Dr Lee Hogarth

Office hours Term 2 2025-26: Tuesdays 10.30-11.30 (in office WSL232) and Thursday 11-12 (MS Teams). But feel free to email me to arrange a meeting anytime. I can offer general guidance and welfare to tutees, and module specific guidance for PSY1202, PSY2209, PSY3437 and PSYM231. Exceptions in reading Term 1 week 8, where both office hours will be online.

Postgraduate Research opportunities: Lee Hogarth is open to email enquires from students with their own funding interested in pursuing an MSc by Research or PhD. I am also open to supporting students who would like to apply to the China Scholarship Council, Commonwealth Scholarship, or other PhD funding scheme.

About me:

Lee Hogarth is a critical addiction psychologist who studies risk factors, treatment mechanisms and epistemic harms in addiction psychology. His work encompasses epidemiology, experimental assessment of risk and protective factors, small scale randomised controlled trials evaluating treatment components, secondary data analysis, critical evaluation of animal to human translational pipelines and grand theoretical models of addiction, and exploration of scientific integrity. He is a critic of the compulsive brain disease model of addiction, which envisages drug users as constitutionally damaged and helpless. Instead, he argues that addiction stems from the interaction of social, economic, environmental and market forces, promoting goal-directed drug choice. He advocates structural and political reform to nurture individual agency, unbiased drug knowledge, and quality of life in marginalised groups.

Qualifications:

BSc Hons 1st, Sussex,
PhD, Cambridge

Career:

I received my PhD from Cambridge University in 2000 for research on associative learning risk factors for human addiction supervised by Prof Anthony Dickinson. I then obtained two grants (Wellcome, BBSRC) supporting 7 years of postdoctoral research on the psychopharmacology of addiction at Sussex University with Prof Theodora Duka. I obtained a lectureship at Nottingham University in 2007 and shortly after was awarded an MRC young investigators award for 3 years of research on individual differences in vulnerability to addiction. I took up a Senior Lectureship at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, in 2012, under the academic lead of Prof Simon Killcross. Finally, I returned home in 2013 to take up an Associate Professorship at Exeter University to teach and research the risk factors and intervention startegies for addiction.