If you are a pub/bar/restaurant/hotel/council that would like to use our nolo point of sale materials/publicans guide you can find them here www.york.ac.uk/business-soc... They are FREE to use!!! Grateful for any shares to get them out there!

Useful looking online methods event on Qualitative Sampling and Sample size with @profkarenoreilly.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/qualitativ...

Excited to share the first three case study 'long reads' from the After Last Orders project - funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk. Each case study draws on extensive research to tell the story of a pub and the people and places affected by its closure. after-last-orders.lboro.ac.uk

Drawing on our research for the @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social funded After Last Orders project, @robertdeakin.bsky.social and I share some insights into the impact of pub closures in this new article for @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/consolation-...

A huge thanks to the wonderful interdisciplinary group of academics, writers and researchers who visited @lborouniversity.bsky.social yesterday to discuss findings from our Leverhulme Trust funded After Last Orders project on the social and cultural impacts of pub closures.

"You okay mate?" The Notts pub that’s getting men talking about their feelings leftlion.co.uk/features/202...

'Young people's consumption of no/low alcohol drinks in family settings' | new project launch @sarg-scharr.bsky.social sarg-sheffield.ac.uk/projects/you...

Great being involved in this. Thanks @professorpub.bsky.social for setting the stage and facilitating the discussion.

‘Parenthood is messy’: what it’s really like to raise a child – in pictures www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Impromptu visit to what might as well be called the South Leamington Beer Furlong.

The first article from our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project 'After Last Orders?: A biographical exploration of the impact of UK pub closures' is now published in British Journal of Sociology. Open access via the link below.

Interesting that the uptake of remote and hybrid working is shifting the timing and location of leisure and retail spending, with suburban supermarkets the big winner. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So many lovely and brilliant people involved in this series of talks taking place in in some excellent Bristol pubs this spring/summer @goodchembrew.bsky.social @drinkingstudies.bsky.social @boakandbailey.bsky.social @philmellows.bsky.social

Free symposium, 'Recalibrating Stigma', on 26.06.25 at at University of Edinburgh. Funded by SHI Foundation. Speakers: Katharine Cheston, Harriet Cooper, Fay Dennis, Janice McLaughlin, Jennifer Remnant, and more! Details: jumpshare.com/v/bzZYybtCP9.... Register by 30/04. Email at [email protected].

Delighted to be collaborating with @britbeerwriters.bsky.social for this online event with @culturalclare.bsky.social @professorpub.bsky.social @thurnellreadsoc.bsky.social and Dr Rob Deakin, chaired by @philmellows.bsky.social www.beerguild.co.uk/news/new-gui...

"Pubs and cafes are more than just businesses. Often, they’re the beating hearts of communities...When the shutters come down, it represents a tear in the community fabric and threatens the cohesion of neighbourhoods". theconversation.com/how-the-stru...

Very pleased to be inviting chapter proposals for our new Routledge Companion to Gender & Fatherhood - share and get in touch if would like to contribute! #fatherhood #gender #families #research

Intro track for today's lecture on the sociology of food: "It's true that I, well, I'm a barbecue enjoyer And I slag off nut roasts sometimes, just to annoy you" www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2c3...

Trying to get some traction on Bluesky as I move from X any reposts of my pub research /work much appreciated @matthew-wright.bsky.social

My book The Return of the Housewife is now available to pre-order, has an appropriately angry front cover and some lovely early endorsements @manchesterup.bsky.social

Why Craft Beer Just Isn't as Popular as It Used to Be www.vice.com/en/article/w...

Better sleep, more energy and feeling in control: the reported benefits of Dry January theconversation.com/better-sleep... via @uk.theconversation.com

Happy to have a newly published article out exploring how older consumers negotiate and adapt their consumption preferences and practices and, in spite of various barriers, use socially active consumption to challenge negative stereotypes about inactivity in later life. doi.org/10.1332/2752...

We wrote a book! Everything we learned over six years of work on the decline in youth drinking in the UK, Australia, Sweden and Finland. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

As a qualitative research, not always, but often enough, I come out of an interview just feeling privileged to have a relative stranger share a bit of their lives and themselves with me, and for some time after I keep thinking please let good things happen to this nice person.

Interesting focus on the changing leisure habits reconfiguring the night-time economy. These trends are typically thought of as spatial phenomena - people staying 'in' or 'online' - so the strong focus on temporal shifts is fascinating. www.theguardian.com/music/2024/n...