David Best has been a university professor since 2014, holding professorial titles at four different universities – Sheffield Hallam, Derby, the Australian National University (as an Honorary Professor) and now at Leeds Trinity University where he is in the process of setting up the first UK Centre for Addiction Recovery Research.

He has written a lot about the subjects of addiction treatment, recovery and about criminal justice – eight books or edited collections, around 230 journal articles and about 70 technical reports or book chapters – but most of his work now is about trying to develop a science of recovery capital.