Research award to measure teenagers' health literacy around alcohol
Researchers in Southampton Education School have recently received an award from the Faculty of Social, Human and Mathematical Sciences' Strategic Interdisciplinary Research Development Fund.
Dr Kathryn Woods-Townsend , Dr Marcus Grace and Dr Jenny Byrne will measure teenagers’ health literacy around alcohol.
This award has also been made in conjunction with Professor
Graham Moon
in Geography, Professor Paul Roderick, Sue Dewhirst and Dr Julia Sinclair from the Faculty of Medicine and Stacey Miller from the Wessex Alcohol Research Collaborative and will work with school students visiting LifeLab.
LifeLab
is a science education intervention designed to change young people's attitudes and behaviour towards their own health. It started in 2008 and will also celebrate its next milestone on Friday 22 March with an event at Southampton General Hospital. The event will highlight the start of building works for the new labs, their BUPA Foundation grant and the publication of a research paper.
Read more about the innovative LifeLab research in our research publication here