Andrew Percy

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Andrew Percy

Professor

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4156-1536

Emaila.percy@qub.ac.uk
Room 0G.019 - Sociology and Social Work

United Kingdom

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Topic areas include: \ quantitative criminology, \ adolescence,\ adolescent development,\ parenting, \ longitudinal research, \ alcohol, \ drug use,\ latent variable modeling,\ SEM,\ psychometrics,\ RCT,\ evaluations.

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Research Interests

Prof Percy is a quantitative criminologist engaged in the study of adolescent development, in particular, the emergence of risk-taking behaviours (such as alcohol, drug use and crime, which all peak in the teenage years).

His research has three core themes: a) examining the origins and outcomes of adolescent risk-taking, b) testing interventions to prevent and reduce the immediate and long-term harms associated with risk-taking behaviours, and c) applying innovative quantitative methods and statistics to the study of adolescent development.

The objective of his research activity is to promote positive healthy development in teenagers.

Teaching

Current teaching:

Psychological perspectives on crime (CRM3005);
Data visualisation (SQM1001);
Advanced statistics (SQM3002 & SQM3004)
Victim surveys (CRM1001)
Self Control Theory (CRM2001):

Previous teaching

Youth Crime and Criminal Justice \
Quantitative research design and methods \
Advanced quantitative research
Research Ethics in Social Research
Developmental psychopathology

Research Focus

Alcohol, drug use, delinquency, adolescent development, longitudinal research, social statistics, psychometrics, criminology, adolescents, teenagers, prevention, interventions, evaluation, RCTs

Interests

Cycling, board-games, comics, Scandinavian death metal, wine and Belgium beer

Keywords

HA Statistics
Longitudinal methods
latent variable models
multivariate analysis
psychometrics
H Social Sciences (General)
Criminology
alcohol
Drugs
Adolescence

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Projects

2 Active
8 Finished
R4781SES: Using the voluntary sector to provide services to children and families with complex needs - revised

Butler, M. (PI), Hayes, D. (CoI), McLaughlin, A. (CoI) & Percy, A. (CoI)

08/12/2016 → …

Project: Research

Service Industries
Family
Voluntary Sector
Alternative
Child
R4749CHC: Promoting resilience in children and young people affected by parental substance misuse (PSM): a feasibility study of the Pharos group work programme

McLaughlin, A. (PI), Hayes, D. (CoI), Higgins, K. (CoI), Macdonald, G. (CoI), McLaughlin, K. (CoI), O'Neill, T. (CoI) & Percy, A. (CoI)

18/02/2016 → 30/11/2016

Project: Research - ### R2173SSP: Improving Family Relations: Evaluation of the Family Matters Programme at HMP Maghaberry

Butler, M. (PI), Devaney, J. (CoI), Hayes, D. (CoI) & Percy, A. (CoI)

12/12/2014 → 31/03/2015

Project: Research

Child Rearing
Prisons
Parenting
Fathers
Skills
R2024SSP: QMQ Quantitative Methods at Queen's

Percy, A. (PI), Calvert, E. (CoI), Garry, J. (CoI), Marshall, A. (CoI) & Phinnemore, D. (CoI)

01/08/2013 → …

Project: Research

Quantitative Technique
R4591SSP: SHAHRP Evaluation

Percy, A. (PI)

01/08/2011 → 31/01/2016

Project: Research

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Research output

54 Article
13 Paper
12 Other contribution
6 Commissioned report
10 More
3 Other report
2 Book
2 Chapter
2 Comment/debate
1 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
1 Poster
1 Discussion paper
Disentangling the temporal relationship between alcohol‐related attitudes and heavy episodic drinking in adolescents within a randomized controlled trial

Percy, A., Padgett, R. N., McKay, M. T., Cole, J. C., Burkhart, G., Brennan, C. & Sumnall, H. R., 10 Dec 2024, (Early online date) In: Addiction. 10 p.

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Prevention Program
Medical Aspects of Alcohol Misuse
Adolescence
Drinking Behavior
Socioeconomic Status

48 Downloads (Pure) - ### Interplay Between Sensation Seeking and Parental Rules in the Emergence of Heavy Episodic Drinking

Percy, A., McKay, M. T. & Cole, J. C., Dec 2019, In: Journal of Research On Adolescence. 29, 4, p. 814-821 8 p.

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Sensation Seeking
Alcohol
Adolescents
Growth Curve

8 Citations (Scopus)

399 Downloads (Pure) - ### Recanting of previous reports of alcohol consumption within a large-scale clustered randomised control trial

Percy, A., Agus, A., Cole, J., Doherty, P., Foxcroft, D., Harvey, S., McKay, M., Murphy, L. & Sumnall, H., 14 Jan 2019, (Early online date) In: Prevention Science. 20, p. 844

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Ethanol
Randomized Controlled Trial
Secondary School Student

9 Citations (Scopus)

239 Downloads (Pure) - ### The Belfast Youth Development Study (BYDS): a prospective cohort study of the initiation, persistence and desistance of substance use from adolescence to adulthood in Northern Ireland

Higgins, K., McLaughlin, A., Perra, O., McCartan, C., McCann, M., Percy, A. & Jordan, J.-A., 23 May 2018, In: PLoS ONE. 13, 5, 18 p., e0195192.

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Substance Abuse
Drug Abuse
Behavior
Friendships
Resources

6 Citations (Scopus)

390 Downloads (Pure) - ### Steps Towards Alcohol Misuse Prevention Programme (STAMPP): a school-based and community-based cluster randomised controlled trial

McKay, M., Agus, A., Cole, J., Doherty, P., Foxcroft, D., Harvey, S., Murphy, L., Percy, A. & Sumnall, H., 09 Mar 2018, In: BMJ Open. 8, 3, 10 p., e019722.

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