1st Edition

Perspectives on Drinking, Manufacture and Drinking Spaces and Places

Edited By Victoria Wells, Nadine Waehning, Robert Bowen Copyright 2026
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides contemporary perspectives on marketing management with regards to drinking behaviour, drinking spaces and places, brewing, product development and inclusion. Globally, approximately one in three people (32.5%) drink alcohol equating to roughly 2.4 billion people. Behind this consumption, there are a range of brewers, distillers and winemakers who produce alcohol and suppliers... Read more

Introduction: perspectives on drinking, manufacture and drinking spaces and places

Victoria Wells, Nadine Waehning and Robert Bowen

 

1. Predicting transitions in alcohol buying behaviour

Giang Trinh, John Dawes and Byron Sharp

 

2. Place attachment and home drinking: a qualitative study and research agenda

Sara Parry

 

3. Place in young adults’ alcohol journeys

Lauren J. Gellatly, Cynthia M. Webster, Leanne Carter and Steve D’Alessandro

 

4. Capabilities and collaborative marketing practices among rival cluster-based wine producers

James M. Crick and Dave Crick

 

5. Exploring consumers’ drinking behaviour regarding no-, low- and mid- alcohol wines: a systematic scoping review and guiding framework

Hannah Ford, Rebecca Dolan, Steve Goodman, Susan Bastian, Wes Pearson and Armando Maria Corsi

 

6. “A sporty, healthy twist?”: interrogating the deployment of health and wellness discourses in No and Low alcohol (NoLo) marketing and consumer practices

Emily Nicholls

 

7. Craft beer lacks space for women as beer professionals

Inka Kosonen, Sarah Barnard and Daniel Sage

 

8. A pint-sized conversation: publicans, brewers, and academics on the UK beer, pub and brewing industry

Bob Cary, Paul Crossman, Robert Deakin, Kelly Sidgwick, Thomas Thurnell-Read and Victoria Wells

 

Biography

Victoria Wells is a Professor at the University of York, UK. Victoria’s research focuses on pub consumer behaviour. She has examined consumer cooperative pubs, pub locations and pub crawling as well as no and low alcohol products. She shares her pub thoughts on X @ProfessorPubUK and Bluesky @professorpub.bsky.social.

Nadine Waehning is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at the University of York, UK. She has published in International Journal of Hospitality Management, Regional Studies, and Marketing Letters. She has led funded projects and joined the International Beeronomics Society Board in 2025. Her research explores hospitality, craft industries and consumer behaviour in no/low-alcohol; follow her on Instagram @nolowproject.

Robert Bowen is a Senior Lecturer in International Entrepreneurship at Cardiff University, UK, with specialisms in rural enterprise, sustainable growth, and food and drink SMEs, having published in a range of international journals, and presented his research at the Welsh Parliament, House of Lords and European Commission.