Professor John Holmes
PhD, MA, BA (Hons) (York)
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Professor of Alcohol Policy
Director of the Sheffield Addictions Research Group
Lead Director of the Wellcome Doctoral Training Centre in Public Health Economics and Decision Science
Co-Director of the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Addictions.
john.holmes@sheffield.ac.uk
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Professor John Holmes
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
G033b
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
G033b
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
- Profile
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I am a Professor of Alcohol Policy and Director of the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (SARG). SARG is a multidisciplinary team of around 25 researchers and doctoral students who do public health, health economic and health psychology research on alcohol, tobacco and nicotine, gambling, and addiction more generally. As Director, I lead a wide range of research projects, and particularly focus on epidemiological and policy research related to alcohol and public health.
I am also the Lead Director of the Wellcome Doctoral Training Centre in Public Health Economics and Decisions Science (PHEDS) and co-Director of the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Addictions.
My background is in social policy and applied social science. I completed by Bachelors, Masters and PhD at the University of York. My doctoral thesis explored inequalities, risks and opportunities associated with young people's use of the internet in the mid-2000s, with a particular focus on online communication. During and after my PhD, I also undertook research on the determinants of child poverty and development. I joined ScHARR in 2010 as a Research Fellow within SARG and I took over as Director of the group in 2020.
- Qualifications
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BA (hons) in Applied Social Science, University of York
MA in Social Policy, University of York
PhD in Social Policy, University of York
- Research interests
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My research focuses on patterns, trends and inequalities in alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harm, as well as using evaluation methods and mathematical modelling to analyse and appraise alcohol policies. I also contribute to qualitative research studies in related areas.
My recent studies focus on the rise of alcohol-free and low-alcohol drinks, the sharp decline in youth drinking across high-income countries, event-level analysis of drinking practices and contexts, and the evaluation of major alcohol policies including minimum unit pricing in Scotland and reforms to UK alcohol taxation. Much of my past work focuses on the development of the Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model and its use to inform alcohol policy debate in the UK and internationally, particularly around alcohol taxation and minimum unit pricing. I am also interested in analyses of the clustering of health-related behaviours within individuals, analyses of alcohol-related health risks, critical perspective on alcohol and public health, and processes of alcohol policy-making.
- Publications
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- The decline in youth drinking in England – is everyone drinking less? A quantile regression analysis. Addiction. View this article in WRRO
- The collectivity of British alcohol consumption trends across different temporal processes : a quantile age‐period‐cohort analysis. Addiction. View this article in WRRO
- How should we set consumption thresholds for low risk drinking guidelines? Achieving objectivity and transparency using evidence, expert judgement and pragmatism. Addiction. View this article in WRRO
- Researching the decline in adolescent drinking: The need for a global and generational approach. Drug and Alcohol Review. View this article in WRRO
- All drinking is not equal: how a social practice theory lens could enhance public health research on alcohol and other health behaviours. Addiction, 113(2), 206-213. View this article in WRRO
- Developing a social practice-based typology of British drinking culture in 2009–2011: implications for alcohol policy analysis. Addiction, 111(9), 1568-1579. View this article in WRRO
- Estimated Effects of Different Alcohol Taxation and Price Policies on Health Inequalities: A Mathematical Modelling Study. PLOS Medicine, 13(2), e1001963-e1001963. View this article in WRRO
- Lay epidemiology and the interpretation of low-risk drinking guidelines by adults in the United Kingdom. Addiction, 110(12), 1912-1919. View this article in WRRO
- The impact of spatial and temporal availability of alcohol on its consumption and related harms: A critical review in the context of UK licensing policies. Drug and Alcohol Review, 33(5), 515-525. View this article in WRRO
- Effects of minimum unit pricing for alcohol on different income and socioeconomic groups: a modelling study.. Lancet, 383(9929), 1655-1664. View this article in WRRO
All publications
- Edited books
- Journal articles
- Chapters
- Conference proceedings papers
- Reports
- Scholarly editions
- Posters
- Preprints
Edited books
- What Determines Harm from Addictive Substances and Behaviours?. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Journal articles
- Paying the price: Financial hardship and its association with psychological distress among different population groups in the midst of Great Britain’s cost-of-living crisis. Social Science & Medicine, 117561-117561.
- Optimizing the measurement of information on the context of alcohol consumption within the Drink Less app among people drinking at increasing and higher risk levels: mixed-methods usability study. JMIR Formative Research, 8. View this article in WRRO
- Trends in alcohol expenditure among risky drinkers: A population study in England, 2014–2023. International Journal of Drug Policy, 133, 104615-104615.
- Estimating the effect of transitioning to a strength-based alcohol tax system on alcohol consumption and health outcomes: a modelling study of tax reform in England. The Lancet Public Health. View this article in WRRO
- Cutting consumption without diluting the experience: preferences for different tactics for reducing alcohol consumption among increasing-and-higher-risk drinkers based on drinking context. PLOS Digital Health, 3(8). View this article in WRRO
- Characteristics of consumers of alcohol-free and low-alcohol drinks in Great Britain: A cross-sectional study.. Drug Alcohol Rev.
- A latent class analysis of international change and continuity in adolescent health and wellbeing: a repeat cross-sectional study. PLoS ONE, 19(6). View this article in WRRO
- Solitary drinkers in Great Britain: How do their sociodemographic characteristics, consumption patterns, and drinking occasions differ from those who drink with others?. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. View this article in WRRO
- Have declines in the prevalence of young adult drinking in English-speaking high-income countries followed declines in youth drinking? A systematic review. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy. View this article in WRRO
- How is alcohol consumption and heavy episodic drinking spread across different types of drinking occasion in Great Britain: An event-level latent class analysis. International Journal of Drug Policy, 127, 104414-104414.
- Alibi marketing? Surrogate marketing? Brand sharing? What is the correct terminology to discuss marketing for alcohol-free and low-alcohol products which share branding with regular strength alcohol products?. Addiction.
- Trends in purchasing cross-border, illicit and home-brewed alcohol: A population study in Great Britain, 2020-2023.. Drug Alcohol Rev.
- Longitudinal clustering of health behaviours and their association with multimorbidity in older adults in England: a latent class analysis. PLoS ONE, 19(1). View this article in WRRO
- Change and stability in british drinking practices and culture between 2009 and 2019: A longitudinal latent class analysis of drinking occasions.. SSM - Population Health, 101548-101548.
- Longitudinal clustering of risk behaviours and their association with multimorbidity in older adults. European journal of public health, 33(Suppl 2).
- A latent class analysis of change and continuity in adolescent health and wellbeing in England during the decline in youth alcohol consumption: a repeat cross-sectional study. Preventive Medicine Reports. View this article in WRRO
- When should we conduct large‐scale evaluations?. Addiction, 118(9), 1622-1623.
- Evaluating the effects of minimum unit pricing in Scotland on the prevalence of harmful drinking: a controlled interrupted time series analysis. Public Health, 220, 43-49.
- The contribution of health behaviour to socioeconomic inequalities in alcohol harm: analysis of the UK biobank, a large cohort study with linked health outcomes. SSM - Population Health, 23.
- ‘When I came to university, that’s when the real shift came’: alcohol and belonging in English higher education. Journal of Youth Studies.
- Young people’s explanations for the decline in youth drinking in England. BMC Public Health, 23.
- Situated drinking: the association between eating and alcohol consumption in Great Britain. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
- ‘90 per cent of the time when I have had a drink in my hand I’m on my phone as well’: a cross-national analysis of communications technologies and drinking practices among young people. New Media & Society.
- The distribution of alcohol consumption and heavy episodic drinking across British drinking occasions in 2019: a cross-sectional, latent, class analysis of event-level drinking diary data.. Lancet, 400 Suppl 1, S50.
- Understanding changes in the locations of drinking occasions in Great Britain: an age‐period‐cohort analysis of repeat cross‐sectional market research data, 2001–2019. Drug and Alcohol Review.
- The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on addictive disorders—an update. Addiction.
- “There’s a lot of stereotypes going on”: A cross-national qualitative analysis of the place of gender in declining youth drinking. International Journal of Drug Policy, 108.
- Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency: Evidence from a British online market research survey. Social Science & Medicine, 115280-115280.
- Response to commentaries : (de)normalization of drinking and its implications for young people, sociality, culture and epidemiology. Addiction.
- Youth drinking in decline : what are the implications for public health, public policy and public debate?. International Journal of Drug Policy, 102.
- An examination of the role of changes in country-level leisure time internet use and computer gaming on adolescent drinking in 33 European countries. International Journal of Drug Policy, 100. View this article in WRRO
- Declining youth drinking : a matter of faith?. Drug and Alcohol Review.
- Concurrent validity of an estimator of weekly alcohol consumption (EWAC) based on the extended AUDIT. Addiction. View this article in WRRO
- Has the increased participation in the national campaign ‘Dry January’ been associated with cutting down alcohol consumption in England?. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 227. View this article in WRRO
- Declining drinking among adolescents : are we seeing a denormalisation of drinking and a normalisation of non‐drinking?. Addiction.
- Causal mechanisms proposed for the Alcohol Harm Paradox - A Systematic Review.. Addiction (Abingdon, England).
- Alcohol policy and gender : a modelling study estimating gender‐specific effects of alcohol pricing policies. Addiction.
- Clustering of health-related behaviours within children aged 11–16: a systematic review. BMC Public Health, 21(1). View this article in WRRO
- Does the UK-public's aversion to inequalities in health differ by group-labelling and health-gain type? A choice-experiment.. Social Science & Medicine.
- The impact of promoting revised UK low-risk drinking guidelines on alcohol consumption: interrupted time series analysis. Public Health Research, 8(14). View this article in WRRO
- Effects on alcohol consumption of announcing and implementing revised UK low-risk drinking guidelines : findings from an interrupted time series analysis. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. View this article in WRRO
- Perceptions of alcohol health warning labels in a large international cross-sectional survey of people who drink alcohol. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 55(3), 315-322. View this article in WRRO
- Mitigating and learning from the impact of COVID‐19 infection on addictive disorders. Addiction. View this article in WRRO
- Assessing the contribution of alcohol-specific causes to socio-economic inequalities in mortality in England and Wales 2001-16. Addiction. View this article in WRRO
- The problem with good news: How should public health actors respond when alcohol consumption declines?. Addiction. View this article in WRRO
- Drinking contexts and their association with acute alcohol‐related harm : a systematic review of event‐level studies on adults' drinking occasions. Drug and Alcohol Review. View this article in WRRO
- Trends in the sequence of first alcohol, cannabis and cigarette use in Australia, 2001–2016. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 207. View this article in WRRO
- Benefits of temporary alcohol restriction: a feasibility randomized trial. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 6. View this article in WRRO
- Reweighting national survey data for small area behaviour estimates : modelling alcohol consumption in local authorities in England. Population Health Metrics, 18(1). View this article in WRRO
- Supranational changes in drinking patterns: factors in explanatory models of substantial and parallel social change. Addiction Research & Theory. View this article in WRRO
- The SIPHER consortium : introducing the new UK hub for systems science in public health and health economic research. Wellcome Open Research, 4. View this article in WRRO
- Contextual characteristics of adults’ drinking occasions and their association with levels of alcohol consumption and acute alcohol‐related harm : a mapping review. Addiction. View this article in WRRO
- How averse are the UK general-public to inequalities in health between socioeconomic groups? A systematic review. The European Journal of Health Economics. View this article in WRRO
- The decline in youth drinking in England – is everyone drinking less? A quantile regression analysis. Addiction. View this article in WRRO
- Why is adolescent drinking declining? A systematic review and narrative synthesis. Addiction Research & Theory. View this article in WRRO
- OP87 A comprehensive evaluation of the impact of recent english tobacco control policy using secondary data. Oral Presentations.
- The collectivity of British alcohol consumption trends across different temporal processes : a quantile age‐period‐cohort analysis. Addiction. View this article in WRRO
- Long waves of consumption or a unique social generation? Exploring recent declines in youth drinking. Addiction Research & Theory. View this article in WRRO
- Comparing alcohol taxation across the European Union. Addiction. View this article in WRRO
- Drinking guidelines and the need for evidence beyond the epidemiological. Addiction, 114(4), 607-608.
- The allure, and challenges, of complexity in epidemiological modelling of alcohol harm: Commentary on Rehm. Drug and Alcohol Review. View this article in WRRO
- Estimating the public health impact of disbanding a government alcohol monopoly: application of new methods to the case of Sweden. BMC Public Health, 18(1). View this article in WRRO
- Awareness of alcohol as a risk factor for cancer is associated with public support for alcohol policies. BMC Public Health, 18(1). View this article in WRRO
- Exposure to revised drinking guidelines and ‘COM-B’ determinants of behaviour change: descriptive analysis of a monthly cross-sectional survey in England. BMC Public Health, 18(1), 251-251. View this article in WRRO
- How dependent is the alcohol industry on heavy drinking in England?. Addiction, 113(12), 2225-2232. View this article in WRRO
- Patterns in reduction or cessation of drinking in Australia (2001-2013) and motivation for change. Alcohol and Alcoholism. View this article in WRRO
- Alcohol outlet density and alcohol related hospital admissions in England: a national small-area level ecological study. Addiction, 113(11), 2051-2059. View this article in WRRO
- How should we set consumption thresholds for low risk drinking guidelines? Achieving objectivity and transparency using evidence, expert judgement and pragmatism. Addiction. View this article in WRRO
- The International Alcohol Control Study: Methodology and implementation. Drug and Alcohol Review, 37(S2), S10-S17. View this article in WRRO
- Socio-economic disadvantage is associated with heavier drinking in high but not middle-income countries participating in the International Alcohol Control Study. Drug and Alcohol Review, 37, S63-S71. View this article in WRRO
- Introduction to a new series on case studies on the addiction policy process. Addiction, 113(8), 1381-1381. View this article in WRRO
- Liver disease mortality trends: a response to the editor. The Lancet, 391(10127), 1258-1259.
- Researching the decline in adolescent drinking: The need for a global and generational approach. Drug and Alcohol Review. View this article in WRRO
- Social practice theory and the study of how we drink. Addiction, 113(2), 217-219.
- Scotland's policy on minimum unit pricing for alcohol: the legal barriers are gone, so what are the implications for implementation and evaluation?. Addiction, 113(2), 203-204.
- Commentary on Apostolopoulos et al
. (2018): Systems and complex systems approaches for public health planning-back to the future?. Addiction, 113(2), 372-373.
- Self-Reported Knowledge, Correct Knowledge and use of UK Drinking Guidelines Among a Representative Sample of the English Population. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 53(4), 453-460. View this article in WRRO
- All drinking is not equal: how a social practice theory lens could enhance public health research on alcohol and other health behaviours. Addiction, 113(2), 206-213. View this article in WRRO
- Alcohol consumption and the physical availability of take-away alcohol: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of the days and hours of sale and outlet density. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 79(1), 58-67. View this article in WRRO
- New national alcohol guidelines in the UK: public awareness, understanding and behavioural intentions. Journal of Public Health, 40(3), 549-556. View this article in WRRO
- A welcome measure. New Scientist, 236(3153), 24-24. View this article in WRRO
- Minimum unit pricing for alcohol clears final legal hurdle in Scotland.. BMJ, 359. View this article in WRRO
- On risk in addiction science, policy and debate. Addiction. View this article in WRRO
- Processes of local alcohol policy-making in England: Does the theory of policy transfer provide useful insights into public health decision-making?. Health & Place. View this article in WRRO
- Digital phenotyping and sociological perspectives in a Brave New World. Addiction, 112(7), 1286-1289. View this article in WRRO
- Mapping Patterns and Trends in the Spatial Availability of Alcohol Using Low-Level Geographic Data: A Case Study in England 2003–2013. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 4. View this article in WRRO
- Understanding the alcohol harm paradox: an analysis of sex- and condition-specific hospital admissions by socioeconomic group for alcohol-associated conditions in England.. Addiction, 112(5), 808-817. View this article in WRRO
- Interdisciplinary working in public health research: a proposed good practice checklist. Journal of Public Health. View this article in WRRO
- Public attitudes towards alcohol control policies in Scotland and England: Results from a mixed-methods study. Social Science & Medicine, 177, 177-189. View this article in WRRO
- A Response to Two Papers Critiquing the Total Consumption Model by Kari Poikolainen. Alcohol And Alcoholism, 52(2), 264-265. View this article in WRRO
- Proceedings of the 14th annual conference of INEBRIA. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 12(S1). View this article in WRRO
- Investigation of the Association Between Alcohol Outlet Density and Alcohol-Related Hospital Admission Rates in England: Study Protocol.. JMIR Research Protocols, 5(4), e243-e243. View this article in WRRO
- Short-term effects of announcing revised lower risk national drinking guidelines on related awareness and knowledge: A trend analysis of monthly survey data in England.. BMJ Open, 6. View this article in WRRO
- Public awareness of the link between alcohol and cancer in England in 2015: a population-based survey. BMC Public Health, 16. View this article in WRRO
- Deconstructing the Alcohol Harm Paradox: A Population Based Survey of Adults in England.. PLoS One, 11(9), e0160666-e0160666. View this article in WRRO
- Developing a social practice-based typology of British drinking culture in 2009–2011: implications for alcohol policy analysis. Addiction, 111(9), 1568-1579. View this article in WRRO
- Are recent attempts to quit smoking associated with reduced drinking in England? A cross-sectional population survey. BMC Public Health, 16:535. View this article in WRRO
- Estimated Effects of Different Alcohol Taxation and Price Policies on Health Inequalities: A Mathematical Modelling Study. PLOS Medicine, 13(2), e1001963-e1001963. View this article in WRRO
- Comparison of brief interventions in primary care on smoking and excessive alcohol consumption: a population survey in England. British Journal of General Practice, 66(642), e1-e9. View this article in WRRO
- Are alcohol outlet densities strongly associated with alcohol-related outcomes? A critical review of recent evidence. Drug and Alcohol Review, 35(1), 40-54.
- We have to become more specific: A reply to Morrisonet al.. Drug and Alcohol Review, 35(1), 58-60.
- Lay epidemiology and the interpretation of low-risk drinking guidelines by adults in the United Kingdom. Addiction, 110(12), 1912-1919. View this article in WRRO
- Commentary on Hobdayet al.(2015): Inconsistent results beneath consistent conclusions-the need for a new approach to analysing alcohol availability. Addiction, 110(12), 1910-1911. View this article in WRRO
- The Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model - A Mathematical Description. Health Economics, 24(10), 1368-1388. View this article in WRRO
- Report: Parental Smoking and Child Poverty in the UK: An Analysis of National Survey Data. Children and Young People Now, 2015(13), 28-28.
- Parental smoking and child poverty in the UK: an analysis of national survey data. BMC Public Health, 15(1). View this article in WRRO
- Protocol for a national monthly survey of alcohol use in England with 6-month follow-up: ‘The Alcohol Toolkit Study’. BMC Public Health, 15(1). View this article in WRRO
- Alcohol tax pass-through across the product and price range: do retailers treat cheap alcohol differently?. Addiction, 109(12), 1994-2002. View this article in WRRO
- Investigating local policy drivers for alcohol harm prevention: a comparative case study of two local authorities in England. The Lancet, 384, S52-S52.
- Reporting the characteristics of the policy context for population-level alcohol interventions: A proposed ‘Transparent Reporting of Alcohol Intervention ContExts’ (TRAICE) checklist. Drug and Alcohol Review, 33(6), 596-603. View this article in WRRO
- Potential benefits of minimum unit pricing for alcohol versus a ban on below cost selling in England 2014: modelling study. BMJ, 349. View this article in WRRO
- The impact of spatial and temporal availability of alcohol on its consumption and related harms: A critical review in the context of UK licensing policies. Drug and Alcohol Review, 33(5), 515-525. View this article in WRRO
- Effects of minimum unit pricing for alcohol on different income and socioeconomic groups: a modelling study.. Lancet, 383(9929), 1655-1664. View this article in WRRO
- Commentary on Nakamura et al. (2014): Alcohol policy appraisal and evaluation-to understand what is happening and why, we need better data on alcohol as a commodity.. Addiction, 109(4), 568-569.
- Estimation of own and cross price elasticities of alcohol demand in the UK--A pseudo-panel approach using the Living Costs and Food Survey 2001-2009.. J Health Econ, 34, 96-103. View this article in WRRO
- Trend analysis and modelling of gender-specific age, period and birth cohort effects on alcohol abstention and consumption level for drinkers in Great Britain using the General Lifestyle Survey 1984-2009.. Addiction, 109(2), 206-215. View this article in WRRO
- Effects of minimum unit pricing for alcohol on different income and socioeconomic groups: a modelling study (vol 383, pg 1655, 2014). LANCET, 383(9929), 1636-1636.
- Erratum: Effects of minimum unit pricing for alcohol on different income and socioeconomic groups: A modelling study (The Lancet (2014) 383 (1655-1664)). The Lancet, 383(9929), 1636.
- GENDER DIFFERENCES IN ALCOHOL DEMAND: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE ROLE OF PRICES AND TAXES. COMMENT ON CONCLUSIONS BY NELSON. Health Economics, 23(10), 1281-1283.
- Estimation of usual occasion-based individual drinking patterns using diary survey data.. Drug Alcohol Depend, 134, 136-143.
- Reply to Klaus Makela's Cost-of-alcohol studies as a research programme. NORDIC STUDIES ON ALCOHOL AND DRUGS, 30(5), 445-447.
- Adjusting for unrecorded consumption in survey and per capita sales data: quantification of impact on gender- and age-specific alcohol-attributable fractions for oral and pharyngeal cancers in Great Britain.. Alcohol Alcohol, 48(2), 241-249. View this article in WRRO
- Persistent poverty and children's development in the early years of childhood. Policy and politics, 41(1), 19-42.
- An analysis of equity in redistribution to the retired and children over recent decades in the OECD and UK. Journal of Social Policy, 42(1), 39-56.
- Delirium within the emergency care setting, occurrence and detection: a systematic review. Emergency Medicine Journal, 30(4), 263-268.
- Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation for Acute Respiratory Failure in Delirious Patients: Understudied, Underreported, or Underappreciated? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Lung, 190(6), 597-603.
- Severe delirium on a background of Alzheimer's dementia – A devastating acute illness; report of a case. Journal of Acute Disease, 1(2), 144-145.
- The temporal relationship between per capita alcohol consumption and harm: A systematic review of time lag specifications in aggregate time series analyses. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 123(1-3), 7-14. View this article in WRRO
- Cyberkids or divided generations? characterising young people's internet use in the UK with generic, continuum or typological models. New Media and Society, 13(7), 1104-1122.
- Long-term prescribing of antidepressants in the older population: a qualitative study. British Journal of General Practice, 60(573), e144-e155.
- Myths and Missed Opportunities: Young people's not so risky use of online communication. Information, Communication and Society, 12(8), 1174-1196.
- Delirium: A clarion call. International Review of Psychiatry, 21(1), 4-7.
- Dazed and confused: making sense of delirium after hip fracture. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 23(9), 984-986.
- Occurrence and outcome of delirium in medical in-patients: a systematic literature review. Age and Ageing, 35(4), 350-364.
- Old age medical patients screening positive for depression. Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, 22(4), 124-127.
- A UK survey of psychiatric services for older people in general hospitals. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 18(8), 716-721.
- A new opportunity: three tales of training in liaison psychiatry of old age. Psychiatric Bulletin, 26(11), 433-435.
- Psychiatric illness in hip fracture. Age and Ageing, 29(6), 537-546.
- Psychiatric illness predicts poor outcome after surgery for hip fracture: a prospective cohort study. Psychological Medicine, 30(4), 921-929.
- Drinking practices: The variation of drinking events across intersections of sex, age and household income. Drug and Alcohol Review.
- The impact of Scotland's minimum unit pricing for alcohol policy on people accessing services for alcohol dependence: A difference‐in‐difference structured interview study. Drug and Alcohol Review.
- Expanding our understanding of long‐term trends in alcohol abstention and consumption in England (2001–19) using two age–period–cohort approaches. Addiction.
- How can agent‐based modelling provide new insights into the impact of minimum unit pricing in Scotland?. Drug and Alcohol Review.
- Where do high‐risk drinking occasions occur more often? A cross‐sectional, cross‐country study. Drug and Alcohol Review.
- The unacceptability of evidence on acceptable risks. Addiction.
- Expected and actual responses to minimum unit pricing (MUP) for alcohol of people drinking at harmful levels in Scotland. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 1-10.
- Geographies of alcohol and generation: Examining the decline in youth drinking in England through a spatial lens. Drug and Alcohol Review.
- Views on minimum unit pricing for alcohol before its introduction among people with alcohol dependence in Scotland: A qualitative interview study. Drug and Alcohol Review.
- Is minimum unit pricing for alcohol having the intended effects on alcohol consumption in Scotland?. Addiction.
- The public-private decision for alcohol retail systems: Examining the economic, health, and social impacts of alternative systems in Finland. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 145507252311603-145507252311603.
- Temporary abstinence challenges: What do we need to know?. Drug and Alcohol Review.
- Trends in Public Awareness and Knowledge of Drinking Guidelines: a Representative Population Survey in England, 2016–2022. Alcohol and Alcoholism.
- A 2.8 Å Structure of Zoliflodacin in a DNA Cleavage Complex with Staphylococcus aureus DNA Gyrase. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 24(2), 1634-1634.
- Effectiveness of subnational implementation of minimum unit price for alcohol: policy appraisal modelling for local authorities in England. Addiction.
- Print and online textual news media coverage of
UK low‐risk drinking guidelines from 2014 to 2017: A review and thematic analysis. Drug and Alcohol Review.
- The impact of changes in COVID‐19 lockdown restrictions on alcohol consumption and drinking occasion characteristics in Scotland and England in 2020: an interrupted time‐series analysis. Addiction.
- OUP accepted manuscript. European Journal Of Public Health. View this article in WRRO
- Beyond Behaviour: How Health Inequality Theory Can Enhance Our Understanding of the ‘Alcohol-Harm Paradox’. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(11), 6025-6025.
- Alcohol deaths rise sharply in England and Wales. BMJ, n607-n607.
- UK alcohol industry’s “billion units pledge”: interim evaluation flawed. BMJ, h1301-h1301. View this article in WRRO
- Evaluating the effects of the Licensing Act 2003 on the characteristics of drinking occasions in England & Wales: A theory of change‐guided evaluation of a natural experiment. Addiction.
- Do dual purchasers behave differently? An analysis of purchasing data for households that buy both alcohol and tobacco in the United Kingdom. Addiction.
- Trends in the psychosocial characteristics of 11-15 year olds who still drink, smoke, take drugs and engage in poly-substance use in England.. Drug and Alcohol Review.
- Combinations of drinking occasion characteristics associated with units of alcohol consumed among British adults: An event-level decision tree modelling study. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.
- Potential effects of minimum unit pricing at local authority level on alcohol-attributed harms in North West and North East England: a modelling study. Public Health Research, 9(4), 1-106.
- What proportion of on-trade alcohol is served to those who are already potentially intoxicated? An analysis of event-level data. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
- Commentary on Robinson
et al
. (2021): England needs minimum pricing to tackles alcohol's hidden harms ‐ Scotland's experience shows minimum unit pricing (MUP) on off‐trade alcohol sales is effective. Addiction.
- Exploring the implementation of public involvement in local alcohol availability policy: the case of alcohol licensing decision-making in England. Addiction.
Chapters
- Unmarried families in the UK and the US, Handbook on Demographic Change and the Lifecourse (pp. 122-140). Edward Elgar Publishing
- Methods, What Determines Harm from Addictive Substances and Behaviours? (pp. 19-34). Oxford University Press
- Introduction, What Determines Harm from Addictive Substances and Behaviours? (pp. 1-18). Oxford University Press
- Discussion and integration of key findings, What Determines Harm from Addictive Substances and Behaviours? (pp. 157-186). Oxford University Press
- Determinants of transitions from harmful to low-risk substance use and gambling, What Determines Harm from Addictive Substances and Behaviours? (pp. 113-156). Oxford University Press
- Determinants of harmful substance use and harmful gambling, What Determines Harm from Addictive Substances and Behaviours? (pp. 77-112). Oxford University Press
- Determinants of risky substance use and risky gambling, What Determines Harm from Addictive Substances and Behaviours? (pp. 35-76). Oxford University Press
- Implications for research, policy, and practice, What Determines Harm from Addictive Substances and Behaviours? (pp. 187-196). Oxford University Press
- Child poverty in the first five years of life, Children of the 21st century (Volume 2)The first five years (pp. 12-28). Policy Press
- Child poverty in the first five years of life In Hansen K, Joshi H & Dex S (Ed.), Children of the 21st Century: First Five Years v. 2 (pp. 13-32). Bristol: Policy Press.
- Child Poverty and Social Exclusion in South Africa In Roberts B, Kivilu MW & Davids YD (Ed.), South African Social Attitudes: 2nd Report: Reflections on the Age of Hope HSRC Press
- Interventions for treating anxiety after stroke John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
- Interventions for preventing delirium in hospitalised patients John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
- Interventions for preventing delirium in hospitalised patients John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Conference proceedings papers
- OP54 Change and stability in British adults’ drinking practices and culture between 2009 and 2019: A longitudinal latent class analysis. SSM Annual Scientific Meeting
- Understanding what strategies Dry January participants use to temporarily abstain from alcohol. ADDICTION SCIENCE & CLINICAL PRACTICE, Vol. 18(SUPPL 1)
- Effects on alcohol consumption of announcing revised UK low-risk drinking guidelines : findings from a monthly cross-sectional survey. The Lancet, Vol. 394 (pp S54-S54). London, UK, 29 November 2019 - 29 November 2019. View this article in WRRO
- THE IMPACT OF ALCOHOL HEALTH WARNING LABELS ON DRINKING BEHAVIOURS: AN INTERNATIONAL SURVEY. DRUG AND ALCOHOL REVIEW, Vol. 38 (pp S39-S40)
- Minimum pricing for alcohol: evidence, uncertainties and the United Kingdom experience. Drug and Alcohol Review, Vol. 37 (pp S4-S4), 4 November 2018 - 7 November 2018. View this article in WRRO
- Investigating local policy drivers for alcohol harm prevention: a comparative case study of two local authorities in England. BMC Public Health, Vol. 17(1) View this article in WRRO
- Factors associated with public support for alcohol policy in England: a population-based survey. The Lancet, Vol. 388 (pp S31-S31)
- Characterising the alcohol harm paradox: a population-based survey of adults in England. The Lancet, Vol. 386 (pp S23-S23)
- Reflections and best practice recommendations for interdisciplinary working: a case study on the identification of the determinants of addiction from the Addiction and Lifestyles In Contemporary Europe Reframing Addictions Project (ALICE RAP). The Lancet, Vol. 384 (pp S13-S13)
- Interpretation and use of official drinking guidelines by adults in England and Scotland: a qualitative study. The Lancet, Vol. 384 (pp S17-S17)
- Improving measurement of the distribution of alcohol consumption across locations, beverages, and drinkers in England and Scotland: a cross-sectional telephone survey. The Lancet, Vol. 384 (pp S44-S44)
- Choosing between different alcohol pricing and taxation strategies: a comparative policy appraisal using the Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model. The Lancet, Vol. 384 (pp S51-S51)
- Minimum unit pricing for alcohol: policy appraisal modelling of income and socioeconomic group-specific effects on consumption, spending, and health harms. LANCET, Vol. 382 (pp 47-47)
- Development of a comparative cost-effectiveness appraisal instrument for local alcohol policies: a modelling study. LANCET, Vol. 382 (pp 75-75)
- Longitudinal clustering of health behaviours and their association with health outcomes in older adults in England: a latent class analysis. Population Medicine, Vol. 5(Supplement)
Reports
- Changes in alcohol consumption in Scotland during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: Descriptive analysis of repeat cross-sectional survey data
- Youth Drinking in Decline View this article in WRRO
- Model-based appraisal of the comparative impact of Minimum Unit Pricing and taxation policies in Scotland. An adaptation of the Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model version 3,
- Mortality and morbidity risks from alcohol consumption in the UK: Analyses using the Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model (v.2.7) to inform the UK Chief Medical Officers’ review of the UK lower risk drinking guidelines
- Alcohol attributable fractions for England
Scholarly editions
- Fragile Families in the US and UK.
Posters
- Comparing socioeconomic gradients in alcohol-related harm between the four UK countries (PHE Applied Epidemiology Scientific Meeting 18-19 March 2015).
Preprints
- Alcohol consumption and heavy episodic drinking within different types of drinking occasion in Great Britain: An event-level latent class analysis, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Optimizing the Measurement of Information on the Context of Alcohol Consumption Within the Drink Less App Among People Drinking at Increasing and Higher Risk Levels: Mixed-Methods Usability Study (Preprint), JMIR Publications Inc..
- A 2.8 Å structure of zoliflodacin in a DNA-cleavage complex withStaphylococcus aureusDNA gyrase, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Temporary abstinence challenges: what do we need to know?, Center for Open Science.
- Does your measure matter? A comparison of alcohol availability measures in Great Britain, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Concurrent validity of an Estimator of Weekly Alcohol Consumption (EWAC) based on the Extended AUDIT.
- Youth drinking in decline: What are the implications for public health, public policy and public debate?.
- The decline in youth drinking in England – is everyone drinking less? A quantile regression analysis. Addiction. View this article in WRRO
- Research group
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Sheffield Addictions Research Group
- Grants
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2024-2028: Policy Research Unit in Addictions. NIHR Policy Research Programme (£5.0m). Co-Director with Ann McNeill (King's College London).
2024-2027: Reducing alcohol harms during a cost-of-living crisis: Evaluating the impact of alcohol duty reforms across Great Britain. NIHR Public Health Research (£2.0m). Joint Principal Investigator with Colin Angus (Sheffield).
2022-2026: Evaluating and responding to the public health impact of no and low alcohol drinks: A multi-method study of a complex intervention in a complex system. NIHR Public Health Research (£2.2m). Principal Investigator.
2018-2023: Why is youth alcohol consumption falling? A mixed methods investigation of changing drinking cultures across recent generations. Wellcome Investigator Award (£0.6m). Principal Investigator
2018-2021: Understanding stability and change in British drinking: A multilevel investigation of consumer panel data. ESRC (£0.5m). Co-Investigator.
2018-2021: Integrated evidence synthesis for joint appraisal of tobacco and alcohol tax interventions for harm reduction in England (SYNTAX). NIHR Public Health Research (£0.8m). Co-Investigator
2017-2021: Evaluating the impact of minimum unit pricing in Scotland on harmful drinkers. NHS Health Scotland (£0.6m). Principal Investigator.
2015-2018: The effectiveness of promotional campaigns associated with revised UK drinking guidelines: A prospective evaluation. NIHR Public Health Research (£0.6m). Principal Investigator.
- Professional activities and memberships
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Senior Editor and Strategy Advisory Group member for Addiction