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Dara Ruane is an Assistant Professor in Criminology and Sociology at the University of Sussex, affiliated with the School of Law, Politics and Sociology. They previously served as a Lecturer in Criminology at City, University of London from 2020 to 2022.
Education:
- PhD in Sociology, University of Kent (2018)
- MA in Social Research, Goldsmiths, University of London (2013)
- PG Cert in Higher Education, University of Sussex (2022)
Their research focuses on psychedelic and 'party' drugs, harm reduction in festival and nightlife environments, drug policy enforcement, electronic dance music subcultures, gender, neurodiversity, and queer identities. They employ ethnographic and digital-sociological methods in their work. A central theme across their publications is the role of peer-led harm reduction and community care in transformational festival settings, exploring both the social and embodied dimensions of drug use and crisis response.
Their publications reveal a consistent interdisciplinary focus on the intersection of criminology, sociology, and public health, particularly in non-clinical, subcultural contexts. Key themes include psychonautic experimentation, identity disruption in fieldwork, and the ethics and practices of volunteer harm reduction.
No scientific awards or fellowships are mentioned in the available text.
Dara Ruane supervises students in criminology and sociology and teaches modules on criminological theory, gender across the life course, drugs and deviant leisure, and research methods. They developed the course "Drugs, Crime and Deviant Leisure" in 2023. There is no mention of specific grants or funded research projects in the provided material.
No affiliations with specific research labs or teams are detailed in the text.
