Professor Morag MacDonald, BA Hons, PGCE, MA, PhD

Director of the Centre for Research into Quality

Email: morag.macdonald@bcu.ac.uk

Professor Morag MacDonald (BA, PGCE, MA, PhD) is Director of the Centre for Research into Quality, having previously worked as a lecturer in the Sociology Department and been Reader in Policy Implementation at the CRQ.  Morag's main fields of expertise are prisons, their related health issues, Higher Education policy, social research and methodology.  Her research and consultancy expertise include working as a consultant for HEUNI (the regional office for the United Nations for Central and Eastern Europe), a PhD conducting a comparative study of the implementation of HIV, AIDS and drugs policies in the Italian and English and Welsh prison systems.  Morag has recently been involved in Training Criminal Justice Professionals in Harm Reduction Services for Vulnerable Groups for the European Commission (DG SANCO), and Drug Demand Reduction in Uzbekistan for USAID.

RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE – Centre for research into Quality – Birmingham City University

Publications

MacDonald, M and Fallon, P, Health Professionals in Prisons, in Bennett, J., Crewe, B. & Wahidin. A. (2007) Understanding Prison Staff, Collumpton: Willan.

MacDonald, M., Stoever, H. and Atherton, S., 2007, Harm Reduction in European Prisons: A Compilation of Models of Best Practice, Oldenburg, BIS-Verlag.

MacDonald, M., Atherton, S. and Stover, H., 2006, Juveniles in Secure Settings: Services for Problematic Drug and Alcohol Users, Oldenburg, BIS-Verlag.

Macdonald, M., 2006, People with Problematic Drug use and HIV/AIDS in European Prisons: An Issue of Patient Confidentiality, International Journal of Prisoner Health, Vol 2, No. 3, September, 2006, pp.207-19.

MacDonald, M, 2005, A Study of health care provision, existing drug services and strategies operating in prisons in ten countries from Central and Eastern Europe. Helsinki, Finland

MacDonald, M, 2005, A Study of health care provision, existing drug services and strategies operating in prisons in ten countries from Central and Eastern Europe: An executive summary in English and Russian. HEUNI Paper No. 23, Helsinki, HEUNI.

MacDonald, M., 2004, A study of existing drug services and strategies operating in prisons in ten countries from Central and Eastern Europe. London, Cranston Drug Services.

MacDonald, M., 2004, 10 Individual Country Reports for the CEENDPS Research in Estonia, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovenia. www.ceendsp.net

MacDonald, M., 2003, Follow Up Research in Prisons in the Veneto Region, Centre for Research into Quality, University of Central England,

MacDonald, M. and Sexton, S., 2002, Self-Harm and Suicide Policy Implementation in West Midlands Prisons. West Midlands Regional Health Authority for West Midlands Prisaon Health Task Force Board.

MacDonald, M., 2001, Prison Health Care in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, Finland, HEUNI

MacDonald, Morag, 1999, A comparative Report of the Prison Audits in 10 Italian and 10 English Prisons. SCODA (with support of the European Commission). Research Report.

Conference Presentations

Impact of International Standards and Guidelines on Prisoner Health in Eastern and Central Europe, Keynote presented at HEUNI 25 Years: Symposium on Selected Issues in Crime Prevention and criminal Justice with Special Emphasis on International Technical Assistance, Helsinki 22-23 January 2007

Prisoner Health is Public Health: The Nature and Equivalence of

Services for Problematic Drug Users in Prison, Keynote presented at SMS 5th Annual Conference – Treatment and Beyond … Our Duty of Care, Congress House, London, 29 September 2006

Health, Harm Reduction and Treatment Provision to Detainees in the Criminal Justice System, Keynote presented at International Prisoner Health: Achieving International Standards in Prisoner Health Care, 19-20 June, 2006, Tallinn, Estonia

Juveniles in Secure Settings: Services for problematic drug and alcohol users

9th European Conference on Drugs and Infections in Prison, Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 2006

‘Consultative meeting on HIV/AIDS prevention. Care and support in prison settings’, Vienna, 17-18 February 2005, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Invited expert.

‘Problematic Drug Use and Harm Reduction in Prison: The Hungarian Situation in a European Context’ invited speaker at the HIV, Hepatitis and Drug Use: Reducing the Risks, Conference of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, 14 November  2004 ,European Youth Centre, Budapest

‘Drug Services and Strategies in the Context of Health in Lithuania and Surrounding Countries’, Keynote presented at the Prevention of Drug Use and Drug Related Infectious Diseases in Prisons. Fields for Co-operation" hosted by the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania in close collaboration with the Prison Department at the Ministry of Justice, Lithuania 25-26 May, 2004.