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Drink & drugs
Parent category: Health & Welfare
Dr Thom Brooks
Reader, Durham Law School
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 44365
Associate , Department of Philosophy
Centre for the History of Political Thought
Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics, Law and the Life Sciences)
Specialist expertise:
- British Idealism
- British politics
- Capabilities
- Capital Punishment
- Citizenship
- Criminal Justice
- Criminal Law
- German Idealism
- Global Justice
- Hegel
- Immigration
- Jurisprudence
- Jury Trial
- Justice
- Kant
- Life in the UK test
- Plato
- Political Communication
- Political Philosophy
- Political Strategy
- Punishment
- Rawls
- Restorative Justice
- Sentencing
Prof Chris Cook
Professor, Department of Theology and Religion
Telephone: 0191 334 1047
Medicine, Pharmacy and Health, School of
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 41047
Fellow , Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Professor of Theology and Religion, Mental Health Research Centre
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41047
Specialist expertise:
- Spirituality, theology & mental health
Dr Amanda Ellison
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 40430
Cognitive Neuroscience Research Unit
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 40430
Centre for Vision and Visual Cognition
Specialist expertise:
- the biological basis of behaviour; physiology and behaviour; brain and behaviour
Professor Richard Goldberg
Professor, Durham Law School
Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics, Law and the Life Sciences)
Specialist expertise:
- Medical Law, Pharmaceutical Law
Dr Andrew J. Russell
Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 43312
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Telephone: 43312
Senior Lecturer, Health and Human Sciences
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 40248
Specialist expertise:
- health, well-being & welfare
- Tobacco control