Alcohol Research Group
The Alcohol Research Group was based at the University of Edinburgh and was set up with funding from the Scotch Whisky Association in 1978. It later received core funding between 1990-95 from the drink industry funded Portman Group. Controversy dogged the group as a result of conflicts of interest connected to the funding relations with the drinks industry.
The ARG was based in 1988 in 'a crumbling wooden hut attached to the Department of Psychiatry in the University of Edinburgh'[1] adjacent to the Royal Edinburgh Hospital in Morningside on the South of the city.
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People
According to Martin Plant, writing in 1988, 'the past and current work of the ARG has been greatly assisted by the presence of a number of clinicians and researchers who are also based in Edinburgh'. these included Dr Jonathan Chick, Mr John Duffy, Prof Robert Kendell, Prof Norman Kreitman, Mr Dave Peck, Mr Ian Robertson and Dr Bruce Ritson.[1]
Wendy Loretto - 'worked for three years' at ARG.[2]
Funding
According to Martin Plant the Group was in receipt of funding from the following sources:
- Between 1978 and 1990 it received core funding from the Scotch Whisky Association. Since 1990 core funding has been provided by the Portman Group. The activities of the ARG have also been supported by the AIDS Education and Research Trust, the Alcohol Education and Research Council, the Bank of Scotland, the Brewers' Society, the Department of Transport, the Economic and Social Research Council, Ethicon Ltd, the Gannochy Trust, William Grant and Sons Ltd, the Health Education Board for Scotland, the Home Office, the Hope Trust, the Bill Kenyon Education Trust, Lothian Regional Council, Marks and Spencer PLC, MacGregor and Company, the Medical Council on Alcoholism, the Medical Research Council, the Mental Health Foundation, Renewal Clinics, the Robertson Trust, the Scottish Health Education Group, the Scottish Office, the Wellcome Trust, the Western Isles Health Board, the World Health Organization, and by two anonymous charities.[1]
Resources
- Plant, M. (1988) 'Edinburgh: The alcohol research group'. British Journal of Addiction, 83 (4). pp. 351-358. ISSN 0952-0481.
- Jonathan Rhys Evans #500,000 aid for alcohol research Glasgow Herald, Thursday 26 October 1989.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Plant, M. (1988) 'Edinburgh: The alcohol research group'. British Journal of Addiction, 83 (4). p. 351. Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "Plant" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ University of Edinburgh Business School Wendy Loretto, accessed 3 November 2013
