Thoughts and Ideas


This section is a space for me to consider issues within society and contemporary culture.

Here, I’ll introduce and further develop ideas I like to work with, explain and expand on issues that stem from previous projects, as well as consider immersive research and developing practices.

 
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Study a PhD with Dr. Christopher R. Matthews

I specialise in conducting and supervising immersive research, but I’m keen to discuss various projects and research methods with prospective students as well.

Exploring drugs and doping with Dr. Paul Dimeo
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Exploring drugs and doping with Dr. Paul Dimeo

Paul is a Reader at the University of Stirling and he’s a leader in the field of drug use in sport. Here, we discuss a bunch of issues connected to drug use, doping regulations and various logical inconsistencies regarding the ‘war on drugs’. We explore a range of examples and compare how drug use and users were, and are treated in very different ways to what has become normalised in the world of elite, and now sub-elite sport.

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