The 50th conference of the Kettil Bruun Society (KBS) will be held the 9-13 June 2025, at the University of Glasgow’s James McCune Smith Learning Hub.
The event is jointly hosted by the Institute for Social Marketing and Health at the University of Stirling and the University of Glasgow, and supported by IAS, Alcohol Change UK, SHAAP, and the Institute of Public Health.
KBS 2025 welcomes formal research or reports from practice on diverse topics. Examples include policy analysis and evaluation, alcohol cultures and practices including in minority or underserved populations, health and public service impacts, communication and advocacy, prevention, treatment, early intervention, alcohol industry tactics and counter-marketing, epidemiology and more. Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches, and applied practice-based research are welcome.
You can register for the conference here – early bird price available before February.
Late breaking abstracts are now being accepted – with the deadline for this being the 1st of March. The link to submit an abstract is here.
The conference also welcomes any proposals for open or closed meetings by research teams, policy, public health, charity or related organisations or collaborations who wish to take advantage of the opportunity of having leading experts on alcohol together in person.
IAS will host a lunchtime seminar on the topic of research and the policy process (title and day TBC). The seminar will:
- Be designed for early career researchers
- Give an overview of how research is fed into the policy process (alongside many competing factors)
- Offer guidance for engaging with civil society organisations to enhance policy relevance of research design and impact of findings
Event programme at a glance:
