Professor David Foxcroft

David Foxcroft

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Professor of Community Psychology and Public Health

Department of Social Work and Public Health - Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

Research activities

Details of my research

Professor Foxcroft is a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) and holds the Chair in Community Psychology and Public Health at Oxford Brookes University. He undertook his PhD at the University of Hull with Dr Geoff Lowe, investigating the socialization of drinking behaviour in young people. His major research interest is in the Public Health of Drug and Alcohol Misuse, especially in young people.

Alongside this major interest he also undertakes selected health services research projects and is very supportive of the development of research skills, especially systematic reviewing, amongst nurses and other non-medical health professionals.

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Recent publications

  • Strang, J , Babor, T , Caulkins, J , Fischer, B , Foxcroft, D and Humphreys, K . ( 2012 ). Drug policy and the public good: evidence for effective interventions. Lancet. (9810) View more details »
  • Babor , T , Caulkins , J , Edwards , G , Fischer , B , Foxcroft, D , Humphreys, K , Obot, I , Rehm, J , Reuter, P , Room, R , Rossow , I and Strang , J . ( 2010 ). Drug Policy and the Public Good. . Oxford University Press () View more details »
  • Smith, L and Foxcroft, D . ( 2009 ). Drinking in the UK: an exploration of trends. . Joseph Rowntree Foundation () View more details »
  • Foxcroft, D , Kypri, K and Simonite, V . ( 2009 ). Bayes Theorem to estimate population prevalence from Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) scores. Addiction. (7) View more details »
  • Coombes, L , Allen, D , Marsh, M and Foxcroft, D . ( 2009 ). The Strengthening Families Programme (SFP) 10-14 and substance misuse in Barnsley: the perspective of facilitators and families. Child Abuse Review. (1) View more details »
  • Moreira, T , Smith, L and Foxcroft, D . ( 2009 ). Social norms interventions to reduce alcohol misuse in University or College students. . John Wiley & Sons (CD006748) View more details »
  • Smith, L and Foxcroft, D . ( 2009 ). The effect of alcohol advertising, marketing and portrayal on drinking behaviour in young people: systematic review of prospective cohort studies. BMC Public Health. (51) View more details »
  • Moreira, T and Foxcroft, D . ( 2008 ). The effectiveness of brief personalized normative feedback in reducing alcohol-related problems amongst University students: protocol for a randomized controlled trial. BMC Public Health. () View more details »
  • Watson, M , Gates, S , Smith, L , Ball, D and Foxcroft, D . ( 2008 ). Meta-analysis of the association of the Taq1A polymorphism with the risk of alcohol dependency: A HuGE gene-disease association review. American Journal of Epidemiology. (2) View more details »

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