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Prof Susanne MacGregor

Emeritus Professor

Susanne MacGregor

  • School Faculty of Business and Law

  • Department Business School Leadership

  • Location London

Research activities

I was Chair of the Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work Panel for the HEFC 2001 Research Assessment Exercise and was a panel member in two previous RAEs. I served for a time as Secretary of the Social Research Association. I was a Scientific Advisor to the Department of Health(and Social Security) (homelessness and addictions)  and I was Programme Coordinator for the Department of Health (Policy Research Programme) Drug Misuse Research Initiative from 1998-2010. I was Assistant Editor for the International Journal of Drug Policy and served on its Editorial Advisory Board and am currently a member of the International Advisory Board for Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy. I often peer review journal articles for a range of journals in social science and public health, review publications for publishers and act as scientific referee for grant applications for various funding bodies including NIHR. I was a member of an ACMD working group producing a report on the AgeingCohort of Drug Misusers. I held a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship leading to the book The Politics of Drugs: Perceptions, Power and Policies. Palgrave 2017.

I have supervised MPhil and PhD students, conducted research, andheld research grants investigating a range of social issues and policies, suchas homelessness, poverty, drug misuse, community development, urban change,alcohol misuse, innovations in mega-cities, and social security, funded byESRC, government departments, (such as Cabinet Office, Department of Health(and Social Security), Home Office), foundations (such as JRF and Leverhulme),and international organisations (such as UNODC, EU, UNDP).

I am a member of the Social History Society and the InternationalSociety for the Study of Drugs Policy.


Current Teaching

During my career, I taught courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level in SocialAnthropology, Political Sociology, Sociology of Deviance, Sociology of theWelfare State, Methods of Social Research, Politics and Social Policy, andHealth Promotion. I have acted as external examiner for taught undergraduateand postgraduate degrees, and research degrees, at UK universities including Manchester, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Brighton, Bristol,  LSE, Institute ofPsychiatry, Goldsmiths, Sheffield Hallam, and overseas in Belgium, Denmark and Australia.


Biography

I am a graduate of the University of Edinburgh with MA Honours in Social Anthropology (summa cum laude) and PhD in Politics. Prior to appointment at Middlesex University, I held posts at the University of Edinburgh (assistant lecturer in Social Anthropology and Tutor in Political Sociology), University of London (Institute of Psychiatry (Research Officer at the MRC Social Psychiatry Research Unit), Birkbeck (Reader in Sociology and Head of the Department of Politics and Sociology) and Goldsmiths (Professor of Social Policy and Head of the Department of Social Policy and Politics). At Middlesex, I held the post of Professor of Sociology and Social Policy and was Head of the School of Sociology and Social Policy then Director of Research and Post-Graduate Studies in what were then Schools (now Faculties) covering Social Science with variously Education and Health. 

I am a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FACSS) and Life Fellow of the RSA. I have been an Honorary Professor at the Centre for History in Public Health at LSHTM. 

My contribution to addiction research was summarised in the journal Addiction in an interview with Virginia Berridge October 2019 114: 10; Pages 1885-1886 [Addiction Lives: Susanne MacGregor - 2019 - Addiction - Wiley Online Library].

Publications