AERC News

Conference

Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum Keynote Seminar:
Alcohol – The Next Steps for Policy

Thursday, 2nd July 2009 - Sixty One Whitehall, London SW1A 2ET

With the Chief Medical Officer and the Scottish Government laying out plans for a revised approach to alcohol policy, and with the Home Office beginning a consultation on changing the law regarding alcohol sales, this timely seminar will look at the effectiveness of alcohol strategies and media campaigns in England and Wales in combating alcohol misuse, and whether it is time to reconsider minimum pricing and constraints on alcohol availability.

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Family Training Programme for Alcohol Misuse 2009

After the great success of the Family Training Programme for Alcohol Misuse last year, Alcohol Concern, in association with Wendy Robinson Consultancy, will be running this training again in 2009.

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Conference announcement

Alcohol and the adolescent: addressing the binge society

Tuesday 8 September 2009
Venue: The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE

Further details can be found on the Royal Society of Medicine's website.

AERC appoints a Chief Executive

Dave Roberts joins the AERC after ten years as Chief Executive of the Community Foundation for Merseyside, one of the most significant in a UK network of community foundations that is the largest independent funder of the voluntary sector in the UK. In that capacity, he has been responsible for developing partnerships and drawing in funds from a range of public, private and charitable sources and developing award-winning grant making processes. Dave's earlier career had been within regeneration and local government. He lives in North Wales and his time at the AERC will be divided between home and the London office.

Ray Hodgson is still the Research Director
Andrea Tilouche is the Committees and Grants Manager

Dave says: "I am delighted to be joining the AERC at such an exciting time in its development. Alcohol issues are high on the national agenda at the moment and the AERC is determined to play a major role in making sure that the policies that are developed are the right ones. This is an organisation that has achieved a great deal over the last three decades but is now ready to step up a gear and be at the forefront of influencing change; I look forward to helping that to happen.”

Wessex Alcohol Research Collaborative (WARC) to appoint a lay panel.

WARC are aiming to appoint five lay expert members and a Chair to constitute the WARC Lay Expert Panel, and contribute to the research process giving advice from the perspective of people who have (personal or professional) experience of alcohol use disorders.

Download a PDF detailing WARCs aims and details of the specifications for Members and Chairperson.

The AERC Has Moved!

Our new address is as follows:

AERC,
The Alcohol Education and Research Council, Eliot House (EH 1.4),
10 – 12 Allington Street, LONDON SW1E 5EH

Tel: 020 7808 7150 Fax: 020 7808 7151

Nightlife & Crime

Phil Hadfield, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies was funded by the AERC to investigate alcohol policy. His new book Nightlife and Crime: Social Order and Governance in International Perspective is a collection of scholarly reports on crime and disorder in the Night Time Economies of 17 countries.

View a promotional leaflet here.

AERC Funded Publication

The effect of alcohol advertising, marketing and portrayal on drinking behaviour in young people: systematic review of prospective cohort studies.

Read more here.

Conference Report: Addiction and the family

Two hundred people attended a conference on Addiction & the Family in Bristol on November 21st, 2008. This meeting was one of series that Moira Plant and Martin Plant and their colleagues have arranged over the past 30 years. This event, like many of the previous meetings, was supported by the Alcohol Education & Research Council (AERC).

Read more here.