MRFF co-design workshops

As part of our power of the parents: co-designing health communications to reduce adolescent drinking MRFF, we have held 4 out of 5 co-design workshops in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Darwin with the final one to be held in Murray Bridge on 7th April 2025.

This project provides us with the opportunity to reduce adolescent drinking and associated harms by working with parents and adolescents to co-design health communications that empower parents to support their adolescents in making healthy choices regarding alcohol.

We would like to thank all parents, adolescents, and facilitators (listed below) who have been involved in these workshops to date. It has been inspiring to hear from parents and teens on how to shape messaging that discourages parents from supplying alcohol to adolescents.

Adelaide – Emma Portolesi, Saran Chamberlain, Svetlana Bogomolova (pictured above)

Sydney – Nichola Sandys, Krista Monkhouse

Melbourne – Emily Brennan, Sydnei Yang

Darwin - Cassandra Wright, Ruth Canty, Teegan Wattam

Along with NCETA team – Jacquie Bowden, Ashlea Bartram, Christina Norris.

PhD Scholarship Available

We are seeking an enthusiastic candidate for a PhD scholarship to be involved in this program of research.  This PhD scholarship will be based at NCETA, Flinders University, Adelaide (principal supervisor Prof Jacqueline Bowden). Associate supervision will be provided by national alcohol policy research expert Dr Ashlea Bartram, NCETA and chief investigators from the team.

Closing date is 30 March 2025 – click here to see more information including how to apply.

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