Key note address at a major housing conference
Professor Paul Hickman delivered the keynote address at the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations’ Housing Management Conference 2019, which was held on September 24th-25th in Glasgow. It presented the key findings to emerge from a study he undertook with Ben Pattison (CRESR) and Jenny Preece (University of Sheffield) on the impact of welfare reforms on housing associations. The study was undertaken as part of the programme of work of the ESRC/ AHRC/ JRF funded, UK Centre for Collaborative Housing Evidence.
Please see here for more information about the study and its findings.
CeBSAP Seminar Series 2019-2020
- Wednesday 16 October 2019, 4.30 pm- 5.30 pm
- Colleagiate Campus, HC.0.29 (Enter by: Heart of the Campus Building, Sheffield S10 2BQ)
Dry January: Are there any long-term benefits of temporary alcohol abstinence?
Professor Matt Field, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield
Professor Field’s research examines the psychological mechanisms that underlie alcohol problems and other addictions. He is particularly interested in the roles of decision-making and impulse control in addiction, recovery, and behaviour change more broadly. His research has been funded by the MRC, ESRC, Wellcome Trust and Alcohol Research UK. We are very pleased that Professor Field has agreed to present at the CeBSAP seminar series and you are warmly invited to attend this seminar. We will have drinks and informal discussion afterwards so please stay for this too if you can.
Presenter’s Abstract:
Temporary alcohol abstinence campaigns such as ‘Dry January’ are increasingly popular. Although heavy drinkers will undoubtedly experience short-term health benefits if they take a month off drinking, the longer-term consequences are uncertain. Taking part in Dry January may enable heavy drinkers to ‘reset their relationship with alcohol’ (as advocated by Alcohol Change UK), whereas a more cynical view is that it may distract heavy drinkers from attempting to reduce their drinking in the longer-term. I will discuss evidence from observational studies that suggests that temporary abstinence from alcohol helps people to reduce their drinking in the longer-term, and I will explain why these findings are difficult to interpret. I will then consider the psychological mechanisms of action that might underlie enduring behaviour change after temporary alcohol abstinence. Finally, I will present preliminary work that aims to definitively answer this question by conducting a randomised controlled trial.
*Please let us know if you would like to attend so that we can gauge numbers lisa.staniforth@shu.ac.uk
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