Orlanda Harvey
PHD STUDENT
Bournemouth University, United Kingdom
anabolic-androgenic steroids, social work, harm reduction
Orlanda Harvey (MA) is a PhD student within the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences at Bournemouth University with a research interest in image and performance enhancing drug (PIED) use. After a spending 17 years in leadership and management training, she recently requalified as a Social Worker and became interested in PIED use after working with an Addiction Community Team. As a result her MA dissertation focused on identifying what Social Workers needed to know about people who chose to use PIED. Her PhD research project is a mixed methods study into anabolic androgenic steroid (AAS) use and aims to explore and describe how AAS use contributes to specific behavioural issues and what AAS users perceive as the barriers to and opportunities for accessing support services. She is also interested in the identification of effective pathways to share information on the risks associated with AAS use and the practice implications for social work and related inter-professional teams working in services that offer support to people who use AAS.