Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology

My research has two strands 1) to analyse consumption, ideologies and socio-cultural practices of substances and drugs, with a focus on legal drugs such as alcohol, smoking and vaping and pharmaceutical use, as well as ‘transition’ drugs with multiple uses such as psychedelics; 2)  to advance novel theory of stigma change over time, so that we can better understand it, then challenge it through public health policy.

 

Current projects include:

 

  • Developing theories of stigma emergence and mutation
  • Analysing the lineage and socio-cultural understandings of legal and illegal drugs and substances
  • Focusing on the 'boundary' of legal/illegal drugs and their shifting symbolic meanings (e.g. psychedelics, alcohol, vaping/smoking)
  • Questioning the role of stigma, fear and disgust in public health
  • Advancing a dynamic social feedback model of personality change 
  • Co-creating projects with people with brain injuries and families (with Headway East London)

 

Member of: Society for Study of Addiction, International Sociological Association, International Journal of Drug Policy Journal Board.

Papers full text on ResearchGate, AcademicEdu and the Open Repository at Exeter https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/

BlueSky: hannahfarrimond.bsky.social

 

Selected publications

 

Hughes J, Stuart-Bennett J, Dunning M, Farrimond H. Towards a dynamic processual model of psychedelic microdosing. Int J Drug Policy. 2024 Dec 21;136:104691. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104691. Epub ahead of print (Open Access)

 

Farrimond, H. and Michael, M. (in press) How stigma emerges and mutates: The case of Long Covid stigma, Recalibrating stigma: Sociological perspectives in health and illness, Eds O. Williams, A. Chandler, T. Spratt and G. Thomas, Policy Press (Open Access).

 

Farrimond, H., Smith, G., Boyd, K., Fleicher, D. (in press) ‘Don’t take a clipboard and try not to get sat on’: The ethics and practice of data collection as female researchers in a male-dominated night-time economy (NTE). Eds K. Hughes, J. Hughes. F* Ups in Social Research: SAGE, London.

 

Farrimond, H. (2023) Stigma mutation: Tracking lineage, variation and strength in Covid-19 stigma. Sociological Research Online 28 (1): 171-188. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13607804211031580 (Open Access)

 

Estrada Jaramillo, A.L., Michael, M. and Farrimond, H. (2022). Absence, Multiplicity and the Boundaries of Research? Reflections on Online Asynchronous Focus Groups. Qualitative Research.( Open Access) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14687941221110169

 

Wilkinson, K., Boyd, K., Pearson, M, Farrimond, H., Lang, I.A., Fleisher, D, Poole, A., Ralph, N., Rappert, B. (2022) Making sense of evidence, in (Ed) Translational Criminology in Policing, 64-68.

 

Toller, L. & Farrimond, H. (2021) The unpredictable body, identity and disclosure: Identifying the strategies of chronically ill students at university, Disability Studies Quarterly. https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/7049/5941 (Open Access)

 

Smith, G. & Farrimond, H. (2019) Active ageing, emotional care and the threat of stigma: Identity management in older adults using sleeping medication long-term, Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 23 (3): 255-272.

 

Farrimond, H. & Abraham, C. (2018) Developing e-cigarette friendly smoking cessation services in England: staff perspectives, Harm Reduction Journal, 15 (1): 38. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6076389/ (open access)

 

Farrimond, H., Boyd, K. & Fleischer, D. (2018) Reconfiguring the violent encounter? Preloading, security staff and breathalyser use in the night-time economy. International Journal of Drug Policy, 56: 108-115.

 

Boyd, K., Farrimond, H., and Ralph, N. (2018) The impact of breathalysers on violence and attitudes in the Night-Time Economy, European Journal of Criminology (in press).

 

Supervision

I am interested in supervising PhD's in the following areas:

 

  • Social practices of drug use esp smoking/vaping, alcohol, pharmaceuticals, drugs shifting social boundaries (e.g. cannabis, psychedelics)
  • Addiction to legal and illegal drug use and addictive behaviours
  • Stigma theory across multiple cases
  • Medicalization/pharmaceuticalization

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