Dr Emily Crick
BA Hons, MSc, PhD
Expertise
I support the Bristol Hub for Gambling Harms Research to build research capacity, increase research income and enhance the impact of research carried out in this space. I also manage the Hub's Research Innovation Fund (RIF).
Current positions
Research Development Associate
School of Geographical Sciences
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Biography
I have extensive experience supporting the development of research through horizon scanning for funding opportunities and providing advice on how to strengthen grant applications. I also have wide ranging experience researching and engaging with policymaking.
I spent over 3 years as a PolicyBristol Associate working with researchers in the Faculties of Arts and Social Science and Law to help them develop the policy impact of their work. I delivered training, carried out horizon scanning and gave advice on how to strengthen research bids and fellowship applications.
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 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 currently also teach on a 3rd year undergraduate unit, Drugs and Society, in the School for Policy Studies.
My own research and the jobs at 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. I have Masters degrees in South Asian Studies (SOAS) and Security and Development (University of Bristol), and my undergraduate degree was in Historical Studies.
I spent over 3 years as a PolicyBristol Associate working with researchers in the Faculties of Arts and Social Science and Law to help them develop the policy impact of their work. I delivered training, carried out horizon scanning and gave advice on how to strengthen research bids and fellowship applications.
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 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 currently also teach on a 3rd year undergraduate unit, Drugs and Society, in the School for Policy Studies.
My own research and the jobs at 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. I have Masters degrees in South Asian Studies (SOAS) and Security and Development (University of Bristol), and my undergraduate degree was in Historical Studies.