Key details
Dr Craig Morris
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
I am a Senior Lecturer in Sociology with research interests around the social aspects of drug use and undergraduate transitions through university and engagement/non-engagement with employability services, employability events and career planning. I still believe that higher education is a way for people to transform their prospects and themselves.
Responsibilities within the university
Co-Lead for Level 6 Humanities and Social Sciences Placement
Awards
Faculty Award for Excellence in Education awards for Outstanding Contribution to Employability, 2016.
University Award for Excellence in Education awards for Outstanding Contribution to Employability, 2016.
Recognition
FHEA
Research / Scholarly interests
I have two main strands to my scholarly interests. I have interests around the social aspects of illicit drug use, including media representations of drugs and users and the medicinal use of cannabis by chronically ill and disabled people. I am also interested in issues relating to graduate employability, specifically transitions through higher education and engagement/non-engagement with careers services, events, career planning and how this relates to social class, gender and ethnicity.
Recent publications
Journal articles:
Morris, C. (2022) Negotiating Ambiguous Substance Use: UK newspaper representations of self-prescribing medicinal cannabis use in the 1990s, Journal of Drug Issues: doi.org/10.1177/00220426221090177
Morris, C. and Memari, L. (2022) Is There a Largely Consistent Discourse on Drugs in the UK Press? Tabloid or Broadsheet, Left-Leaning or Right, Does It Make Much Difference?, Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, Vol. 22 (Issue 1): pp. 92 – 108.
Morris, C. (2019) ‘Medicinal Cannabis Users Downplaying and Shifting Stigma: Articulations of the ‘Natural’, of What Is/Is Not a ‘Drug’ and Oppositions with ‘Chemical’ Substances’, Sociological Research Online.
Morris, C. (2018) '"You Can't Stand on a Corner and Talk About It ...": Medicinal cannabis use, impression management and the analytical status of interviews', Methodological Innovations, Vol. 11, Issue 1.
Morris, C. (2015) ‘A reflection on the opportunities and challenges associated with teaching the sociology of employability’, Compass, Vol. 7, No. 11.
Coomber, R., Oliver, M., Morris, C. (2003) `Using Cannabis Therapeutically in the UK: a qualitative analysis of how using an illicit drug therapeutically affects the life of users and their relationships with significant others, health care providers and the criminal justice system,’ Journal of Drug Issues, Vol. 33, No. 2.
Coomber, R. Morris, C. and Dunn, L. (2000) `How the Media do Drugs: Quality Control and the Reporting of Drug Issues in the UK Print Media’, International Journal of Drug Policy, 11, 217-225.
Book chapters:
Morris, C. (2004) ‘Is All Use Abuse?’, in P. Peet (ed.), Under the Influence: The Disinfonation Guide to Drugs, New York: The Disinformation Company Ltd.
Presentations
Morris, C. "You can't stand on a corner and talk about it …": Medicinal cannabis use, impression management and the analytical status of interviews. In: Sociological Imaginations Applied Sociology Research Group. UK: Greenwich, 22 July 2017.
Morris, C. 2015. A reflection on the opportunities and challenges associated with teaching the sociology of employability. In: Brighter Futures Symposium. UK: Greenwich, 9 July 2015.
Morris, C. 2010. Medicinal cannabis users' discourses: articulations of the 'natural' in a clash of discourses. In: Discourse, Power, Resistance. UK: Greenwich, 31 March 2010.