Rate My Professor Tim Stockwell

Tim Stockwell is a scientist at the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research (CISUR) at the University of Victoria. He has been a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Victoria since 2004 and served as director of CISUR (formerly the Centre for Addictions Research of BC) from its inception in 2004 until 2020. He is now professor emeritus. Prior to joining the University of Victoria, he spent 16 years with Australia’s National Drug Research Institute, where he served as deputy director and then director. He studied psychology and philosophy at Oxford University and obtained a PhD from the Institute of Psychiatry at the University of London.

Dr. Stockwell has published over 400 research papers, book chapters, monographs and several books on prevention and treatment issues. His research focuses on the prevention of alcohol and other drug related harm, alcohol and other drug policy, measurement of alcohol consumption and related harms, public health and safety impacts of substance use, alcohol harm reduction and regulatory policies to reduce alcohol-related harm. In 2018 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He served as president of the international Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol from 2005 to 2007. He received the 2013 EM Jellinek Memorial Award for outstanding research on social, cultural and policy aspects of alcohol, with special mention of his work on minimum alcohol pricing, and a 2014 Health Research leadership award from Research Canada on behalf of CISUR.