Research project
Drink-Driving and Generational Change: Building an Explanation of the Drink-Drive Drop
- Start date: 1 February 2025
- End date: 31 July 2025
- Funding: Network for Time Pilot Projects Fund
- Value: £3744
- Primary investigator: Professor Henry Yeomans
- Co-investigators: Professor Jose Pina-Sánchez
- External co-investigators: Dr Laura Fenton, University of Sheffield
Drink-driving has declined massively in recent British history. This important, sustained behavioural change does not appear correlated with population-level trends in alcohol consumption, road safety or offending. Nor is it connected to legal change. What has caused this precipitous drop in drink-driving and associated harm? This pilot project begins an exploration of the extent to which generational change has driven the long-term decline in drink-driving in Britain.