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National Institute of Health Research (NIHR): Innovation Fund to Reduce Demand for Illicit Substances, Phase 2: Realist evaluation of the feasibility of a school-based, multi-component Drug Education Programme (REAL-DEP), 1 September 2024-31 August 2025, Betsy Thom (PI), Karen Duke (Co-I), Camille Alexis-Garsee (Co-I)

National Institute of Health Research (NIHR): Innovation Fund to Reduce Demand for Illicit Substances, Phase I, Developing and refining a universal, multi-component drug education programme for 13-15 year olds, in collaboration with Daniel Spargo-Mabbs Foundation (March-October 2023), Betsy Thom (PI), Karen Duke (Co-I), Camille Alexis-Garsee (Co-I)

National Institute of Health Research (NIHR): Innovation Fund to Reduce Demand for Illicit Substances, Phase I, Evaluation of 1625 Outreach Service for young people, in collaboration with Change, Grow, Live (March-October 2023), Karen Duke, Betsy Thom

Change, Grow, Live: Feasibility Study to Evaluate 1625 Outreach Service for young people in Derbyshire, (April 2024-April 2025), Karen Duke, Betsy Thom and Arun Sondhi

Internal: Approaches to MDMA-Assisted Couples Therapy Among “Underground” Practitioners: A Qualitative Study. Avruch, D., Allan, R., & Anderson, K. (August 2023, ongoing)

Internal: Association Between Lifetime Ecstasy Use and Social Support and Social Functioning. Anderson, K. (September 2023, ongoing).

HEIF Small Grants 2023-24:  Co-create guidance/tools for developing harm reduction approaches in universities.  In collaboration with Students Organising for Sustainability SOS-UK, Karen Duke, Betsy Thom, Camille Alexis-Garsee, Katie Anderson, Naomi Graham, Mike Dines

Ministry of Justice, Rapid Evidence Assessment:  Understanding the Effectiveness of Substance Misuse Treatment in Prisons on Justice and Social Outcomes, Karen Duke and Arun Sondhi (August-November 2023)

Qatar Medical Research Council: The ethno-cultural, psychological and treatment profiles of people who use alcohol and drugs in Qatar, Consultancy Betsy Thom, Karen Duke, Arun Sondhi (June 2023-December 2027),

EU CHAFEA Health Programme:  EPPIC (Exchanging Prevention Practices on Polydrug Use among Youth in Criminal Justice Systems): Project co-ordinator; involving partners from Denmark, Italy, Poland, Austria and Germany. Betsy Thom, Karen Duke, Helen Gleeson (2017-2020)

Foster J.H. and Thom B. (available Feb. 2025) Substance Use and Policy, a) Minimum unit pricing; b) Decriminalising, ch 9. In Morgan J. and La Placa V. (eds) Contemporary issues in Health and Social Care Policy and Practice. A comparative introduction. Routledge, London.

Duke, K. and MacGregor, S. (2024). . International Journal of Drug Policy. 126.

Lightowlers, C. and Duke, K. (2024). . Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

Anderson, K., Elf, P., & Isham, A. (2024). . International Journal of Drug Policy, 133, 104571.

Neubert, J. J., Anderson, K., & Mason, N. L. (2024). . Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 8(2), 219-232.

Duke, K., Gleeson, H., Dabrowska, K., Herold, M., Rolando, S. and Thom, B. (2023). . Youth Justice. 23 (1), pp. 97-116.

Duke, K., Gleeson, H., MacGregor, S. and Thom, B. (2023). T. Journal of Community Psychology. 2023. 

Thom B., Annand F., Clancy C., Whittaker A., Janiszewska I. (2023). The role of UK alcohol and drug (AOD) nurses in a changing workforce. Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy DOI: 10.1080/09687637.2023.2266554

Kolind, T. and Duke, K. (2022). Exploring the motivations and social organisation of intoxication in prison settings. in: Hunt, G., Antin, T. and Asmussen Frank, V. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Intoxicants and Intoxication Routledge. pp. 191-202

MacGregor S. and Thom B. (2022) Risk, intoxication and death: contemporary media framing of drug-related deaths. In: Hunt G., Antin T.M.J., and Frank V.A. (eds.) Handbook of Intoxicants and Intoxication

Foster J.H. and Thom B. (2022). Older Drinkers: Alcohol consumption, drinking context and “successful ageing.” In Alcohol, Age, Generation and the Life Course. Thurnell- Reid T and Fenton L (eds), Palgrave MacMillan.

Thom B. and Duke K. (2022). Exchanging Prevention practices on Polydrug use among youth In Criminal justice systems (EPPIC) Chapter 8 in: How to Manage International Multidisciplinary Research Projects. Hantrais L. (ed) Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Duke, K. and Trebilcock, J. (2022).. International Journal of Drug Policy. 100, pp. 1-10.

Rolando, S., Beccaria, F. and Duke, K. (2021). Trajectories of drug involvement among young people in contact with criminal justice systems in six European countries. in: Chatwin, C., Potter, G. and Werse, B. (ed.) Who? Variation and distinction in the European drugs landscape Lengerich, Germany Pabst Publishers. pp. 127-145

Frank, V., Rolando, S., Thom, B., Beccaria, F., Duke, K. and Herold, M. (2021). Editorial DEPP: drug experienced young people in contact with the criminal justice system. Understanding the challenges and working towards solutions. Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy. 28 (1), pp. 1-6. 

Duke, K., Gleeson, H., Dabrowska, K., Herold, M. and Rolando, S. (2021). . Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy. 28 (1), pp. 26-35.

Rolando, S., Asmussen Frank, V., Duke, K., Kahlert, R., Pisarska, A., Graf, N. and Beccaria, F. (2021). . Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy. 28 (1), pp. 7-16.

Moskalewicz, J., Dabrowska, K., Herold, M. D., Beccaria, F., Rolando, S., Herring, R., Thom, B., Kahlert, R., Stummvoll, G., Moazen, B., Stöver, H. and Pisarska, A. (2021). Unintended consequences of drug policies experienced by young drug users in contact with the criminal justice systems. Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, 28 (1) . pp. 36-47. ISSN 0968-7637 (doi:10.1080/09687637.2020.1823944).

Duke, K. and Kolind, T. (2020). Framing and reframing drug ‘problems’ in prison spaces and populations. in: MacGregor, S. and Thom, B. (ed.) Risk and substance use: framing dangerous people and dangerous places Routledge, Taylor & Francis. pp. 162-182

Moazen, B., Dolan, K., Moghaddam, S., Lotfizadeh, M., Duke, K., Neuhann, F., Stöver, H. and Jahn, A. (2020). . Epidemiologic Reviews. 42 (1), pp. 19-26.

Hafford-Letchfield T., McQuarrie T., Clancy C., Thom B. and Jain B. (2020). . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, 7994; doi:10.3390/ijerph17217994

Somerfield L., Thom B. and Herring R. (2020). Drugs and Alcohol Today Vol 20 (4): 323-335.  

Asmussen-Frank V., Thom B., Herold M. (2020). . Drugs: education, prevention and policy.

• Jordan Soondar PhD: Joint funding with Alcohol Research UK. Peer mentors and volunteers within specialist alcohol treatment services: role development, wellbeing and career progression. Pass 2023 (supervisors Betsy Thom and Rachel Herring)
• Arun Sondhi PhD: Reconviction Rates and Factors associated with reconviction for prisoners receiving specialist alcohol treatment in prison and returning to the community in England: A Data Linkage Study. Pass 2020 (supervisors Betsy Thom and Karen Duke)
  Linda Somerfield PhD: Public Health involvement in alcohol licensing decisions: policy, partnerships and professional ideology. Pass 2019 (supervisors Betsy Thom and Rachel Herring)
• James O’Shea PhD by Public Works: Autoethnographic account of developing materials regarding responses to alcohol problems Pass 2019 (supervisors Margaret Volante and Betsy Thom)
• Stuart Linke PhD by public works: Development, evaluation and deployment of ‘Down your Drink’.  Pass 2018 (supervisors Betsy Thom and Rachel Herring)

DARC staff teach on a range of master's programmes.

Betsy Thom and David Garcia: Leading ISSUP UK: UK chapter of ISSUP (International Society for Substance Use Professionals) 2021 – ongoing.

Karen Duke: Co-opted Member of the Standing Committee on Prevention, Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), May 2023-ongoing

Betsy Thom: Member, expert panel ‘A whole systems approach to substance use harm prevention amongst children and young people’ Public Health Scotland, 2022- ongoing

Helen Gleeson, Karen Duke, Betsy Thom: submitted written evidence to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs on ethnic minority groups and drug use Sept. 2023.

Karen Duke, Tim Weaver, Carmel Clancy and Rachel Herring: Presentations, study visit from UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) Central Asia group to Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, 麻豆TV网站 University, 27 April 2023

Betsy Thom: Mentoring research team (Drug use in Syrian Universities) for Cara Syria, 2022-2023

Karen Duke: Invited member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) - February-May 2022

Karen Duke and Betsy Thom: Written evidence to the House of Commons Committee for Public Accounts, , 2022

Karen Duke: Consultant Advisor to the Lung Theatre Company for the , 1 October 2022

Betsy Thom: Member of steering group Drug Research Network Scotland, and Drug Prevention theme leader, 2018-2021

Betsy Thom: Member of Steering Committee UNICRI (United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute) project: “What are the needs of families in preventing drug use among children and adolescents?” 2019-2020

Guardian, ‘’, 31 January 2023

Inside Time newspaper, ‘’, 16 January 2023

Russell Webster Blog, ‘s’, 9 January 2023,

Justice Gap, ‘', 2 February 2023

Drug Science Podcast, '', Karen Duke with Professor David Nutt and Professor Susanne MacGregor, June 2024  

Duke, K. (2024)  Policy and practice responses to drug-related deaths: governance in English and Welsh Prisons, 2015-2021.  Lisbon Addictions Conference, 23-25 October 2024

Duke, K. (2023) Unpacking the risk matrix:  drug related deaths in English and Welsh prisons, European Society of Criminology Conference, Florence, 6-9 September, 2023

Duke, K. (2022) Drug-related deaths in prisons in England and Wales, 2015-2020, Lisbon Addictions Conference, 23-25 November 2022

Duke, K. (2021) Building cultures of participation: the involvement of young people in contact with the criminal justice system in the development of drug interventions in the UK, Denmark, Italy and Poland, European Society for Social Drugs Research, Vienna (online).