenders: The Impact Of The Normalization Of Drug Use In The Early Years Of The 21st Century. Home Office Research Study 261, London, Home Office Research and Statistics Directorate.
Hammersley, R. (ed) Theories of normal drug use. Special issue of Addiction Research and Theory. Due 2005.
Hammersley, R., Kahn, F. & Ditton, J. (2002) Ecstasy and the rise of the chemical generation. Reading, Harwood.
Reid, M. & Hammersley R. (2000) Communicating successfully in groups: A practical introduction for the workplace. London: Routledge.
Some refereed journal articles
Hammersley, R. (2005) Theories of normal drug use (editorial). Addiction Research and Theory, 13, 201-203.
Minkes, J., Hammersley, R. & Raynor. P. (2005) Partnership in working with young offenders with substance misuse problems. Howard Journal, 44, 254-268.
Reid, M., Hammersley, R. & Rance, J. (2005) Restraint, dieting and watching what you eat amongst female students. Nutrition Bulletin, 30, 120-125.
Ritchie KA, Gilmour WH, Macdonald EB, Burke FJT, McGowan DA, Dale IM, Hammersley R, Hamilton RM, Binnie V, Collington D (2002) Health and neuropsychological functioning of dentists exposed to mercury. Occupational And Environmental Medicine , 59, 287-293.
Hammersley, R., Jenkins, R. & Reid, M. (2001) Cannabis use and social identity. Addiction Research and Theory, 9, 133-150.
Reid, M & Hammersley, R (2001) Breakfast outcome expectancies modestly predict self-reported diet. Appetite , 37, 121-122
Hammersley, R. Comment on Edwards, G. & Barbor, T.F. (2000) Shakespeare and the meaning of authorship [letter] Addiction, 96, 507-509 .
Khan, F., Ditton, J. & Hammersley R. (2000) Ethnic minority use of illegal drugs in Glasgow, Scotland: Potential difficulties for service provision, Addiction Research , 8: 27-49.
Reid, M. & Hammersley, R. (2000) Sociopsychobiological issues in understanding gender relations and gender differences, Psychology, Evolution and Gender, 2, 167-173.
Hamilton RM, Ritchie KA, Burke FJ, Collington D, MacDonald EB, Hammersley R, McGowan D, Dale I, Gilmour WH, Binnie V (2000) Occupational exposure of dental staff to mercury. Journal of Dental Research , 79, 1171.
Shewan, D., Hammersley, R., Oliver, J. & Macpherson, S. (2000) Fatal drug overdose after liberation from prison: A retrospective study of female ex-prisoners from Strathclyde region (Scotland), Addiction Research, 8, 267-278.
Finnigan, F., Hammersley, R. & Cooper, T. (1999) An examination of next-day hangover effects after a 100mg/100ml dose of alcohol in heavy social drinkers. Addiction, 93, 1829-1838.
Finnigan, F., Hammersley, R. & Millar, K. (1999) The effects of meal composition on blood alcohol, psychomotor performance and subjective state. Appetite , 31, 361-375.
Hammersley, R., Ditton, J., Smith, I. & Short, E. (1999) Patterns of ecstasy use by drug users. British Journal of Criminology, 39, 625-647.
Millar, K., Hammersley, R. & Finnigan, F. (1999) Is residual impairment after alcohol an effect of repeated performance? Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine , 70, 124-130.
Reid, M & Hammersley, R. (1999) The effects of carbohydrates on arousal. Nutrition Research Reviews, 12, 3-23.
Reid, M & Hammersley, R. (1999) The effects of corn oil and sucrose on subsequent food intake. British Journal of Nutrition , 82, 447-455
Hammersley, R., Finnigan, F. & Millar, K. (1998) Verbal expectancies and performance after alcohol. Addictive Behaviors, 23, 489-496.
Reid, M. & Hammersley, R.H. (1998) A comparison of expectations about high-and -low fat breakfasts. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society . Vol. 57, 4, 167a.
Reid, M. & Hammersley, R. (1998) Effects of blind substitution of asparatame-sweetened for sugar-sweetened soft drinks on appetite and mood. British Food Journal, 100, 254-259 .
Reid, M. & Hammersley, R. (1998) The effects of carbohydrates on subsequent food intake and mood state in obese and non-obese females. Psychology, Health & Medicine , 3, 299-313.
Invited Pesentations
2004 Tacking Alcohol Misuse Amongst Young People. Policy Spotlight Conference, Alcohol misuse, drugs, crime and disorder amongst the under-18s, London, November 2004 2004 - International Symposium at Pennsylvania State University, USA: Talking Across Paradigms: Debating risk and protection in late modern society. The impact of the normalization of drug use on young offenders. Presented by L. Marsland. October, 2004.
2004 International Symposium at Pennsylvania State University, USA: Talking Across Paradigms: Debating risk and protection in late modern society. The impact of the normalization of drug use on young offenders. Presented by L. Marsland. October, 2004.
2004 European Society of Criminology. Drugs and Crime (Panel on Pathways into and out of offending: Risk Resilience and Diversity. Presented by L. Marsland. Amsterdam, September.
2003 The role of culture in understanding drugs-crime relationships. NACRO conference on Drugs, Crime and Social Exclusion, London, May.
2003 Drug use by young offenders. Essex Drug and Alcohol Team Annual Conference, Maldon, March.
2003 Concepts of risk and vulnerability. The case of drugs and crime. Seminar on Social Inclusion, Health and Health Services, English and French Perspectives. CRESP, Paris 13, October.
2002 Patterns of Substance Abuse. New Advances in the Understanding and Treatment of Addiction. European Behavioural Pharmacology Society and British Association for Psychopharmacology. Brighton, September.
2000 Assessing mood is not straightforward because mood is not straightforward. Mars Brain Research Symposium, Nottingham, November.
2000 Implementing the Welsh drug and alcohol strategy. Dyfyd Powis Drug and Alcohol Action Team Conference, November.
1999 Lessons from evaluating the Youth Justice Pilots. Welsh Youth Justice Forum, Llandrod Wells, November.
1999 What are the legal and policy implications of the “normalisation” of drug use among young people? Invited paper at "Legalization of Drugs: a political or a scientific question?" Instituto de Maia, Portugal, April.
Membership of Editorial Boards
- Addiction
- Addiction Research and Theory
Peer Reviewer
Regularly for Addiction, Addiction Research and Theory, Health and Social Care in the Community and occasionally for many others. Also for Department of Health, Home Office, ESRC, BBSRC, MRC and AERC.