Miss Tricia McQuarrie

Hourly Academic

Tricia McQuarrie
  • School Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education

  • Department Mental Health & Social Work

  • Location London

Research activities

Her PhD research is exploring the theoretical and practical challenges associated with the implementation of Contingency Management (CM) into drug and alcohol treatment services in England. The PhD will draw on theories and research methods from the field of Implementation Science to investigate the translation, adaption and implementation of CM into routine clinical practice. She has been reviewing the relevant research literature, undertaking national surveys of treatment services and completing case studies in services where there is experience of using CM. These methods will provide a new perspective on implementation and help better understand how services (working effectively with commissioners) can improve the implementation of evidence-based practice in the Addictions.


Current Teaching

Tricia teaches Research Methods on the Social Work MA and supervises students on the dissertation module. 


Biography

Tricia is a third-yearPhD student at Middlesex University, receiving cross-institutional support fromKing’s College London. She is jointly supervised by Dr Tim Weaver (MiddlesexUniversity) and Dr Nicola Metrebian (King’s College London). Tricia is an earlycareer researcher with experience in research and clinical work in Mental Health and theAddictions. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Psychology, from DeMontford University and an MSc in Addiction Studies from King’s College London.Throughouther career as a researcher, she has contributed to multiple high-impactprojects which have attracted international recognition in the field ofaddiction and family justice research. She has experience using mixed methodsapproaches to investigate vulnerable groups in society experiencing addiction. She has a special interest in the real-worldimplementation of evidenced-based psychosocial treatments for the treatment ofaddiction.

Qualifications

Title: MSc Addiction Studies

Date: 01 Sept 2014

Institution: King's College London


Prizes and Awards

  • PhD Studentship , Society for the Study of Addiction, 2022
  • Publications