Previously funded research

Find out more about research we have previously funded: commissioned work, research and development grants, co-funded projects, small grants, and research studentships.

Commissioned research

Taking stock: Counting the economic costs of alcohol harm Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) - October 2025

Alcohol Harm Across the Drinking Spectrum The Behavioural Insights Team - April 2025

How to talk about alcohol Institute for Social Marketing and Health (ISMH) at the University of Stirling, with University College London, University of Sheffield, London South Bank University, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and supported by FrameWorks UK - October 2024

What do publicans think about alcohol-free drinks? Opinion Research Services - April 2024

On the sidelines? Exploring how alcohol may present a barrier to British Asians engaging in sport Magpie - July 2023

Delivering a problem? Online sales and deliveries of alcohol Wrexham Glyndŵr University and Cogent Research - March 2022

Effective age-gating for online alcohol sales Wrexham Glyndŵr University - June 2020

Drinking and Eating Swansea University - September 2019

Research and Development Grants

Trends and Inequalities in Prescribing for Alcohol Dependence in Scotland University of Glasgow - October 2024

Supporting solutions for South Asian women: Developing models for substance use support Manchester Metropolitan University - November 2023

Exploring communities of belonging around drink Sheffield Hallam University - November 2023

Telling our own stories: an exploratory study of alcohol use and harm by people who identify as Roma, Gypsies and Travellers Swansea University and University of Salford - November 2023

Understanding the association between mental health and alcohol use in Black, Asian and Minority ethnic groups University of Liverpool and Kings College London - November 2023

A Feasibility Study of the Effectiveness of ‘Moving On In My Recovery’ Bangor University - May 2021

Distribution and Consumption of Counterfeit Alcohol: Getting to Grips with Fake Booze University of Manchester - August 2020

Local alcohol treatment and recovery service commissioning practices and their perceived outcomes for service provision: an in-depth exploration ScHARR, The University of Sheffield - July 2020

Staying ‘Better than Well’: an exploration of the experience and ‘active ingredients’ of sustaining recovery within a supportive social environment University of Edinburgh - February 2020

Evaluation of an early intervention programme for young persons with alcohol and drug misuse in Sunderland University of Sunderland - January 2020

Faith in recovery? Service-user evaluation in faith-based alcohol treatment Cardiff University - November 2019

Exploring pathways through and beyond alcohol treatment among Polish women and men in a London Borough Middlesex University - June 2019

Online support forum for children and young people affected by substance misuse Adfam - July 2017

Socioeconomic inequalities in the delivery of brief interventions for smoking and excessive drinking: findings from a cross-sectional household survey in England ScHARR, University of Sheffield - May 2019

The Alcohol Policy Blog The Alcohol Academy

Our co-funded projects

Alcohol Misuse: Electronic Longitudinal Alcohol Study in Communities (ELAStiC) – co-funded with the ESRC

Cardiff University
Excessive drinking and alcohol related harms in Adulthood: ALSPAC at 24 – co funded with the MRC

The University of Bristol
Alcohol Harms: The relationship between alcohol consumption and cardiovascular risk: A life-course perspective – co-funded with the MRC

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London
Drug and Alcohol Findings
Drug and Alcohol Findings provides the largest library of evidence on drug and alcohol treatment and prevention in the UK. It produces regular summaries of the latest research and is widely recognised as an invaluable resource for both practitioners and researchers in the field.
Co-funded with the Society for the Study of Addiction.

Small Grants

Up to £8,000 over one year, funded in the financial year 2017/18:
University of Bristol A qualitative exploration of parental attitudes and behaviours around young people’s drinking to inform intervention development
Aquarius Action Projects
Supporting adults bereaved through substance use: adaptation of the 5-Step Method intervention
Newcastle University
Mapping Alcohol Use Through the Care System
Edge Hill University
Development and first validation of the Refined Alcohol Expectancy Task
Arc Research and Consultancy Ltd
Still seldom heard and hard to reach: using verbatim testimony with young people who drink
King’s College London
The patterns and extent of prescribing of medications for alcohol relapse prevention in England
Newcastle University
Understanding the link between alcohol excises and the price of alcoholic drinks in UK supermarkets using scanner data
University of Glasgow
An N-of-1 study of the psychosocial determinants of ‘stopping’, ‘switching’ and ‘seeking treatment’ behaviour following Minimum Unit Pricing implementation

Research Studentships

PI/GrantholderInstitution/OrganisationYear publishedPhD title

Jordan Soondar

Middlesex University 2023Peer mentors as a transitional and emerging position in alcohol and drug services
Alexandra Bakou University of Exeter2022Brief interventions for negative - affect triggered alcohol seeking
Emma Geijer Simpson

University of Newcastle

2022Developing family-involved interventions for young people with alcohol use disorders and other linked mental health problems
Jane Oyston Manchester Metropolitan University 2022

The role of alcohol in child sexual exploitation: developing a model to inform practice

Olivia Sexton

University of Sheffield

2022Developing and validating a methodology for collecting occasional-level data on alcohol consumption
Sam Burton

University of Liverpool

2021Inhibitory control in heavy drinking: improving our understanding to optimize behavioural treatments

Patricia Irizar

University of Liverpool

2021How common is hazardous and harmful drinking in the UK Police Service, and what is the relationship with mental health and job strain?
Clare Sharp University of Stirling2021Nalmefene prescribing in the UK: Patterns and influences

James Morris

London South Bank University2020Exploring the identities of harmful drinkers as problem drinkers: Can we remove barriers to behaviour change and engagement with intervention?
Linda Sommerville

Middlesex University

2020Alcohol licensing at local level: stakeholders' roles in decision making (working title)
Justin MoorheadLiverpool John Moores University 2019Ex-military Personnel in the Criminal Justice System: An exploration of the violence committed across the military life course and the role of alcohol within this violence.

Lucy Anne Dorey

Southampton University2018

The experiences and recovery needs of alcohol dependent patients following detoxification programmes (POST DETOX): an exploratory qualitative study

Natasha Clarke

University of Liverpool

2017Identifying Factors which Influence Heavy Drinking within a Framework of Learning Theory and Behavioural Economics, and Improving Dissemination of Evidence-based Research to the Public.

Marianne Erskine-Shaw

Edge Hill University

2017Group regulation of alcohol consumption behaviours
Hannah Rose KCL2017The impact of alcohol consumption on adolescent neuropsychological development

Beth Collinson

Sheffield Hallam University2016Mapping individual recovery pathways from problem alcohol use in the context of an emerging therapeutic landscape of recovery and assessing differences by gender
Cassandra Hogan London South Bank University

Identity Transition in Recovery from Alcohol Addiction: An Exploration of the Underlying Implicit and Explicit Processes and Mechanisms of Change