Imagining #Scotland with less booze. Join our
SubstanceUse@gcu team & Good Clean Fun
at the Glasgow Science Festival on 12 June! Booking now open gla.ac.uk/events/science…… #alcohol
Beth Meadows
Dr Karen Maxwell
GCU Research Centre for Health (ReaCH)

Register now for our 3rd Alcohol Occasional seminar!

James Morris & Dr Gemma Mitchell will discuss how the language we choose may help us to reduce alcohol-related harms.

🗓️ Wed 22 May
⏰ 12.45 - 2pm
🌐 Online

bit.ly/4attK0q

Alibi marketing ➡️ promotes regular-strength alcoholic drinks without mentioning the brand name

Surrogate marketing or brand-sharing ➡️ promotes alcohol-free and low-alcohol products that use the core branding of a regular-strength product

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ad…

Open Access - Digital alcohol marketing and gender: A narrative synthesis

Antonia C. Lyons, Kate Kersey, Carol Emslie Elena Dimova Annamae Burrows (She/Her)

University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau Glasgow Caledonian University SubstanceUse@gcu
#alcohol #marketing #gender

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/da…

Catch up on Professor Tim Stockwell's lecture on alcohol and the cardiovascular system.

He discusses the many biases observational studies have and what happens when you control for them.

youtube.com/watch?v=_5o3My…

🚨 NEW JOB POSTING 📢

We are looking to recruit a new Hastings Fellow to join Institute for Social Marketing and Health - UoS at University of Stirling to work on alcohol, vaping, and other commercial determinants of health.

🌐 Advert: stir.ac.uk/9vs

📅 Deadline: 3rd June 2024.

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Last call for this seminar on all things alcohol-free and low-alcohol drinks which is ***Wednesday this week (24th)***

There will be colourful diagrams, graphs and an ostrich.

🗓️ Our next Alcohol Occasional webinar will be taking place on Wednesday between 12.45 and 2pm (online).

💡 Our seminars give an opportunity to hear about, and discuss, new or ongoing research in the alcohol field.

✍️Register here: bit.ly/4aiZ8Oy (by 9am, Wed 24th)

📅 Diary date ⏰

Next week Niamh Fitzgerald will join John Holmes to discuss the public health implications of no- and low-alcohol drinks.

This FREE event is a SHAAP / Scottish Alcohol Research Network (SARN) Occasionals Webinar.

Wed 24th April: 12:45-14:00

Sign up👇

bit.ly/4aiZ8Oy

If you would like to watch the lecture by Professor Stockwell and the discussion afterwards, you can now do so - see our youtube channel IAS RCPEdin

🔗youtube.com/watch?v=_5o3My…

We celebrated yesterday evening with a fascinating lecture from Prof Tim Stockwell.
In collaboration with IAS and RCPEdin Prof Stockwell discussed the misconception that moderate drinking is good for your heart (it's not).

Brilliant lecture and Q&A 🙂

🚨New publication🆕

Editorial by Nathan Critchlow and Niamh Fitzgerald from Institute for Social Marketing and Health - UoS and John Holmes from SARG - SCHARR out now in Addiction Journal.

They disentangle the myriad terms used to describe the marketing of alcohol-free/low-alcohol.

Read more👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ad…

⏰ Just under a week to go until the next SHAAP / SARN Alcohol Occasional seminar!

John Holmes and Niamh Fitzgerald will talk about no- and low-alcohol drinks and their implications for public health.

Register now (for free!) here: bit.ly/4aiZ8Oy

Looking forward to seeing John Holmes and Niamh Fitzgerald talk about no- and low-alcohol drinks and their implications for public health at a free online seminar organised by SHAAP and Scottish Alcohol Research Network (SARN) on 24 April. Find out more and register to attend: bit.ly/3Q8p6wx

Registration is open until 2pm for SHAAP, IAS, RCPE's Public Lecture (tonight 6-7pm) to be delivered by Tim Stockwell.

Join us in person at the RCPE or online.

Register below! 👇

📅 Next Wednesday 17th April is our public lecture from Prof Tim Stockwell. Hosted by ourselves and IAS at RCPEdin
🕕 6-7pm, online and in-person!
🎟️FREE to attend

If you would like to sign up, follow the link below
eventbrite.co.uk/e/health-benef…

Join the discussion with SHAAP, @InstAlcStudand RCPEdin on Wednesday 17 April 6pm, online or at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

To learn more, click here🔽🔽
eventbrite.co.uk/e/health-benef…

Abstract submission for our Annual Conference is extended to Friday 5 April 2024

We are inviting abstracts that encompass a wide range of topics within Scottish drugs research or on broader perspectives of drug use, including research outside of Scotland.

Details below:

🍷Does moderate drinking protect the heart?🫀

On 17 April we will be co-hosting a public lecture by Prof Tim Stockwell on the latest evidence of alcohol's effects on the cardiovascular system - with RCPEdin & SHAAP.

Sign up online or in-person: eventbrite.co.uk/e/health-benef…

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