June 9 - June 13
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.
The symposium focuses on the discussion of papers that are pre-circulated electronically on a password-protected area on this website. Papers are presented in 10-minute segments, followed by comments from the discussants and general audience participation. Any person who submits a paper may be asked to be a discussant or chair of a session. More information on abstract and paper submission can be found on the abstract submission page.
The aim of the organizers is to deliver the best KBS conference yet to celebrate the 50th anniversary and offer an inspiring forum for researchers to discuss current research.
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The conference is hosted by the team at the Institute for Social Marketing & Health, University of Stirling, in partnership with the University of Glasgow.
KBS
The principal aims of the Kettil Bruun Society (KBS) are to investigate social, epidemiological and cross-cultural research on alcohol use, to promote the exchange of scientific knowledge and experiences among researchers from various disciplines and to encourage international collaboration. The comparison of social and epidemiological developments found in different countries makes it possible to disentangle major trends from underlying patterns of alcohol use. This is particularly useful for the development of effective strategies to regulate alcohol use – an aspect which is of great interest in many countries.