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Session 1E - ALCOHOL & WOMEN

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Track 5
Monday, November 13, 2023
10:50 AM - 12:40 PM
Riverbank 4

Speaker

Miss Maree Patsouras
Phd Candiate
La Trobe University

Alcohol use as a tool for challenging or reinforcing predefined roles? – A qualitative study among working mothers

10:50 AM - 11:05 AM

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Maree Patsouras is a PhD candidate located at the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research at La Trobe University. Her topic interests include alcohol use among working mothers and digital and media alcohol exposure.
Ms Ratih Pertiwi
Phd Student
The University of Melbourne

‘Why was it problematic for us women to drink but not for men?’ – Drinking Practices Among Young Women in Jayapura and Sentani, Papua

11:05 AM - 11:20 AM

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Ratih Pertiwi has more than a decade of experience in working and doing research with local communities in Papua. She has been engaged in various projects with a number of organisations in Indonesia. Her work is mostly concerned with adolescent health, including drug and alcohol prevention and rehabilitation.
Dr Belinda Lunnay
Post Doctoral Researcher
Torrens University Australia

How does alcohol facilitate happiness and manage unhappiness for midlife women in different social classes?

11:20 AM - 11:35 AM

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Dr Belinda Lunnay has qualifications in health promotion and public health sociology. Her expertise is in understanding how structural disadvantages impact health outcomes with a particular focus on social class. She is currently exploring social class disparities in women’s alcohol consumption behaviour, breast cancer prevention and trust in risk messages.
Mrs Kristen Foley
Doctoral Student
Torrens University Australia

How might we support alcohol reduction for midlife women in different social classes? The potential role of wellness activities

11:35 AM - 11:50 AM

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I am a doctoral student exploring how we live our histories, including the social structures, things and ideas we are close to. I use innovative qualitative research approaches to consider interconnections between health, consumption, care, time use, alcohol, and the interplays between science, culture, wellness, market and place.
Dr Belinda Lunnay
Post Doctoral Researcher
Torrens University Australia

Delivering alcohol risk message to women: Considerations of trust by social class

11:50 AM - 12:05 PM

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Dr Belinda Lunnay has qualifications in health promotion and public health sociology. Her expertise is in understanding how structural disadvantages impact health outcomes with a particular focus on social class. She is currently exploring social class disparities in women’s alcohol consumption behaviour, breast cancer prevention and trust in risk messages.
Professor Antonia Lyons
Hugh Green Foundation Chair in Addiction Research
University Of Auckland

Drinking alcohol as a social practice at midlife: Views on health, risks and reducing consumption

12:05 PM - 12:20 PM

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Professor Antonia Lyons is the Hugh Green Foundation Chair in Addiction Research and the Director of the Centre for Addiction Research at the University of Auckland. Antonia has investigated drinking cultures and alcohol consumption at different life stages (including youth, young adult and midlife) within collaborative, multidisciplinary research teams.
Dr Ashlea Bartram
Senior Research Fellow
NCETA, Flinders University,

Parents’ perceptions and intentions to provide zero-alcohol beverages to adolescents

12:20 PM - 12:25 PM

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Dr Ashlea Bartram is a Research Fellow at NCETA, where she works on research and evaluation projects related to alcohol and other drugs, including NCETA's program of work on parents, adolescents and alcohol.
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Dr Cassandra Wright
Senior Research Fellow
Menzies

Using Heroes to Spruik Zeros: An examination of how zero-alcohol beers are promoted alongside sport

12:25 PM - 12:30 PM

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Dr Cassandra Wright is Senior Research Fellow and program lead of Alcohol and other Drugs at Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin.
Dr Daniel Stjepanovic
Research Fellow
The University Of Queensland

Zero-alcohol and young people: A study of residential college student behaviour and attitudes

12:30 PM - 12:35 PM

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Dr Rose Crossin
Senior Lecturer
University Of Otago, Christchurch

Quantifying access to ‘on-demand’ alcohol in New Zealand

12:35 PM - 12:40 PM

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Dr. Rose Crossin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Population Health, at the University of Otago, Christchurch. Her research is focussed on understanding and preventing harms arising from alcohol and drug use, including the impacts of legislation and policy.

Chairperson

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Victoria Cock
Clinical Director
Drug And Alcohol Services Of South Australia

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