Many reports and scholarly publications have been prepared by Social Research & Evaluation, in recent years mostly in the areas of alcohol and other drugs (substance abuse), public policy and research integration. Earlier publications also dealt with Aboriginal health, Aboriginal justice, deaths in custody and interpersonal violence.
List of recent publications
McDonald, D forthcoming, ‘Drug laws’, in A Ritter, T King & M Hamilton (eds), Drug use and health in Australian society, OUP, Melbourne.
McDonald, D 2013, ACT Alcohol & Other Drugs Sector Service Users’ Satisfaction Survey 2012: final report, Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drug Association ACT, Canberra.
McDonald, D, Bode, A, Sequoia, K & Fowlie, C 2012, ‘Trends in alcohol and other drugs service user satisfaction in the ACT, 2009–2012’, Drug and Alcohol Review, vol. 31, no. supp. 1, p. 69.
McDonald, D 2012, ‘An NSP at the AMC?’, APSAD Newsletter, November 2012.
Douglas, B, Wodak, A & McDonald, D 2012, Alternatives to prohibition: illicit drugs, how we can stop killing and criminalising young Australians, report of the second Australia21 Roundtable on Illicit Drugs held at the University of Melbourne on 6 July 2012, Australia21, Canberra.
McDonald D 2012, ‘Evaluation of the AIVL Anti-discrimination Campaign September 2011 – June 2012: the film “Afternoons with Max Marshall, a short film exploring drugs, discrimination and the media”, Social Research & Evaluation Pty Ltd, Wamboin NSW.
McDonald, D 2012, The extent and nature of alcohol, tobacco and other drug use, and related harms, in the Australian Capital Territory, July 2012, 4th edn, version 2, ACT Government Health Directorate, Canberra.
Douglas, R & McDonald, D 2012, The prohibition of illicit drugs is killing and criminalising our children and we are all letting it happen: report of a high level Australia21 Roundtable, Australia21, Canberra.
McDonald, D 2011, A background paper for an Australia21 Roundtable, Sydney, 31 January 2012, addressing the question ‘What are the likely costs and benefits of a change in Australia’s current policy on illicit drugs?’, Australia21, Canberra.
McDonald D 2011, review of Evidence versus politics: exploiting research in UK drug policy making? by Mark Monaghan, Drug and Alcohol Review, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 690-1.
McDonald, D 2011, ‘Australia’s National Drug Strategy 2010-2015: an impact assessment and comparison with other nations’ drug strategies’, Drug and Alcohol Review, vol. 30, Supp. 1, pp. 62-3.
McDonald, D 2011, ‘Building on the Capital’, Of Substance: the national magazine on alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 17.
McDonald, D 2011, ‘Australian governments’ spending on preventing and responding to drug abuse should target the main sources of drug-related harm and the most cost-effective interventions’, Drug and Alcohol Review, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 96-100.
McDonald, D 2010, ‘Law is one thing, enforcement is another’, Of Substance: the national magazine on alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, vol. 8, no. 3, p. 25.
Bammer, G, Strazdins, L, McDonald, D, Berry, H, Ritter, A, Deane, P & Van Kerkhoff, L 2010, ‘Expanding the deliberations about the research-policy gap: useful ideas from the literature’, in G Bammer with A Michaux and A Sanson (eds), Bridging the ‘know-do’ gap: knowledge brokering to improve child wellbeing, ANU E Press, Canberra, pp. 135-55.
McDonald, D 2010, ACT Alcohol & Other Drugs Sector Service Users’ Satisfaction Survey 2009: final report, ACT Health, Canberra.
Siggins Miller, Miller, M-E, Siggins, I, Hall, W, Bush, R, McDonald, D, Cleary, G, Lai, SH-C & Ho, B 2009, Evaluation and monitoring of the National Drug Strategy 2004-2009: final report, Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy, Canberra.
McDonald, D 2009, ‘Understanding the adverse unintended consequences of policies and interventions addressing drug availability and drug use’, Drug and Alcohol Review, vol. 28, no. Supp. 1, p. A43.
McDonald, D, Bammer, G and Deane, P 2009, Research integration using dialogue methods, ANU E Press, Canberra
McDonald, D 2009, ‘The policy context of roadside drug testing’, Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 37-43.
McDonald, D 2009, ‘The evaluation of a trial of syringe vending machines in Canberra, Australia’, International Journal of Drug Policy, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 336-9.
McDonald D 2008, The extent and nature of alcohol, tobacco and other drug use, and related harms in the Australian Capital Territory, February 2008, Social Research & Evaluation Pty Ltd, Canberra.
Ritter, A and McDonald, D 2008, ‘Illicit drug policy: scoping the interventions and taxonomies’, Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 15-35.
McDonald, D, Bammer, G & Deane, P 2007, Dialogue methods for research integration in Natural Resource Management, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, College of Medical & Health Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra.
McDonald, D 2007, review of RealWorld evaluation: Working under budget, time, data, and political constrains by Michael Bamberger, Jim Rugh, & Linda Mabry, Health Sociology Review, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 89-90.
McDonald, D 2007, ‘Using the evidence-base, ADCA News, no. 36, p. 14.
Guthrie, J, Dance, P, Cubillo, C, McDonald, D, Tongs, J, Brideson, T, Bammer, G 2006, ‘Working in partnership: skills transfer in developing a cross-cultural research team’, Journal of Community Psychology, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 515-522.
McDonald, D 2006, ‘Strategies for addressing alcohol and other drugs in correctional settings’, Social Research & Evaluation Pty Ltd, Canberra.
McDonald, D 2006, A profile of the Australian Capital Territory alcohol and other drug workforce, April 2006, Social Research & Evaluation Pty Ltd, Canberra.
McDonald, D 2006, Australian Capital Territory Government expenditure on preventing and responding to drug abuse, 2004-05, Social Research & Evaluation Pty Ltd, Canberra.
McDonald, D 2006, The extent and nature of alcohol, tobacco and other drug use, and related harms, in the Australian Capital Territory, April 2006, Social Research & Evaluation Pty Ltd, Canberra.
McDonald, D 2006, ‘Peer education: “popular but not proven?”’, DrugInfo: Newsletter of the Australian Drug Foundation’s Prevention Clearinghouse, vol. 4, no. 3, p. 2,
McDonald, D 2006, ACT Syringe Vending Machines Trial 2004-2006: Progress report no. 3, Siggins Miller Consultants and Social Research & Evaluation Pty Ltd, Canberra.
McDonald, D 2006, Sources of published data on alcohol, tobacco and other drugs in the Australian Capital Territory, January 2006, 2nd edition, Social Research & Evaluation Pty Ltd, Canberra.
Ritter, A & McDonald, D 2005, Drug policy interventions: a comprehensive list and a review of classification schemes, Drug Policy Modelling Project Monograph Series no. 2, Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre Inc., Fitzroy, Vic.
McDonald, D, Bammer, G & Breen, G 2005, Australian illicit drugs policy: mapping structures and processes, Drug Policy Modelling Project Monograph Series no. 4, Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre Inc., Fitzroy, Vic.
Ritter, A & McDonald, D, 2005, Bulletin No. 5: Drug policy response schema, DPMP Bulletin Series, Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre, Fitzroy, Vic.
Guthrie, J, Dance, P, McDonald, D, Tongs, J, Brideson, T, Bammer, G in press, ‘Working in partnership: skills transfer in developing a cross-cultural research team’, Journal of Community Psychology.
McDonald, D 2005, The proposed needle syringe program at the Alexander Maconochie Centre, Canberra’s new prison; an information paper on the evidence underlying the proposal, Directions ACT, Canberra.
Bammer, G, McDonald, D & Breen, G 2005, Bulletin no. 3: Drug policy – mapping structures and enhancing processes, DPMP Bulletin Series, Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre, Fitzroy, Vic.
Ritter, A & McDonald, D, 2005, Bulletin No. 5: Drug policy response schema, DPMP Bulletin Series, Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre, Fitzroy, Vic.
McDonald, D 2005, ACT Syringe Vending Machines Trial 2004-2006: Progress report no. 2, Siggins Miller Consultants and Social Research & Evaluation Pty Ltd, Canberra.
McDonald, D 2005, ‘Drugs and research: an overview’, Of Substance: the national magazine on alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 8-9.
Guthrie, J, Dance, P, Cubillo, C, McDonald, D, Tongs, J, Brideson, T & Bammer, G 2005, ‘Approaches to developing a culturally appropriate research team’, in LR Jackson Pulver & D McDermott (eds), Djiadi no. 1.1, revised monograph of the Inaugural Indigenous Health Unit Research Day 2004, Muru Marri Indigenous Health Unit, The University of New South Wales, Randwick, NSW, pp. 35-44.
McDonald, D 2005, ‘Suboxone: a welcome addition but no silver bullet’,Of Substance: the national magazine on alcohol and other drugs, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 12-13.
Tresidder, J & McDonald, D 2005, ‘Peer education: popular but not proven?’, Of Substance: the national magazine on alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 26-27.
McDonald, D 2005, ‘A rapid situation assessment of drug use in Papua New Guinea’, Drug and Alcohol Review, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 79-82.