Job Opportunity!💡We’re looking for a Research Assistant to join the #DiscoveringLiveability team in Lincoln 🔍 In addition to a salary, this 5 year role is accompanied by tuition for a part-time Social Sciences PhD programme at the University of Lincoln. To find out more, click on the link below:

✨ FREE EVENT! ✨ We are running an afternoon seminar exploring equality, diversity, and inclusion issues associated with epidemiology & statistical data. Join us for an interesting afternoon for anyone interested in public health and/or knowledge production. events.bookitbee.com/university-o...

Earlier this year we launched the ARMHS research network and now have a monthly newsletter! Second one coming out very soon so email me if you are interested and want to stay informed

The PARENT project (DevleoPing an Alcohol Risk rEduction pathway with pareNts and health visiTors) is recruiting a Qualitative Researcher in Health Services Research for 12 months, closing 29 April. More information in the link below - please share jobs.hull.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

In our new blog, @jessicagreenhalgh.bsky.social writes about her experience attending @sarnalcohol.bsky.social events as an ECR, and shares a preview of the findings from her research on Managed Alcohol Programmes (MAPs), which will feature in the Alcohol Occasionals! 👉 shaap.org.uk/blog/444-ref...

🎞️ We’re excited to launch a three-part video series on Peer Research, delivered through Phase II of DRNS at the University of Stirling 🎥 📺 Watch the full series here: buff.ly/FjtQieM

Registration is now open for our 2025 Alcohol Occasional seminar series! You can register for all four seminars here: bit.ly/427yFB9

The See Beyond Scotland campaign will take its roadshow to Edinburgh Waverly and Glasgow Central next month! 🗣️Prof Tessa Parkes & Dr Hannah Carver discuss the campaign and how the media can play a part in reducing stigma around alcohol and drugs. shaap.org.uk/blog/411-how...

📣 We are excited to announce the first of our conference speakers! 🏛️ Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, Neil Gray MSP, will open our Annual Conference to share insights from the Scottish Government. 📅 5 June 2025 📍 Dundee ➡️ Registration: buff.ly/MqF422x

Now finished but anyone wanting to see me and @jillstavert.bsky.social gallop through human rights and mental health in 30 minutes can get recording from @lsa.org.uk

🚨New episode of Money Power Health! Thanks to the amazing @maizie333.bsky.social for joining to discuss industry-funded school education programmes and what strategic goals they serve: open.spotify.com/episode/0Soc... Ad-free wherever you get your podcasts

📣 DEADLINE EXTENDED🚨 The call for abstracts for our 2025 Annual Conference will now close on Friday 21 March 2025 📥 Email [email protected] your submission by 21 March 2025 📅 Details below⬇️ buff.ly/f2gscfQ Register for conference: buff.ly/8oC6ZPU

Two PhD scholarships @Torrens University, Australia working on a project to reduce #alcohol consumption in heavy-drinking groups of midlife women by developing/testing co-designed interventions. Contact Paul Ward (see poster) for more information! #academicsky #phdbluesky #publichealth #sociology

From @ethnicityuk.bsky.social - Job alert! Postdoc position on racial inequalities in responses to severe mental health conditions. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

The recording of our webinar 'Polysubstance Use and Cocaine: Engaging and Supporting People' is now available to watch on our YouTube💻 You can also access the presentation slides in the video description. Thanks again to our speakers & everyone who attended on Wednesday. Watch now buff.ly/GTcaMLC

We are recruiting now for the National Traineeship in the following areas: 📍Borders 📍Highland 📍North Lanarkshire Closing date: Monday 17th March 2025 For more information or to apply: buff.ly/19dMM6L

Call for abstracts for our 2025 Annual Conference will close this Friday!📣 📥 Email [email protected] your submission by 7 March 2025 📅 Details below⬇️ buff.ly/LxHMxIR Register for conference: buff.ly/41HrxN2

Very excited to today have launched our @royalsoced.bsky.social funded Acute Responses to emergency Mental Health and Substance use (ARMHS) Research Network with @lizhughesdd.bsky.social and @gearoidbrennan.bsky.social! Lots more to come on this so stay tuned! www.gcu.ac.uk/aboutgcu/uni...

Next month I'll be presenting at UNSW's Spotlight on Stigma series on whether 'stigma' - or social 'disapproval' - can be a force for good in reducing addiction problems www.eventbrite.com.au/e/spotlight-...

Register for our (free) Early and Mid-Career Alcohol Researcher Event by Tues 4 Mar. We have a fantastic agenda lined up including talks from both of our co-chairs (Prof Aisha Holloway & Prof Carol Emslie)! Register here: bit.ly/3PsuoST

🚨EARLY BIRD TICKETS ON SALE NOW🚨 Scottish Drugs Forum’s annual #StopTheDeaths conference returns in 2025 with a two-day event dedicated to reducing drug-related deaths & harms 📅 27th & 28th August 📍Radisson Blu Glasgow For more info & to grab your discounted Early Bird tickets: buff.ly/3Czb3wB

Please do join us next week if you're in Stirling or St Ninians!

Our call for abstracts for the 2025 Annual Conference closes in just a few weeks! Details below⬇️

Still time to participate in the research priority setting exercise for Addictions in the UK. Open to those working in the sector as well as family and people lived/living experience. link below southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Looking forward to our next #suicidecultures seminar - w/ Dr Kamesha Spates (University of Pittsburgh) - 'The Price of Strength: Understanding Suicide Among Black Women Through a Black Feminist Lens' 25th March, 2pm UK time Sign up to attend here: events.bookitbee.com/suicide-cult...

A reminder that the Thistle service was originally proposed on the back of an HIV outbreak among people who inject drugs in Glasgow in 2015 (!), and the strongest predictor of infection was Cocaine injecting. We still have limited treatment options for this group. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

10% decrease in suspected #DrugDeaths and drug-related A&E attendances in Sep-Nov 2024 compared to previous quarter. Encouraging, but ongoing harms, incl. presence of #cocaine among decedents. publichealthscotland.scot/publications...

In 2025 our wonderful digital lab for early career suicide and self-harm researchers - International netECR (www.linkedin.com/in/internati...) moved to LinkedIn! We'll share our blog posts, events and publications there! Please follow if you're interested or share with pals! #suicideresearch

In case any of my Bluesky followers aren't aware, I produce/host a podcast called 'The Alcohol "problem" podcast', which I'm pleased has just passed 100k downloads.. Feel free to check it out! alcoholpodcast.buzzsprout.com

Suicide Cultures and the Sociology of Suicide, University of Edinburgh 6-7th May 2025 blogs.ed.ac.uk/suicide-cult... Sociologically inclined + working on suicide? You can apply to hang out with @annamueller.bsky.social + @sethabrutyn.bsky.social and the #suicidecultures team for 2 days

1 week to go until the deadline for abstracts for our online seminar series! For more information, please see here: bit.ly/3DND2ZA @shaapalcohol.bsky.social

The third of Scottish Drugs Forum’s Winter Webinar series 'Polysubstance use and cocaine: Engaging and supporting people' 📅Wednesday 26 February ⏰13.00 – 14.15 📍Zoom Click the link to find out more information and to register for the webinar: sdf.org.uk/event/polysu... 💻

Another podcast guest joined this place! Give @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social a follow and listen to their episode here: thedeathstudiespodcast.com/dr-hazel-mar...

📣 Based in Forth Valley? Join us & @scottishfamilies.bsky.social at the See Beyond Roadshows at Stirling Libraries! 📆 Stirling Central Library: 17th Feb, 2-5pm 📆St Ninians Library: 21st Feb, 2-5pm Be part of the discussion to help challenge stigma and inspire change. 💻 seebeyondscotland.com

'People's Panel' report on reducing drug harms in Scotland published. Very interesting methods (described in detail). Presents a wide range of recommendations re improved funding, stigma-reduction, involving lived experience etc. Should add heft to calls for better provision! tinyurl.com/fvk882de

Free sign up for our 2025 Annual Conference is now live! 📅 5 June 2025 📍 Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee Register here: https://buff.ly/3WqgIvy More details coming soon!✨

Amazing project, cracking team. Get in about it folks

Call for abstracts for #issdp2025 has been extended to 31st January (you've still got time to submit your excellent drug policy research!) pretalx.com/internationa...

📢Registration now open! The Universities of Stirling and Glasgow would like to extend a warm invitation to join them for the 50th Anniversary KBS Symposium. 🌎Glasgow 📅9th to 13th June 2025 Register here: kbs2025scotland.org/registration...

It's sometimes tricky to interpret police and border force drug seizure data as it can depend on factors like operational priorities and recording practices, but some notable findings from data year ending March 2024 : / 1 www.gov.uk/government/s...

New Blog Post✨ "Why we need EmPATH – a novel psychiatric emergency response to Scotland’s mental health and substance use crises" by Dr. Jane Grassie Read here➡️ https://buff.ly/40EEuW7

The World Health Organization (WHO) is looking for experts for the Technical Advisory Group on Alcohol and Drug Epidemiology (TAG-ADE) The deadline to apply is 20 January 2025 More info here: www.who.int/news-room/ar...

🚨 New paper: ‘The implementation of safer drug consumption facilities in Scotland: a mixed methods needs assessment and feasibility study for the city of Edinburgh’ harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Check out this introductory video to the safer drug consumption facility opening today in Glasgow. I'm delighted to be involved in the evaluation, which will be vital to understanding what works, what doesn't and how the approach might be taken forward in the UK. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb51...

Great to see our OA paper published in @commsmed.bsky.social It shares our experience of using Normalisation Process Theory (NPT) in the NIHR funded SHARPS study www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Looking forward to sharing results from our EPHeSUS research programme and outlining our future plans at this event. Join us!

Starting off 2025 with a new publication! In this study we evaluated the 'WAND' initiative; a novel multi-component contingency management intervention aimed at enhancing harm reduction engagement among people who inject drugs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Comments from @niamhrelease.bsky.social @paulsweeney.bsky.social and I on this latest article covering the imminent safer drug consumption facility ('Thistle') in Glasgow... www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

It’s that time of year again when the usual suspects (including me) get to say the same things about Dry January as we did last year. Enjoy! www.bbcgoodfood.com/health/welln...

Our new study led by @prof-andy.bsky.social has been published in @addictionjournal.bsky.social (£0) We investigated whether changes in alcohol-related attitudes were precursors to changes in drinking behaviour - hence this proxy outcome could be useful... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....