Tony Barnett

Tony Barnett is an ARC DECRA Fellow in the School of Psychology, and an affiliate of the National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research, University of Queensland. Tony's work explores the social and cultural contexts of alcohol and other drug use, treatment (including novel therapeutic interventions) and policy change. His work draws on critical social science methods to provide in-depth accounts of consumers, carers and clinicians’ experiences of addiction treatment, care and recovery. His current work applies a critical lens to the social and policy dimensions of psychedelic therapies for the treatment of addiction: he is particularly keen to supervise student projects in this area.

In 2020, Tony completed his PhD thesis at Monash University. His work explored clinicians’ views about the brain disease model of addiction and how neuroscientific models and interventions integrate within clinical practice. His research interests include: Qualitative research; Harm reduction; Opioid addiction; Treatment policy, evaluation and outcome monitoring.