Rachel Sutherland

Sep 19, 2024 | thetimes.com.au | Rachel Sutherland |UNSW Sydney

Written by Rachel Sutherland, Research Fellow, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney Each year, the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at UNSW Sydney surveys hundreds of people who regularly use drugs in Australia to understand trends[1] in substance use around the country. Today, we’ve released the 2024 report[2], which canvassed 740 people from Australian capital cities who regularly use ecstasy or other illicit stimulants.

Nov 12, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Jude Byrne |Rachel Sutherland |Amy Peacock |Sione Crawford

1 INTRODUCTION The importance of including people with lived experience (i.e., peers) in service delivery, research, policy and evaluation is widely recognised, first gaining traction in disability activism (‘Nothing About Us Without Us’) in the 1990s and since expanding to a broad array of groups that are often marginalised from political, social and economic opportunities [1].