Dr Abigail Stevely

BSc, MPH, PhD

Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health

Research Fellow

a.stevely@sheffield.ac.uk

G033, Regent Court (ScHARR)

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Dr Abigail Stevely
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
G033
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA

Profile

I am currently a Research Fellow working in the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group (SARG), funded by the NIHR SPHR Post-doctoral Launching Fellowships scheme. I am also working on a project evaluating the public health impact of no- and low-alcohol drinks.

My background is in biomedical science and public health. I completed my BSc, MPH and PhD at the University of Sheffield. My PhD thesis applied theories of practice to develop alcohol epidemiology and policy analysis. I used data on how people drink alcohol (eg drinking beer in a pub or relaxing on the sofa) to identify contexts associated with heavy alcohol consumption within drinking occasions and to evaluate the effects of the Licensing Act 2003. I joined SARG in 2020 as a Research Associate.

Research interests

My research focuses on alcohol epidemiology, public health policy evaluation, and reducing health inequalities. I am interested in how complex social systems produce and interact with population health and inequalities, and in using this knowledge to inform intervention development, evaluation and refinement.

My recent projects have focused on changes in the clustering of health and wellbeing indicators among adolescents in high-income countries since the early 2000s, and the evaluation of major alcohol policies including minimum unit pricing in Scotland.

Publications

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Featured publications

Journal articles

Stevely AK, Holmes J & Meier PS (2021) Combinations of Drinking Occasion Characteristics Associated with Units of Alcohol Consumed among British Adults: An Event-Level Decision Tree Modeling Study.. Alcohol Clin Exp Res, 45(3), 630-637. View this article in WRRO
Stevely AK, Vocht F, Neves Lic RB, Holmes J & Meier PS (2021) Evaluating the effects of the Licensing Act 2003 on the characteristics of drinking occasions in England & Wales: A theory of change‐guided evaluation of a natural experiment. Addiction. View this article in WRRO
Stevely AK, Holmes J, McNamara S & Meier PS (2020) Drinking contexts and their association with acute alcohol‐related harm : a systematic review of event‐level studies on adults' drinking occasions. Drug and Alcohol Review. View this article in WRRO
Stevely A, Dimairo M, Todd S, Julious SA, Nicholl J, Hind D & Cooper CL () An Investigation of the Shortcomings of the CONSORT 2010 Statement for the Reporting of Group Sequential Randomised Controlled Trials: A Methodological Systematic Review. PLOS ONE, 10(11), e0141104-e0141104. View this article in WRRO

All publications

Journal articles

Holmes J, Sasso A, Hernández Alava M, Borges Neves R, Stevely AK, Warde A & Meier PS (2024) How is alcohol consumption and heavy episodic drinking spread across different types of drinking occasion in Great Britain: An event-level latent class analysis. International Journal of Drug Policy, 127, 104414-104414.
Holmes J, Sasso A, Hernández Alava M, Stevely AK, Warde A, Angus C & Meier PS (2023) Change and stability in british drinking practices and culture between 2009 and 2019: A longitudinal latent class analysis of drinking occasions.. SSM - Population Health, 101548-101548.
Stevely AK, Gray LA, Fairbrother H, Fenton L, Henney M & Holmes J (2023) A latent class analysis of change and continuity in adolescent health and wellbeing in England during the decline in youth alcohol consumption: a repeat cross-sectional study. Preventive Medicine Reports. View this article in WRRO
Stevely AK, Mackay D, Alava MH, Brennan A, Meier PS, Sasso A & Holmes J (2023) Evaluating the effects of minimum unit pricing in Scotland on the prevalence of harmful drinking: a controlled interrupted time series analysis. Public Health, 220, 43-49.
Holmes J, Sasso A, Alava MH, Neves RB, Stevely AK, Warde A & Meier PS (2022) The distribution of alcohol consumption and heavy episodic drinking across British drinking occasions in 2019: a cross-sectional, latent, class analysis of event-level drinking diary data.. Lancet, 400 Suppl 1, S50.
Hardie I, Stevely AK, Sasso A, Meier PS & Holmes J (2022) The impact of changes in COVID‐19 lockdown restrictions on alcohol consumption and drinking occasion characteristics in Scotland and England in 2020 : an interrupted time‐series analysis. Addiction.
Stevely AK, Holmes J & Meier PS (2021) Combinations of Drinking Occasion Characteristics Associated with Units of Alcohol Consumed among British Adults: An Event-Level Decision Tree Modeling Study.. Alcohol Clin Exp Res, 45(3), 630-637. View this article in WRRO
Stevely AK, Vocht F, Neves Lic RB, Holmes J & Meier PS (2021) Evaluating the effects of the Licensing Act 2003 on the characteristics of drinking occasions in England & Wales: A theory of change‐guided evaluation of a natural experiment. Addiction. View this article in WRRO
Holmes J, Beard E, Brown J, Brennan A, Kersbergen I, Meier PS, Michie S, Stevely AK & Buykx P (2020) The impact of promoting revised UK low-risk drinking guidelines on alcohol consumption: interrupted time series analysis. Public Health Research, 8(14). View this article in WRRO
Holmes J, Beard E, Brown J, Brennan A, Meier PS, Michie S, Stevely AK, Webster L & Buykx PF (2020) Effects on alcohol consumption of announcing and implementing revised UK low-risk drinking guidelines : findings from an interrupted time series analysis. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. View this article in WRRO
Stevely AK, Holmes J, McNamara S & Meier PS (2020) Drinking contexts and their association with acute alcohol‐related harm : a systematic review of event‐level studies on adults' drinking occasions. Drug and Alcohol Review. View this article in WRRO
Stevely AK, Holmes J & Meier PS (2019) Contextual characteristics of adults’ drinking occasions and their association with levels of alcohol consumption and acute alcohol‐related harm : a mapping review. Addiction. View this article in WRRO
McNamara S, Holmes J, Stevely A & Tsuchiya A (2019) How averse are the UK general-public to inequalities in health between socioeconomic groups? A systematic review. The European Journal of Health Economics. View this article in WRRO
Stevely AK, Buykx P, Brown J, Beard E, Michie S, Meier PS & Holmes J (2018) Exposure to revised drinking guidelines and ‘COM-B’ determinants of behaviour change: descriptive analysis of a monthly cross-sectional survey in England. BMC Public Health, 18(1), 251-251. View this article in WRRO
Fenton L, Fairbrother H, Whitaker V, Henney M, Stevely AK & Holmes J () Geographies of alcohol and generation: Examining the decline in youth drinking in England through a spatial lens. Drug and Alcohol Review.
Fenton L, Fairbrother H, Whitaker V, Henney M, Stevely A & Holmes J () ‘When I came to university, that’s when the real shift came’: alcohol and belonging in English higher education. Journal of Youth Studies, 1-17.
Warde A, Sasso A, Holmes J, Hernandez Alava M, Stevely A & Meier P () Situated drinking: the association between eating and alcohol consumption in Great Britain. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
Stevely A, Vashishtha R, Fairbrother H, Fenton L, Henney M, Livingston M & Holmes J () Are changes in attitudes towards school associated with declining youth drinking? A multi-level analysis of 37 countries. European Journal of Public Health.
Stevely A, Dimairo M, Todd S, Julious SA, Nicholl J, Hind D & Cooper CL () An Investigation of the Shortcomings of the CONSORT 2010 Statement for the Reporting of Group Sequential Randomised Controlled Trials: A Methodological Systematic Review. PLOS ONE, 10(11), e0141104-e0141104. View this article in WRRO
Holmes J, Angus C, Sasso A, Stevely A & Meier P () What proportion of on-trade alcohol is served to those who are already potentially intoxicated? An analysis of event-level data. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

Conference proceedings papers

Stevely A, Holmes J, Sasso A, Alava MH, Warde A, Angus C & Meier P (2023) OP54 Change and stability in British adults’ drinking practices and culture between 2009 and 2019: A longitudinal latent class analysis. SSM Annual Scientific Meeting
Holmes J, Beard E, Brennan A, Brown J, Gillespie D, Meier PS, Michie S, Stevely AK, Webster L & Buykx P (2019) Effects on alcohol consumption of announcing revised UK low-risk drinking guidelines : findings from a monthly cross-sectional survey. The Lancet, Vol. 394 (pp S54-S54). London, UK, 29 November 2019 - 29 November 2019. View this article in WRRO
Dimairo M, Stevely A, Todd S, Julious S, Nicholl J, Hind D & Cooper C (2015) Investigation of the shortcomings of the consort 2010 statement for the reporting of group sequential randomised controlled trials. Trials, Vol. 16(S2) View this article in WRRO

Reports

Stevely A (2023) New modelling of alcohol pricing policies, alcohol consumption and harm in Scotland
Stevely A (2022) Evaluating the impact of Minimum Unit Pricing in Scotland on people who are drinking at harmful levels
Stevely A, Sasso A, Alava MH & Holmes J (2021) Changes in alcohol consumption in Scotland during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: Descriptive analysis of repeat cross-sectional survey data

Preprints

Holmes J, Sasso A, Alava MH, Neves RB, Stevely AK, Warde A & Meier PS (2023) Alcohol consumption and heavy episodic drinking within different types of drinking occasion in Great Britain: An event-level latent class analysis, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Grants

NIHR SPHR Launching Fellowship
Evaluating and responding to the public health impact of no and low alcohol drinks: A multimethod study of a complex intervention in a complex system (NIHR PHR Research Grant)
Developing contextually specific interventions to reduce alcohol consumption amongst increasing and higher-risk drinkers within the Drink Less App (MRC PHIND Research Grant)
Evaluating the effect of Minimum Unit Pricing in Scotland on harmful drinkers (commissioned by Public Health Scotland)
Doctoral studentship (NIHR SPHR and University of Sheffield)