The SSA Fred Yates prize for Researcher of the Year 2019
Congratulations to 2019's joint winners of the Fred Yates Prize for Researcher of the Year: Dr Kyla Thomas and Dr Hamid Noori.
Congratulations to 2019's joint winners of the Fred Yates Prize for Researcher of the Year: Dr Kyla Thomas and Dr Hamid Noori.
The SSA is sponsoring a free 1-day conference entitled Reinforcing Behaviour Change in Addiction Treatment, to be held at Bush House in London on 5th April 2019.
Full details are available HERE
Booking is open for the third Lisbon Addictions European Conference on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies.
23 - 25 October 2019
https://www.addiction-ssa.org/funding/lisbon-addictions-conference-2019
Student-led research - Helen Howlett, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - 'A survey of health care professionals' knowledge and experience of Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and alcohol use in pregnancy’
Research and service evaluation and audit - Dr Allan Tyler, Centre for Addiction Behaviours Research, London South Bank University - ‘Optics and illusions of street drinking in East London - a thematic analysis’
A request for nominations for a new SSA-supported project from Drs Sharon Cox and Sally Marlow
Congratulations to Dr Andrew McAuley, Senior Epidemiologist in the Sexual Health and Blood-Borne Virus Team at Health Protection Scotland and Senior Research Fellow within the School of Health & Life Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University, and winner of the 2018 Fred Yates prize for his broad-based contribution to the addiction field, through addiction research on both alcohol and drug related harms and harm reduction policy initiatives; research findings; and through policy advisory positions.
Student-led Research - Miss C Hindocha from UCL - Cannabidiol reverses attentional bias to cigarette cues in dependent cigarette smokers
Research - Dr Emma Ward UEA - An ethnographic observational study of support given in vape shops to people using e-cigarettes to quit smoking
Evaluation/Audit - Miss Stephanie Dargan NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde - Alcohol related deaths; A Glasgow city cohort
The Board are pleased to announce that existing Board members Professor Sir John Strang, Dr Daphne Rumball and Professor Ann McNeill have been re-elected for a further three year term at this year’s AGM in Newcastle.
Congratulations to Dr Andrew Jones, Lecturer in addiction and motivation at the University of Liverpool winner of the 2017 Fred Yates pize for his contribution to addictions research in the area of disinhibition and alcohol use.
Read the full SSA June Newsletter.
Dr Sally Marlow, (former SSA PhD Student) explores why so many musicians of the post-war era turned to heroin.
Do you want to study an addictions subject at university? Up to £2,500 available per annum (or £4,500 when taking courses of more than a single module)
Full details and application forms on this page: www.addiction-ssa.org/funding/bursaries