Kicking the Habit: Historicising 'Addictive' Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025. Wellcome Trust Funded. Runs 2024-30 @UniofNottingham @LSHTM @UofGlasgow
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We've launched our 'Kicking the Habit' project website and Digital Map. It uses people's submissions of everyday objects to historise unhealthy sponsorship in British sport through branded memorabilia since 1960. Visit to submit content and learn more: kickingthehabit.uk/memorabil…
Still in need of #WorldCup content? Then read our latest blog post. We've taken a deep dive into the sponsorship partnerships that have supported the #football tournament and its teams over the decades:
kickingthehabit.uk/blog/all-…
In the final blog introducing our three strands, @FabiolaCreed @GlaGamRes charts a few policy changes regarding gambling sports sponsorships in ‘Banned to Bustling Betting’.
The blog explores football, cricket and rugby from the 1960s to the present: kickingthehabit.uk/blog/ille…
Next up in our project blog series, Jamie Banks @Milk_w_Knives explores the history of alcohol sponsorship in British sport.
You can read about it below: kickingthehabit.uk/blog/adve…
Whilst there, check out our digital map: kickingthehabit.uk/digital-m…
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In the first of three blogs exploring each of the project’s strands, @danoneill87 takes us through a short history of tobacco sponsorship in British professional sport. Read more about Dan’s research here: kickingthehabit.uk/blog/cava…
Whilst there, send us your own sports sponsorship memorabilia, and check out its Digital Map kickingthehabit.uk/memorabil…
We held our first project workshop @LSHTM
a fortnight ago. If you're interested in reading about some of the fantastic papers we had the pleasure of hearing, you can read the blog on our website: kickingthehabit.uk/blog/kick…
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REMINDER: Just a week left now to submit abstracts to the CfP below.
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.
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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.
@PointsHistory introduces 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 pointshistory.org/post/kicki…
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This 6-year interdisciplinary project is held at @UniofNottingham @LSHTM @UofGlasgow @UofGSocSci
Led by PIs @drannagreenwood Professor Alex Mold @shwardle
PDRAs @Milk_w_Knives Dr Daniel O'Neill @FabiolaCreed
Our first blog introduces our @wellcometrust funded project, 'Kicking the Habit: ‘Addictive’ Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025'. It focuses on the tobacco, alcohol and gambling industries’ sponsorship of football, rugby, cricket, F1 and tennis thepolyphony.org/2025/04/04/…
This 6-year interdisciplinary project is held at @UniofNottingham @LSHTM @UofGlasgow @UofGSocSci
Led by PIs @drannagreenwood Professor Alex Mold @shwardle
PDRAs Dr Daniel O'Neill @Milk_w_Knives @FabiolaCreed
@the_polyphony