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Sarah MacLean

@sarjomac.bsky.social
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Professor in Social Work & Social Policy @ La Trobe University. Sociologist of alcohol & drug use. Everyone's views are only partially their own.

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Sarah MacLean @sarjomac.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
People who access alcohol and other drug services are already experiencing more acute impacts of climate change. With Lisa de Kleyn, @meganpcook.bsky.social and @laurenrickards.bsky.social. Thanks to @ias.org.uk for publishing our blog. www.ias.org.uk/2026/02/17/a...
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Alcohol and other drugs agencies need to contribute to climate adaptation - Institute of Alcohol Studies
Climate change is intensifying health and social inequalities, hitting people who use alcohol and other drugs (AoD) particularly hard. In this blog, the authors discuss how AoD services face growing d...
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Gabriel Caluzzi @gabrielcaluzzi.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
New paper by Maree Patsouras (+supervisors & @sarjomac.bsky.social). It explores how midlife women's drinking challenges/fits within ideals around femininity, 'good motherhood' and neoliberalism. A great final qual paper as part of Maree's mixed methods PhD! 😊 doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
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Sarah MacLean @sarjomac.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Climate change poses massive challenges to people who use AoD. It's hard for AoD workers to plan for this. We identify some possible responses. @laurenrickards.bsky.social @meganpcook.bsky.social, Lisa de Kleyn, @latrobeuni.bsky.social, @eleanorcos.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Climate change necessitates a concerted and coordinated response from the alcohol and other drugs sector
Published in Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Market Forces @marketforces.org.au · 18/07/2025
Members are fuming that #AustralianSuper has become one of the largest investors in Whitehaven Coal, with shares worth about $395 million. “I think that AustralianSuper promoting themselves as an environmentally sustainable fund is false advertising and I’m angry.” 🔗 www.news.com.au/finance/supe...
News.com.au headline with a photo of an AustralianSuper member, which says 'Betrayal': Aussies fume over super truth. 

AustralianSuper is one of the largest shareholders in Whitehaven Coal, ignoring climate science and energy transition targets.
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Sarah Callinan @sarahcallinan.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Have a read of our editorial in @apsad-dar.bsky.social, led by @meganpcook.bsky.social, where we argue that we need to start focusing more on men in non-medical alcohol research in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Gender Differences in Alcohol Research: A Focus on How Men and Women Are Studied in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
Click on the article title to read more.
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Gabriel Caluzzi @gabrielcaluzzi.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Led by Joanne Bryant with @sarjomac.bsky.social @joneale.bsky.social, Jen Skattebol, Mark Ferry, Andrew Bruun & Jacqui Sundbery
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Sarah MacLean @sarjomac.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Watch our World Social Work Day event for diverse perspectives on our discipline, its role and future youtu.be/33HE29iOpxQ. With Prof Margarita Frederico, Jaryd Stobaus, Amanda Tully & Saly Alman. Compared by A/Prof Maureen Long & Chloe Dillon. Wrangled by @alexbhathal.bsky.social and Karen Holl
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SOCIAL WORK ACROSS THE GENERATIONS: views on practice, equity and professional identity
YouTube video by La Trobe University
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Sarah MacLean @sarjomac.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Not too be missed
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Sarah MacLean @sarjomac.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
@pennybuykx.bsky.social and I wrote a chapter titled 'Social work research with people who use alcohol and other drugs'. It's in HANDBOOK OF RESEARCH METHODS IN SOCIAL WORK. @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social @latrobeuni.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...
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Sarah MacLean @sarjomac.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Why do we talk about food miles but not about alcohol miles? @meganpcook.bsky.social and I ask this question and think about the researchers' responsibilities in a new blog. @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social @laurenrickards.bsky.social @latrobeuni.bsky.social www.ias.org.uk/2025/01/14/a...
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Alcohol’s contribution to climate change - Institute of Alcohol Studies
Dr Megan Cook and Professor Sarah MacLean explain how little information exists about alcohol and sustainability, why this is an important area, and why public health researchers are well-placed to in...
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Market Forces @marketforces.org.au · 02/12/2024
Have HESTA, Rest and Australian Retirement Trust lost their nerve? These super funds remain invested in Woodside and Santos while claiming to support greater climate action – but sit on their hands when it comes to using their voting power to rein in fossil fuel growth. #climate
A black background with white and orange text and fossil fuel symbols: While on Hesta's watchlist, Woodside has approved a new oil field (est. 200 million tonnes of emissions) and bought a new LNG project (up to 1.5 billion tonnes of emissions)
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Megan Cook @meganpcook.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
And i will take this opportunity to highlight other work i did with @sarjomac.bsky.social & others where we explore current evidence on alcohol production & it's contributing to significant environmental degradation through water usage & other carbon emission costs. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
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Alcohol’s contribution to climate change and other environmental degradation: a call for research
Abstract. Climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity. The production, distribution and consumption of many fast-moving consumer goo
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Sarah MacLean @sarjomac.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Everyone is impacted by climate change, including the many of us who use alcohol and other drugs. New paper in @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social collaborating with staff of Social Work and Social Policy and the Climate Adaptation Lab at La Trobe University. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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How does climate change impact people who use alcohol and other drugs? A scoping review of peer reviewed literature
The world has experienced devastating extreme weather events, alongside slow-onset processes including increasing temperature means, that scientists a…
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