Research involving Dr Jack Cunliffe has found that tighter prescription regulations on certain opioid medications led to a significant increase in illicit online drug trading for these painkillers. Jack Cunliffe, Lecturer in Quantitative Methods and Criminology, developed the methodology and the analytical output, and played an active role in developing the work. See the paper in the British Medical Journal for more details.
Dr Heejung Chun, Reader in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Kent’s School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, had a productive summer with a number of successful media publications. See this for Heejung’s reflections on recent YouGov research that shows that majority of workers want some sort of flexibility in their working hours and this for a comment on the concept of ’emotional labour’, ‘the unpaid, unappreciated effort that goes into conforming to societal expectations’ that particularly affects women in the workplace.
Hello all! This is our new section for the Q-Step website where we plan to post news about the work of our Q-Step staff and students as well as anything out there beyond Kent that might spark an interest for our readers. If you have any ideas for future posts or have done anything that you feel we could share on here, please do let Victoria know (v.schoen@kent.ac.uk). Many thanks.
