Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) and the Scottish Alcohol Research Network (SARN) invite you to join us online on Wednesday 20 April from 12.30-14.00 BST (UK time) for our second SHAAP/SARN Alcohol Occasionals event of 2022.
Dr Inge Kersbergen and Dr Laura Fenton will present "Youth drinking in decline: Implications for policy and practice" and we will then open to Q+A and wider discussion.
Dr Inge Kersbergen is an SSA academic fellow in the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on social and environmental influences on health behaviour, particularly alcohol consumption. She holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Liverpool, where she investigated how visual attention to alcohol warning labels and advertising is associated with drinking behaviour. In her postdoctoral work, Inge examined how reductions to the serving size of alcohol and food can be used to decrease alcohol consumption and energy intake. During her fellowship, she is developing this line of work further to investigate how the packaging size of alcohol sold in shops influences drinking behaviour and how we may harness this effect to reduce alcohol consumption.
Dr Laura Fenton is a Research Associate in the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield, where she works on the Wellcome-funded Youth Drinking in Decline project, and in the School of Environment, Education and Development at the University of Manchester, where she is conducting research for the UKRI-funded Austerity and Altered Life-courses project. Laura's previous and current research build on her doctoral work on the changing place of alcohol in the lives of three generations of British women. Her areas of expertise include alcohol, youth, gender, the life course, and biographical methods.
The webinar will be hosted online using Zoom, and registrants will receive a link to join.
Alcohol Occasionals are free to attend and open to all, and our audience is diverse, including academics/researchers, healthcare professionals, policy-makers and members of the public.
Register for free now on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/alcohol-occasionals-youth-drinking-in-decline-tickets-295353388937
