Craig Cumming

Research Fellow (PhD candidate)
University of Western Australia

Craig Cumming is a Research Fellow, currently undertaking a PhD at the School of Population and Global Health at the University of Western Australia. Originally coming from a Law and Criminology background, he has been involved in research focusing on the health of people who have contact with the Justice System since 2011. He has spent several years attending Police lockups and prisons to interview detainees and prisoners in person. His work has primarily focused on drug and alcohol use and mental illness in this population. Craig consults with a number of consumer and community groups as well as government departments to ensure that his research is guided by community need and policy priorities. His work has included providing evidence to the West Australian Government’s Methamphetamine Task Force, as well as the Commonwealth Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement’s Inquiry into Crystal Methamphetamine.