Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology

I use qualitative methods and theoretical critical analysis to advance understanding of stigma emergence and mutation over time, particularly in relation to the socio-cultural and symbolic practices of illegal and legal drugs and substances, with the aim of identifying opportunities to challenge stigma and impact 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/

Twitter: @FarrimondH

 

Publications (since 2016)

Farrimond, H. and Michael, M. (in press) How stigma emerge and mutate: 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. (in press) Covid-19 & shame: Political emotions & public health in the UK by Cooper, Dolezal, L., and Rose, A. LSE Book Review.

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)

Farrimond, H. (2021) New pandemics, old politics by De Waal, LSE Book Review

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2021/05/10/book-review-new-pandemics-old-politics-two-hundred-years-of-war-on-disease-and-its-alternatives-by-alex-de-waal/

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).

Farrimond, H. (2017) A typology of vaping: Identifying beliefs, motivations for use, identity and political interest amongst e-cigarette users, International Journal of Drug Policy, 48: 81-90.

Farrimond, H. (2017) The ethics of research, The Bera/SAGE Handbook of Educational Research, Eds: Dominic Wyse, Emma Smith, Larry E. Suter and Neil Selwyn. SAGE Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA.

Wilkinson, K., Boyd, K., Pearson, M., Farrimond, H., Lang, I.A., Fleischer, D., Poole. A., Ralph, N., and Rappert, B. (2017) Making sense of evidence: Using research training to promote organisational change. Police Practice and Research.

 

Farrimond. H. (2016) E-cigarette regulation and policy: UK vapers' perspectives, Addiction, 111 (6): 1077-1083.

Carrieri, D., Farrimond, H., Kelly, S.E. and Turnpenny, P.D. (2016) Families dealing with the uncertainty of genetic disorders: the case of Neurofibromatosis Type 1, Sociology of Health and Illness, 38(5):753-67

 

Grants

ESRC IAA Project Co-creation Award, '#RU2Drunk? Evaluation of the roll-out of a breathalyser initiative to reduce alcohol-related violence in the South West, July-Dec '16, PI Hannah Farrimond and Katharine Boyd, Collaborators Devon and Cornwall/Dorset Police Strategic Alliance, £19, 787.

Reframing stop smoking services in response to e-cigarette use: An exploratory stakeholder study', Cancer Research UK, PI Dr Hannah Farrimond, Collaborator Prof. Charles Abraham, 18 months, start March 2016, £43,000.

Police Knowledge Fund ExPERT (Exeter Policing, Evidence and Research Translation) Project, Start date Sept 2015, 18 months, Co-I, £249,450.

Q-Step Centre for Quantitative Methods at the University of Exeter (£1.2 million), start 2014 for five years, Academic Lead for SPA department

 

Biography:

My PhD in Psychology on 'Smoking Identities in Higher and Lower Socio-economic Groups in the UK' was awarded in 2007 by UCL. I then joined the University of Exeter as a research associate at EGENIS (Exeter Centre for the Study of Life Sciences), moving to a lecturer (2016), then senior lecturer post (2018).

 

Research supervision:

 

Supervision

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

      • Social practices of legal drug use esp smoking/vaping, alcohol and pharmaceuticals
      • Addiction in relation to legal and illegal drug use
      • Stigma theory
      • Medicalization/pharmaceuticalization
      • Qualitative/mixed methods/Q-methodology
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Completed PhDs

2016-2022 Rosanna Mead, Meaningful music in Dementia Care: Anchoring within Transient Situations.

2016-2020 Georgia Smith, 1 + 3 ESRC studentship, 'The Long Night: Framing Sleeping Medication Use in Later Life'

2015-2018. Hazel O'Brien, 'Being Mormon in Ireland: An ethnographic study of two Mormon communities in Ireland'

2008-2011 Daniele Carrieri, 'Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1): Patients and Families Experiences and Health Care System Management of a Complex Genetic Syndrome’

 

Examined PhDs

2020 (external) Daniel Erku, University of Queensland, Australia 'Exploring the role of health professionals in communicating health messages about nicotine vaping products to smokers: A multiple methods approach'

2015 (internal) David Wyatt

2013 (internal) Louise Bezuidenhout

2012 (internal) Sally Wasmuth

 

Current PhDs

Louise Toller, 1 + 3 ESRC studentship, Social constructions of a liminal condition (M.E.) in young people.

Courtney Buckler 1 + 3 ESRC studentship. Evidence-based medicine as an ideological tool in psychiatric discourse.

Ana Lucia Estrada Jamarillo, The logics of care in congenital syphilis in Western Colombia, Colombian Government/UK collaborative funding

Margaret Chirgwin. Why are UK doctors leaving medical practice prematurely (i.e. before retirement age)?

 

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