Jo Neale is Professor of Addictions Qualitative Research based within the National Addiction Centre and working across the Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. She is also Conjunct Professor in the Centre for Social Research in Health at the University of New South Wales, Australia.  

Jo is a social scientist by training and qualified as a social worker in 1989. She subsequently completed an MSc in Women’s Studies and a DPhil in Social Policy and Social Work at the University of York. Since then, she has held academic positions at the University of Glasgow, the University of York, and Oxford Brookes University, where she was Professor of Public Health. Jo joined King’s College London in 2013.  

Research Interests

• Qualitative and mixed methods research
• Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement
• Opioid pharmacotherapies
• Homelessness and substance use
• Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs)
• App-based interventions for substance use disorder
• Drug treatment effectiveness
• Evaluations of recovery-oriented interventions

 

Expertise and Public Engagement

Jo is Senior Qualitative Editor for the journal Addiction. She is also a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Drug Policy, the UK ESRC peer review college and the Global Research Advisory Committee of SMART Recovery. In 2013, Jo co-founded the Addiction Service User Group in collaboration with the Aurora Project in Lambeth, London. She is now Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Theme Lead for the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Addictions.

Publications

A list of Jo's recent publications can be found on the King's Research Portal. 

Books: 

• Neale, J. (2002) Drug Users in Society (Basingstoke: Palgrave). 
• Neale, J. (ed.) (2009) Research Methods for Health and Social Care (Basingstoke: Palgrave).  
• Neale, J., Pickering, L. and Nettleton, S. (2012) The everyday lives of recovering heroin users (London: Royal Society of Arts).