Great hearing Lily Davidson, PhD at Lisbon Addictions speak on social network analysis targeting 'strategic players' i.e. influential students for reducing heavy alcohol use when at university. Social influence harnessed for health!

The wonderful Lily Davidson, PhD presenting the promising results of feasibility trial using a two-stage social network intervention for substance use in Australian residential colleges. #RCT results coming soon! #LxAddictions22

Special afternoon being welcomed to Garramilla (Darwin region) by Larrakia people for #APSAD22 .

New paper! Our study features students’ perspectives on drinking culture in Aust. residential colleges, plus consequences, driving factors & potential harm min strategies. The paper highlights potential improvements, ongoing problems & recommendations. doi.org/10.1111/dar.13…

New pub out today 🎉 We used path analysis to explore a novel social cognitive theory model of problem drinking w 984 young adults. Drinking refusal self efficacy & alcohol expectancies can be useful treatment targets when social influence to drink is high link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Absolutely PACKED #AlcoholResearch session on the first day of #APSAD22 📊📈 Thanks to incredible speakers Lily Davidson, PhD Michael Livingston Rachel Visontay Kylie Lee Nathan Harrison

Audience being in awe after an Benjamin Riordan presi - now that's a reliable effect. Super engaging talk on the impacts of social media influencers for unregulated alcohol advertising today at #APSAD22 .

Good news! My article received enough downloads to be a #TopDownloadedArticle in 'Drug and Alcohol Review', the leading Australasian journal on alcohol and substance use. Check it out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Lily Davidson, PhD reporting on 12-month outcomes of a two-stage social network intervention aimed at reducing heavy drinking among residential college students.

Results in favour of using the social network intervention!
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Thanks to the efforts of Lily Davidson, PhD this important piece of work is up. An interesting application of SCT, revealing novel pathways between environmental influences for drinking behaviour.

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New paper! In 2020, we visited 9 Aust secondary schools soon after major #Covid_19 restrictions, for Cath Quinn's #adolescentaware project. Our paper, led by Janni Leung, explores changes in substance use of 844 yr 12 students, pre-post lock-down. Link: tinyurl.com/3txvk8dw

PhD candidate Lily Davidson, PhD presenting their work on a targeted social network intervention on alcohol use 🥂🥂
#NCYSUR22 symposium

Come see me at #RSA2023 this afternoon. Dr Rose Marie Ward Rose Marie Ward and I are investigating how identifying with various minority identities relates to alcohol outcomes, speficially blackout events. Keen to get your insights on our new work. Poster 103, 4.50pm. #RSA2023

.KCL Nicotine Research Group outing to see the sites of London with our guests from NCYSUR Epidemiology Group UWaterloo School of Public Health Sciences Tianze Sun 孙天则 gigivu Melis Selamoğlu Lily Davidson, PhD Ann McNeill Dr Katie East

Super impressive work by Molly Carlyle as usual, on the mechanisms that link childhood stress/trauma and addicitive behaviours. Not 1 but 4 awesome new studies! Well done Molly 👏 Lisbon Addictions

New paper! Led by Tesfa M Yimer, our study explored mental health service utilization in a low-resource setting. The paper outlines perspectives of health professionals on MH services and help-seeking among people with mental illness in Northwest Ethiopia. doi.org/10.1371/journa…

I had the pleasure of presenting the twelve month outcomes of my PhD social network intervention trial at Brown University School of Public Health today. Thank you for hosting me Brown University Brown University School of Public Health @profnancybarnett

Super engaging few days w Celia Morgan's team at University of Exeter discussing their trials on benefits & side effects of recreational drugs, incl. use in therapy. Presented my PhD trial & heard @profwaynehall (@NCYSUR) speak on history/revival of therapeutic psychedelics research.

Lily Davidson, PhD : Promising early findings from the 2 Stage social network intervention to address problematic drinking in college students Leanne Hides Zoe Lives Lived Well UQPsych 🙌🏼 #APSAD40 A.P.S.A.D