Dr Tammy Ayres

Tammy is an interdisciplinary scholar that works in the area of drugs and terrorism. I graduated from the University of Leicester with a BSc (Hons) in Sociology and went on to complete an MSc in Criminology (with distinction) here at the School of Criminology before obtaining a Postgraduate degree in Law from Nottingham Law School and finally a PhD in the Drug-Crime Relationship from the School of Psychology. I am also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

"I am currently working on the following projects:

A multi-disciplinary UK-Guyana research project looking at ‘MNS disorders in Guyana’s jails 1825 to the present day’ that has been funded by the ESRC’s Global Challenges Research Fund. The project has two aims: to model a new interdisciplinary way of working and to produce policy-relevant materials on mental health cognitive impairment and addiction among prisoners and prison officers. For more information visit the project website and read our project blogs.

A Process Evaluation of the Drug Recovery Prison (Ministry of Justice) with colleagues from the Department of Neuroscience Psychology & Behaviour Dr Ruth Hatcher and Dr Emma Palmer.

Improving mental health outcomes for LGBT people in Nottingham (NHS) alongside colleagues formerly in the School of Criminology (Dr Rebecca Barnes and Dr Clare Gunby).

I have just finished working on two projects. One was an ESRC Seminar Series on New Drugs while the other was an evaluation of a new domestic violence intervention for female medium risk repeat victims of domestic abuse.

Taylor, S., Ayres, T.C. and Jones, E. (2020) Enlightened hedonism? Independent drug checking amongst a group of ecstasy users. International Journal of Drug Policy, Online First. Doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102869

Suhomlinova, O., Ayres, T.C., O'Shea, S., O'Reilly, M. and Tonkin, M. (2020) Trans and in prison during a pandemic: a rare glimpse behind bars. The Conversation, 15th June.

Ayres, T.C. (2020) Childhood Trauma, Problematic Drug use and Coping. Deviant Behavior. Online First. Doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2020.1746132

Ayres, T.C. (2020). The War on Drugs and Its Invisible Collateral Damage: Environmental Harm and Climate Change. In A. Brisman and N. South (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology. London: Routledge.

Ayres T.C. and Taylor, S. (2020). Media and Intoxication: Media Representations of the Intoxicated. In F. Hutton (Ed.), Cultures of Intoxication: Key Issues and Debates (pp239-261). Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.

Ayres, T.C. (2020). Substances: The luxurious, the sublime and the harmful. In S. Hall, T. Kuldova & M. Horsley (Eds.), Crime, Harm and Consumerism (pp108-122). London: Routledge.

Ayres, T.C. (2019). Substance Use in the Night-Time Economy: Deviant Leisure?. In T. Raymen, & O. Smith (Eds.), Deviant Leisure: A Criminological Perspectives on Leisure and Harm (pp135-160). Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.

Ayres, T.C. (2019) Fact 7: From 2007 to 2017, there were around 2.3 million deliberate fires in the UK, resulting in over 25,000 injuries and over 900 deaths. In J. Treadwell and A. Lynes (eds.) 50 Facts Everyone Should Know About Crime and Punishment in Britain (pp. 44-48). Bristol: Policy.

Ayres, T.C., Carney, P., Carrabine, E., McClanahan, B., Linnemann, T. and Schept, J. (2018). Social Justice Symposium on Meth Wars: Police, Media, Power. Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict and World Order, 45 (2/3), 163-179.

Hamilton-Hunter, A., Ayres, T.C., Moreland, N. and Cox, A.T. (2018) The Phantom Menace: Novel Psychoactive Substances and the UK Armed Forces. Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 164, pp. 450-457.

Ayres, T.C. (2017) Drugs, Leisure, Consumption and Harm, BSC Newsletter (winter), pp. 20-26.

Taylor, S., Buchanan, J. and Ayres, T.C. (2016) 'Prohibition, Privilege and the Drug Apartheid: The Failure of Drug Policy Reform to Address the Underlying Fallacies of Drug Prohibition' Criminology and Criminal Justice, 16 (4), pp. 452-469.

Treadwell, J. and Ayres, T.C. (2014) 'Talking Prada and Powder: Cocaine Use and Supply among the Football Hooligan Firm' in J. Treadwell and M. Hopkins (eds.) Football Hooliganism, Crime and Crowd Control: Contemporary Themes in Relation to Research and Theory. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 49-70.

Ayres, T.C. and Bond, J.W. (2012) 'A Chemical Analysis Examining the Pharmacology of Novel Psychoactive Substances Freely Available Over the Internet and their Impact on Public (Ill)Health. Legal Highs or Illegal Highs?' British Medical Journal Open, 2 (4), pp. 1-10.

Ayres, T.C. and Jewkes, Y. (2012) 'The Haunting Spectacle of Crystal Meth: A Media Created Mythology' Crime Media Culture, 8 (3), pp. 315-332.

Ayres, T.C. and Treadwell, J. (2012) 'Bars, Drugs and Football Thugs: Cocaine Use amongst English Football Firms' Criminology and Criminal Justice, 12 (1), pp. 83-100.

Drugs including drug use in prison drug policy and theory Trauma trauma informed care and coping Prisons Terrorism and Narcoterrorism

Drugs and Crime (Undergraduate)

Dissertations (Postgraduate)

Understanding Terrorism (Postgraduate core module)

Drugs Drug Policy and Legislation

I am co-chair for the British Society of Criminology's Critical Criminology Network.

I am editorial assistant for drugs and crime for the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology.

I sit on the editorial board for the International Journal of Critical Criminology.

I am a co-founder and sit on the steering group for the Prison Research Network here at the University of Leicester.

I am also a member of the Deviant Leisure Research Group and the Extreme Anthropology Network.

Ayres T.C. and Ancrum C. (2020) PPE and contactless delivery: drug dealers reveal how they are adapting to coronavirus. The Conversation 21st May.

Suhomlinova O. Ayres T.C. O’Shea S. O'Reilly M. and Tonkin M. (2020) Trans and in prison during a pandemic: a rare glimpse behind bars. The Conversation 15th June.