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Adrian Farrugia

@adrianfarrugia.bsky.social
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Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University. Health sociologist with a focus on alcohol and other drugs. scholars.latrobe.edu.au/a2farrugia

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The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Open access article by TASA members Nyssa Ferguson & Adrian Farrugia et al.: Working the Boundaries of Care: A Narcofeminist Analysis of Alcohol Consumption Practices Among Nurses and Midwives in Australia doi.org/10.1177/0091...
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Working the Boundaries of Care: A Narcofeminist Analysis of Alcohol Consumption Practices Among Nurses and Midwives in Australia - Nyssa Ferguson, Adrian Farrugia, Robyn Dwyer, 2026
Public health research reports “alarming” levels of “risky,” or even “hazardous,” alcohol consumption among the female-dominated and historically-feminized prof...
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Adrian Farrugia @adrianfarrugia.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In our new publication, Helen Keane and I explore the development of ‘critical drug studies’ as a field. We consider what makes the field 'critical', what is included in the category of 'drugs', and what kinds of 'studies' are carried out by critical drug scholars. lnkd.in/gG9c9g6Y
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The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
New article by TASA member Kiran Pienaar et al.: Narrating Suffering Through the Lens of Trauma: A Narcofeminist Analysis of Addiction Narratives journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · 10/07/2026
So excited to be organising Schooling and Sexualities 4 - a decennial legacy conference about gender and sexuality justice and schooling. Please share this call for papers and consider joining us in Adelaide.
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Adrian Farrugia @adrianfarrugia.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Our new article examines drinking among nurses, focusing on its contribution to professional relationship and responsibilities. Overall, we argue that rather than reducing drinking to a maladaptive effort to “cope” with work, it is better understood as part of work itself. shorturl.at/FhicY
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Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
New paper! Presence, absence, and contingent engagement: mobilising care in the endgame of hepatitis C elimination. Led by Sophia Schroeder in @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social, from our NHMRC Synergy project with @burnetinstitute.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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International Journal of Drug Policy @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
“Equivalence of care? A scoping review of prison healthcare experiences of women and non-binary people who use drugs” by Pip Buckingham and colleagues (2026) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…is prison healthcare truly equivalent? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PrisonPolicy
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 06/05/2026
OUT NOW: The Sociological Review journal 74:3, featuring 14 new papers💡 Includes a Special Section, 45 Years of Manufacturing Consent, on Michael Burawoy’s seminal work. Guest edited by Constantine Manolchev, Ryan Nolan @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social buff.ly/0mk3Tf4 @journals.sagepub.com
The Sociological Review Journal Vol 74 Issue 3
With contributions from Constantine Manolchev  Ryan Nolan Yiru Zhao  Tom Hoctor   Joana Almeida Daniel Nicholson   Kim Allen  Kirsty Finn Kate Hardy  Rachel Lara Cohen  Cassie Kill  Mia Ruijie Zhong Patricia Hamilton  Charlotte Faircloth  Anne Angsten Clark Hayley James Lisa Morriss Siobhan Beckwith  Adrian Farrugia  Kiran Pienaar  Fay Dennis  Jennifer Todd Dyuti Chakravarty  Joanne McEvoy  Sharon Kishik  Justine Grønbæk Pors  Fee Mozeley  Debbi Long  Sara Kian-Judge  Jodie McGregor  Naomi Wild  Julie Brownlie  Youssef Al Hariri  Simon Anderson
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The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
#CFPs Indigenous queer health and wellbeing: Anticolonial meanings and praxis Health Sociology Review 2027 Special Issue Submit by 12 April For the full details, visit www.tasa.org.au/docs.ashx?id...
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Adrian Farrugia @adrianfarrugia.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Our latest publication examines how the relationship between intoxication and everyday life is articulated through young people’s accounts of alcohol and other drug pleasures. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 12/11/2025
Who’s afraid of #Reviewer2? Journal editors @carinrunciman.bsky.social Sweta Rajan-Rankin @silkeroth.bsky.social and Maud Perrier demystify the much-maligned peer review process – and all the care, thought and reflection that goes into it – in the Magazine’s latest issue. buff.ly/fekw1xq
Collage featuring a person in a red dress with gears, lightbulb, book, and laptop — representing knowledge sharing and peer review – and held aloft on a paper airplane by a giant hand.
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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Wellcome-funded 'Between Deception and Dissent' project is recruiting a postdoc working at the interface of medical STS and socio-legal studies, supervised by Martyn Pickersgill @ Edinburgh #STS www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...
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International Journal of Drug Policy @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
“Is drug-use stigma a breach of human rights law?: Insights from Australia” by Sean Mulcahy, Kate Seear, & @carlatreloar.bsky.social (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy…what do you think? Is drug use stigma a breach of human rights law? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Now published in Contemporary Drug Problems - online first #drugs #queerstudies #criticaldrugstudies
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The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
**IMPORTANT** Macquarie Uni is proposing to cut Sociology entirely 11 of 14 staff may be made redundant, and student choice severely limited. After 60+ years, Sociology and Politics could vanish from MQ. 🖊️ Sign the petition: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa... #SaveSociology #HigherEd #MQcuts
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SAVE SOCIOLOGY AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY
We urge Macquarie University management to reverse this decision and preserve the vital disciplines of Sociology and Politics. Sociology has a key place in the social sciences as the broadest and most recognisable research discipline - removing it from the university's program is like losing a key piece from the jig saw puzzle of social science.  Once it is gone, students wanting to master knowledge and develop research expertise about modern societies would be well advised to pursue their...
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The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Recent article by TASA member Kiran Pienaar et al. Undoing Minority Stress: Rethinking Queer and Gender-Diverse Substance Use journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Adrian Farrugia @adrianfarrugia.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Plenary sessions showcasing "Real People, Real Action, Real Results" announced for the 15th Australasian Viral Hepatitis Conference happening this 6-8 August in Naarm (Melbourne). Register for #VH2025: www.hepatitis.org.au/registration...
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Adrian Farrugia @adrianfarrugia.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Led by Emily Lenton, our new article examines how the process of producing medical records can be implicated in stigma. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
TASA 2025 General Abstract Submissions close on 22 April. Submit now and be part of #TASA2025! 🔗 www.tasa.org.au/content.aspx...
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The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Three (2 at Deakin & 1 at ECU) PhD scholarship opportunities are available as part of a new Australian Research Council funded Discovery Project: Youth Futures after Mobility The full details are available via a Word document available here: www.tasa.org.au/docs.ashx?id...
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AIVL For PWUD Wellbeing, Health & Human Rights✊️💜 @aivl.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
For the second webinar in AIVL's 'You Can't Say That' series, we reflect on the historical exclusion of women who use drugs from traditional feminist spaces and advocacy. us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN…  #narcofeminism #humanrights
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The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Only 20 days left! General Abstract Submissions close on 22 April. Submit now and be part of #TASA2025! 🔗 www.tasa.org.au/content.aspx...
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AIVL For PWUD Wellbeing, Health & Human Rights✊️💜 @aivl.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Our team developed a brand new AIVL Media & Communications Guide by people who use drugs (PWUD) using a harm reduction lens.🔍🤩💊💉💜 It aims to help reporters and people writing for media ensure their coverage promotes an accurate and informed narrative: aivl.org.au/resources/re...
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Dion Kagan @dionkagan.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Love to see @outhistory have added Positive Images to their Bookshelf (outhistory.org/items/show/6...).
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Positive Images: Gay Men and HIV/AIDS in the Culture of 'Post Crisis' · OutHistory
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Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Hello UK friends! I'm giving a few talks in the flesh over the coming weeks. If you're in London, come to this talk at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social w @mayameme.bsky.social as part of the Goldsmiths Visual Cultures seminar series Thursday 27 March, 5 - 7pm www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
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Who's Represented/What's Unrepresentable: AI and Race
Thao Phan and Fabian Offert (paper 1) and Maya Indira Ganesh (paper 2).
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Adrian Farrugia @adrianfarrugia.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
My latest article examines how drug education professionals understand and respond to the relationship between alcohol and other drug consumption, sex and harm. Focusing on agency, I analyse how these professionals constitute the locus of harm and how this impacts drug education responses.
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The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
**JOB OPP** Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sociology (part-time) University of Sydney Apps close on April 27th For details, visit usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sociology
Work with Dr Leah Williams Veazey and the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies team to generate foundational knowledge about healthcare worker migration to and from Australia Part-time (0.5FTE) for 1 y...
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Adrian Farrugia @adrianfarrugia.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
My latest article examines how drug education professionals understand and respond to the relationship between alcohol and other drug consumption, sex and harm. Focusing on agency, I analyse how these professionals constitute the locus of harm and how this impacts drug education responses.
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Australasian STS Conference Call for Proposals: “to bring the broad scope of STS subjects, skills, practices and politics into conversation with a core problematic of information theory – the problem of noise.” Submissions due March 14. aussts.org/aussts-2025-...
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Call for Proposals: AusSTS 2025 Conference
The Call for Proposals for the AusSTS 2025 conference, to be held in Narrm/ Melbourne from 9-11 July, is now open. We invite submissions for presentations, posters, making and doing sessions, pre-s…
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Adrian Farrugia @adrianfarrugia.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Led by Gemma Nourse, our new article examines stigma in healthcare as a biopolitical spatial-temporal phenomenon that shapes relationships between people, time, space and technologies of service provision. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Stigmatising space-times: Addressing healthcare stigma beyond interpersonal interactions - Gemma Nourse, Adrian Farrugia, Kate Seear, Emily Lenton, Elena Cama, Carla Treloar, 2025
Stigma related to blood-borne viruses (BBVs) and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) has been shown to undermine the quality of healthcare. Given the pervasi...
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Shelley Walker @shelleyjwalker.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Great launch of Kate Seear's report about #humanrights & #drugpolicy. Insightful panel discussions with Ele Morrison @aivl.bsky.social, Nick Kent @HRV & Alejandra Zuluaga about the importance of including the voices of #PWUD in #drugpolicyreform decision-making. opal.latrobe.edu.au/articles/rep...
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Human rights and drug policy: Summary report of project findings and recommendations
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Adrian Farrugia @adrianfarrugia.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
My latest article published in The Sociological Review @sociologicalreview.bsky.social explores the relationship between gender, harm and fun in young women and gender diverse people’s experiences of alcohol and other drugs. A brief overview of the article is available: tinyurl.com/4bk22buk
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 13/02/2025
“When people worry about women drinking I say, ‘Shouldn’t you be worried about men who take these actions?‘” – Ash, Australia @adrianfarrugia.bsky.social Kiran Pienaar and Fay Dennis @sociology-gold.bsky.social on male violence and a woman's right to experience pleasure. buff.ly/4hE0Qye
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International Journal of Drug Policy @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
“Basically every safety protocol we have in place to protect against overdose, parents can't access”: Mothers who use unregulated drugs’ experiences of dual public health emergencies by Dr. Jade Boyd (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social! Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Dion Kagan @dionkagan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Are you someone who has used PrEP and at some point stopped taking it (temporarily or permanently)? My colleagues at ARCSHS, La Trobe are studying experiences of stopping/pausing PrEP use and are seeking interview participants. More detail and eligibility here: www.latrobe.edu.au/arcshs/work/...
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The Interruptions Study
The Interruptions Study: Experiences of discontinuation of PrEP
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Filter | harm reduction journalism @filtermag.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
“Trying drugs, and pursuing pleasure... is a feminist act." Judy Chang has led @inpud.bsky.social since 2017, and been at the forefront of the narcofeminist movement. As she prepares for a new role, she discusses achievements and challenges ahead with @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social:
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Activist Judy Chang Talks Narcofeminism and Drug-User Rights
For years, Judy Chang has been a leader in the movement for drug-user rights. Since 2017, she’s served as executive ...
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