Dr Abigail Stevely

BSc, MPH, PhD

School of Medicine and Population Health

Research Fellow

Abigail Stevely
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a.stevely@sheffield.ac.uk
G033, Regent Court (ScHARR)

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

I am a Research Fellow in the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (SARG), holding degrees in biomedical sciences and public health from the University of Sheffield. I have worked at the Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research (SCHARR) since 2020 and held an NIHR SPHR Launching Fellowship from 2023 to 2025. 

Much of my work has focused on evaluating major policy interventions including minimum unit pricing in Scotland. I have also worked on understanding the impact of COVID-19 on drinking behaviour. My current research focuses on the 2023 Alcohol Duty reforms and the public health impact of alcohol-free and low-alcohol drinks.

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

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.

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Grants
  • 2026-2028: Natural Experimental Evaluation of increasing the Minimum Unit Price for alcohol in Scotland to 65p (NEEMUP65). NIHR Public Health Research (£1.2m). Work-package lead and co-investigator.
  • 2024-2027: Reducing alcohol harms during a cost-of-living crisis: Evaluating the impact of alcohol duty reforms across Great Britain. NIHR Public Health Research (£2.0m). Work-package lead and co-investigator.
  • 2022-2026: Evaluating and responding to the public health impact of no and low alcohol drinks: A multi-method study of a complex intervention in a complex system. NIHR Public Health Research (£2.2m). Co-investigator.
  • 2023-2025: NIHR SPHR Launching Fellowship (£165K). Personal funding award.
  • 2022-2024: Developing contextually specific interventions to reduce alcohol consumption amongst increasing and higher-risk drinkers within the Drink Less App. MRC PHIND Research Grant (£135K). Co-investigator.
  • 2017-2020: NIHR SPHR Doctoral studentship. Personal funding award.