Adele Phillips is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health at Middlesex University. She has public health practice experience working as a Harm Reduction Practitioner for community drug and alcohol treatment services. Her research interests include drug and alcohol using behaviours, ethnographic research and health promotion. She is currently undertaking a PhD on the topic of social resistance within community drug and alcohol treatment service settings, supervised by Professor Shane Blackman, Professor of Cultural Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Qualifications:
Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning (Higher Education)
MSc Health Promotion and Public Health
BSc (Hons) Psychology
Health promotion, healthy lifestyle behaviours, drug and alcohol use, qualitative research.
I teach on the following awards:
BSc Public Health
MSc Public Health
I am currently writing up my PhD thesis on the topic of social resistance within harm reduction work in community drug and alcohol treatment services.
I am involved in a research project with academic colleagues at Canterbury Christ Church University investigating facilitators and barriers to transitions into Higher Education for First in Family students.
Phillips, Adele and Stone, Paula and Jordan-Daus, Kerry (2022) ‘Care-less whispers’ in the academy during COVID-19: A feminist collaborative autoethnography. PRISM . ISSN 2514-5347 (Published online first)
Phillips, Adele and Laslett, Sarah (2022) Health promotion in emergency care: rationale, strategies and activities. Emergency Nurse , 30 (1). pp. 32-40. ISSN 1354-5752
Andrews, Natasha J. and Phillips, Adele (2021) Community nurses' support for patients with fibromyalgia who use cannabis to manage pain. British Journal of Community Nursing , 26 (2). pp. 92-98. ISSN 1462-4753
Phillips, Adele (2020) Why a vaccine for Covid-19 is only part of the solution: broader prevention measures are the key [Blog post]. Canterbury Christ Church University, Expert comment.
Blackman, Shane and Phillips, Adele and Sah, Rajeeb (2019) Ethnography and emotions: new directions for critical reflexivity within contemporary qualitative health care research. In: Enhancing Healthcare and Rehabilitation: The Impact of Qualitative Research. Hayre, Christopher M. and Muller, Dave J. , eds. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, pp. 379-393. ISBN 9780815360810
