From Oppression to Hope: Reducing Heavy-Drinking with Midlife Women

Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP250104494

This project aims to reduce alcohol consumption in 4 heavy drinking groups of midlife women by developing/testing co-designed interventions aimed at changing social practices around alcohol. This project expects to generate new knowledge on the personal, social and cultural drivers of heavy drinking using novel interdisciplinary approaches combining social practice theory, critical consciousness and pedagogies of oppression and hope. Expected outcomes include: community-level actions and policy/practice levers for alcohol reduction; and enhanced capacity for the research team to address the societal impacts of alcohol on the global stage. This should provide significant benefits in terms of reducing alcohol consumption for midlife women.