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Family Practices, Holiday and the Everyday (2015)
Journal Article
Holdsworth, C., & Hall, S. M. (2015). Family Practices, Holiday and the Everyday. Mobilities, 284-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2014.970374

Holidays are central to the rhythm of everyday family practices and consumption, and are often depicted, within both academic literature and consumer marketing, as a defining moment in contemporary family life. To date, academic accounts of the exper... Read More about Family Practices, Holiday and the Everyday.

Lifecourse transitions, gender and drinking in later life (2015)
Journal Article
Frisher, M., Holdsworth, C., MENDONÇA, M., DE OLIVEIRIA, C., PIKHART, H., & SHELTON, N. (2017). Lifecourse transitions, gender and drinking in later life. Ageing and society, 37(3), 462-494. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X15001178

Older people consume less alcohol than any other adult age group. However, in recent years survey data on alcohol consumption in the United Kingdom have shown that while younger age groups have experienced a decline in alcohol consumption, drinking b... Read More about Lifecourse transitions, gender and drinking in later life.

Is alcohol consumption in older adults associated with poor self-rated health? Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (2015)
Journal Article
Frisher, M., Mendonça, M., Shelton, N., Pikhart, H., de Oliveira, C., & Holdsworth, C. (2015). Is alcohol consumption in older adults associated with poor self-rated health? Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. BMC Public Health, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1993-x

Background Increases in alcohol related mortality and morbidity have been reported among older people in England over the last decade. There is, however, evidence that drinking is protective for some health conditions. The validity of this evidence... Read More about Is alcohol consumption in older adults associated with poor self-rated health? Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

“Drinking definitely wasn’t something that we’d seen anybody do”: The relevance of childhood experiences of family drinking for parenting strategies of alcohol-socialisation (2015)
Journal Article
Holdsworth, C., Laverty, L., & Robinson, J. (2017). “Drinking definitely wasn’t something that we’d seen anybody do”: The relevance of childhood experiences of family drinking for parenting strategies of alcohol-socialisation. Families, Relationships and Societies, 37-52. https://doi.org/10.1332/204674315X14359059952709

This article considers the significance of family context for intergenerational drinking practices. Socialisation approaches to drinking behaviours assume that people carry forward actions and ideals that are developed in formative settings during ch... Read More about “Drinking definitely wasn’t something that we’d seen anybody do”: The relevance of childhood experiences of family drinking for parenting strategies of alcohol-socialisation.

The cult of experience: standing out from the crowd in an era of austerity (2015)
Journal Article
Holdsworth. (2017). The cult of experience: standing out from the crowd in an era of austerity. Area, 49(3), 296-302. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12201

Faced with uncertain futures associated with precarious/casualised employment or unemployment, young people are increasingly encouraged to invest in practices of distinction that enable them to stand out from the crowd in the pursuit of employability... Read More about The cult of experience: standing out from the crowd in an era of austerity.

Gendered forms of responsibility and control in teenagers' views of alcohol (2015)
Journal Article
Holdsworth. (2015). Gendered forms of responsibility and control in teenagers' views of alcohol. Journal of Youth Studies, 794 - 808. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2014.992325

There has been a shift in the most recent UK Government's Alcohol Strategy (2012) from personal responsibility towards a model of shared responsibility for young people's drinking. On closer examination of the strategy, however, it appears that rathe... Read More about Gendered forms of responsibility and control in teenagers' views of alcohol.