Separate consultancy agreement with AREU/SOAS supporting the GCRF-funded Drugs & (Dis)Order in Borderlands project. Tasks included field research coordination and analytical contributions to the Afghanistan component. This contract ran in parallel with the primary SOAS research associate role and was specifically channelled through AREU to enable local field access. Results: Research outputs feeding into the broader Drugs & (Dis)Order project; field coordination protocols; analytical contributions to cross-country comparison.