Kirsty Stuart Jepsen
(she/her)

Teams and roles for Kirsty Stuart Jepsen

Research student
School of Social Sciences

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’.

Date
Type

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), article number: 6894. (10.3390/ijerph20196894)

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

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 to assist in a service mapping project, Cardiff University, 2024
Research Assistant, Fixed-term position for a systematic review, Cardiff University, 2024
Postgraduate Research Tutor, Cardiff University, 2021-2023

Committees and reviewing

SOCSI Writing Club co-convener, Cardiff University, 2025 - present
Committee member, European Union Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Conference. Cardiff, July 2023.