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Young People, Alcohol, and Risk theorises the social, cultural, and economic shifts that have underpinned significant declines in young people's drinking in high-income countries.

Amy Pennay is a sociologist and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University. Her research investigates how social and cultural factors influence drinking practices and health outcomes. Her recent work has focused on youth drinking practices, (sub)cultures of drinking, and intersections of drinking and policy with social determinants such as gender, class, race, place and sexuality.

Gabriel Caluzzi is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University and the University of New South Wales. His research explores how drug and alcohol practices among young people are informed by sociocultural contexts, the sociology of health and the sociology of youth. His PhD explored the cultural meanings young people associate with alcohol and how recent declines in young people's drinking might be understood within the context of broader generational changes. In particular, he is interested in how digital technologies might be implicated in shaping different drinking practices among young people.

Laura Fenton is a sociologist with interdisciplinary research interests in youth, life course, generation, gender, alcohol and creative methods. She is Research Associate in the Sheffield Addictions Research Group at the University of Sheffield. Her PhD explored the place of alcohol in the life histories of three generations of British women. More recently, she has conducted research on the impact of austerity policies on young people's lives and imagined futures, and led on the analysis of qualitative data for a Wellcome Trust funded project on the decline in youth drinking.

John Holmes is Professor of Alcohol Policy at the University of Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield Addictions Research Group and Co- Director of the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Addictions. He completed degrees in Social Policy at the University of York and has worked at the Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research (SCHARR) since 2010. His research underpinned the introduction of minimum unit pricing in Scotland and the development of new low- risk drinking guidelines in the UK and Australia. More recent work focuses on the international decline in youth drinking, analyses of trends in drinking practices, and the public health impact of alcohol- free and low- alcohol drinks.

Michael Livingston is Associate Professor at the National Drug Research Institute in Australia. He has previously worked at the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research and the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre and has a long history of research on alcohol policy and epidemiology. His work focuses on the impact of alcohol policy changes and general trends in alcohol consumption and harm, with a particular emphasis on youth drinking patterns.

Jonas Raninen is Associate Professor at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden where he is the Team Leader for research on the use of alcohol and other drugs among youth. He is an epidemiologist with focus on drinking habits in the general population with a special focus on youth drinking. He is also the principal investigator for the Futura01 project, a longitudinal study following one of the light drinking cohorts born in 2001 as they grow older, mapping both how their drinking habits develop and the consequences of drinking and not drinking during adolescence.

Jukka Törrönen has a PhD in sociology, and is a professor at the Department of Public Health Sciences at Stockholm University on social alcohol and drug research (SoRAD). He has had long- term interest in alcohol and drug research, theoretical sociology, and qualitative methods. His recent and ongoing work has been focused on different forms of addiction, on young people's drinking practices and identity work, on drug use and risks, on women's health and substance use, and comparative studies on changes in the cultural position of drinking.