Interested in the decline in youth drinking? Our Research Comms teams at Leeds have done a concise piece on the work I did on this topic with @soc-researcher.bsky.social and Adam Burgess. See: researchatleeds.leeds.ac.uk/understandin...

We've just published a new briefing note, based on interviews with people with alcohol dependence or in recovery and who are experiencing financial hardship about their views on alcohol pricing policies. We found some interesting things... sarg-sheffield.ac.uk/sarg-briefin...

My new (and first) book, The Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture is out in May with @edinburghup.bsky.social. You can now pre-order which is pretty cool. Even cooler is that you can get 30% off with this flyer/code. Recommend to your university library if you think it will be of interest. 🍷

Between 1840 and 1918, British attitudes towards drink changed dramatically. Life assurance company archives reveal their influence and also offer insights into the lives of ordinary abstainers. Available (at 35% off with code GLR AT8) from Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com/uk/temperanc...

Temperance Lives

This book explains how the rise of temperance life assurance affected ideas surrounding the dangers of drinking and abstinence between 1840 and 1918.James Kneal…

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I can’t envisage a child poverty strategy which garners any credibility without fully scrapping the two-child limit. Unconvinced? Check out (even better share) this summary of the peer-reviewed evidence base @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social largerfamilies.study/publications...

What a beautifully written and breathtakingly honest paper. It's rare to see this level of honesty, reflexivity, and creativity in academia.

The Sociological Review Foundation@thesociologicalreview.org · 9mo ago

Failure hurts. How can the concept of bipolar time help us understand it? @lizziereed.bsky.social @robinskyer.bsky.social reflect on an unsuccessful research project, relentless demands for productivity, and the importance of radical acceptance. #OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/zb4uVL6

Nice to have this out in popNAD. It summarises key ideas around declines in youth drinking that we explore in our book. Worth a read for overview of this body of work! @amypennay.bsky.social @soc-researcher.bsky.social @jholmessheff.bsky.social @capraustralia.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bdzajx8c

Young people, alcohol and risk: A Culture of Caution

A recent book by an international team of authors theorises the social, cultural and economic shifts accompanying the decline in youth alcohol consumption observed in many high-income countries since ...

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"What makes gen Z slightly distinct as a generation is their attitude towards risk." SARG researcher @soc-researcher.bsky.social is quoted in this @theguardian.com article exploring the possible explanations for the recent increase in gen Z's alcohol consumption. #alcoholresearch

Booze up: is gen Z’s ‘sensible’ relationship with alcohol moving towards hedonism?

Reports those born between 1997 and 2012 are ditching clean-living ways don’t tell whole story, say experts

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Another shout out for @milliemaglet.bsky.social brilliant blog, which has been (rightly) getting a lot of love on here. So important to foreground the precarity that shapes the lives of so many, including within academia itself. We feel very lucky to have Millie @changingrealities.bsky.social

Dr Millie Light@milliemaglet.bsky.social · last yr.

As a research associate on a participatory project, lived experience is valued, carefully held, and entangled with our (researchers') own lives. My blog for Big Issue covers precarious work, ill-health, and Labour's cuts. www.bigissue.com/opinion/canc...

We seek a committed & dynamic feminist to join the existing team as a new book review editor @genderandjustice.bsky.social Details: ✳️Deadline 1 August 2025 17:00 CEST ✳️Informal enquiries: admin@lexnetwork.org ✳️Info: www.lexnetwork.org/gender-and-j... @lexnetwork.bsky.social

Earlier this week @soc-researcher.bsky.social @jholmessheff.bsky.social and Shangshang Gu spoke at a national conference about how alcohol consumption patterns are evolving among young people and the specific implications for university students. Read more on the SARG website 👇

SARG researchers share insights into youth and student drinking at national conference - Sheffield Addictions Research Group

Researchers from the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (SARG) recently presented their findings on youth and student drinking trends at the Student Health Association Annual Conference, held from Su...

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📚 Find out more about this new book co-authored by SARG's @jholmessheff.bsky.social and @soc-researcher.bsky.social which explores the complex social, cultural and economic factors driving the significant decline in youth drinking observed in high-income countries since the early 2000s #PublicHealth

SARG researchers co-author new book exploring 'culture of caution' in youth drinking decline - Sheffield Addictions Research Group

A new book by an international team of experts, including researchers from the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (SARG), unpacks the complex social, cultural and economic factors driving the decline...

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It's the last day of #KBS2025 and SARG's @abi-stevely.bsky.social & @soc-researcher.bsky.social are speaking this morning. Find out more about Laura's @alcoholchangeuk.bsky.social funded project co-led with @melissaoldham.bsky.social which explores young people's consumption of no/lo drinks 👇

Young people's consumption of no/low alcohol drinks in family settings - Sheffield Addictions Research Group

This project explores young people's consumption of no/low alcohol drinks in Great Britain, focusing on family settings. Using surveys and interviews, it will investigate adult perceptions, consumptio...

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Registration is closing soon for the BSA ECR event Beyond the ‘archival turn’: Making and using sociological archives, being held at the University of Leicester on 30th June. All are welcome to register. Registration is open until this Friday 13th June. www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

I'm very excited that my first book, Borders, Citizenship, & Pregnancy, will be coming out this month, published by @brisunipress.bsky.social. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/borders-citi...

Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy

Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy - Migrant Women’s Experiences of Pregnancy and Maternity Care in the UK; Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How do immigration policies shap...

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Registration is now open for this BSA event on making and using sociological archives with contributions from a range of established and emerging researchers as well as archives. Includes a workshop led by Rachel Thomson on creative repurposing of qualitative data. Book your place by 13th June.

Laura Fenton@soc-researcher.bsky.social · last yr.

**Save the date** Beyond the archival turn: Making & using sociological archives. 30 June, Leicester. tinyurl.com/3fuducmm. Exploring the rich archival resources that exist within sociology and how creative methods can be used to make the past anew and help us to imagine different kinds of futures.

A new book explores why young people in high-income countries are drinking less, linking the decline to growing health consciousness, closer parental relationships, and a broader culture of caution. In our latest blog, the authors discuss the findings. www.ias.org.uk/2025/05/28/y...

Young People, Alcohol and Risk: A Culture of Caution - Institute of Alcohol Studies

A new book explores why young people in high-income countries are drinking less, linking the decline to growing health consciousness, closer parental relationships, and a broader culture of caution. I...

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www.theguardian.com/society/2025... They'll tell you about benefits to the local economy..... but....... Slot machine firms target UK’s poorest areas and channel funds to billionaires

Slot machine firms target UK’s poorest areas and channel funds to billionaires

Exclusive: Politicians including Andy Burnham call for councils to be given powers to stop new sites opening

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Registration is now open for this BSA event on making and using sociological archives with contributions from a range of established and emerging researchers as well as archives. Includes a workshop led by Rachel Thomson on creative repurposing of qualitative data. Book your place by 13th June.

Laura Fenton@soc-researcher.bsky.social · last yr.

**Save the date** Beyond the archival turn: Making & using sociological archives. 30 June, Leicester. tinyurl.com/3fuducmm. Exploring the rich archival resources that exist within sociology and how creative methods can be used to make the past anew and help us to imagine different kinds of futures.

Advertising new @unistrathclyde.bsky.social PhD studentship (covers fees + stipend), as part of new ESRC Centre @equalise.bsky.social. We've kept the application as broad as possible as we're keen to support someone to undertake research that they have designed: www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/... 1/2

The SNP have drawn media attention towards the @changingrealities.bsky.social report by #CASE's @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social which found that the UK Government could lift 700,000 children out of poverty by following Scotland's approach. www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...

New analysis shows 700,000 children could be lifted out of poverty overnight by following Scotland

New analysis shows 700,000 children could be lifted out of poverty overnight by following Scotland

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This is going to be a great event- 30 June- early and later career sociologists and community archivists explore working with marginalised voices and experiences held in archives to challenge, shape or disrupt public discourse. www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

**Save the date** Beyond the archival turn: Making & using sociological archives. 30 June, Leicester. tinyurl.com/3fuducmm. Exploring the rich archival resources that exist within sociology and how creative methods can be used to make the past anew and help us to imagine different kinds of futures.

We've been busy getting this new project up and running! Looking forward to working with Lucy Burke & Samantha Wilkinson on the ethnographic components, & @melissaoldham.bsky.social, Inge Kersbergen, @jholmessheff.bsky.social, & @jamiebrown.bsky.social on the integration of qual & quant findings

SARG - SCHARR@sarg-scharr.bsky.social · last yr.

As we continue to expand our research into the consumption of alcohol-free and low-alcohol drinks, here are details of a new project focusing on young people. It's funded by @alcoholchangeuk.bsky.social and led by @soc-researcher.bsky.social and @melissaoldham.bsky.social #alcohol #publichealth

This past year, we've been working closely with 3 ace community partners to co-create anti-poverty strategies in Manchester. Our framework for how to work together & toolkit for policy-makers are now on our website: www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr... Please use and share widely!

The @cfyounglives.bsky.social Play Commission publishes its interim report today, making the case for more play in more spaces for all children and calling for a national play strategy and a play sufficiency duty. So good to see play on the agenda. www.centreforyounglives.org.uk/news-centre/...

Inquiry Report Calls On The Government To Restore School Playtime Amid Warning That Play Is Being Squeezed Out Of Children’s Lives — Play Commission

The Raising the Nation Play Commission, a year-long independent inquiry into why play is critical to the wellbeing of children in England, publishes its Interim Report, ‘State of Play’. The Commission...

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SARG's Laura Fenton @soc-researcher.bsky.social was quoted in a Times article last week about young people drinking less alcohol than their parents. Laura was heavily involved in our @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded 'Youth Drinking in Decline' project which looked at these trends in depth 👇

Youth Drinking in Decline - Sheffield Addictions Research Group

The Youth Drinking In Decline (Y-DID) project aimed to provide the most detailed analysis to date of the nature and drivers of recent reductions in alcohol use among 11-24 year-olds in England.

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Growing Up and Going Out is released with @manchesterup.bsky.social TODAY! If you're interested in histories of youth, leisure, drinking, urban space, and oral history then please do consider ordering a copy for your libraries. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526152640/

Manchester University Press - Growing up and going out

Growing up and going out - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Growing up and going out by Sarah Kenny

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Austerity policies have a huge impact on young adults in Europe, including their sense of the future. Adopting a life-course perspective, we explore how place-based experiences of austerity shape temporalities and normative ideas of life transitions, introducing the concept of 'foreclosed futures'.

Austerity + Altered Life-Courses@austerityalters.bsky.social · last yr.

We've a new paper out today on Austere Life-Courses and Foreclosed Futures in @dialogueshg.bsky.social. Read for free here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...