Serena Kennedy began her career in Policing in 1993 with Greater Manchester Police having gained a degree in Applied Biology at the University of Hull. Since that date she has had a varied career across three forces. In 2017 Serena joined Merseyside Police as Assistant Chief Constable, Investiga...

Mica Sefia is a 22 year old singer / singer writer based in Leeds and originally from Liverpool. She is a Leeds Conservatoire alumni student now working for the conservatoire as their EDI project Co-ordinator as well as working with Black Lives in music as an Ambassador.Mica uses her experie...

Michael is the CEO of the UK Night Time Industries Association and Chair or both the UK Door Security Association and national Promoter Society. With several decades of experience working within independent, corporate and public sector environments at executive level, Michael specialises in Mark...

Andi Herring is the CEO and Co-Founder of LCR’S Pride Foundation, the Liverpool City Region's LGBT+ Charity The organisation is best known for delivering their flagship event Pride in Liverpool, which attracts over 20,000 people to march through the city's streets. Year-round, the foundation wor...

Nightlife is an environment in which pleasure, intoxication and sexual expression and relations co-exist. Whilst for many nightlife is a safe space, safety can be compromised due to the prevalence of risky behaviours (e.g. alcohol and other drug use, a culture of intoxication and sexual risk taki...

Carly was appointed as Bristol’s first Night Time Economy Advisor in April 2021, which involves a pivotal role between night time operatives and local government. Bristol Nights has a clear focus on collaborative working around essential issues which support better jobs, safer environments, and ...

Cristiana Vale Pires, MSc, PhD, is a founder member of Kosmicare and a researcher and lecturer collaborating at the Research Centre for Human Development (CEDH) of the Faculty of Education Psychology of the Catholic University of Portugal. She has vast experience in collaborating and coordinating...

Dr Cathy Montgomery is a Reader in Psychopharmacology and Head of the Institute for Health Research at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Her research interests lie in the effects of substance use on neurocognition in recreational and dependent substance users, and the recovery of cognitive an...

In 2010, Owen founded the CNWL Club Drug Clinic, an innovative service offering treatment for emerging drug problems including novel psychoactive substances, club drugs and online purchased prescription medications. The service has recently expanded to support student health services at Imperial ...

Increasing your choice of Low and Alcohol-free drinks can diversify your customer base boost your takings and create loyalty. Laura Willoughby MBE, founder of Club Soda shares unique insights case studies and practical steps to improve the choice of drinks available in all social settings - ...

The first Club Health conference was held in Liverpool in 1997. Although conceived as a national conference, it immediately attracted an international audience. So just two years later the first international Club Health Conference was launched in Amsterdam. The conference has moved around the gl...

Paul Dillon has been working in alcohol and other drug (AOD) field for almost 30 years and has worked in the club health area for much of that time. He has been involved in a range of research projects investigating the use of ecstasy/MDMA, ketamine and GHB and was an investigator on a WHO ...

Dr. Johanna Gripenberg is a researcher and the Director at STAD (Stockholm prevents alcohol and drug problems). STAD is a research and development unit within Stockholm Centre for Psychiatry Research, Stockholm County Council, and the Karolinska Institutet at the Department of Clinical Neuroscien...