In 2023, members of the study team presented the findings from the study at several international and national conferences:
AFINet (Addiction and the Family International Network) International Conference in Rotterdam on 14–16 June 2023, the research team presented three papers at a symposium session, chaired by Professor Anne Whittaker, Caring for children and families affected by parental drug use: what can we learn from, ethnographic research and family engagement in research?
- ‘Using Learning Alliance methodology to involve family members in research: Challenges and implications.’ (Dr Hannah Carver)
- ‘Exploring relations between parents who use drugs and the wider family: are the family part of the ‘problem’ or part of the ‘solution’?’ (Dr Elaine Robinson)
- ‘Examining the Whole Family Approach to providing services, contrasting the policy agenda, rhetoric, and reality.’ (Judy Warburton)
Drug Research Network Scotland (DRNS) annual showcase event in Glasgow on 8 June 2023. Chief Investigator, Professor Anne Whittaker, presented a keynote talk on ‘What is good care for parents who use drugs and their families?: results from a relational ethnography’. The event was attended by academic researchers, practitioners and clinicians, third sector representatives, policymakers and people with living/lived experience.
Contemporary Drug Problems (CDP) International Conference held in Paris on 6–8 September 2023. The study team presented two papers:
- ‘Surveillance and self-surveillance in the care of parents who use drugs and their families’ (Dr Elaine Robinson)
- ‘Governing parental drug use: Analysing practitioners talk and the production of child protection risk’ (Judith Warburton)
International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) conference in Edinburgh on 24–27 September 2023. Judy Warburton presented a poster titled: ‘An ethnographic study of parents who use drugs: Representations, logics of care and decision-making in child protection practice.’
The European Society for Social Drug Research (ESSD) conference in Copenhagen on 28–30 September 2023. The team presented two papers
- ‘Examining the ‘Whole Family Approach’ to providing services, contrasting the policy, agenda, rhetoric and reality.’ (Stephanie Fincham-Campbell)
- ‘Representations of the problem of parental opioid use in interagency decision-making practices in England and Scotland.’ (Emma Beecham)
NHS Addictions Provider Alliance (APA) conference, online, on 28 November 2023. Stephanie Fincham-Campbell presented a paper on ‘The social and health harms of everyday stigma and discrimination experienced by parents who use drugs.’
2022
DRNS Annual Conference, online on 26 May 2022, Dr James Todd presented a ‘research bites’ session titled: ‘Untangling the complexity of practitioner-parent relations: Methodological reflections on reformulating research during COVID-19 around parents who use drugs.’
European Society for Social Drug Research conference in Vienna on 6–8 October 2022. Dr Landon Kuester presented on ‘Drug testing parents: Findings from UK children’s and family social work services.’