Dr Steven Maxwell
- Research Associate in Health and Social Sector Leadership (Social & Environmental Sustainability)
- Associate (School of Health & Wellbeing)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8904-025XBiography
I qualified as a mental health nurse in 2003 in which my substantive clinical background was community practice and substance misuse. In 2012, I moved to work in clinical education for substance misuse and blood borne viruses and in 2014 completed my Master’s in Public Health. Since 2016, I have been working in higher education with a primary focus on mental health (inc. substance use), public health, and prescribing practice. My public health expertise and interest includes working within male sexual health promotion. I completed my PhD in Global Public Health at UCL in 2021, which explored HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis uptake/adherence among men who have sex with men who engaged in sexualised drug use. I have expertise in quantitative and qualitative research methods. Presently, my teaching and research expertise and interest is within multiple health inequity/social justice within minority and deprived populations, particularly sexual & mental health, and related substance use.
Research interests
- Inclusive health policy
- Sexual and gender minority diversity
- Masculinity
- Sexual health
- Mental health
- Substance use
- Intimate partner violence
Grants
- 2022 Qualitative study of PrEP adherence (£2500), GCU
- 2021 HIV prevention clinical resource project (£2500), Health Foundation
- 2021 Intimate partner violence research project (£18, 000), NHS Lothian/NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
- 2019 Evidence synthesis of sexualised drug use (£3000), Elesvier/KCL
- 2017 PhD tuition fees (£6000), King’s College London
- 2016 Conference funding award (£250), Society for the Study of Addiction
- 2014 Master’s Grant Award (£1150), The Nightinghale Fund
Teaching
- Principles and practices of public health
- Health policy
- Epidemiology
- Health prevention
- Sexual health
- Mental health and susbtance use
- Applied research methods
Additional information
Poster presentations
- 2022 PrEP uptake and adherence among gay and biseual men, HIV Conference, Glasgow
- 2021 Intimate partner violence among male same sex relationships, Sex, Drugs and Scotland’s Health Virtual Conference.
- 2021 Rapid service evaluation of blood self-sampling for interval STI testing for a PrEP cohort, British HIV Association Conference: online.
- 2020 Pre-exposure prophylaxis use among men who have sex with men who have experienced problematic chemsex, Scottish Interdisciplinary Research in Sexual Health Network Seminar: PrEP, Glasgow (invitation).
- 2019 Pre-exposure prophylaxis use among men who have sex with men who have experienced problematic chemsex, European Chemsex Forum, Paris.
- 2019 Pre-exposure prophylaxis medication adherence among the men who have sex with men population, Scottish Interdisciplinary Research in Sexual Health Network Seminar, Glasgow (invitation).
- 2019 Chemsex behaviours among men who have sex with men: A systematic review of the literature, Association for the Treatment of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity Annual Conference, London (invitation).
- 2018 Independent and supplementary prescribing education development, St Thomas and Guy’s NHS Trust, Medicines Management Forum, London (invitation).
- 2015 Impact of parental substance misuse on child development, Primary Care Professionals Conference, Edinburgh.
- 2014 Barriers and Facilitators for MSM attending primary care for sexual health and HIV screening National Gaycon Conference, Edinburgh (invitation).
