Personnel

The Director of Social Research & Evaluation Pty Ltd is David McDonald. Although he generally undertakes smaller consultancies alone, he conducts larger projects in collaboration with associates from academia and other consultancy firms.

David is a social scientist with research interests in public health and criminology, particularly alcohol and other drugs policy and better understanding the research-policy nexus. As well as being a Consultant in Social Research and Evaluation, he is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University’s National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, and a member of the Drug Policy Modelling Program research team.

David’s academic qualifications are BA, DipSocWork (Sydney), MA (Alberta), Grad DipPopulationHealth (ANU).

He has wide experience in research, policy & program development and evaluations in the alcohol and other drugs, criminal justice and related fields, as revealed by his CV/resumé.

Other positions he has held include

Fellow, National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Heatth, The Australian National University

Senior Criminologist, Australian Institute of Criminology

Deputy Head of Research, Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

Director of the National Drug Abuse Information Centre, Australian Commonwealth Government Department of Health

Director of the Northern Territory Drug and Alcohol Bureau

Senior Training Officer (Social Development), Government of Papua New Guinea

Community Development Officer, Government of Papua New Guinea

Child Welfare Officer, Department of Child Welfare and Social Welfare, Government of NSW