Speakers
The organisation committee seeks prestigious speakers on current nightlife topics. The list of speakers will be updated regularly.
Ph.D. Emmanuel Kuntsche
Senior Researcher at the Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems (SIPA)
Titel of the contribution: Going out to have fun and get drunk? Motivational aspects of young adults' drinking on weekends
Prof. Bill Sanders
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the California State University, Los Angeles, California
Titel of the contribution: The Illicit Use of Legal Substances
Prof. Antonia Abbey
Professor of Pschology at the Wayne State University, Detroit
Titel of the contribution: Alcohol's Role in Sexual Assault: Explanations and Applications for Nightlife Environments
Dr. med. MPH Gregor Burkhart
Scientific Analyst at the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)
Titel of the contribution: Polydrug use: Similarities and differences in Europe. Implications for prevention policies
Prof. Dr. Boris B. Quednow
Assistant professor at the University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich
Titel of the contribution: Brain Serotonin Function in MDMA (Ecstasy) users
MA Alexander Bücheli
Deputy head of the youth counselling Streetwork, at the Social Services of the City of Zurich
Titel of the contribution: Fourteen years of Recreational Drug Prevention in the City of Zurich. Which results have been achieved and what we can learn from these experiences?
Prof. Ross Homel
Professor and Director, Grffith Institute for Social and Behavioural Research
Titel of the contribution: Developing feasible experimental designs to improve knowledge about what works to maintain reductions in aggression in the licensed environment.
Matthew Nice
Research Expert at the United Nation Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Titel of the contribution: The State of the Global Synthetic Drug Situation
Dr. Samantha Wells
Scientist and assistant Professor at the department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Western Ontario and Dalla Luna Shool of Public Health, University of Toronto
Titel of the contribution: Male barroom aggression: The explanatory roles of alcohol, drinking contexts, and young men's perceptions, attidudes and beliefs.
Professor Mark Bellis
Professor at and Director of the Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University.
Titel of the contribution: Safer Nightlife - It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it?
