Lloyd

Charlie

Charlie has a background in criminology, undertaking and managing drugs and criminal justice research at the University of Cambridge, the Home Office, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF)and (since 2010), the University of York. He has 37 years of experience studying and evaluating criminal justice programmes across probation, policing and prisons, with a particular focus on drug-related issues, including prevention, treatment and recovery. He managed a substantial programme of research on drug prevention at the Home Office, developed and led the JRF’s work on Drug Consumption Rooms and both the mixed methods evaluation of the first Drug Recovery Wing pilots and a study of spice use in prisons while at York. Currently he is co-directing the ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre and an NIHR-funded research project on Unmet Treatment Need, that has included community interviews with crack and opioid users who have been out of treatment for a year or more.