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Change Grow Live (CGL) delivers services to over 50,000 people per day across England.  It has over 3,000 staff and 1,000 volunteers at any one point. It is a social care and health charity that works with individuals who want to change their lives for the better and achieve positive and life-affirming goals. Their service users are people, whose lives have been held back by a range of social issues and concerns, including substance misuse and other forms of addiction, homelessness, poverty, unemployment, domestic abuse, mental health issues and offending. All services are designed to encourage individuals to find the strength and resources within themselves to bring about the life and behavioural changes they wish to achieve. Their goal is to help our service users regain control, change their lives, grow as a person and live life to its full potential. CGL provides: substance misuse services; therapeutic and treatment services within prisons and the community; accommodation assistance; clinical services in partnership with GPs in community settings; intensive support for families with complex needs around parenting and antisocial behaviour and services for families affected by domestic abuse. Key staff: Mr. David Bamford, Director of People; Mr. Raj Ubhi, National Young Person Manager; staff delivering services.

Webpage: https://www.changegrowlive.org/

The aims of the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology are to improve health care in the field of psychiatry and neurology and to conduct research in these and allied fields. Research methods range from molecular level to psychological and epidemiological approaches. The Department of Studies on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (DSADD), in particular, has long experience in alcohol and drug research, including international comparative studies while the Department of Public Health specializes in substance use among adolescents, including epidemiological studies as well as implementation and evaluation of preventive initiatives. The Institute carried out a number of studies focused on drug consumers in prison setting as well as on NPS such as EU-funded ReDNet project. The Institute is a leading Polish centre for alcohol and drug policy, its scientists are often invited as experts to advice Parliamentary commissions and governmental agencies on alcohol and drugs as well as international bodies such as WHO, EMCDDA, European Commission, Council of Europe. The Institute has a fully-fledged infrastructure to carry on the proposed work, including advanced computer network and statistical packages such as IBM/SPSS and ATLAS. The Institute have already collaborated with Middlesex University on a number of occasions including EU funded SMART, AMPHORA and ALICE RAP projects. Key project staff: Dr. Jacek Moskalewicz, Head of the Department of Studies on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence; Dr. Katarzyna Dabrowska, Assistant Professor; Agnieszka Pisarska, Assistant Professor in Public Health.

Webpage: http://www.ipin.edu.pl/

Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (Frankfurt UAS) is one of the major Universities of Applied Sciences in Germany. The degree programmes have a strong focus on application and transfer of acquired knowledge into professional practice. Research also has a strong orientation towards the application and transfer of technology/knowledge into industrial and societal practice. Research at Frankfurt UAS is funded by the State of Hessen, the federal level, the European Union, foundations as well as profit/non-profit organisations. Though not exclusively, an emphasis of third party funded projects is placed on collaborations with small and medium enterprises (SME). Objectives of the Institute of Addiction Research Frankfurt (ISFF) are establishing addictions research, establishing collaboration with other national and international research institutes and networks, dissemination of research findings into teaching at Frankfurt UAS as well as to a wider public. Main research areas are drug consumption patterns, drug problems and social consequences, gender and drug users, harm reduction measures in prisons and in the CJS, treatment and rehabilitation. Key project staff: Professor Heino Stöver; Niels Graf, Social Scientist; Christina Padberg, Social Worker; Daniela Schulz, Social Worker

Webpage: https://www.frankfurt-university.de/fachbereiche/fb4/forschung/forschungsinstitute/isff.html

The European Centre provides expertise in the fields of welfare and social policy development in a broad sense – in particular using multi- and interdisciplinary approaches to analyse integrated policies and inter-sectoral action. Research activities within the European Centre are organized into two units: (1) Work, Wealth and Welfare, and (2) Health and Care. Within the European Centre’s “Health and Care” unit, we design, coordinate and implement projects in the fields of long-term care for older people, health services and system analysis, and public health. Our unit is composed of researchers and policy analysts from several backgrounds (e.g. economics, health economics, health and social policy, political science, sociology) with experience in a wide range of social scientific methods. One main field of expertise among the various research areas is the problem of alcohol- and drug-addiction in connection with the criminal justice system. Key staff: Günter Stummvoll PhD, sociologist and criminologist; Cees (Cornelius) Goos PhD, honorary consultant in public health in various international agencies; Rahel Kahlert PhD, evaluation and public policy expert; Willem Stamatiou MA, sociologist, political scientist and publications officer.

Webpage: http://www.euro.centre.org/

1928 the university has rapidly developed into a leading public research university with nationwide and international clout across the entire research spectrum. Over the last decade, the university has consolidated its position in the top 100 of the most influential university rankings. The university takes pride in its engagement in the development of the society to which it belongs. Located at the social science faculty, Aarhus BSS, the project will be supported by Center for Alcohol and Drug Research, led by Professor Vibeke Asmussen Frank. This Centre is actively engaged in local, national and international interdisciplinary research. Key project staff: Professor Vibeke Asmussen Frank; Dr. Maria Herold, a social psychologist with a particular interest in young people, gender and substance use.

Webpage: Center for Alcohol and Drug Research, Aarhus University

Middlesex is a thriving global university with an outstanding teaching, research and knowledge transfer reputation. Located in the Department of Mental Health, Social Work and Integrative Medicine, the project will be supported by the Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, led by Professor Thom. This Centre works across university Schools with staff in health, social care, education, criminology, business and humanities. It is actively engaged in local, national and international research, teaching and knowledge exchange and incorporates a group of associated members active outside academia in policy, prevention and service delivery positions. The Research and Knowledge Transfer Office provides administrative, financial and legal expertise. Key project staff will include: Professor Betsy Thom; Associate Professor Karen Duke; and an early career post-doctoral research fellow.

Webpage: http://drugandalcoholresearchcentre.org