Linda Cusick
Contact Details
Room L104 (Paisley Campus)
Tel: 0141 848 3449
E-mail: linda.cusick@uws.ac.uk
Staff Profile
Dr Linda Cusick is Reader in Substance Use at The Institute. Linda is a sociologist with a 1st class MA from Glasgow University and PhD from Imperial College. Her research interests are in sex work, drug use and policy where health and criminal justice issues compete for priority. She is the knowledge transfer coordinator for police organisation in the Scottish Institute of Policing Research: a research collaboration spanning twelve Scottish universities and all Scottish police forces. She is keen to develop the research profile of the University and teaches research skills to post-graduate students.
Selected Publications
Cusick, L. and Kimber, J. 2007 Public perceptions of public drug use in four UK urban sites, International Journal of Drug Policy, 18, 10 – 17.
Goodyear, M.D.E. and Cusick, L. 2007 Protection of sex workers, British Medical Journal, 334, 52-53.
Hickman, M., Carrivick, S., Paterson, S., Hunt, N., Zador, D., Cusick, L., Henry, J. 2007 London Audit of Drug Related Overdose Deaths: characteristics and typology, and implications for prevention and monitoring, Addiction, 102, 317 - 323.
Cusick, L. 2006 ‘Widening the harm reduction agenda: from drug use to sex work, International Journal of Drug Issues, 17, 3 – 11.
Boynton, P. and Cusick, L. 2006 Sex workers to pay the price, British Medical Journal, 322, 190-191.
Cusick, L. and Berney, L. 2005 Prioritising punitive responses over public health. Commentary on the Home Office consultation document ‘Paying the Price’, Critical Social Policy, 25, 596-606.
Cusick, L. and Hickman, M. 2005 ‘Trapping’ in Drug Use and Sex Work Careers, Drugs, Education, Prevention and Policy, 12, 369 – 379.
Cusick, L. 2002 Youth prostitution: a literature review, Child Abuse Review, 11, 230 - 251.
Rhodes, T. and Cusick, L. 2002 Accounting for unprotected sex: stories of agency and acceptability, Social Science and Medicine, 55, 211 - 226.