A Few Things I have Learned About Doing Research

Overview

Emeritus Professor Wayne Hall is internationally recognised as a research leader, mentor, and advocate for ethical and evidence-based drug policy. In this talk, he reflects on his 30-year research career, cautiously. In Wayne’s words “Historians eschew attempts to draw “lessons from history”; drawing “lessons” from a single life is an even more doubtful enterprise. We each live in a unique historical period that makes our experiences of uncertain relevance to the future at the best of times, let alone in the midst of the massive economic and social dislocation produced by a once in a century pandemic.” Despite Wayne openly acknowledging how difficult it is to know how our research came to be done, let alone to assess how it did (or did not) influence practice and policy, and how much (or how little) responsibility one can (and should) take for these outcomes, he will share a few things he has learned about doing research. And he will spell out the caveats. 

Bio

Wayne Hall is Emeritus Professor at the National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research (NCYSUR) at the University of Queensland (January 2021-). He was a Visiting Professor at the National Addiction Centre, Kings College London (2009-2019) and a Visiting Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2010-2021); and the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW (since 2001).Wayne was formerly Professorial Fellow (2017-2020) in and Director of the National Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research (2014-2016), an NHMRC Australia Fellow in addiction neuroethics at the University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research and the Queensland Brain Institute, UQ (2009-2015); Professor of Public Health Policy in the School of Population Health (2005-2010); Director of the Office of Public Policy and Ethics at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (2001-2005) at the University of Queensland; and Director of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW (1994-2001). Wayne has advised the World Health Organization on: the health effects of cannabis use; the effectiveness of drug substitution treatment; the scientific quality of the Swiss heroin trials; the contribution of illicit drug use to the global burden of disease; and the ethical implications of genetic and neuroscience research on addiction.

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