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Dr George (Kev) Dertadian

Dr George (Kev) Dertadian

Senior Lecturer
Law & Justice
School of Law, Society & Criminology

Qualifications - PhD

George (Kev) Dertadian, Ph.D. is a social researcher who conducts field-based research with people who use drugs, including the non-medical use of pharmaceuticals and injection drug use, and among marginalised as well as structurally advantaged people who use drugs. He is interested in alcohol and other drugs, the sociology of crime and deviance, and social and cultural theory. Kev advocates for non-carceral responses to drug use, with a particular focus on harm reduction. He is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology as part of the School of Law, Society and Criminology in the Faculty of Law and Justice at the University of New South Wales.

Research Areas - alcohol and other drugs, the sociology of crime and deviance, social and cultural theory
Phone
+61 2 9065 2362
E-mail
k.dertadian@unsw.edu.au
Location
Law Building | Room 333
  • Books | 2019
    Dertadian GC, 2019, A Fine Line Painkillers and Pleasure in the Age of Anxiety, Palgrave Macmillan,
  • Book Chapters | 2020
    Dertadian G, 2020, 'Doing Critical Drugs Research: From Deconstructing to Encountering Risk in the Field', in Navigating Fieldwork in the Social Sciences: Stories of Danger, Risk and Reward, pp. 85 - 106,
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Dertadian GK, 2020, 'Doing Critical Drugs Research: From Deconstructing to Encountering Risk in the Field', in Navigating Fieldwork in the Social Sciences, pp. 129 - 145
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Dertadian GC; Askew R, 2024, 'Towards a social harm approach in drug policy', International Journal of Drug Policy, 127,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Dertadian GC; Caruana T; Maher L, 2024, 'The gendered violence of injecting-related stigma among relatively affluent, suburban women who inject drugs', Drug and Alcohol Review, 43, pp. 1062 - 1070,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Dertadian GC, 2024, 'The Coloniality of drug prohibition', International Journal of Drug Policy, 126,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Dertadian GC; Caruana T; Maher L, 2023, 'Injection drug use in an affluent beachside community in Sydney: An exploratory qualitative study', Drug and Alcohol Review, 42, pp. 544 - 554,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Dertadian GC; Caruana T; Maher L, 2023, '‘Grew Up with a Silver Spoon in My Mouth, But it Ended Up the Nose’: The Stigma and Labelling of Injection Drug Use in an Affluent Beachside Community', Critical Criminology, 31, pp. 811 - 825,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Dertadian GC; Rance J, 2023, 'Lives Worth Grieving: Differential Coverage of Overdose Deaths in Australian News Media (2015–2020)', Contemporary Drug Problems, 50, pp. 361 - 380,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Dertadian GC; Yates K, 2023, '“Overdose Has Many Faces”: The Politics of Care in Responding to Overdose at Sydney’s Medically Supervised Injecting Centre', Contemporary Drug Problems, 50, pp. 136 - 151,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Dertadian GC, 2023, 'Is non-medical use normal? Normalisation, medicalisation and pharmaceutical consumption', International Journal of Drug Policy, 119,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Dertadian G; Tomsen S, 2021, 'The Experience of Safety, Harassment and Social Exclusion Among Male Clients of Sydney's Medically Supervised Injecting Centre', International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 10,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Dertadian GC; Tomsen S, 2020, 'The case for a second safe injecting facility (SIF) in Sydney', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 32, pp. 180 - 192,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Maher L; Dertadian G, 2018, 'Qualitative research', Addiction, 113, pp. 167 - 172,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Dertadian G; Iversen J; Dixon TC; Sotiropoulos K; Maher L, 2017, 'Pharmaceutical opioid use among oral and intravenous users in Australia: A qualitative comparative study', International Journal of Drug Policy, 41, pp. 51 - 58,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Dertadian GC; Dixon TC; Iversen J; Maher L, 2017, 'Self-limiting non-medical pharmaceutical opioid use among young people in Sydney, Australia: An exploratory study', Drug and Alcohol Review, 36, pp. 643 - 650,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Iversen J; Dertadian G; Geddes L; Maher L, 2017, 'High risk injecting behaviour among people who inject pharmaceutical opioids in Australia', International Journal of Drug Policy, 42, pp. 1 - 6,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Dertadian GC; Maher L, 2014, 'From oxycodone to heroin: Two cases of transitioning opioid use in young Australians', Drug and Alcohol Review, 33, pp. 102 - 104,
  • Other | 2018
    Lancaster K; Marshall A; Dertadian G; Yates K; Rance J, 2018, Qualitative Methods Journal Club July 2018 - ‘Sending the Wrong Signal’, Society for the Study of Addiction, ,
    Other | 2018
    Lancaster K; Marshall A; Dertadian G; Yates K; Rance J, 2018, Qualitative Methods Journal Club June 2018 - Conceiving of addicted pleasures, Society for the Study of Addiction, ,
    Other | 2018
    Lancaster K; Marshall A; dertadian G; yates K; Rance J, 2018, Qualitative Methods Journal Club May 2018 - Why am I the way I am?, Society for the Study of Addiction, ,
    Other | 2018
    Marshall A; Lancaster K; Dertadian G; Yates K; Rance J, 2018, Qualitative Methods Journal Club April 2018 - Sleeping at the Margins, ,
    Other | 2018
    Marshall A; Lancaster K; Dertadian G; Yates K; Rance J, 2018, Qualitative Methods Journal Club February 2018 - Parents Who Use Drugs, Society for the Study of Addiction, ,
    Other | 2018
    marshall A; Lancaster K; Dertadian G; Yates K; Rance J, 2018, Qualitative Methods Journal Club March 2018 - Ethnography and Injecting Drug Use, Society for the Study of Addiction, ,
    Conference Papers | 2012
    Dertadian G, 2012, 'Proscribed Perception: Participant Perspectives on Legitimacy & Criminality in the Non-Medical Use of Painkillers.', University of Tasmania, presented at 6th Annual Critical Criminology Conference - Changing the Way We Think about Chang, University of Tasmania, 12 July 2012
    Conference Papers | 2011
    Dertadian GK, 2011, 'Pill Heads: Governance, Normalisation and Risk in Prescription Drugs Use.', James Cook University, presented at 5th Annual Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference., James Cook University, 04 July 2011
  • Media | 2018
    Dertadian GK, 2018, Drug users in outer Sydney need another medically supervised consumption room, ,
    Media | 2018
    Dertadian GK, 2018, Pain isn’t just physical: why many are using painkillers for emotional relief, ,
    Media | 2018
    Dertadian GK, 2018, Public housing ban on people with drug records likely to do more harm than good, research tell us, ,
    Media | 2016
    Dertadian GK, 2016, Not everyone who takes painkillers for fun is an addict; some have just found a different way to cope, ,
    Media | 2014
    Dertadian GK, 2014, Misuse of painkillers on the rise, but why?, ,
    Media | 2013
    Dertadian GK, 2013, Our Casual Culture Of Pill Use, ,

I regularly contribute media articles to the public domain to ensure that my research is reaching the broadest group of people. A short list of media articles is below:

Dertadian, G. (2018) . The Sydney Morning Herald: November 14.

Dertadian, G. (2018) , The Conversation: November 2018.

Dertadian, G. & Tomsen, S. (2018) , The Conversation: August 2018.

Dertadian, G. (2018) , The Conversation: April 2018.

Tomsen, S. & Dertadian, G. (2016) , The Conversation: April 2016.

My Teaching

CRIM1010 - Criminology: An Introduction

CRIM2042 - Explaining Crime

CRIM2038 - Young People and Juvenile Justice

CRIM3000 - Criminology in Practice

LAWS8105 - Juvenile Justice