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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻

@professorpub.bsky.social
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Professor at the University of York researching pubs and pub consumers! Some travelling (pubs/beer included) and the odd Border Terrier picture!

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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 1h
Quick pint at the Meadowpark before we head home after a fantastic Alcohol Research 2026 conference
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 9h
Great to be part of the ‘Should we care about the ‘death of the pub’? panel session at Alcohol Research 2026 with James Nicholls and @peterrice.bsky.social chaired by Rachel O’Donnell #pub
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Visit to the Birds and Bees, Stirling! I first visited this pub while at a conference in 2018 - as I’m here for another conference it felt appropriate to visit again!
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A post first day at conference pint at the William Wallace, Stirling - a wonderful Scottish welcome, well presented and comfortable! #pub
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A great first day at Alcohol Research 2026 Stirling University - a conference the same age as me and presenting our nolo project
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Started our journey to the Alcohol Research 2026: New Thinking, New Directions conference at the University of Stirling with a drink in the York Railway Tap!
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Our chapter on 'Pubs' in- '‘Poverty and Progress? 125 years on from Rowntree’s study of life in York" is now available - www.york.ac.uk/media/policy... (pages 85-93) @uoysbs.bsky.social
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Looking forward to this in a few weeks! #oktoberfest
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m down south but felt very northern this evening when my beer was served in a Timothy Taylors pint glass (it was Otter Brewery) and I was eating scampi bites made just outside York. ⬆️⬇️
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An exciting delivery! Now just need to find time to read it! 📖 and loving the picture of the @theswanyork.bsky.social @craftbeerchannel.bsky.social
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Afternoon tea break! @camraofficial.bsky.social
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APSAD DAR @apsad-dar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🆕Nudging Drink Choice in Pubs: The Impact of Introducing Alcohol-Free Beer on Alcohol Sales and Venue Revenues Nadine Waehning, Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻, Franziska Sohns doi.org/10.1111/dar.70271 University of York, Anglia Ruskin University
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Really happy that our paper has been accepted for publication in Drug and Alcohol Review - "Nudging Drink Choice in Pubs: The Impact of Introducing Alcohol-Free Beer on Alcohol Sales and Venue Revenues" - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Nudging Drink Choice in Pubs: The Impact of Introducing Alcohol‐Free Beer on Alcohol Sales and Venue Revenues
Introduction The project aims to evaluate the impact of introducing alcohol-free (AF) beer using three behavioural ‘nudges’ designed to encourage consumer uptake. Nudges are subtle changes to the ch...
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Pilot Boat, Lyme Regis! Helpful signage to the bar, should you need the help! Shorts and shots all round!
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Got my 2027 good beer guide and have already spotted a pub window sticker! @camraofficial.bsky.social
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Cat waits patiently in line at the Lyme Regis Brewery and after waiting their turn gets a nice container of milk! 🥛
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thank you! We have some other Q wirk that is under review/being written up! 😀
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Really happy that our paper "‘You don’t want to be sat on a sticky seat’: a Q-methodological foraging analysis of pub consumer choice" is now published in the Journal of Marketing Management @jmmnews.bsky.social First 50 eprints are available free - www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PX8ZR...
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‘You don’t want to be sat on a sticky seat’: a Q-methodological foraging analysis of pub consumer choice
This study investigates how consumers trade-off between various features when making pub choices, a previously underexplored area. Uniquely we apply foraging theory as a multi-level, ecologically b...
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Picked up a few new second-hand pub books from a great second hand book store in Bridport over the weekend! #pubs
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
After a walk along the beach from Charmouth to Lyme Regis pints at the Rock Point Inn with a sea view we’re just what we needed!
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Second stop in Charmouth was The George! Very friendly, pints lovely, big beer garden! Everyone enjoying the sun outside and no one inside! #pub
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
After a steep walk along the coast path the Royal Oak in Charmouth was a welcome sight! Well kept beer, dog friendly lower bar, and the food looked great (although the set up was a bit too gastro)! #pub
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Stroll around Bridport but too early for a drink - however spotted ‘The Pursuit of Hoppiness’ which looked lovely and turns out the @cancerresearchuk.org used to be ‘The Old George Inn’! #pubs
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Great to get coverage of our new nolo materials and the nolo beer award at the York @camraofficial.bsky.social beer festival 🍻 www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2655792...
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York CAMRA makes UK-first move with award for best NoLo beer
York CAMRA makes UK history by judging NoLo beers at its beer festival, as University of York research promotes alcohol-free drinks across 65 city…
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Had a great time yesterday doing my first ever beer judging! I was tasting and judging IPAs! Thanks to York @camraofficial.bsky.social for the invite to be a guest judge! 🍻
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Had a great time at the York Beer Festival yesterday - drinking some beer and sharing some of our new nolo materials! 🍻
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Managed to get a sneak peak at York Beer Festival setting up! Looking forward to my first ever beer judging, launching updated nolo materials and of course drinking beer 🍻
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Agreed!
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If you over indulged over the weekend this might be useful - theconversation.com/a-brief-hist...
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A brief history of the hangover and its cures – from cabbages to cloves and the lungs of a goat
Humans have spent thousands of years searching for a hangover cure – yet the ultimate price of heavy drinking remains unchanged.
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Popped over the border to Devon to visit Beer! Visited the Anchor Inn. Mainly because the fabulous view from its beer garden! #beerinbeer
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Friday after work pints at The Royal Standard in Lyme Regis! Great location with a beer garden overlooking the beach, oddly positioned pool table (right by the main bar) and Greek food!
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We’ve been to the brewery but not the fox & owl yet - it’s on our list!
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Counting down to next week…..
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Chance to own a little bit of pub history in Lyme Regis - the former Dolphin Inn - not sure the neighbours would be happy if I bought it and reopened it! 🍻
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Today’s beach reading…..
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Lunchtime beer at Lyme Regis Brewery Tap- where I discovered there is a resident cockatoo called Teddy!
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Headed uphill in Lyme Regis to visit the Nags Head Inn! Had a nice Exeter Brewery beer and a read of The Giant’s Pint from the West Dorset CAMRA branch!
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A visit to the Lyme Regis Brewery Tap at the Town Mill - a lovely shady spot when we visited (a warm afternoon in Lyme Regis today), a tasty IPA and relaxed vibe! 😎
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
On the main high street in Lyme Regis (Broad Street) we visited the Volunteer Inn- lots of chatting between tables, well kept and friendly staff! #pub
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Ship Inn, Lyme Regis! Nautical design, pool table, noodles and plenty of cider! Quieter than expected on a bank holiday afternoon but was getting busier by the time we left! #pub #dorset
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Heard to the The Grapes in Slingsby last night for the first evening of Mini Fest! Beers, music, food and dancing! 🕺
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Great beers at @theswanyork.bsky.social & the Slip Beer Festival!
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Light lunch at the Golden Ball, York - when we finally made it to York!
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It wasn’t our planned first destination of the day, but after a bus not turning up, a roadworks diversion and a cancelled train we made it to Omni in Malton - pints of Kirkstall and a refuge from the rain!
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A friend of mine has just sent me these photos from the Turk’s Head, on St Agnes, one of the Scilly Isles - the most South Westerly Pub in the British Isles! I am super jealous!
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Final stop of the day Whitelocks, Leeds- lovely as usual with plenty of people enjoying the sunny August weather! #pub
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Victoria & Commercial, Leeds- today with me visiting making it the Victoria x2 & Commercial! So much bigger than expected, really good renovation! #pub
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Yummy lunch at the Highland Laddie, Leeds! Considering the amount of food and drinks we had it was good value! Relaxed vibe with a very mixed clientele! #pub
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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