DORIS reports

Prof. Mick Bloor [BA (Cambridge), MLitt and PhD (Aberdeen)] is the co-ordinator of the DORIS study, taking over from Jo Neale in 2004. He has previously worked at the Medical Research Council's Social and Public Health Research Unit (first in Aberdeen and then in Glasgow) and at Cardiff University's School of Social Sciences, where he was Director of the Health & Social Care Research Support Unit. His research interests are in substance misuse, risk behaviour, health services research, research methods and health and safety. He has more than 140 academic publications, including Focus Groups in Social Research (Sage, 2001) and The Sociology of HIV Transmission (Sage, 1995). He has served on various working parties, advisory groups and editorial boards. He is a trustee of the Foundation for the sociology of Health & Illness. Contact Mick on: 0141 330 2670 or alternatively you can e-mail him here.

Further analytic input on the DORIS study is provided by Prof. Neil McKeganey (CDMR Director and the DORIS grantholder) and CDMR staff members Maria Gannon, Dr. Gordon Hay and Prof. James McIntosh (who has taken over responsibility from Esther Saville for the qualitative component of the DORIS study). Prof. Joanne Neale (School of Health and Social Care, Oxford Brookes University), who was the previous DORIS co-ordinator, retains a continuing role in the analysis of the data.