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Dr Hannah Farrimond

@hannahfarrimond.bsky.social
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Stigma and stigma theory; drugs and pharmaceutical cultures; addiction; tobacco, vaping, alcohol, cannabis, psychedelics; sociology of health/biomed; social impacts of brain injury; Associate Professor, University of Exeter, UK

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 13/05/2026
Our latest book reviews: contributors discuss colonial legacies, emotion in politics, medical overdiagnosis and the scientisation of right-wing neoliberal thought. @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social, @irenektori.bsky.social, @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social Read our magazine’s May issue. buff.ly/W1eUatD
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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
What are the chances that if you assemble a panel of women academics for International Women’s Day, that two of the four of them will have been pilots! Shout out to Sarah Boswell, Ashley Frayling (doing research in aviation and policing leadership) and the non-pilots (Celia Plender and me).
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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
New paper by Dr Georgia Smith and me on why some older adults with insomnia feel compelled to source sleeping meds, whatever and however...Open Access, fresh out this week... pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41677780/
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Understanding 'embedded pharmaceuticalisation': A case study of sleeping medication use in later life - PubMed
Sleeping medication use in later life is linked to adverse effects including falls, cognitive decline and dependency. Despite guidelines advocating reduced prescribing and sociological findings of ambivalence and unease among older adults, long-term use remains prevalent. This paper explores how and …
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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Gave a plenary this am at the (ungodly to me) hour of 7.30 am GMT, which was lunchtime in Indian Standard Time. Talk on 'stigma and shame in the context of gender and reproductive rights'- stigma at the heart of this.
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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
POST-DOC at Institut Pasteur, Paris (passed on to me by a former PhD student). Anthropology & Ecology of Disease Emergence dep't to study human practices in relation to avian influenza, CCHF, and rabies. Fieldwork: France, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Ivory Coast. Contact: tamara.giles-vernick@pasteur.fr
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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Having a song written about your work by The Bookshop Band is completely amazing and hearing it played in the Priory in Exeter...out of this world. Loved doing this. www.thebookshopband.co.uk
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Oli Williams @oliwilliams.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
2 years ago @the-polyphony.bsky.social kindly invited me @gmthomas.bsky.social @amychandler.bsky.social & Tanisha to write about the book we were putting together on stigma (see ⬇️). Now it's out @brisunipress.bsky.social they've let us do a mini-takeover! 1/5 thepolyphony.org/2023/09/11/r...
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Recalibrating Stigma
Gareth Thomas, Tanisha Spratt, Oli Williams, and Amy Chandler reflect on the 2023 symposium: Recalibrating Stigma, Sociological Perspectives on Health and Illness.
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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Enjoyed writing this piece on 'Stigma's changing face' with Fay Dennis. The stigma of addiction and the stigma of Long Covid have much in common.
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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
This is going to be fab! Wish I was there!
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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Brilliant job on the social science of Health and Climate, three year post-doc, hybrid opportunity, come at work at #Egenis, University of Exeter: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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Oli Williams @oliwilliams.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Reminder: launch event tomorrow (19th June) organised by @britsoci.bsky.social London MedSoc Study Group - thanks again @twiterney.bsky.social Time: 6:00-7:30pm Location: G08 Sir David Davies Lecture Theatre, Roberts Building, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE www.eventbrite.com/e/bsa-london...
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BSA London Medsoc Study Group: Recalibrating Stigma
Join us at the BSA London Medsoc Study Group to celebrate the publication of a new book, Recalibrating Stigma
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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I love writing on a Saturday morning when I’m tucked up in bed with my laptop on my duvet and a cup of tea by my side.
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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Thanks! Looking forward to hearing you talk this afternoon at #BreakCon25 on the drug policy landscape.
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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
My mum has been my raincoat my whole life.
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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
@birthtrauma.bsky.social I'm so happy to see the Birth Trauma Association on BlueSky. The first-ever Birth Trauma Report in the UK last year was compelling (sadly) Reproduction, feminism, women's bodies, public health, #pregnancyloss #birthtrauma #maternityservices www.birthtraumaassociation.org
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The Birth Trauma Association
BTA is the only charity in the UK solely dedicated to supporting women and families who have experienced traumatic birth. We work to support parents and families, improve parents’ experience of birth,...
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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
A completely compelling talk on the right, billionaires and their psychedelic vision. So scary, it's best viewed with the lights on.
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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
@laurasalisbury.bsky.social thanks for coming today to discuss your recent Lancet paper on endings (and what lies beyond) in medicine with us, soooooo interesting- then this popped up!
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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
My new paper with Uni of Leicester gang came out just after Christmas! Sociological take on psychedelic microdosing 'Towards a dynamic processual model of psychedelic: microdosing' Open Access, so feel free to download pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39709729/
Picture of first page of article on psychedelic microdosing by Hughes et al (2024)
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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Blimey
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