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The life-course implications of declining adolescent drinking

  • Research program: Alcohol policy and strategies
  • Project status: Current
  • Start date: January 2022
  • Expected end date: December 2025
  • Completion date:
  • Funded by: ARC Future Fellowship
  • Lead organisation: Curtin University
Project Description

The project aims to identify ways to ensure that recent declines in adolescent drinking are maintained and reinforced as these cohorts age into young adulthood. It expects to generate new knowledge on the trajectories of youth drinking into young adulthood. Expected outcomes include new cross-national understandings of the

predictors of heavy drinking in adulthood and an updated evidence base for the development of harm prevention policies and interventions by governments and NGOs. This should provide significant benefits to Australia via reductions in the negative health and social impacts of heavy drinking for these cohorts across their lives.

PhD Student
PhD Supervisors
NDRI Project Staff
Name & Contact Details Role Research Program Location
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Dr Michael Livingston
Tel:
michael.livingston@curtin.edu.au
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Chief Investigator

Alcohol policy and strategies

Melbourne
NDRI Adjunct Project Staff
External Project Staff
Project Contact

Dr Michael Livingston
Associate Professor
Tel:
michael.livingston@curtin.edu.au
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Sustainable Development Goals and Targets

This project aligns with the following Sustainable Development Goals and Targets:

Related Publications

Pennay, A. and Livingston, M. (2025). Let's talk about pleasure: Bridging the sociology and public health divide. Addiction, 120, (6), pp. 1082-1083. doi:10.1111/add.70035 [RJ2256] View web page

Pennay, A., Caluzzi, G., Fenton, L., Holmes, J., Livingston, M. and Raninen, J. (2025). Young People, Alcohol and Risk: A Culture of Caution. Routledge, London. [M110]

Taylor, N., Callinan, S., Pennay, A., Torney, A. and Livingston, M. (2025). Does parental cohort increase the likelihood of underage alcohol consumption in Australia? Drug and Alcohol Review. doi:10.1111/dar.14042 [RJ2254] View web page

Vieira, E., Taylor, N., Stevely, A., K., Pennay, A., Raninen, J., Holmes, J., Vashishtha, R. and Livingston, M. (2025). A systematic review of adolescent alcohol-related harm trends in high-income countries with declines in adolescent consumption. Addiction. doi:10.1111/add.70026 [RJ2237] View web page

Taylor, N., Callinan, S., Pennay, A. and Livingston, M. (2023). Have the personality and socio-demographic profiles of Australian adolescent drinkers changed? Drug and Alcohol Review, 43, (3), pp. 604-615. doi:10.1111/dar.13793 [RJ2139] View web page