Dr Abigail Stevely
BSc, MPH, PhD
School of Health and Related Research
Research Associate for Y-Did and SPARC projects


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School of Health and Related Research
G033
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
- Profile
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I am currently a Research Associate working in the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group. I have been in Sheffield since 2013, when I began my undergraduate studies. I then joined the Master of Public Health course, from which I graduated with Distinction and was awarded the Hutchinson Prize in Public Health.
My PhD thesis applied theories of practice to develop alcohol epidemiology and policy analysis. I used data on how people drink alcohol (e.g. 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.
- Research interests
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Current projects
- Youth Drinking In Decline (Y-DID): A mixed methods investigation
- SPARC: Understanding stability and change in British drinking culture, 2001-2016
- Evaluating the effect of Minimum Unit Pricing in Scotland on harmful drinkers (commissioned by NHS Health Scotland)
- Publications
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- ‘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.
- 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
Conference proceedings papers
- 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
- 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
- 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