Beere

Victoria

Vicki has been working with people using alcohol and other drugs for over 23 years. She has worked within the Drug and Alcohol sector for a range of statutory and non-statutory organisations and for the last nine years has been the Chief Executive of Project 6 in Yorkshire, one of the last harm reduction rooted organisations in England. She is passionate about harm reduction and improving the rights of people, especially women, who take drugs.

Vicki is currently a PhD researcher at the University of Manchester, where her research focuses on how the changes in commissioning processes have impacted the drug and alcohol sector and, in particular, on women's access to treatment and harm reduction services. She is a trustee of Transform drug Policy Foundation, Vice chair of the national alliance of drug and alcohol treatment providers Collective Voice and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.