“When work is more than a job: Predicting employment and its impacts among people who inject drugs”
Lindsey Richardson, MPhil, is a 3rd year doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford and Nuffield College. Her research focuses on the employment patterns of people who inject drugs and the social and health impacts of different kinds of income generation and employment on highly vulnerable populations. She holds a master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Oxford and has worked on social development and drug policy for both the municipal government in Vancouver and the Canadian federal government. Lindsey is a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholar, a recipient of a doctoral award from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and her research has been supported by a University of Oxford University Press Clarendon Scholarship and a doctoral award from Nuffield College, Oxford.