Associate Professor Michael Livingston is an Associate Professor at the National Drug Research Institute. He has worked at the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research at La Trobe Uni and Turning Point and at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre. His research interests span alcohol policy, alcohol epidemiology and survey methodology. He completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2012 and has subsequently been funded by a series of NHMRC and ARC research fellowships.