Dr Emily Crick

In 2008 I started working as a Research Associate at Transform Drug Policy Foundation, where I contributed to government consultations on alcohol policy and cocaine. I also spent one year as a Research Assistant at the Global Drug Policy Observatory at Swansea University where I was the lead author for two reports on developments in cannabis policy in the United States. 

I completed a PhD in Politics/International Relations at the University of Bristol in 2018. My thesis, 'Security and the drug control dispositif: analysing the construction of drugs as an existential threat to humankind and the nation state', analysed how drugs have been constructed as threatening to humankind and the State and how these discourses have shaped drug policy and by extension, health, trade, security, criminal justice and social policies. I have taught on two 3rd year undergraduate units, Drugs and Society and Global illicit Drug Markets, in the School for Policy Studies.

My own research and the jobs at the Bristol Hub for Gambling Harms, PolicyBristol, Transform and GDPO have given me an in-depth understanding of a wide range of factors - from public opinion to UN Conventions - that contribute to the development of policy.

As well as an interest in drug policy, I have written about cricket, identity and peacebuilding in South Asia. For example, Contact Sport: Cricket in India-Pakistan Relations Since 1999 (2009) in the South Asian Survey journal and Cricket and Indian National Consciousness (2007). I have Masters degrees in South Asian Studies (SOAS) and Security and Development (University of Bristol), and my undergraduate degree was in Historical Studies.