Vanessa Gstrein is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Applied Social and Policy Sciences at Ulster University. Vanessa has held senior management positions in the Australian Public Service, and the not-for-profit and higher education sectors. Her research interests include public policy, policy change theories including policy transfer, and comparative drug policy. Vanessa’s PhD, awarded in 2019, examined the challenges and barriers to replicating policy on drug consumption rooms in Australia and Canada.