Dr. Cameron Duff

Biography

Dr Cameron Duff, BA (Hons), PhD (UQ)

Dr Cameron Duff is Monash Fellow in the Social Sciences and Health Research Unit (School of School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine) at Monash University, Australia.

Between 2005 and late 2008, Dr Duff was the Manager of Research and Prevention Services for the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Prior to moving to Vancouver in 2005, Dr Duff was the Director of the Centre for Youth Drug Studies at the Australian Drug Foundation in Melbourne. Dr Duff was awarded his PhD in Political Theory from the University of Queensland in 2002. This thesis sought to develop a novel political and experiential ethics from the later works of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze.

Dr Duff's Monash Fellowship research builds on his Vancouver research. Duff’s Monash work aims to identify the distinctive social, material and developmental resources available in local communities in Melbourne, and the ways young people draw on these resources in overcoming health related challenges and maintaining positive development. Exploring local communities and the resources they support will involve analysis of young people’s social and family networks, their “place relationships” and their use of information technologies. In exploring health and place, this study aims to furnish new grounds for innovative, community based, youth development initiatives.

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Research Interests

Qualitative and Ethnographic Research Methods
Health and Human Development
Youth Development
Mental Health and Wellbeing
Substance use and misuse

Awards, grants and prizes

2008 Monash Fellowship.Five year research fellowship with AUD$250, 000 research establishment grant.

2004 Young Writer’s Award. International Journal of Drug Policy Award for best paper published in 2004 by a writer aged under 35.

2004 International Research Travel Scholarship. Ian Potter Foundation

1999 Departmental University Research Grant (URG). Essential Research Travel.

1997 Australian Postgraduate Award (Research, PhD Scholarship).

Collaborations

Dr Duff is involved in a range of research collaborations with various Canadian research teams. Dr Duff is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Population and Public Health. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Addictions Research, British Columbia (CARBC), University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada. Dr Duff is also involved in research with the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health at the University of Toronto.

Publications

Duff, C. 2009. “The Drifting City: The Role of Affect and Repair in the Development of Enabling Environments”. International Journal of Drug Policy. 20(3). 118-129.

Duff, C., W. Michelow, C. Chow and T. Stockwell. 2009 (In Press) “The Canadian Recreational Drug Use Survey (CRDUS): Aims, Methods and First Results”. Contemporary Drug Problems. 35(3). Accepted May 15, 2008.

Stockwell, T., Buxton, J., Duff, C., Marsh, D. and S. Macdonald. 2009 (In Press) The BC Alcohol and other Drug Monitoring System: Overview and Early Progress. Contemporary Drug Problems. 35(3). Accepted May 24, 2008.

Duff, C. 2008. “The Pleasure in Context”. International Journal of Drug Policy. Special Issue: Drugs and Pleasure. 19:5(394-392).

Duff, C and Munro, G. 2007. “Preventing Alcohol Related Problems in Community Sports Clubs: The Good Sports Program”. Substance Use and Misuse. 42(12-13):1991-2001.

Duff, C. 2007. “Towards a Theory of Drug Use Contexts: Space, Embodiment and Practice”. Addiction Research and Theory. 15(5):503-519.

Duff, C. and Rowland, B. 2006. “’Rushing Behind the Wheel’: Investigating the Prevalence of Drug Driving among Club and Rave Patrons in Melbourne, Australia”. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy. 13(4):299-312.

Degenhardt, L., P. Dillon, and C. Duff. 2006. ‘Driving, drug use behaviour and risk perceptions of nightclub attendees in Victoria, Australia.’ International Journal of Drug Policy 17(1):41-46.

Duff, C. 2005. “’Charging’ and ‘Blowing Out’: Patterns and Cultures of GHB Use in Melbourne, Australia”. Contemporary Drug Problems. 32(4):605-653.

Duff, C. 2005. ‘Party Drugs and Party People: Examining the ‘Normalization’ of Recreational Drug Use in Melbourne, Australia’. International Journal of Drug Policy. 16:3(161-170).

Duff, C. 2004. “Drug use as a 'practice of the self': Is there any place for an 'ethics of moderation' in Contemporary Drug Policy”? International Journal of Drug Policy. 15:5/6. (385-393)

Duff, C. 2003 ‘Drugs and Youth Culture: Is Australia Experiencing the ‘Normalisation’ of Adolescent Drug Use?’ The Journal of Youth Studies. 6:4(433-446).

Duff, C. 2003 ‘The Importance of Culture and Context: Rethinking Risk and Risk Management in Young Drug-Using Populations’. Health, Risk and Society. 5:3(285-300).

Duff, C. 2003 ‘Alcohol Marketing and the Media: What are Alcohol Advertisements Telling Us?’ Media International Australia. Number 108(13-21).

Duff, C. 1999. ‘Stepping Through the Eye of Power: Foucault and Limits’. In M. Collis, L. Munro and S. Russell. eds. Sociology for a New Millennium: Challenges and Prospects. Sydney: TASA.