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Kirsty Stuart Jepsen
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Research student
Overview
Kirsty is a PhD student in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. She holds a first-class honours degree in Mental Health Nursing, clinically practising for 11 years, and an MSc in Social Psychology.
Kirsty's PhD research uses an ethnographic approach to explore social practices of addiction and how someone navigates their identity within ‘recovery’.
Publication
2025
- Giommoni, L. , Stuart Jepsen, K. and Murray, S. 2025. Does regulating drug precursors affect illicit Drug markets? An expanded and updated systematic review. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 276 112900. (10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2025.112900)
2023
- Long, F. C. and Stuart Jepsen, K. 2023. Situating stigma: an ethnographic exploration of how stigma arises in interactions at different stages of people’s drug use journeys. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20 (19) 6894. (10.3390/ijerph20196894)
- Stuart Jepsen, K. 2023. Challenges faced during a pandemic: remote ethnography and a renegotiation of ethics. Urbanities - Journal of Urban Ethnography 13 (1), pp.2-18.
Articles
- Giommoni, L. , Stuart Jepsen, K. and Murray, S. 2025. Does regulating drug precursors affect illicit Drug markets? An expanded and updated systematic review. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 276 112900. (10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2025.112900)
- Long, F. C. and Stuart Jepsen, K. 2023. Situating stigma: an ethnographic exploration of how stigma arises in interactions at different stages of people’s drug use journeys. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20 (19) 6894. (10.3390/ijerph20196894)
- Stuart Jepsen, K. 2023. Challenges faced during a pandemic: remote ethnography and a renegotiation of ethics. Urbanities - Journal of Urban Ethnography 13 (1), pp.2-18.
Teaching
Postgraduate Tutor 2021-2023. Taught on the modules:
- Drugs, Crime and Society
- Foundations of Contemporary Criminology
- Introduction to Psychology for the Human and Social Sciences
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), 2025
Biography
- PhD (Social Sciences) Cardiff University, 2020 - present
- MSc (Social Psychology) Edinburgh University, 2019
- PG Cert (Social and Psychological Inquiry) Open University, 2018
- BN (Mental Health Nursing) Cardiff University, 2013
Honours and awards
- Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), 2025
- Betty Louise John Prize in Nursing, Cardiff University, 2014
Academic positions
- Research Assistant. Fixed-term position. Behaviour mapping of public spaces. Cardiff University, 2025
- Research Assistant, Fixed-term position. Systematic review on Precursor Regulation. Cardiff University, 2024
- Research Assistant, Fixed-term position. Mapping mental health services for care-experienced young people across Wales. Cardiff University, 2024
- Postgraduate Research Tutor, Cardiff University, 2021-2023
Committees and reviewing
- Co-convener for SOCSI Writing Club, Cardiff University, 2025 - present
- Guest reviewer for 'Stigma' special issue in the Journal of Symbolic Interactionism, August 2025
- Committee member, European Union Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Conference. Cardiff, July 2023.
Supervisors
Contact Details
Specialisms
- Social policy
- Creative methods
- Addiction
- Ethnography
- Mental Health