Alcohol in Context: Alcohol Experiences Among First-Year Residence-Dwelling Students at Two Canadian Universities
Bibliographic record
Abstract
While extensive research has examined alcohol-related harms in university residences, few studies have explored how specific drinking contexts-such as physical location, policies, and broader socio-cultural factors-shape student alcohol use. This qualitative study utilized semi-structured interviews with 25 first-year residential students and 16 staff across two Canadian universities (University of Calgary, Alberta, and Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia) to investigate how intersecting social, physical, economic, and policy environments contribute to university residences as risk and/or enabling environments. Drawing on Rhodes's risk environment framework, the analysis identified three themes: (1) Navigating tensions between policies and the physical and economic environments; (2) Shaping alcohol experiences through social influences; and (3) Co-creating cultures of care. This research highlights how student residences can reduce alcohol-related harms while fostering cultures of care, health, and well-being. These findings provide deeper insights into peer influence, the promotion of enabling environments, and integrating restorative justice as part of harm reduction strategies.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".