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Dr Simon Clay

Dr Simon Clay

Lecturer

Bachelor of Arts (Hons) - University of Queensland

Bachelor of Social Science - University of Queensland

PhD (Gender Studies/Sociology) - University of Otago

Medicine & Health
National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre

Simon Clay's research focuses on the relationship between drug use, substance dependence treatment, and well-being, with a particular focus on risk and embodiment. Simon's work extends into the sociology of health and how public health policy is developed and enacted. They have an expertise in qualitative research methodologies, research ethics, and trauma-informed approaches to research. In addition to this, Simon has a strong interest in gender studies, contemporary feminisms, social geographies, poststructural theory, and constructions of health and illness.
E-mail
s.clay@unsw.edu.au
  • Book Chapters | 2018
    Clay S, 2018, 'The (Neo)Tribal Nature of Grindr', in Hardy A; Bennet A; Robards B (ed.), Neo-Tribes: Consumption, Leisure & Tourism, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 235 - 252, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68207-5_15
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Clay S, 2018, 'The Queer Life of Smartphones', in Brickell C; Collard J (ed.), Queer Objects, Otago University Press, New Zealand, pp. 387 - 392
  • Journal articles | 2023
    Clay S; Treloar C; Degenhardt L; Grebely J; Christmass M; Gough C; Hayllar J; McDonough M; Henderson C; Crawford S; Farrell M; Marshall A, 2023, '‘I just thought that was the best thing for me to do at this point’: Exploring patient experiences with depot buprenorphine and their motivations to discontinue', International Journal of Drug Policy, 115, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104002
    Journal articles | 2023
    Clay S; Wilkinson Z; Ginley M; Arunogiri S; Christmass M; Membrey D; MacCartney P; Sutherland R; Colledge-Frisby S; Marshall AD; Nagle J; Degenhardt L; Farrell M; McKetin R, 2023, 'Perspectives and sentiments on contingency management from people who use methamphetamine', Drug and Alcohol Review, 42, pp. 1427 - 1437, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.13691
    Journal articles | 2022
    Clay S; Brickell C, 2022, 'The Dad Bod: An Impossible Body?', Journal of Men's Studies, 30, pp. 70 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10608265211035790
    Journal articles | 2022
    Clay S; Treharne GJ, 2022, 'The ethics of drug use research and ‘wild self-care’: a dialogue between a postgraduate student and their supervisor', Qualitative Research in Psychology, 19, pp. 1094 - 1116, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2021.2003493
    Journal articles | 2022
    Clay S, 2022, 'Pleasuring bodies: Performativity and sexual play', Sexualities, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13634607221080522
    Journal articles | 2022
    Clay S, 2022, 'Wild Self-Care', SOMATECHNICS, 12, pp. 73 - 91, http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/soma.2022.0378
    Journal articles | 2021
    Kirey-Sitnikova Y; Böcker J; Werner A; Tzouva P; Clay S, 2021, 'What do we talk about when we talk about queer death? 4/Queering death in the medical and health humanities', Whatever, 4, pp. 653 - 682, http://dx.doi.org/10.13131/2611-657X.whatever.v4i1.151
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'A Queer Account of Self-Care - Autopoiesis Through Auto-Annihilation', Whatever: A Transdisciplinary Journal of Queer Theories and Studies, 4, pp. 672 - 676, https://whatever.cirque.unipi.it/index.php/journal/article/view/151
  • Reports | 2023
    Clay S; Yuen WS; Spencer E; Peacock A; Walsberger S; Price K; Sutherland R; Degenhardt L; Popovski H, 2023, Perceptions of risky alcohol use, health risks related to alcohol, and alcohol-related help-seeking in the LGBTQ+ community, https://ndarc.med.unsw.edu.au/project/perceptions-risky-alcohol-use-health-risks-related-alcohol-and-alcohol-related-help-seeking
    Reports | 2023
    Yuen WS; Walsberger S; Sutherland R; Price K; Degenhardt L; Reakes K; Cerio R; Woolley N; King C; Spencer E; Vaughan M; Watson L; Miller N; Clay S; Symes E; Peacock A, 2023, Alcohol-related behaviours, beliefs, and knowledge regarding cancer risk related to alcohol in the New South Wales LGBTQ+ community, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, Sydney, 354, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/5mty-d787, https://ndarc.med.unsw.edu.au/resource/alcohol-related-behaviours-beliefs-and-knowledge-regarding-cancer-risk-related-alcohol-new
    Conference Papers | 2022
    Clay S; Treloar C; Degenhardt L; Grebely J; Farrell M; Marshall AD, 2022, 'Options: Exploring patients' experiences with depot buprenorphine and their motivations to discontinue', in DRUG AND ALCOHOL REVIEW, WILEY, pp. S43 - S43, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000862018700076&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Conference Presentations | 2022
    Clay S, 2022, 'Depot Decisions: The Lived Experience of Depot Buprenorphine Treatment & Individuals' Motivations to Discontinue', presented at Seminar presented at Next Step Drug & Alcohol Services, Perth, 16 November 2022
    Conference Presentations | 2022
    Clay S, 2022, 'Elicited Secrets: Emotion and the Ethics of Disclosure in Qualitative Research on Health', presented at Seminar presented at the Centre for Social Research in Health, 03 November 2022
    Conference Posters | 2022
    Clay S, 2022, 'Incentivise: Integrating Contingency Management for Methamphetamine Use into Routine Clinical Care in Australia', presented at NDARC Annual Symposium 2022, 20 September 2022
    Conference Presentations | 2022
    Clay S, 2022, 'Integrating contingency management for methamphetamine use into routine clinical care in Australia: Outcomes from in-depth interviews', presented at NCCRED Symposium 2022, 07 November 2022
    Conference Presentations | 2022
    Clay S, 2022, 'Options Study: Investigating Patients' Experiences with Depot Buprenorphine and their Motivations to Discontinue', presented at APSAD Conference 2022, 10 October 2022
    Conference Presentations | 2022
    Clay S, 2022, 'The Perspectives and Sentiments of People who use Methamphetamine on Contingency Management', presented at Seminar presented at NDARC, 20 October 2022
    Conference Posters | 2021
    Clay S, 2021, 'Chemsex and Going Wild with Self-Care', presented at NDARC Annual Research Symposium 2021, 04 November 2021
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    Clay S, 2018, 'Disseminating the Gay Cyborg - Filling the Gaping Hole with Grindr, Semen, & PrEP', presented at Space, Race, Bodies III: Walls, 30 June 2018
    Conference Presentations | 2017
    Clay S, 2017, 'Queer Voyages of the Smartphone', presented at Annual Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand Conference, 06 December 2017
    Conference Presentations | 2017
    Clay S, 2017, 'Sex, Drugs, & Disease: Queering Health in the Gay Community', presented at Annual Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand Conference, 06 December 2017
    Conference Presentations | 2017
    Clay S, 2017, 'The Queer Occult - Cyber-Witchcraft Practices and Queer Identity', presented at Digital Intimacies, 13 November 2017
    Conference Presentations | 2016
    Clay S, 2016, 'Cataloguing Bodies - Tribes on Grindr', presented at Digital Intimacies, 12 December 2016
    Conference Papers | 2003
    De Silva D; Cocker KD; Clay ST; Fielder AR, 2003, 'Measurement of the optic disc and optic disc-macula distance in preterm and term infants', in INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE, ASSOC RESEARCH VISION OPHTHALMOLOGY INC, FLORIDA, FT LAUDERDALE, pp. U389 - U389, presented at Annual Meeting of the Association-for-Research-in-Vision-and-Ophthalmology, FLORIDA, FT LAUDERDALE, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000184606801612&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
  • Media | 2022
    Clay S, 2022, Depot Decisions: New Study on Patients' Experiences with Depot Buprenorphine,

My Research Supervision

Paige Webb