Dr Lucy Pickering

  • Senior Lecturer (Sociological & Cultural Studies)
  • Lecturer, Associate (School of Health & Wellbeing)

telephone: 01413305072
email: Lucy.Pickering@glasgow.ac.uk

Sociology, 40 Bute Gardens,, University of Glasgow

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059

Biography

Lucy has been with the University since 2010.

She received her BA in Archaeology and Anthropology from Cambridge University in 2001, and her MA in Anthropological Research from Manchester University in 2003. She completed her PhD on embodiment and American counterculture at Manchester University in 2007.

Before joining Glasgow University, she worked on a range of collaborative projects around bodies, embodiment and drug use at Liverpool John Moores University and Oxford Brookes University.

Since joining the University of Glasgow, Lucy has been involved in research on

  • menstruation, sanitation and water-borne disease transmission in Scotland and Uganda
  • research ethics focusing on the ethics of ethnographic research, the ethics of representation and research ethics committees
  • substance use relating to new psychoactive substances, older women's recovery, and the impacts of student substance use at the University of Glasgow. 

Research interests

Lucy's research centres on bodies and embodiment, and the ways in which our bodies become the sites through which inequalities and resistance to injustice are enacted. Her work focuses on the intersections of bodies and dirt, bodies and ethics, and bodies and substance use. 

Her work on dirt as a concept and material entity, brings in water and sanitation, sanitary infrastucture, and menstruation and defecation. She edited Down the Pan: New Directions in the Sociology of Dirt with Phillippa Wiseman and Sarah Armstrong in 2019, as well as publishing on water, sanitation and schistosomiasis transmission in Uganda with colleagues there, and on menstruation in Scotland with Natalie Moffat. 

Her work on substance use has covered cannabis cultivation, recovery from heroin use, recovery in rural Scotland and recovery in older life, the ethics of drugs research, new psychoactive substance use and the impacts of alcohol and other drug use on students at the University of Glasgow. 

Her work on research ethics involves publishing on the ethics of working with people who use drugs, the ethics of representations and research ethics committees, including editing a special issue of The International Journal of Social Research Methodology on qualitative research ethics across the lifecourse. Lucy has also sat as an ethics specialist on a range of research advisory groups for ethnographic projects, and is currently the ethics advisor for ALIVEAfrica, led by Prof Hannah Brown at the University of Durham. 

Her work seeks to explore the linkages of these domains, and the ways in which particular kinds of bodies and groups are considered 'dirty' by others, and the harms that emerge from this. 

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Publications

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2024

Armstrong, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2049-9614 and Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2024) A difference of sameness: home as a site of research in a study of Covid inequalities in Scotland. In: Abram, Simone, Lambert, Helen and Robinson, Jude (eds.) How to Live through a Pandemic (ASA Monograph 2020). Series: ASA monographs. Routledge: London, UK, pp. 114-132. ISBN 9781003359371 (doi: 10.4324/9781003359371-6)

Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 and Armstrong, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2049-9614 (2024) Connected by Isolations: overlaps, refractions and difference in a four-fold view of lockdown inequality in Scotland. In: Abram, Simone, Lambert, Helen and Robinson, Jude (eds.) How to Live Through a Pandemic. Series: ASA Monographs. Routledge. ISBN 9781032397801

2023

Mujumbusi, Lazaro, Nalwadda, Edith, Ssali, Agnes, Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059, Seeley, Janet, Meginnis, Keila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4154-5192 and Lamberton, Poppy H.L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1048-6318 (2023) Understanding perceptions of schistosomiasis and its control among highly endemic lakeshore communities in Mayuge, Uganda. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 17(1), e0010687. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0010687) (PMID:36656869) (PMCID:PMC9888691)

2022

Meginnis, Keila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4154-5192, Hanley, Nick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1362-3499, Mujumbusi, Lazaro, Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 and Lamberton, Poppy H. L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1048-6318 (2022) Using choice modelling to identify popular and affordable alternative interventions for schistosomiasis in Uganda. Environment and Development Economics, 27(6), pp. 578-600. (doi: 10.1017/S1355770X22000079)

Shaw, April, Reith, Gerda ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6539-0295 and Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2022) Paying attention to women's ageing bodies in recovery from substance use. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, 890784. (doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.890784) (PMID:35656351) (PMCID:PMC9152145)

Trienekens, Suzan C. M., Faust, Christina L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8824-7424, Besigye, Fred, Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059, Tukahebwa, Edridah M., Seeley, Janet and Lamberton, Poppy H. L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1048-6318 (2022) Variation in water contact behaviour and risk of Schistosoma mansoni (re)infection among Ugandan school-aged children in an area with persistent high endemicity. Parasites and Vectors, 15, 15. (doi: 10.1186/s13071-021-05121-6) (PMID:34991702) (PMCID:PMC8734346)

2021

Ssali, Agnes, Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059, Nalwadda, Edith, Mujumbusi, Lazaro, Seeley, Janet and Lamberton, Poppy H. L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1048-6318 (2021) Schistosomiasis messaging in endemic communities: lessons and implications for interventions from rural Uganda, a rapid ethnographic assessment study. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 15(10), e0009893. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009893) (PMID:34705819) (PMCID:PMC8575311)

Anderson, Martin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0958-9942, Devlin, Alison M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9407-6465, Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059, McCann, Mark ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6100-1416 and Wight, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1234-3110 (2021) 'It’s not 9 to 5 recovery': the role of a recovery community in producing social bonds that support recovery. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 28(5), pp. 475-485. (doi: 10.1080/09687637.2021.1933911) (PMID:34675456) (PMCID:PMC8522802)

2020

Armstrong, S. et al. (2020) Left out and locked down: impacts of COVID-19 for marginalised groups in Scotland. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.

Armstrong, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2049-9614 and Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2020) Scotland in Lockdown: How Have COVID-19 Measures Affected Your Life? [Website]

Trienekens, Suzan C.M., Faust, Christina L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8824-7424, Meginnis, Keila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4154-5192, Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059, Ericsson, Olivia, Nankasi, Andrina, Moses, Arinaitwe, Tukahebwa, Edridah M. and Lamberton, Poppy H.L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1048-6318 (2020) Impacts of host gender on Schistosoma mansoni risk in rural Uganda—a mixed-methods approach. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 14(5), e0008266. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008266) (PMID:32401770) (PMCID:PMC7219705)

2019

Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 and Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2019) New for who?: Novelty and continuity in drug-related practices of people who use new psychoactive substances. Contemporary Drug Problems, 46(4), pp. 323-344. (doi: 10.1177/0091450919885664)

Anderson, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0958-9942, Devlin, A.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9407-6465, McCann, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6100-1416, Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 and Wight, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1234-3110 (2019) It’s Not Nine-to-Five Recovery: How Recovery Communities Help Sustain Long-Term Recovery From Problem Alcohol and Other Drug Use. Faculty of Public Health (Scotland) Annual Conference, Dunblane, Scotland, 28-29 Nov 2019.

Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 and Wiseman, Phillippa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0135-1497 (2019) Down the Pan: New Directions in the Sociology of Dirt [Guest Editors]. Sociological Review, 67(4),

Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2019) Bourgois’ 1995 classic In Search of Respect: a tale of three readings. Addiction, 114(7), pp. 1309-1312. (doi: 10.1111/add.14513)

Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 and Moffat, Natalie (2019) ‘Out of Order’: the double burden of menstrual etiquette and the subtle exclusion of women from public space in Scotland. Sociological Review, 67(4), pp. 766-787. (doi: 10.1177/0038026119854253)

Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 and Wiseman, Phillippa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0135-1497 (2019) Dirty scholarship and dirty lives: explorations in bodies and belonging. Sociological Review, 67(4), pp. 746-765. (doi: 10.1177/0038026119854244)

2018

Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2018) Paternalism and the ethics of researching with people who use drugs. In: Iphofen, Ron and Tolich, Martin (eds.) Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research Ethics. Sage, pp. 411-424. ISBN 9781526448705 (doi: 10.4135/9781526435446.n28)

Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2018) Time-rich: 1960s counterculture and time as affluence in a dropout community in Hawai‘i. Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 8(3), pp. 625-639. (doi: 10.1086/701025)

2017

Kara, Helen and Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2017) New directions in qualitative research ethics. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 20(3), pp. 239-241. (doi: 10.1080/13645579.2017.1287869)

Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 and Kara, Helen (2017) Presenting and representing others: towards an ethics of engagement. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 20(3), pp. 299-309. (doi: 10.1080/13645579.2017.1287875)

2016

McLeod, Katy, Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059, Gannon, Maria, Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430, Liddell, Dave, Smith, Austin, Johnstone, Lauren and Burton, George (2016) Understanding the patterns of use, motives, and harms of New Psychoactive Substances in Scotland. Technical Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2016) “Waiting for Chronic”: Time, cannabis and counterculture in Hawai‘i. Time and Society, 25(3), pp. 450-470. (doi: 10.1177/0961463X16631770)

2014

Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2014) Drinking Smoke: The Tobacco Syndemic in Oceania by Mac Marshall Honolulu, Hawai‘i, University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013, 292pp. ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-3685-6. Addiction, 109(12), pp. 2137-2138. (doi: 10.1111/add.12724)[Book Review]

Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2014) Review of: Rosita Henry, 'Performing Place, Practising Memories: Aboriginal Australians, Hippies and the State'. Qualitative Research, 14(3), pp. 391-392. (doi: 10.1177/1468794113518879)[Book Review]

Neale, Joanne, Nettleton, Sarah and Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2014) Gender sameness and difference in recovery from heroin dependence: a qualitative exploration. International Journal of Drug Policy, 25(1), pp. 3-12. (doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2013.08.002)

2013

Nettleton, S., Neale, J. and Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2013) "I just want to be normal": an analysis of discourses of normality among recovering heroin users. Health, 17(2), pp. 174-190. (doi: 10.1177/1363459312451182)

Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059, Neale, J. and Nettleton, S. (2013) Recovering a fecal habitus: analyzing heroin users’ toilet talk. Medical Anthropology, 32(2), pp. 95-108. (doi: 10.1080/01459740.2012.694929)

2012

Neale, J., Nettleton, S. and Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2012) Heroin users’ views and experiences of physical activity, sport and exercise. International Journal of Drug Policy, 23(2), pp. 120-127. (doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2011.06.004)

Neale, J., Nettleton, S., Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 and Fischer, J. (2012) Eating patterns amongst heroin users: a qualitative study with implications for nutritional interventions. Addiction, 107(3), pp. 635-641. (doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2011.03660.x)

Neale, Joanne, Nettleton, Sarah and Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2012) The Everyday Lives of Recovering Heroin Users. Royal Society for the Arts: London.

2011

Neale, J., Nettleton, S. and Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2011) What is the role of harm reduction when drug users say they want abstinence? International Journal of Drug Policy, 22(3), pp. 189-193. (doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2010.09.007)

Nettleton, S., Neale, J. and Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2011) Techniques and transitions: a sociological analysis of sleeping practices amongst recovering heroin users. Social Science and Medicine, 72(8), pp. 1367-1373. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.02.040)

Nettleton, S., Neale, J. and Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2011) "I don’t think there’s much of a rational mind in a drug addict when they are in the thick of it": towards an embodied analysis of recovering heroin users. Sociology of Health and Illness, 33(3), pp. 341-355. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2010.01278.x)

Neale, J., Nettleton, S. and Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2011) Recovery from problem drug use: what can we learn from the sociologist Erving Goffman? Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, 18(1), pp. 3-9. (doi: 10.3109/09687631003705546)

2010

Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2010) Toilets, bodies, selves: enacting composting as counterculture in Hawai'i. Body and Society, 16(4), pp. 33-55. (doi: 10.1177/1357034X10383882)

Jones, L., Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059, Sumnall, H. and McVeigh, J. (2010) Optimal provision of needle and syringe programmes for injecting drug users: a systematic review. International Journal of Drug Policy, 21(5), pp. 335-342.

Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2010) Past imperfect: displacing Hawaiians as hosts in a 'drop out' community in Hawai'i. In: Trundle, C. and Bonisch-Brednich, B. (eds.) Local Lives: Migration and the Micropolitics of Place. Series: Studies in Migration and Diaspora. Ashgate: Farnham, pp. 49-63. ISBN 9781409401032

Roe, B., Beynon, C., Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 and Duffy, P. (2010) Experiences of drug use and ageing, quality of life and relationship and service implications. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 66(9), pp. 1968-1979. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2010.05378.x)

2009

Beynon, C.M., Roe, B., Duffy, P. and Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2009) Self-reported health status, and health service contact, of illicit drug users aged 50 and over: a qualitative interview study in Merseyside, United Kingdom. BMC Geriatrics, 9(45), (doi: 10.1186/1471-2318-9-45)

Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2009) Dancing my true dance: reflections on learning to express myself through ecstatic dance in Hawai'i. Anthropology Matters, 11(1),

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Mujumbusi, Lazaro, Nalwadda, Edith, Ssali, Agnes, Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059, Seeley, Janet, Meginnis, Keila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4154-5192 and Lamberton, Poppy H.L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1048-6318 (2023) Understanding perceptions of schistosomiasis and its control among highly endemic lakeshore communities in Mayuge, Uganda. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 17(1), e0010687. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0010687) (PMID:36656869) (PMCID:PMC9888691)

Meginnis, Keila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4154-5192, Hanley, Nick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1362-3499, Mujumbusi, Lazaro, Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 and Lamberton, Poppy H. L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1048-6318 (2022) Using choice modelling to identify popular and affordable alternative interventions for schistosomiasis in Uganda. Environment and Development Economics, 27(6), pp. 578-600. (doi: 10.1017/S1355770X22000079)

Shaw, April, Reith, Gerda ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6539-0295 and Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2022) Paying attention to women's ageing bodies in recovery from substance use. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, 890784. (doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.890784) (PMID:35656351) (PMCID:PMC9152145)

Trienekens, Suzan C. M., Faust, Christina L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8824-7424, Besigye, Fred, Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059, Tukahebwa, Edridah M., Seeley, Janet and Lamberton, Poppy H. L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1048-6318 (2022) Variation in water contact behaviour and risk of Schistosoma mansoni (re)infection among Ugandan school-aged children in an area with persistent high endemicity. Parasites and Vectors, 15, 15. (doi: 10.1186/s13071-021-05121-6) (PMID:34991702) (PMCID:PMC8734346)

Ssali, Agnes, Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059, Nalwadda, Edith, Mujumbusi, Lazaro, Seeley, Janet and Lamberton, Poppy H. L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1048-6318 (2021) Schistosomiasis messaging in endemic communities: lessons and implications for interventions from rural Uganda, a rapid ethnographic assessment study. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 15(10), e0009893. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009893) (PMID:34705819) (PMCID:PMC8575311)

Anderson, Martin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0958-9942, Devlin, Alison M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9407-6465, Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059, McCann, Mark ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6100-1416 and Wight, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1234-3110 (2021) 'It’s not 9 to 5 recovery': the role of a recovery community in producing social bonds that support recovery. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 28(5), pp. 475-485. (doi: 10.1080/09687637.2021.1933911) (PMID:34675456) (PMCID:PMC8522802)

Trienekens, Suzan C.M., Faust, Christina L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8824-7424, Meginnis, Keila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4154-5192, Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059, Ericsson, Olivia, Nankasi, Andrina, Moses, Arinaitwe, Tukahebwa, Edridah M. and Lamberton, Poppy H.L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1048-6318 (2020) Impacts of host gender on Schistosoma mansoni risk in rural Uganda—a mixed-methods approach. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 14(5), e0008266. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008266) (PMID:32401770) (PMCID:PMC7219705)

Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 and Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2019) New for who?: Novelty and continuity in drug-related practices of people who use new psychoactive substances. Contemporary Drug Problems, 46(4), pp. 323-344. (doi: 10.1177/0091450919885664)

Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 and Wiseman, Phillippa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0135-1497 (2019) Down the Pan: New Directions in the Sociology of Dirt [Guest Editors]. Sociological Review, 67(4),

Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2019) Bourgois’ 1995 classic In Search of Respect: a tale of three readings. Addiction, 114(7), pp. 1309-1312. (doi: 10.1111/add.14513)

Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 and Moffat, Natalie (2019) ‘Out of Order’: the double burden of menstrual etiquette and the subtle exclusion of women from public space in Scotland. Sociological Review, 67(4), pp. 766-787. (doi: 10.1177/0038026119854253)

Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 and Wiseman, Phillippa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0135-1497 (2019) Dirty scholarship and dirty lives: explorations in bodies and belonging. Sociological Review, 67(4), pp. 746-765. (doi: 10.1177/0038026119854244)

Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2018) Time-rich: 1960s counterculture and time as affluence in a dropout community in Hawai‘i. Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 8(3), pp. 625-639. (doi: 10.1086/701025)

Kara, Helen and Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2017) New directions in qualitative research ethics. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 20(3), pp. 239-241. (doi: 10.1080/13645579.2017.1287869)

Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 and Kara, Helen (2017) Presenting and representing others: towards an ethics of engagement. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 20(3), pp. 299-309. (doi: 10.1080/13645579.2017.1287875)

Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2016) “Waiting for Chronic”: Time, cannabis and counterculture in Hawai‘i. Time and Society, 25(3), pp. 450-470. (doi: 10.1177/0961463X16631770)

Neale, Joanne, Nettleton, Sarah and Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2014) Gender sameness and difference in recovery from heroin dependence: a qualitative exploration. International Journal of Drug Policy, 25(1), pp. 3-12. (doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2013.08.002)

Nettleton, S., Neale, J. and Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2013) "I just want to be normal": an analysis of discourses of normality among recovering heroin users. Health, 17(2), pp. 174-190. (doi: 10.1177/1363459312451182)

Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059, Neale, J. and Nettleton, S. (2013) Recovering a fecal habitus: analyzing heroin users’ toilet talk. Medical Anthropology, 32(2), pp. 95-108. (doi: 10.1080/01459740.2012.694929)

Neale, J., Nettleton, S. and Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2012) Heroin users’ views and experiences of physical activity, sport and exercise. International Journal of Drug Policy, 23(2), pp. 120-127. (doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2011.06.004)

Neale, J., Nettleton, S., Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 and Fischer, J. (2012) Eating patterns amongst heroin users: a qualitative study with implications for nutritional interventions. Addiction, 107(3), pp. 635-641. (doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2011.03660.x)

Neale, J., Nettleton, S. and Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2011) What is the role of harm reduction when drug users say they want abstinence? International Journal of Drug Policy, 22(3), pp. 189-193. (doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2010.09.007)

Nettleton, S., Neale, J. and Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2011) Techniques and transitions: a sociological analysis of sleeping practices amongst recovering heroin users. Social Science and Medicine, 72(8), pp. 1367-1373. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.02.040)

Nettleton, S., Neale, J. and Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2011) "I don’t think there’s much of a rational mind in a drug addict when they are in the thick of it": towards an embodied analysis of recovering heroin users. Sociology of Health and Illness, 33(3), pp. 341-355. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2010.01278.x)

Neale, J., Nettleton, S. and Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2011) Recovery from problem drug use: what can we learn from the sociologist Erving Goffman? Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, 18(1), pp. 3-9. (doi: 10.3109/09687631003705546)

Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2010) Toilets, bodies, selves: enacting composting as counterculture in Hawai'i. Body and Society, 16(4), pp. 33-55. (doi: 10.1177/1357034X10383882)

Jones, L., Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059, Sumnall, H. and McVeigh, J. (2010) Optimal provision of needle and syringe programmes for injecting drug users: a systematic review. International Journal of Drug Policy, 21(5), pp. 335-342.

Roe, B., Beynon, C., Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 and Duffy, P. (2010) Experiences of drug use and ageing, quality of life and relationship and service implications. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 66(9), pp. 1968-1979. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2010.05378.x)

Beynon, C.M., Roe, B., Duffy, P. and Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2009) Self-reported health status, and health service contact, of illicit drug users aged 50 and over: a qualitative interview study in Merseyside, United Kingdom. BMC Geriatrics, 9(45), (doi: 10.1186/1471-2318-9-45)

Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2009) Dancing my true dance: reflections on learning to express myself through ecstatic dance in Hawai'i. Anthropology Matters, 11(1),

Books

Neale, Joanne, Nettleton, Sarah and Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2012) The Everyday Lives of Recovering Heroin Users. Royal Society for the Arts: London.

Book Sections

Armstrong, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2049-9614 and Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2024) A difference of sameness: home as a site of research in a study of Covid inequalities in Scotland. In: Abram, Simone, Lambert, Helen and Robinson, Jude (eds.) How to Live through a Pandemic (ASA Monograph 2020). Series: ASA monographs. Routledge: London, UK, pp. 114-132. ISBN 9781003359371 (doi: 10.4324/9781003359371-6)

Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 and Armstrong, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2049-9614 (2024) Connected by Isolations: overlaps, refractions and difference in a four-fold view of lockdown inequality in Scotland. In: Abram, Simone, Lambert, Helen and Robinson, Jude (eds.) How to Live Through a Pandemic. Series: ASA Monographs. Routledge. ISBN 9781032397801

Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2018) Paternalism and the ethics of researching with people who use drugs. In: Iphofen, Ron and Tolich, Martin (eds.) Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research Ethics. Sage, pp. 411-424. ISBN 9781526448705 (doi: 10.4135/9781526435446.n28)

Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2010) Past imperfect: displacing Hawaiians as hosts in a 'drop out' community in Hawai'i. In: Trundle, C. and Bonisch-Brednich, B. (eds.) Local Lives: Migration and the Micropolitics of Place. Series: Studies in Migration and Diaspora. Ashgate: Farnham, pp. 49-63. ISBN 9781409401032

Book Reviews

Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2014) Drinking Smoke: The Tobacco Syndemic in Oceania by Mac Marshall Honolulu, Hawai‘i, University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013, 292pp. ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-3685-6. Addiction, 109(12), pp. 2137-2138. (doi: 10.1111/add.12724)[Book Review]

Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2014) Review of: Rosita Henry, 'Performing Place, Practising Memories: Aboriginal Australians, Hippies and the State'. Qualitative Research, 14(3), pp. 391-392. (doi: 10.1177/1468794113518879)[Book Review]

Research Reports or Papers

Armstrong, S. et al. (2020) Left out and locked down: impacts of COVID-19 for marginalised groups in Scotland. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.

McLeod, Katy, Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059, Gannon, Maria, Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430, Liddell, Dave, Smith, Austin, Johnstone, Lauren and Burton, George (2016) Understanding the patterns of use, motives, and harms of New Psychoactive Substances in Scotland. Technical Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

Conference or Workshop Item

Anderson, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0958-9942, Devlin, A.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9407-6465, McCann, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6100-1416, Pickering, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 and Wight, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1234-3110 (2019) It’s Not Nine-to-Five Recovery: How Recovery Communities Help Sustain Long-Term Recovery From Problem Alcohol and Other Drug Use. Faculty of Public Health (Scotland) Annual Conference, Dunblane, Scotland, 28-29 Nov 2019.

Website

Armstrong, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2049-9614 and Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 (2020) Scotland in Lockdown: How Have COVID-19 Measures Affected Your Life? [Website]

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 07:10:58 2025 BST.

Grants

Lucy is currently Co-PI on the University of Glasgow funded project 'Understanding and Reducing Substance Use Related Harms at the University of Glasgow'

Supervision

Lucy welcome applications from students in the following areas:

  • Bodies, embodiment and identity
  • Dirt, sanitation and pollution
  • Substance use and recovery
  • Counterculture
  • Ethnographic and qualitative research ethics

Current research students

Raheema Chunara - community design of water access points in rural Uganda

  • Zarkou, Nafsika
    How is mothering a disabled child experienced by Pakistani women in Scotland?

Teaching

Undergraduate

  • Ways of Living (Honours)

Postgraduate

  • Health and Culture 

Drugs and Culture (Honours)

Global Health, Local Healing (Honours)

 

Postgraduate

Medical Anthropology  

Drugs and Culture (Honours)

Global Health, Local Healing (Honours)

 

Postgraduate

Medical Anthropology  

Research datasets

Jump to: 2022 | 2020
Number of items: 2.

2022

Trienekens, S., Faust, C. , Besigye, F., Pickering, L. , Tukahebwa, E., Seeley, J. and Lamberton, P. (2022) Variation in water contact behaviour and risk of Schistosoma mansoni (re)infection among Ugandan school-aged children in an area with persistent high endemicity. [Data Collection]

2020

Trienekens, S., Faust, C. , Meginnis, K., Pickering, L. , Ericsson, O., Nankasi, A., Moses, A., Tukahebwa, E. and Lamberton, P. (2020) Impacts of host gender on Schistosoma mansoni risk in rural Uganda—A mixed methods approach. [Data Collection]

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 20:25:16 2025 BST.

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