Name | Institution | Discipline | Research Interests |
Ken Albala | University of the Pacific | History | History of alcohol and intoxicants |
Emma-Jayne Abbots | University of Wales, UK | Social/Cultural Anthropology and Heritage | Cider in Europe and the USA; craft, heritage and artisan production; materialities and interactions with the environment. |
Victoria Afanasyeva | Paris, France | History | History of women in the French temperance movement (19th-21stC). |
David Alder | Bournemouth, UK | Media and Communication | History and changing significance of gin |
Raymond G Anderson | Brewery History Society | Chemistry | Scientific, technical, business and social history of beer, brewing and brewers, 1700 till now. |
Fizz Annannd | | Freelance Consultant | Consultant for Drug and Alcohol misuse assessments, strategies, evaluations and reviews. |
Timothea Armour | Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK | Associate Producer | Pubs, pub culture, pub interiors |
Edward Armston | Royal Holloway | Geography | History of alcohol consumption in exploration |
Amanda Marie Atkinson | Liverpool John Moores University | Sociology, public health, gender studies | Gendered drinking culture and identities, and the role and influence of media and marketing representations of alcohol in intersectional identity making. |
Angela Attwood | University of Bristol, UK | Psychology/Public Health | Effects of alcohol on behaviour and cognition, public health messaging (including alcohol labelling) and reducing problem/heavy use. |
Lucas Avelar | State University of Roraima, Brazil | History | History of alcohol and drugs in Brazil between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
Tamsin Badcoe | University of Bristol, UK | Literature | Space and place in early modern English literature. |
Nataha K. Bailey | Leicester, UK | History | Participation of indigenous central Mexican women in the 16th and 17th century pulque trade |
Laura Bainbridge | University of Leeds | Criminal Justice | Enforced alcohol abstinence; sobriety tags; violence reduction. |
Doreen Joy Barber | SOAS, UK | Anthropology | Completed a dissertation on: ‘Brewing a Heritage: Ale and Authenticity with the Campaign for Real Ale’. |
Rafaela C.C. Barbieri | Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil | Social History | Through a dialogue between organisational studies and history, my thesis explores how different organizations change the meaning of Brazilian cachaça and how their public acts had led to a cultural controversy. |
Beth Bareham | Newcastle, UK | Health and Society | Perceptions of the positive and negative consequences of drinking in later life, and how these are considered and prioritised |
Mary Bateman | Bristol, UK | Medieval Studies | Drinking culture and ritual in late medieval and early modern England |
Franca Beccaria | Eclectica, Institute for training and research, Torino, Italy | Sociology | Drinking cultures, youth drinking, alcohol policies. |
David Beckingham | University of Nottingham, UK | Geography | Regulation of drinking & drunkenness in Britain, 19th & early-20thC. |
Virginia Berridge | LSHTM, UK | History | Post-WWII public health policy. |
Imogen Bevan | Edinburgh | Social Anthropology | Sugar consumption practices in urban Scotland. |
Elife Bicer-Deveci | Oxford | History | Alcohol drinking cultures and alcohol control policies in Muslim societies. |
Lisa Bogert-O’Connor | Queen’s University Belfast | History and Anthropology | 20th century United States immigration, transatlantic food history, and tourism |
Anna Blackwell | Bristol | Experimental Psychology | Alcohol Labelling |
Matthias Blum | TU Munich, Germany | Agricultural and Food Economics | Economic history of beer brewing and consumption in Southern Germany. |
Audrey Bonvin | Fribourg, Switzerland | History | Networks among conservatism and philanthropic associations in contemporary history; a part of my research focuses on Swiss history of temperance related to women’s activism during the XXth Century (linked therefore with history of transnational networks, health, feminism or gender) |
Elisa Bordin | Verona, Italy | Literature and Cinema | The cultural perception of wine in the US, specifically with reference to (Italian American) ethnicity. |
Fabian Braendle | | History | History of drink in early modern Switzerland |
Thomas Brennan | US Naval Academy | History | Alcohol in early modern France. |
Dorit Brixius | Potsdam, Germany | History | Women and public houses in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England and America. |
Lorraine Brown | Bournemouth University, UK | | International student attitudes towards British drinking culture |
Susan Boyle | Institute of Technology, Dublin | Humanities | Beverage tourism, experiential marketing, alcohol in ancient cultures, storytelling, performance, place, artisan production, the rise of craft, sensory training and analysis, beverages with food/menus |
Neihart Braden | Colorado State University | History | Beer and its impact on human relationships with each other and their environment, both urban and natural. Eg. spatial analysis of Denver breweries from 1859-1876 and looked at the networks brewers built across their city, state, and region. |
Gordon D. A. Brown | Warwick University, UK | Psychology | Students’ attitudes toward drinking. |
James R. Brown | Sheffield University, UK | History | Intoxicants and Early Modernity |
Stephen Bunker | Open University, UK | History | British urban pubs in the late modern era, plus licensees and temperance |
Adam Burgess | Kent | Sociology | In the past, the problematizing of drinking through risk; more recently, generational changes – moderation and abstinence – in drinking and other consumptions |
Kristen Burton | Texas, US | History | Brewing, brewers and drinking in medieval England. |
Andrew M Butler | Canterbury Christ Church, UK | Cultural Studies | Leisure cultures, including drinking. |
Kris Butler | Cambridge, MA, USA | Law | Drink maps and temperance maps, especially late 19thC British. Licensing and alcohol related laws, intersection of beer and other disciplines- especially art and cartography. |
Toby Butler | University of East London | History and Heritage Studies | Migrant labour/living conditions on hop farms |
Benjamin Butterworth | Glasgow Caledonian | Psychology | Effect of alcohol on memory for traumatic events |
Mar Calpena | Ferran Adrià’s El Bulli Foundation, Barcelona | Cocktail and bars history |
Orfhlaith Campbell | Open University, UK | History | Temperance in 19th and 20thC Ireland. |
Bernard Capp | Warwick University, UK | History | Gender and alehouses in early modern England, Puritan campaigns against drinking 1649-1660. |
Eric Carlin | Birkbeck, UK | Sociology | Contemporary youth experiences in Pilton, Edinburgh. |
Henrique Carneiro | University of Sao Paulo, Brazil | Modern History | Research in psychoactive drugs and alcohol regulation history, and culture and culinary techniques in Brazil. |
Meghan Carriere | Carleton University | History | Canadian microdistilleries, craft spirits, craft beer and history of the Canadian alcohol industry (specifically hard liquors) |
Aoife Carrigy | Institute of Technology Tallaght, Ireland | Franco-Irish Studies | Cultural Representations of the Irish Pub |
Hannah Carver | Edinburgh Napier, UK | Social Care | Substance use social care, young people |
Emma Catterall | Drinkaware | | Health and social impact of alcohol misuse, and the implementation and evaluation of strategies to reduce alcohol harm. |
Amy Chandler | Edinburgh, UK | Sociology | Alcohol, mental health, self-harm, suicide and gender |
Rodger Charlton | Nottingham University, UK | Medicine | The management of alcohol dependence in primary care / health sciences. |
Steve Charters | ESC Dijon, ~France | Consumer Behaviour | Wine and society. |
Ruth Cherrington | Loughborough University London | Cultural Studies | Working men’s clubs, past and present. |
Caroline Clark | Victoria, Austrialia | History, Sociology | History of treatment for alcoholism, history of alcohol policy, community level alcohol culture change |
Peter Clark | Helsinki | History | Alcohol issues in the early modern period |
David Clemis | Mt Royal University, Canada | History | Understandings of alcohol intoxication and addiction in medical, legal, and popular thought and practice in 17th and 18thC England. |
D’Maris Coffman | Cambridge University, UK | Financial History | Excise taxation and the development of brewing in early modern England. |
Josh Cohen | Warwick University, UK | History | Changing drinking practices in China since 1978 |
Robert Cole | Roger Williams University | Brewing | Beer brewing and beer culture |
Magnus Copps | Royal College of Art, UK | Design History | Material culture and sociability, 19thC London. |
Luke Corbin | Australian National University | Anthropology/History | Beer, Brewing |
Gillian Cowan-Williams | University of Chester, UK | Narrative Enquiry | Exploring, using narrative enquiry, whether for middle aged professional women social and cultural changes have led to a glass of wine replacing the cup of tea in the home setting |
Diarmuid Cawley | Dublin Institute of Technology | Culinary Arts | The influence wine critics and writers have had on styles of wine production and consumption trends through the power of the language used to describe and promote wine. |
Jose Cree | Sheffield University, UK | History | The history of addiction in England, 1500-1700 |
Mairi Ann Cullen | Warwick University, UK | CEDAR (Education) | Evaluating projects aimed at supporting families affected by substance misuse. |
Katarzyna Cwiertka | Leiden, Germany | Japan Studies | Use of alcohol by Japanese, American, Chinese, British, and Australian troops in the Pacific region, 1940s and 1950s. |
Hugh Davenport | | Occupational Psychology | Hugh’s interests include attitudes towards moderating alcohol intake, work cultures and drinking, remote working and stress, work and well-being issues, and attitudes/ perceptions of Craft Ale. |
Anaïs Détolle | Université Concordia, Montréal, Canada | Sociology and Athropology | A social and cultural study of ice cider |
Laura Doherty | Canterbury Christ Church, UK | Sociology | Young people and alcohol. |
Emeka Dumbili | Brunel University London, UK | Social Sciences, Media & Communications | The relationship between the media and young people’s alcohol consumption and alcohol policies |
Robert Duncan | Queen Mary University, London | History | Drink and the First World War in Britain. |
Rémy Duthille | Bordeaux-Montaigne, France | History | Toasting and conviviality in 18thC Britain. |
Rebecca Earle | Warwick University, UK | History | Drinking in Spanish America. |
Steven Earnshaw | Sheffield Hallam, UK | English | The pub in literature. |
Jason Edwards | Birkbeck, UK | Politics | the role of reflections on the production, distribution, and consumption of food and drink in the history of social and political thought; b) how the architecture of spaces of consumption (particularly spaces of the alcohol consumption) represent and constitute political identities and action. |
Victoria Ellis | Lincoln, UK | Business Faculty | Rural public houses. |
Carol Emslie | Glasgow Caledonian, UK | Medical Sociology | Gender and alcohol; LGBT drinking |
Waltraud Ernst | Oxford Brookes University | History of Medicine | Waltraud Ernst has worked on the history of medicine and psychiatry in British India. As mental health among British colonists and Indians alike was often bound up with drinking problems, alcohol became one of her research interests. She has edited Alcohol Flows Across Cultures. Drinking Cultures in Transnational and Comparative Perspective (Routledge 2020) and, with Thomas Mueller, Alcohol, Psychiatry and Society. Comparative and Transnational Perspectives, c. 1700-1990s (MUP 2022). She is Professor Emerita at Oxford Brookes University. |
Yolanda Evans | | Freelance Journalist | Obscure drink history and drink culture |
Emine Evered | Michigan State University, US | History | Histories of alcohol in Ottoman and republican Turkey; trends involving regulation and prohibition; and, intersections with histories of medicine and public health, Islam and secularism, and sexuality and gender |
Kyle T. Evered | Michigan State University, US | Geography | Historical and political geographies of alcohol and drugs in the Middle East |
Sina Fabian | Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin | History | 20th Century German History, National Socialism |
David Fahey | Miami, US | History | 19th and early 20th century temperance and fraternal societies in Britain and America |
Hannah Farrimond | Exeter University, UK | Medical Sociology | Public health in relation to alcohol, violence, stigma and identity |
Senia Fedoul | Lyon | History | Social and technological system of wine making and marketing in the 20th and 21st centuries |
Laura Fenton | Manchester | Sociology | Gender and drinking. |
Susan Flavin | | Modern Historian of Food and Drink | Susan is the PI on the ERC FoodCult Project, which uses interdisciplinary approaches to examine food and drink consumption in Early Modern Ireland. |
Simon Fowler | Pub History Society | Local Historian | History of pubs; song in public houses. |
Martin Franz | Osnabrück University, Germany | Economic Geography | Development of the restaurant and bar industry, relationship between night time economy and urban development |
Henry French | Exeter | History | Elite drinking culture in 18thC England, esp. gender. |
Claudio Ferlan | Italian-German Historical Institute, Trento (Italy) | History | Food-history and Jesuits studies, in particular the discipline of ecclesiastical fasting and the “battle” against sins of gluttony and drunkenness as pastoral urgencies in religious frontier contexts. |
Kate Ferris | St. Andrews | History | Alcohol and its spaces of consumption in Fascist Italy |
Elizabeth Gabay | Institute of Masters of Wine | History | The history of punch around the world. |
Liz Garibay | Chicago | History | 18th and 19th Century American tavern and beer history and its role in urban development and influence on social, cultural and economic issues. National scope with a strong focus on Chicago. Founder of the Chicago Brewseum, the first American nonprofit museum dedicated to telling the story of beer. |
Diana Garvin | Cornell University/Boston University | Italian Studies | Breastmilk and other milks for infant consumption in the context of Italian Fascism |
Rebecca Gibb | Independent | Master of Wine & Journalist | 1911 Champagne riots and wine adulteration through the ages. |
Danielle Giffort | St. Louis College of Pharmacy | Sociology | History of women’s involvement in movements to reform alcohol and drug policies |
Andrew Giles | Bristol | Hispanic Studies | Spanish poetry. |
Lucy Gill | Warwick | History | Masculinity, alcohol and sociability in Restoration London. |
Gary Gillman | Independent | | Gary Gillman is an independent, Toronto-based researcher who studies the many facets (historical, technological, business, palate, and more) of brewing, distilling, winemaking and pubs. He contributes regularly to his blog, Beer et Seq, www.beeretseq.com, founded in 2015, and to journals, and speaks at conferences. |
Helen Gleeson | Middlesex | Social Work/ Social Policy | Alcohol within marginalised communities, including a recent evidence review on alcohol and service access in BME communities and pathways through alcohol treatment amongst Polish migrant communities. |
Theresa Goldbach | California | Critical Dance Studies | Flamenco sites in Madrid, Spain and Hollywood dive bars |
Sarah Goler | Warwick | Politics/ International Studies | Global and EU food and drink policy. |
Ivan Gololobov | Warwick | Sociology | The use of alcohol in the Russian music underground. |
Tom Goodacre | Anglia Ruskin | | Innovation amongst craft beer and micro-breweries |
Sam Goodman | Bournemouth | History | Colonial drinking cultures and medical treatment in C19th-20th British India |
Alexandr Gorokhovskiy | Havana Club International, Paris | History | History of alcohol and its meanings in cultural and social rituals |
Hannah Gosling | | History | Historical drinking and the uses of alcohol in institutional medicine in modern history (1750-present) |
Charlotte Goudge | Bristol | Archaeology and Anthropology | The social and economic effects of rum on the slave trade period Atlantic. |
Christine Griffin | Bath | Social Psychology | Role of gender, sexuality and social class in shaping young people’s drinking practices. |
Nicholas Groat | Sheffield | Archaeology | Alcohol production, distillation, and consumption in pre-medieval crafting practices and contexts. |
Craig Gunn | Bath | Psychology | Next-day effects of heavy drinking – the alcohol hangover. Specifically, how our thoughts and behaviours are influenced during a hangover |
David Gutzke | Missouri State | History | Social and cultural history of alcohol, pubs & drinking in modern Britain. |
Chris Hackley | Royal Holloway | Marketing | Alcohol advertising and young people. |
Henric Häggqvist | Uppsala University, Sweden | Economic History | Alcohol policy and regulation, its impact on beer production and consumption, market conditions and profitability of breweries. |
Thora Hands | Strathclyde | History | Alcohol consumption in Victorian Britain. |
Graham Harding | Cambridge | History | The image and marketing of champagne in England, 1860-1914. |
Mark Hailwood | Bristol | History | Alehouses and sociability in seventeenth-century England. |
David Hancock | U Michigan | History | The wine trade and the Atlantic World, 17th-19thC. |
Maxine Harcourt-Kelly | University of Chichester | Cultural Studies | English Wine, the development of the industry over the last fifty years and how that merges with the wine drinking culture in the country. Specifically looking at the elite nature of wine and whether English Wine reinforces elitism in wine. |
Will Haydock | Bournemouth | Sociology | Gender, class and ideas of ‘binge’ drinking. |
Maarten Hell | Independent | History | Public drinking houses in Amsterdam, c.1450-1850. |
Kath Hennell | Liverpool Hope University | Childhood and Youth | Kath’s research focuses on exploring how young people’s alcohol consumption practices relate to ‘risk’ and ‘risk’ practices and has sought to move away from notions of health being a product of individual choices and actions towards a broader perspective that links to social practices. |
Paul Hegarty | Drinkaware | Communication & Public Affairs | Promotion of responsible drinking; the public image of beer. |
Agatha Herman | Cardiff, UK | Geography | wine production spaces and relations; wine commodity networks |
Rachel Herring | Middlesex | Mental Health Social Work & Interprofessional Learning | Social and policy aspects of alcohol use, including alcohol consumption across the life course, licensing and the implementation of alcohol policy at the local level. |
Mareen Heying | Hagen, Germany | History | Pubs and female drinking in Germany around 1900 |
Victoria Hibell | | | Victoria is interested in how women protagonists use alcohol as a way of defying gender norms in nineteenth and twentieth century literature |
David Hitchcock | Canterbury Christ Church | History | Vagrancy and alehouses in early modern England. |
Emily Hogg | University of Southern Denmark | Cultural Studies | Alcohol consumption, ‘the precariat’ and contemporary literature. |
John Holmes | University of Sheffield | Public Health | Interested in trends in alcohol consumption and alcohol policy. He is particularly interested in quantitative study of drinking culture, drinking practices and drinking occasions. |
Mack Holt | George Mason University | History | The history of wine in early modern France. |
Tim Holt | Brewery History Society | History | All aspects of beer and brewing history |
Kirsty Hooper | Warwick | Hispanic Studies | The sherry and port trades and the development of Anglo-Iberian cultural connections during the long nineteenth century. |
Vanessa Hoeving | Hagen, Germany | Literary Studies | (Gendered) narratives and aesthetics of temperance and abstinence |
Tom Hopkins | Independent | Social History | The history of pub music. |
Geoffrey Hunt | Institute for Scientific Analysis | Anthropology/ Sociology | Village pubs in England, bars and the dance scene in San Francisco. |
David Inglis | Helsinki | Sociology | historical sociology and globalization of wine |
James Irving | Sheffield Hallam | Law & Criminology | Drug and alcohol addiction and desistance |
Katherine Jackson | Newcastle | Public Health/ Medical Sociology | Women’s alcohol use in relation to stress and the potential for intervention |
Matthew Jackson | Warwick | History | Comparative drinking cultures: early modern Bristol and Bordeaux. |
Lisa Jacobs | Lincoln, UK | Psychological Research Methods |
Daniel Jenkin-Smith | Aston University, Birmingham, UK | Literary Studies | portrayals of office workers in Anglophone and Francophone literature of the nineteenth century. |
Paul Jennings | Bradford (Retired) | History | Drink and drinking places 1600 to the present. |
Rachel Jones | | Freelance Training Consultant | Training for new alcohol licensees and the legal and moral obligations of selling alcohol. |
Jennifer A Jordan | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Sociology and Urban Studies | Craft beer and hard cider in the US and Europe; memory, food, and culture; landscapes of food and beverage production and consumption |
David Keatley | Lincoln, UK | Forensic Psychology | Drinking, policy making, and health psychology |
Sarah Kenny | Birmingham | History | Histories of drinking in post-war Britain |
Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin | Royal College of Art | History of Design | Material culture and masculine drinking culture in early modern London. |
Wojciech Klepuszewski | Koszalin University of Technology, Poland | Literary Studies | Alcohol in 20th Century fiction; Kingsley Amis, Lawrence Osbourne |
James Kneale | UCL | Geography | Drink as a spatial problem; parallels between historical and contemporary policy; popular and medical discussions of binge-drinking. |
Zetta Kougiali | University of Roehampton | Forensic Psychology | Lived experiences of alcohol dependence, processes and mechanisms of recovery, gendered pathways, life story approach |
Oscar Kruger | University of Kent | Anthropology/ Sociology | Cultivation of “natural wine” |
Beat Kümin | Warwick | History | Public houses in early modern Central Europe. |
Gabriel Kurczewski | Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland | History | History of Hungarian wine in Poland, history of Tokaj wine region, taverns in Poland |
Christopher Land | Leicester, UK | Work & Organisation | Artisanal production, craft and gender in the brewing industry |
Jenni Lares | University of Tampere | History | Drinking mentalities and cultural uses of alcoholic beverages in early modern Finland |
John Larsen | Drink Aware | | Director of Evidence & Impact |
Rachel Laudan | Institute for Historical Studies, Uni of Texas | History | The blurred boundaries between food and drink |
John Law | Westminster | History | Motorised leisure in inter-war Britain, esp road houses. |
Matthieu Lecoutre | Tours François-Rabelais | History | Drinking, drunkenness, norms and public houses in early modern France. |
Yannick Le Henaff | Rouen | Sociology | Uses of alcohol among youth. |
Rebecca Lemon | USC | English | Early modern addiction. |
Jemma Lennox | Bath | Psychology | Gender, sexuality and alcohol; alcohol marketing; alcohol and social media use; drinking spaces and the night time economy |
Dorota Dias-Lewandowska | Nicolas Copernicus University, Tourn, Poland | History | Cultural history of french wine in Poland, 17th-19th centuries. |
Darren Lilleker | Bournemouth | Political Communication | Works with the notion of the third space, considering how the public house offers the potential for interaction between citizens of diverse backgrounds and whether pubs can contribute to pluralism in society |
Ed Lilley | Bristol | Art History | Representations of drinking / alcohol in 18th & 19thC French art. |
Jonathan Ling | Sunderland | Pharmacy, Health & Wellbeing | Alcohol use through the lifecourse. |
Pam Lock | Bristol | Literature | The social and cultural connotations of alcohol in Victorian fiction |
Philip Long | Bournemouth | Tourism Studies | Alcotourism. |
Peter Lugosi | Oxford Brookes | Sociology/Geography | Cultures of consumption, particularly in commercial environments, and the management and organisation of drinking spaces. |
Antonia Lyons | Massey | Psychology | Contemporary drinking practices and drinking cultures, new technologies, gender and identity |
Sergio Lussana | Warwick | History | Drinking and masculinity in the American South. |
Alison Mackiewicz | Bath | Psychology | Young women’s excessive drinking and constructions of new femininities. |
Niamh Maguire | Waterford Institute of Technology | Criminology | Policing and sentencing of alcohol and drug related behaviour; Public order policing; Specialised and problem-solving courts including Drug Courts and Alcohol Courts |
Claire Markham | Lincoln | Social Science | Rural pubs and rural communities. |
Wendy Masterton | Stirling | Social Sciences and Natural Sciences | Reducing alcohol consumption using greenspace interventions |
Mat Mathias | UoW Newport | History | Drinking in southern Monmoutshire 1890-1910: its culture, victims and enemies. |
Daniel Maudlin | Plymouth | History | The material culture of inns in the British Atlantic world. |
Stephen Mawdsley | Bristol | History | Alcoholism, disability, and stigma during America’s Great Depression |
Annemarie McAllister | UCLAN | History | Temperance movements – especially the Band of Hope. |
Jim McCambridge | York, UK | Public Health | Broad interests in how alcohol affects public health and society |
Kevin McCarron | Roehampton | American Literature | Interested in representations of alcoholism and drug addiction in contemporary English and American literature. Particularly focused on evaluating the pervasive belief that addiction to these substances is “not a moral failing”. Currently writing a book for Palgrave Macmillam called Savage Usury: contemporary narratives of addiction. |
Trevor McCarthy | Independent | UK | Practitioner and alcohol & drugs treatment services manager, now self employed, recent work includes being part of the team that evaluated the Welsh Government alcohol and drugs strategy and future work includes evaluating the impact of the introduction of alcohol Minimum Unit pricing in Scotland. |
Tara McConnell | Independent | History | The history of wine consumption in Ireland, material culture of drinking and dining, women and alcohol. |
Jodie McGarry | Glasgow Caledonian University | Social Science | Younger women’s experiences of gambling and drinking |
Una McIlvenna | Sydney | History | Execution, ballads, and alehouses in early modern Europe. |
David McQueen | Bournemouth | History | Media, history and power. His own brewing of gruit ales has made him consider the political and religious history of the decline of this long standing styles of ale production, particularly in Protestant nations. |
Andrew McMichael | Western Kentucky | History | Alcohol in the Atlantic World. |
Rob McPherson | Canterbury Christ Church | Media, Art & Design | Alcohol consumption; young adults; night-time economy. |
Angela McShane | V&A Museum | History | Seventeenth-century English drinking culture and material culture. |
Franziska Meifort | University of Oldenburg, Germany | Modern History | Elite drinking cultures in the late modern era |
Claire Melia | Keele, UK | Psychology | Populist discourses of problematic alcohol use |
Phil Mellows | Independent | Freelance Journalist | The pub industry and alcohol policy. |
Lindsay Middleton | University of Glasgow/ University of Aberdeen | History | Lindsay’s project, ‘The Technical Recipe: A Formal Analysis of Nineteenth-century Food Writing’ explores how technology, food and drink intersect in the nineteenth century, via a structural analysis of the recipe genre. |
Anistatia Miller | University of Bristol, UK | History | The histories of brewing, distilling, and mixed drinks |
Andrew Misell | Alcohol Concern Cymru | Director of Alcohol Concern Cymru |
Sarbajit Mitra | SOAS | History | Consumption practices of various categories of intoxicants including liquor in the Bengal Presidency during the colonial period |
Lyndsey Moon | Warwick | Sociology | Women and alcohol policy. |
Martin Moore | Warwick | Psychology | |
Brian Morrison | UCLAN | Social Care | Developing and delivering alcohol mutual aid services. |
Katrina Moseley | Cambridge | History | Alcohol and the gendered body in Britain, 1920-1970 |
Rachel Moss | Oxford | History | Homosociality in late medieval England. |
Stella Moss | Royal Holloway | History | Twentieth-century drinking cultures, especially the gendered nature of public house sociability. |
Shaun Mudd | Exeter | Classics | Ancient Greco-Roman alcohol consumption. |
David Muggleton | Chichester | Leisure Studies | Breweries and ‘improved’ public house design in the interwar period. |
Colleen C. Myles | Texas | Geography and Political Ecology | Land and environmental management; (ex)urbanization; (rural) sustainability and tourism; wine, beer, and cider geographies (aka “fermented landscapes”); and agriculture (urban, peri-urban, and sustainable). |
Katrina Navickas | University of Hertforshire | History | Political meetings held in pubs & ginshops in 18th /19th century England. Held recent walking tour of Chartist pubs in west London for the British Library |
Fabrizio Nevola | Bath | History of Architecture | Early modern Italian taverns. |
Leiyun Ni | Warwick | History | British people’s eating and drinking experiences in China, 1700-1830. |
Emily Nicholls | York, UK | Sociology | Class, gender and femininities in the neoliberal Night Time Economy and the ways in which identities are negotiated through contemporary drinking practices |
James Nicholls | University of Stirling | Public Health | Alcohol and drug policy; histories of drinking; licensing and regulation. |
Lisa Nitsche | Aberdeen | Scandinavian Studies | Women, alcohol and drunkenness in early Scandinavian society |
David Nutt | Imperial | Neuropsychopharmacology | Former government advisor on drug harm and classification. |
Ferdinand Nyberg | Tübingen | American Studies | Intersections of 19thC temperance efforts, abolitionism, race, and gender. |
John O’Brien | Waterford Institute of Technology | Sociology | The historical-sociology of alcohol, alcohol-related public order offences, night-time economy, alcohol and creativity |
Helen O’Connell | Durham | English | Tea in Ireland, late 18th-early 20thC. |
Helen O’Connor | Community Drugs Service for South London | Psychology | Psychologist working in substance use/abuse, hoping to conduct a qualitative study on non-drinkers in sport. |
Eleanor O’Keeffe | Queen Mary University of London | | The role of alcohol, & licensing regulation in creating affective atmospheres of “comradeship” and governed/disciplined spaces of veteran reintegration post-WW1. |
Lila O’Leary Chambers | New York | History | Alcohol, diplomacy, and slavery in the early modern British Atlantic, 1580-1750 |
Gemma Outen | Edge Hill | English & History | Women and temperance in late-19th & early 20thC Britain. |
Catherine Palmer | Tasmania | Sociology | Sport and alcohol |
Jessy Parker Humphreys | Club Soda | | Driving after drinking in rural areas |
Maria Parrino | Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia | Linguistics & Comparative Cultural Studies | The gothic – body, mouth, voice, food and drink |
Joan Passey | Exeter / Bristol | English | Cornish Gothic literature, late 19th-early 20thC |
Rod Phillips | Carleton University, Ottawa | History | History of alcohol, esp. wine; wine in French history |
Vincent Pidoux | Lausanne | Biologie & Medicine | Neuroscience and behavioural/cognitive science; knowledge translation in medicine |
Hilary Pilkington | Manchester | Sociology | Alcohol and youth culture in post-Soviet Russia. |
Noelle Plack | Newman University College | History | The social and cultural role of wine in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France. |
Alex Powell | | History | The excess consumption and regulation of alcohol. |
Martyn Powell | Bristol | Literature | Associational culture and sociability in Ireland, Britain and the Atlantic World, and in this context has published on the relationship between politics and conviviality. He has particular research expertise in political toasting and ritualised drinking in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
Laurence Publicover | Bristol | Literature | Renaissance literature, esp Shakespeare. |
Jonna Pulkkinen | Finland | Author | Alcohol culture in 19th and 20th century Finland. |
Hilmi Rafet | Eskişehir, Turkey | Wine, wine tourism and spirits culture | Food and drinking pairing, the Raki and food (mezze) culture, the culture of distilled beverages and wine. |
Tyler Rainford | Bristol | English Literature | Social and Cultural History of Rum in Early Modern England and the Atlantic World |
Travis Richard | Surly Brewing Company | Professional Brewing | Brewing science and history. |
Matthew Rippon | Queen Mary | Human Geography | Geographical Indications for wines and spirits. |
Julie Robert | University of Technology, Sydney | International Studies | Health, philanthropy, advertising, narritives/narrators |
Graham Roberts | Paris-Ouest Nanterre | Russian Studies / Marketing | Alcohol marketing and identity politics in post-socialist Russia. |
Julia Roberts | Waterloo | History | Taverns as public space in Upper Canada (a British colony, ca. 1780s to 1850s). |
Richard Robinson | Helsinki | History | Drink in Brighton between 1880 and 1939. |
Frankie Rogan | Birmingham | Sociology | Gender and sexuality, alcohol and social media use, drinking spaces and the night time economy |
Edmund Rolls | Warwick | Computer Science | The neuroscience of thirst. |
Jessica M. Romney | University of Victoria | Classics and Ancient History | Greek literature, particularly as relates to ethnicity, gender, and politics. |
Craig Gunn | La Trobe, Australia | Sociology | Cultural studies and social epidemiology of drinking and alcohol problems, alcohol polciies and their interaction with drinking cultures. |
David Rosenthal | Edinburgh | History | Sixteenth-century Florentine taverns. |
Joseph Saguin Cabilin | Rogationist Seminary College | Philosophy | Interpreting the problem of alcoholism using Martin Heidegger’s philosophy specifically his notion of fallenes |
Frances Sanders | University of Surrey | Sociology | The social drinking practices of older LGBT people with a focus on drinking places and changes over the life-course. |
Lucy Santos | Independent | History | Cocktails and how they have been influenced by science, technology and medicine |
Michael Savic | Monash, Australia | Addiction Studies | Alcohol and other drug use, addiction, substance use treatment |
Andrey Sgorla | Italy | Social Science | Studying how learning experiences allow craft brewers to develop new knowledge and skills and build a new profession and be recognized. |
Michael Shallcross | | | Twentieth- and twenty-first century British pub culture, especially in relation to the advertising industry and the figure of the writer-drinker. |
Christopher Shirley | Northwestern | English | Alcohol consumption and 17thC English poetical miscellanies. |
Ruth Siddall | UCL | Architecture | Architecture and materiality, particularly stone, used in Late Victorian and Edwardian pubs and how this influences both the functionality and atmosphere of these establishments, in contrast to to materials used in ‘higher-end’ bars, cafés and civic buildings. |
Martin Skinner | Warwick | Psychology | Social behaviour. |
R. Charlie Small | Warwick | History | Drinking and the Royal Navy, 18th century. |
Anna Smelova | Central European University, Budapest | History | Temperance movement in late imperial Russia |
Andrew Smith | UCL | History | Winegrowers in Southern France |
Callum Daniel Smith | University of Bristol | History | Callum is an eighteenth-century parliamentary and social historian specialising in visual culture, with a focus on the role of alcohol in relation to extra-parliamentary lower order and aristocratic sociability, radicalism, and electoral ‘treating’ |
Oliver Smith | Plymouth | Criminology | Deviant leisure and the night time economy |
Jennifer Smith Maguire | Sheffield Hallam | Sociology and Critical Marketing | Provenance and authenticity; cultural production and intermediation; wine and beer |
Steven Spencer | Salvation Army Heritage Centre | History | The Salvation Army’s total abstinence stance and its relationship to the wider temperance movement. |
Patsy Staddon | Plymouth | Sociology | A social approach to women’s drinking issues. |
Craig Stafford | Liverpool | History | Women committed to prison for drink related offences in the early 1870s in Salford and Rochdale. |
Abigail Stevely | University of Sheffield, UK | Public Health | |
Richard Stone | Bristol | History | The history of cider |
Saverio Stranges | Warwick | Health Sciences | Alcohol drinking patterns and health implications. |
Nina Studer | University of Bern, Switzerland | History | Medical and psychiatric descriptions of drinking habits in the colonial Maghreb |
Anne Sugar | Florida | Telecommunications | Gendering of beer in the media and its effect on generational identity for Generation X and millennials |
Isabelle Szmigin | Birmingham | Marketing | Conceptualising consumer behaviour and understanding the social and policy issues concerned with consumption. |
Erika Szymanski | Edinburgh | Science, Technology & Innovation Studies | Social and historical dimensions of yeast in contemporary genetics, genomics, and synthetic biology |
Alex Taylor | Sheffield | History | Tobacco and alcohol in 17th century England. |
Kate Taylor | Liverpool John Moores | History | British female inebriates in the late 19th and early 20th century, the relationship between alcohol/alcoholism and class, respectability, and social mobility, and unlicensed inebriate institutions. |
Scott Taylor | Birmingham | Leadership & Organisation Studies | Craft brewing and gender. |
Scott K Taylor | Uni of Kentucky | History | Addiction, drugs and alcohol in early modern Europe |
Victorian Taylor-Smith | White Ribbon | | Temperance history; raises awareness into the harmful effects of drugs, gambling, tobacco and alcohol |
Eric Tenbus | Georgia College and State University | History | The nexus between beer, politics, the media, and nostalgia in late Georgian and Victorian Britain. |
Guy Thomson | Warwick | History | The role of alcohol in aspects of Mexican and Spanish history. |
Thomas Thurnell-Read | Loughborough | Sociology | Drinking and masculinity, alcohol and sociability, stag tourism, real ale and craft beer. |
Ann Tlusty | Bucknell | History | Drink culture in early modern Germany. |
Jussi Tolvi | Club Soda | | Alcohol and behaviour change |
Will Trinkwon | Independent | | Alcohol and hospitality in late-nineteenth-century literature and culture |
Victoria Jayne Troy | Glasgow Caledonian University | School of Health and Life Sciences | Alcohol and identity; substance use and parenting/the family; alcohol policy; alcohol brief interventions. |
Deborah Toner | Leicester | History | Drinking, race and nationhood in 19th century Latin America, esp. Mexico. |
Frederico de Oliveira Tosano | USP, Sao Paulo | History | American influence in the local cuisine during the 1930s, 40s and 50s |
Cristiana Vale Pires | Faculty of Psychology and Education of Universidade Católica Portuguesa and Kosmicare Association | Psychology and Anthropology | Heavy episodic drinking, gender perspectives in alcohol use |
Demmy Verbeke | KU Leuven | Classics | Food and drink in the work of Renaissance humanists. |
Jiri Vinopal | Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic | Sociology | Beer in Czech society. |
Kimberley Wade | Warwick | Psychology | The effects of alcohol on crime-related memories. |
Nadine Waehning | York St. John, UK | Marketing | Consumer motives to purchase craft beer, international marketing so the motives, enablers or inhabitors for breweries to enter new markets and networking among breweries |
Ella Wagner | Loyola University, Chicago | History | Women’s temperance movement in the US, specifically the politics of race and immigration within the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and their effect on the shifting figure of the “drunkard” in temperance rhetoric and ideology |
Andrew Wallace | University of Leeds | Urban Sociology | Craft brewing and its relationship with urban development, class relations and contemporary political economy. |
Jennifer Wallis | Queen Mary, University of London | History | Diseases of Modern Life project exploring secrecy and drinking in C19th |
Stuart Walton | | Independent Writer | Approaches to intoxication in philosophy and critical theory |
Anne Wegener Sleeswijk | Paris-1 Sorbonne-Panthéon | History | Wine trade and wine consumption in the United Provinces, 17th and 18thC. |
Jana Weiß | University of Münster, Germany | History | Cultural history of lager beer in the U.S. and the transatlantic, ethnicity, technology and knowledge, temperance movement |
Justus Wesseler | TU Munich | Agricultural and Food Economics | Economic history of beer brewing and consumption in Southern Germany. |
Edward Westermann | Texas A&M University | History | Edward Westermann’s research examines the intersection between masculinity, drinking rituals, and acts of atrocity under the Nazi regime. |
Nikhaela Wicks | Westminster | History | Policing, race and the night time economy. Her PhD research consisted of an ethnography in ‘Greenshire’ and reveals how nightlife is policed along racial lines |
Hedvig Widmalm | Uppsala University, Sweden | Economic History | The conditions for women brewing and selling alcohol and how they changed in Sweden during the 18th century |
Samantha Wilkinson | Nottingham | Sociology | Young people, alcohol and urban life |
Justin Willis | Durham | History | Social history of alcohol in East Africa, 1850-1999. |
Susannah Wilson | Warwick | French Studies | Drugs, intoxication and addiction in 19thC France. |
Phil Withington | Sheffield | History | Intoxication and the Renaissance in England. |
Dieter Wolke | Warwick | Developmental Psychology | The effect of alcohol consumption on children’s psychological development. |
Henry Yeomans | Leeds | Criminology | Regulation of drink and drinking in contemporary society. |
Richard Yntema | Otterbein | History | Dutch brewery industry in the early modern period. |