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Professor Gail Gilchrist

Academics
Supervisors

Professor in Addictions Healthcare Research

Research subject areas

Mental Health

Contact details

Biography

Professor Gail Gilchrist’s research focuses on understanding the relationship between substance use and mental health, intimate partner abuse and blood borne viruses; and developing and testing interventions to address these co-occurring issues. Gail received her PhD in 2004 from the University of Glasgow.

Prior to joining King's in 2013, Gail has held research posts in the UK (Argyll and Clyde Drug Action Team, Greater Glasgow NHS Board, University of Greenwich), Australia (University of Melbourne) and Spain (Institut Hospital del Mar d’Investigacions Mèdiques, Barcelona). She has published around 100 manuscripts, editorials and reports.

Gail is currently a co-editor of Advances in Dual Diagnosis journal and a member of the International Society for Addiction Journal Editors.

Research interests

Intimate partner abuse
Comorbidity
People who inject drugs
Gender
Sexual and drug risk behaviors
Interventions

Latest publications

The feasibility of delivering the ADVANCE digital intervention to reduce intimate partner abuse by men receiving substance use treatment: protocol for a non-randomised multi-centre feasibility study and embedded process evaluation
Gilchrist, G., Landau, S., Dheensa, S., Henderson, J., Johnson, A., Love, B., Potts, L., Radcliffe, P., Zenasni, Z., Parrott, S., Li, J., Thomson, K., Dwyer, G. J., Turner, R., Halliwell, G., Berbary, C., Bergman, C., Feder, G., Easton, C., Brooks, C. P., & 1 othersGilchrist, E., Dec 2022, In: Pilot and Feasibility Studies. 8, 1, 163. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-022-01116-x
Substance Use and Intimate Partner Abuse (IPA): A Descriptive Model of the Pathways Between Substance Use and IPA Perpetration for Men
Gilchrist, E., Johnso, A., Thomson, K., Stephens-Lewis, D., Henderson, J., Gadd, D., Radcliffe, P., Halliwell, G. & Gilchrist, G., 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: JOURNAL OF FAMILY VIOLENCE. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-022-00395-5
Impacts of changes in alcohol consumption patterns during the first 2020 COVID-19 restrictions for people with and without mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions: A cross sectional study in 13 countries
Davies, E. L., Puljevic, C., Gilchrist, G., Potts, L., Zhuparris, A., Maier, L. J., Barratt, M. J., Winstock, A. R. & Ferris, J. A., Mar 2022, In: International Journal of Drug Policy. 101, 103563. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103563
Using the Behaviour Change Wheel to design an intervention for partner abusive men in drug and alcohol treatment
Gilchrist, E., Johnson, A., McMurran, M., Stephens-Lewis, D., Kirkpatrick, S., Gardner, B., Easton, C. & Gilchrist, G., Dec 2021, In: Pilot and Feasibility Studies. 7, 1, p. 191 191. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-021-00911-2
ADVANCE integrated group intervention to address both substance use and intimate partner abuse perpetration by men in substance use treatment: a feasibility randomised controlled trial
Gilchrist, G., Potts, L., Radcliffe, P., Halliwell, G., Dheensa, S., Henderson, J., Johnson, A., Love, B., Gilchrist, E., Feder, G., Parrott, S., Li, J., McMurran, M., Kirkpatrick, S., Stephens-Lewis, D., Easton, C., Berbary, C. & Landau, S., Dec 2021, In: BMC Public Health. 21, 1, 980. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11012-3
Comparing Transgender and Cisgender Experiences of Being Taken Advantage of Sexually While Under the Influence of Alcohol and/or Other Drugs
Connolly, D., Aldridge, A., Davies, E., Maier, L. J., Ferris, J., Gilchrist, G. & Winstock, A., 2021, In: JOURNAL OF SEX RESEARCH. 58, 9, p. 1112-1117 6 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2021.1912692
Perspectives on Motivation and Change in an Intervention for Men Who Use Substances and Perpetrate Intimate Partner Abuse: Findings From a Qualitative Evaluation of the Advance Intervention
Dheensa, S., Halliwell, G., Johnson, A., Henderson, J., Love, B., Radcliffe, P., Gilchrist, E. & Gilchrist, G., 3 Mar 2021, In: JOURNAL OF INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE. p. 1-31 31 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260521997436
Parental status and characteristics of women in substance use treatment services: analysis of electronic patient’s records
Canfield, M., Norton, S., Downs, J. & Gilchrist, G., 1 Mar 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Las estrategias motivacionales en las intervenciones con agresores de pareja: Revisión sistemática y meta-análisis de ensayos controlados aleatorizados
Santirso, F. A., Gilchrist, G., Lila, M. & Gracia, E., Apr 2020, In: Psychosocial Intervention. 29, 3, p. 175-190 16 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.5093/PI2020A13
The Challenges of Conducting Qualitative Research on “couples” in Abusive Intimate Partner Relationships Involving Substance Use
Love, B., Henderson, J., Johnson, A., Stephens-Lewis, D., Gadd, D., Radcliffe, P., Gilchrist, E. & Gilchrist, G., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In: Qualitative Health Research. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732320975722

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Violence and abuse

30 June 2022

Rates of Intimate Partner Abuse and Substance Misuse reduced with combined care

New research led by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College…