Thanks to Alcohol Policy UK for pointing out the Alcohol Education Research Council have published their priorities for funding for the next year:
This year the Council will accept good research or development applications in any area, however, priority will be given to projects relating to the following areas:
- Investigate ways of intervening to reduce hazardous or harmful drinking in universities or other educational establishments with a focus on brief interventions and/or institutional policy. What are the best methods of delivering interventions? What organizational changes have an influence on drinking patterns? Look at protective factors in young people as well as their motivation for risky drinking and different patterns of risk taking behaviour, including combining the use of alcohol with illicit drugs or sexual experimentation.
- Explore and describe drinking within the home and other non-public drinking venues including patterns, attitudes, values, purchasing and influences on family and social life (not just harmful patterns or problem drinking families).
- Investigate the link between drinking, health and crime. Develop different measures of drinking behaviour which better predict the likelihood of future harm, eg alcohol related crime and violence or alcohol dependence.
- Look at the role marketing activities have played in changing peoples’ drinking patterns, particularly binge drinking. Specifically the influence of advertising, new media, new product development, point of sale promotions and price promotions should be examined, both individually and collectively. This work could include qualitative methods and longitudinal as well as cross sectional studies.
- Summarize high-quality evidence relating to effective and cost effective public policy, including taxation, price and availability. Consider all barriers to implementation.
