SARN Events
Our members and partners host and participate in a wide range of events throughout the year including seminars, conferences and more. You can learn more here as well as browse an archive of past events.
Upcoming Events
Alcohol Occasionals 2025 – Alcohol and LGBTQIA+ Communities
Oct 7, 2026
Past Events
Alcohol Occasionals 2025 – Scotland’s first Managed Alcohol Programme
Sep 1, 2025
Alcohol Occasionals 2025 -Relapse prevention and alcohol related cirrhosis
Jun 23, 2025
Alcohol Occasionals 2025 – Court-enforced Alcohol Abstinence and Reoffending
May 12, 2025
Early and Mid-Career Alcohol Researcher Event
Mar 11, 2025
Alcohol Occasionals 2024 -Ambulance clinicians’ preparedness for handling alcohol-related call-outs
Jun 19, 2024
Ambulance clinicians’ preparedness for handling alcohol-related call-outs
Jun 19, 2024
Alcohol Occasionals 2024 – Can the language we choose help us reduce alcohol-related harms?
May 22, 2024
Can the language we choose help us reduce alcohol-related harms?
May 22, 2024
Alcohol Occasionals 2024 -No- and low-alcohol drinks: Potential and pitfalls for public health
Apr 24, 2024
No- and low-alcohol drinks: Potential and pitfalls for public health
Apr 24, 2024
Alcohol Occasionals 2024 – A match made in Scotland: the relationship between alcohol & football
Mar 20, 2024
A match made in Scotland: the relationship between alcohol & football
Mar 20, 2024
Early and Mid-career Alcohol Researcher Event
Mar 18, 2024
Alcohol Occasionals 2023 – Re-shaping Scotland’s Night-time Economy
Jul 25, 2023
Reshaping Scotland’s Night-time Economy: public and stakeholder views on the changing role of alcohol post...
Jul 25, 2023
Alcohol Occasionals 2023 – Gendered alcohol brand marketing in a changing world
Jun 20, 2023
Gendered alcohol brand marketing in a changing world: exploring the targeting and representation of women...
Jun 20, 2023
Alcohol Occasionals 2023 – Alcohol marketing to LGBTQ+ people
May 24, 2023
Alcohol Marketing to LGBTQ+ people: Evolving strategies to target identity
May 24, 2023
Alcohol Occasionals 2023 -Availability, the poor cousin of marketing and pricing
Apr 25, 2023
“Availability is the poor cousin of marketing and pricing”: Qualitative study of experts’ views on...
Apr 25, 2023
SARN Early Career Researchers Conference 2023
Jan 23, 2023
Alcohol Occasionals 2022 – ‘I’m just getting the impression I have to sort myself out’:...
Jun 21, 2022
Views on care for Co-occurring heavy alcohol use and depression
Jun 21, 2022
Alcohol Occasionals 2022 – Navigating the complexity of harm and care: a qualitative study of...
May 23, 2022
Navigating the complexity of harm and care: a qualitative study of self-harm and alcohol use
May 23, 2022
Alcohol Occasionals 2022 – Youth drinking in decline: Implications for policy and practice
Apr 20, 2022
Youth drinking in decline: Implications for policy and practice
Apr 20, 2022
Alcohol Occasionals 2022 – Minimum Unit Pricing: Qualitative study of the experiences of homeless drinkers,...
Mar 31, 2022
Minimum Unit Pricing: Qualitative study of the experiences of homeless drinkers, street drinkers and service...
Mar 31, 2022
Alcohol Occasionals 2021: Greenspace programmes for problem substance use
Jun 15, 2021
Alcohol Occasionals 2021: Managed alcohol programmes (MAPs)
Jun 1, 2021
Alcohol Occasionals 2021: “Understanding drinking transitions during lockdown: social inequalities, alcohol and the COVID-19 pandemic”
Apr 28, 2021
Alcohol Occasionals 2021: Alcohol-related violence and deprivation
Mar 30, 2021
Qualitative Methods Journal Club #5 Write-up
Mar 24, 2021
Alcohol Occasionals 2021: “Exploring men’s alcohol consumption in the context of becoming a father: A...
Feb 25, 2021
Qualitative Methods Journal Club #4 Write-up
Feb 23, 2021
Alcohol Occasionals 2021: “Beyond behaviours: How health inequality theory can enhance our understanding of the...
Jan 20, 2021
Qualitative Methods Journal Club #3 Write-up
Jan 14, 2021
Qualitative Methods Journal Club #2 Write-up
Dec 15, 2020
Qualitative Methods Journal Club #1 Write-up
Nov 11, 2020
EXTRA EVENT: ‘Heineken in Africa: A multinational unleashed’
Jul 9, 2019
“You could just show a little more compassion”: A meta-ethnography of what constitutes effective problem...
May 23, 2019
Exploring the role of food and nutrition for women in recovery from alcohol and substance...
Apr 25, 2019
Pathways to Recovery for individuals, families and communities
Jan 15, 2019
Dying for a drink. Launch of SHAAP alcohol mortality report
Oct 26, 2018
‘Drunk and doubly deviant? Gender, intoxication and assault’
May 28, 2018
Accounting for Harms; the role of qualitative sociology in social justice approaches to alcohol and...
Apr 23, 2018
‘Alcohol harm reduction through a social justice lens:lessons from Canada’
Mar 12, 2018
‘The challenges and opportunities of doing socially just research in unjust spaces’
Jan 29, 2018
Alcohol- related deaths in Glasgow City: A cohort study 2013
Dec 4, 2017
Social Justice, alcohol and youth transitions: findings from a case study in Edinburgh
Nov 6, 2017
Alcohol-related liver disease: Guidance for good practice
Oct 24, 2017