Kicking the Habit
The project page for Kicking the Habit: Historicising 'Addictive' Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025. Wellcome Trust Funded. Runs 2024-30 @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
- Exciting News! The project's very own @d-oneill.bsky.social will be talking about tobacco sponsorship in F1 and its associated public health challenges at the Silverstone Museum next weekend. Do consider attending if interested. Info is in the linked post.
- I'll be presenting at @silverstonemuseum.bsky.social on Saturday 18 October as part of their annual research forum. Hear me talk about the history of tobacco sponsorship in Formula One and the challenges this posed for public health. Info and tickets here: www.silverstonemuseum.co.uk/whats-on/eve...
- REMINDER: Just a week left now to submit abstracts to the CfP below.
- Thank you to everyone who came to our first project Advisory Board meeting yesterday. We had some really fantastic conversations about our research, and meaningful ways of disseminating it. Really looking forward to everyone's input over the course of the project.
- In particular, many thanks to: @jamesnicholls.bsky.social, @historymartin.bsky.social, @robinireland.bsky.social, Fiona Dobbie, Virginia Berridge, David Beckingham, and Lauren Fisher (from Sporting Chance).
- REMINDER: There’s just under a month left until the CfP for 'Historicising CDoH' closes. Please do share & circulate widely/consider submitting an abstract by 13 October 2025 if you’re interested.
- CfP: Excited to announce our first workshop, exploring histories of Commercial Determinants of Health. Workshop to be held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on 15 April 2026. Please circulate widely/consider submitting an abstract by 13 October 2025.
- Thanks to @the-polyphony.bsky.social for posting a blog introducing our project, 'Kicking the Habit: ‘Addictive’ Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025', on the tobacco, alcohol and gambling industries’ sponsorship of football, rugby, cricket, F1 & tennis. Funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social
- The researchers (@kthabitproject.bsky.social) leading the Wellcome-funded ‘Kicking the Habit’ project introduce us to its key themes, socio-historical contexts, and guiding ambitions. @kthabitproject.bsky.social thepolyphony.org/2025/04/04/k...
- This 6-year interdisciplinary project is held at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social Led by PIs @profannagreenwood.bsky.social @alexmold.bsky.social @shwardle.bsky.social PDRAs @milkwknives.bsky.social @d-oneill.bsky.social @fabiolacreed.bsky.social
