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Staff Profile

Dr Karenza Moore

Reader in Sociology

  • Personal Website: http://www.clubresearch.org
  • Address: School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
    Room 4.108 Henry Daysh Building
    Claremont Road
    Newcastle University
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU, UK
Background

Background

I hold a PhD in Sociology from the University of Surrey, awarded in 2004. My thesis was titled Versions of the Future of Mobile Communication Technologies. I used a Foucauldian framework to explore versions of ‘the future’ as produced by digital technology companies and by young people. My PhD contributed to the development of the now well-established field of the Sociology of the Future.

Since 2004 I have held RA and Lecturer posts at the University of Manchester, Lancaster University, and the University of Salford. I joined Sociology at Newcastle University in July 2021. I was promoted to Reader in Sociology in August 2023.

Academic Qualifications

PhD in Sociology, University of Surrey, UK (2004). ESRC scholarship.

MA in Medical Sociology (Distinction), University of East Anglia, UK (1998). UEA Scholarship.      

BA (Joint Hons) in Sociology and French (First Class), University of East Anglia, UK (1997)

Professional Qualifications

Newcastle University Policy Academy Fellow (2021)

HFE Level 3 Pilates Instructor, HFE Awarding Body / CIMSPA Associate Member (2018)

Certificate in Academic Practice, Lancaster University, UK. Higher Education Authority Fellow (2008)



Research

Research Interests

I have been researching and writing about illicit drug use for nearly 25 years. My research explores the prevalence, use patterns, emerging drug trends, meanings, motivations and consequences of drug use (including alcohol, illegal drugs, novel psychoactive substances, and illicit medications). My focus is on illicit drug use in recreational settings, including raves, nightclubs, festivals and afterparties. I have single/co-authored 50+ articles on various issues around drugs, youth cultures, and also gender and technologies.

Please access my publications via Google Scholar here

I am committed to contributing to the sociology of crime and deviance, critical drug studies, cultural and critical criminology, digital sociology, youth studies and critical public health. I use quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods, and draw on recent turns towards the material, affective and sensory within the social sciences. This helps to contest simplistic notions of ‘drugs’. 'Drug use' incorporates highly contested practices with moral significance and normative judgements, emergent in specific socioeconomic and cultural spaces/times such as night-time economies (NTEs). I explore drug use and intoxication in terms of risks, harms and (often ignored) pleasures.

Research topics

Gender and digital industries, futures, youth leisure, dance music scenes and subcultures, drug use prevalence, patterns and trends, emergent drug trends, specific drugs (inc. MDMA/Ecstasy, ketamine, GHB/GBL, and mephedrone), drug use in recreational settings, drugs and digital technologies, drug cultures, drug markets, drug laws, drug policing, drug policies and related practices, 'addiction' and recovery from dependent drug use, drug research methods and ethics, racism and the war on drugs.

For Postgraduate Supervision please see Teaching tab.

Current Research Activities

Most recently I completed a study on increases in the use of ketamine in UK and Europe as part of my Safer Partying work; this involved working alongside Crew, a drugs charity in Scotland. I have also been focusing on young queer and trans people of colour (QTPOC) and their experiences of UK rave/dance music cultures (Moore 2025 in press). I have also published about stigma, shame and blame associated with MDMA/Ecstasy use in leisure-pleasure spaces/times (Moore 2022). I was involved in work on the liminal leisure of disadvantaged young people in England with Dr Nick Woodrow, University of Sheffield (Woodrow and Moore 2021), as part of a SI of the Journal of Applied Youth Studies on 'intersecting crises of youth' (see Moore et al 2021).

I enjoy collaborations with academics and practitioners who share my concern with approaching crime and deviance from a sociological base and through a critical and pragmatic lens. I was for example Co-I on an AHRC/UKRI Covid Rapid Response project #COVIDSEXLIVES with Professor Ben Light, University of Salford, Professor John Mercer, Birmingham City University, Dr Jamie Hakim, Kings College London, and four RAs. We explored Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM)'s use of dating apps in the pandemic, with a focus on engagement with public health messaging. Please click here to access the project's final report.

Academic/Activist Work

Engagement and impact generation are key to working in the drugs research field and to drug policy change activism. I work primarily with stakeholders in the leisure industry, criminal justice, and public health sectors. I also work closely with a range of dance music brands, events and venues, providing professional advice around alcohol and harm reduction initiatives.

As an Academic/Activist I work in support of international and national drug policy and practice change in the context of the risks and harms produced by global drug prohibition. I support harm reduction approaches to drug use, and work in conjunction with key drug organisations including Release, Crew and the Beckley Foundation.

In 2024 I disseminated my Safer Partying research on ketamine, and launched a ketamine harm reduction campaign in conjunction with Crew.scot called Take Ket? Let's Chat?, co-producing freely available resources made with young people for young people, and freely available here.

In 2019 I co-authored the first report of its kind on the regulation of MDMA/Ecstasy for the Beckley Foundation. In 2018 co-authored a book chapter and an EU report about undertaking targeted population surveys on recreational drug use across Europe, in collaboration with the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) and the European Society for Social Drug Research (ESSD).

Esteem Factors

Delivered online invited talks to hundreds of practitioners at statutory and charitable drug treatment services (in addition to commissioners): Change, Grow, Live (with Professor Rob Ralphs, Manchester Met University) (100+), We Are With You (70+), Dundee Mental Health and Substance Use Team (15); Grampian Mental Health and Substance Use Team (200+). 

Cross Departmental Combating Drugs Strategy Unit, UK Government, Youth Advisor to Locals Lead (2021- date)

Invited to give oral evidence to the Home Office Analysis and Insight Unit on motivations for drug use among young people post-pandemic, 20th July 2023, Home Office, 2 Marsden Street, London.

Invited to give oral evidence to Home Affairs Select Committee on the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016, and young people’s drug use in recreational settings, 27th April 2022, London. Announcement available here. Full final report of HASC available here.

Steering Committee member, NIHR project on drugs and youth gangs (2023-date)

Grant Reviewer for ESRC (Large Grants) (2023-date)

Grant Reviewer for the Swiss National Science Foundation (2022 – date)

Grant Reviewer for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2021 – date)

British Sociological Association Youth Study Group Co-Convenor (2018 - 2023)

Collaborative building of a virtual Youth Studies community during lockdown through role as a British Sociological Association’s Youth Studies Group Co-convenor. Co-chaired 8 virtual meet ups regularly attended by 40 academics and youth work professionals since March 2020.

Board member of Drugs: North West 

Oxford Martin Associate, Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre, University of Oxford 

Member of Lancaster University’s interdisciplinary centre Security Lancaster: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/security-lancaster/.

Member of Lancaster University’s Institute for Social Futures (ISF): http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/social-futures/.

Delivery of a TED talk on drug prohibition (2012) and a Social Science Bites interview (2016).

Advisory Board Member and Reviews Editor for Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture (2008 – 2014)

Review Activities

Regular journal article reviewer for Addiction; Addiction Research and Theory (ART); British Medical Journal (BMJ); Crime, Media, Culture; Crime Prevention and Community Safety: An International Journal; Drugs and Alcohol Today; Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy (D:EEP); Information, Communication, Society (ICS); International Journal of Drug Policy; International Journal of Social Inquiry; Journal of Drug Issues; Leisure Studies; New Media and Society; Polity Press; Sociological Research Online; Temple University Press; Young - Nordic Journal of Youth Research.

Conference/Event Organisation

2023: Reimaging the Lifecourse: Examining Childhood and Youth Futures, British Sociological Association Lifecourse Stream Plenary and Provocations, BSA Annual Conference 2023, Manchester, UK, 13th April 2023, organised with BSA Youth Study Group co-conveners, Keynote: Professor Rob MacDonald, Huddersfield University, 50+ delegates.

2022: Imagining the Future of Youth Studies: A Colloquium and Social. 9th September 2022, British Sociological Association Youth Study Group In-Person Event, hosted by Manchester Centre for Youth Studies and Substance Use (MCYS) and Substance Use and Addictive Behaviours (SUAB) at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), co-organised with Dr Ben Hanckel, Western Sydney University, Australia.

2022: British Sociological Association / British Educational Research Association / Political Studies Association Youth Research Seminar Series, eight (online) seminars in total, May-July 2022, with Dr Frances Howard, Dr Ben Hanckel, Dr Benjamin Bowman, Dr Janina Suppers, Dr Eveleigh Buck-Matthews, Dr Sophie Atherton and Dr Ian McGimpsey.

2022: British Sociological Association Lifecourse Stream, BSA Annual Conference 2022 (online), with BSA Youth Study Group co-convener Dr Benjamin Hanckel (Western Sydney University), 550+ delegates.

2021: British Sociological Association Plenary Session, BSA Annual Conference 2021, with BSA Youth Study Group co-conveners Dr Caitlin Nunn (MMU) and Dr Benjamin Hanckel (KCL), Keynote: Professor Tracy Shildrick, Newcastle University

2020: Deviant Pleasure Markets and Digital Technologies: Drugs, Sex, Money, research workshop, with Salford University colleagues, Salford University, 14th February 2020. 30 delegates

2019: British Sociological Association (BSA) Youth Study Group ‘Youth Intersections’ workshop, with keynote Professor Tracy Shildrick. 20 delegates

2019: Drugs: North West Inaugural Conference 2019, Manchester Metropolitan University, with Professor Harry Sumnall, Dr Lisa Williams, Dr Rebecca Askew and Dr Will Floodgate. 70 delegates

2019: Darknet Markets: In Search of the Bad Guys, Public Speaking Event with Professor Judith Aldridge, Lancaster University. 60 delegates

2012: Alcohol, Drugs and the Night-time Economy Stakeholders’ Knowledge Exchange Conference 2012, Lancaster University, with Dr Fiona Measham and Zoё Welch.100 delegates

Conference Papers, including Invited Speaker and Keynotes

Moore, K. (2025 forthcoming) Understanding illegal drug use in UK dance music spaces. We Are With You, National charity/treatment provider. 22nd Jan 2025, XX+ staff members. Invited Speaker

Moore, K. (2024) Why Ketamine? Newcastle University Student Union, 21st November 2024, 40+ participants, inc. local drug service staff. Invited Speaker.

Moore, K and Ralphs, R. (2024) Contemporary Ketamine Use. Change, Grow, Live (CGL) National charity/treatment provider. 17th October 2024, 100+ staff members. Invited Speakers.

Moore, K and Pascalle, K. (2024) Preventing cocaine-related deaths. The English Substance Use Commissioning Group (ESUCG) Annual Meeting, 10th October 2024, 60+ commissioners, Invited Speakers.

Howard, F., Moore, K., Hanckel, B. and Atherton, S. (2024) Researching with Youth: Introducing youth-centered research methods, Journal of Youth Studies conference, University of Ulster, Belfast, NI, 3-5 September 2024, Panel Members (by application).

Moore, K. (2024) On Recreational Ketamine Use: Practices and user language, Semantix Sessions, May 2024, Invited Keynote Speaker.

Moore, K (2024) Street Drug Discussions: Reflecting on 30 years of Electronic Dance Music Cultures and Related Drug Use, Drug Science, 11th Sept 2024. Invited Speaker.

Moore, K. (2024) Navigating Queer Lives Post-Pandemic, British Sociological Association Annual Conference (online), 4th April 2024. Invited Panel Member.  

Moore, K. The Sociology of Criminal Justice Policy, Social and Policy Sciences (Drugs), Bath University, 23rd November 2023. Invited Speaker.

Moore, K. (2023) Ketamine, Street Drug Discussions/Drug Science, 17th November 2023. Invited Speaker. Previous Street Drug Discussion on Afterparties in 2022 available here.

Moore, K. (2023) Youth Ketamine Use, Home Office, Marsden Street, London. August 2023, Invited Speaker.

Moore, K. (2023) “Less mad than MD, and cheaper than booze”: Understanding ketamine use among young people in the UK, British Sociological Association (BSA) Annual Conference 2023, Manchester, UK, 13th April 2023.

Moore, K. (2023) Youth Substance Use: Changing Trends, AMOUNT workshop, Public Health Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, UK, 15th March 2023. Invited Panel Member

Moore, K. (2023) “Where’s the harm in it?” Intersectional identities, UK youth ‘partyscapes’ and recreational drug use practices and trends, Sheffield Alcohol Research Group, School of Health and Related Research (SCHARR), University of Sheffield, UK, 25th May 2023. Invited Keynote Speaker

Light, B., Garwood-Cross, L., Hakim, J., Hinds, K., Katz, R., Mercer, J., Moore, K. and Upton, M. (2022), Covid-19 Pandemic Sexual Cultures Among Men Who Have Sex with Men: A United Kingdom Perspective, 23rd Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Dublin, Ireland, 2-5th Nov 2022. Peer-reviewed conference paper. International.

Moore, K. (2022) Covid-19 Pandemic Sexual Cultures Among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men (Y-MSM), BSA MEDSOC Annual Conference, Lancaster University, UK. 14th September 2022.

Light, B., Garwood-Cross, L., Hakim, J., Hinds, K., Katz, R., Mercer, J., Moore, K. and Upton, M. (2022), How to Have Sex During a Pandemic: The Experience of Men Who Have Sex with Men, MeCCSA 2022, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, 7-9 September 2022.

Moore, K. and Garwood-Cross, L. (2022) “Just test babes”: Covid-19 pandemic (sexual) cultures among young men who have sex with men (Y-MSM) in the UK, AHRC COVID-19 Rapid Response Research Event, Kings College London, The Strand, London, 14th June 2022.

Moore, K. (2022) Talking and Listening to Young People about Drugs and Drug Policy, BSA/BERA/PSA Youth Research Seminar Series 2022, Webinar 1: Talking and Listening to Young People, 5th May 2022. 

Moore, K. (2021) The Future of Harm Reduction, 5th European Harm Reduction Conference, Correlation - European Harm Reduction Network (C-EHRN), Prague, Czechia, 10-12th November 2021. Invited Keynote Speaker. International.

Moore, K. (2022) Where’s the Afterparty? Researching Drug Use in Post-Event Spaces/Times, Street Drug Discussions/Drug Science, 25th March 2022, 70+ attendees, 200+ views. Invited Plenary Speaker.

Woodrow, M. and Moore, K. (2021), Leisure Liminality and Intersecting Crises of Youth: Then, Now and in 'the Future', British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2021, Lifecourse Stream, 14th April 2021.

Moore, K. (2019), Afterparties: Exploring Festive Sociability in Deviant Leisure Spaces and Times, 14th European Sociological Association Conference, European Sociological Association, Manchester, UK, 20-23rd August 2019.

Moore, K. (2019), Thirty Years On: Roadmaps to Regulation of MDMA, Drugs: North West, Manchester, UK, 24th July 2019.

Moore, K. (2019), “He even felt between my toes”: Exploring Festival and Club-Goers Perceptions and Experiences of Drug Policing, Drugs: North West, Manchester, UK, 24th July 2019.

Moore, K. (2016), Benzodiazepine/benzodiazepine analogues: reflecting on challenges for users, the medical profession and drug services in the age of drugs online, IV International Conference on Novel Psychoactive Substances, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), Budapest, 30th-31st May 2016. Abroad/International.

Moore, K. (2016), Afterparties: Social Practices in Post-Club Domestic Spaces, Royal Geographic Association Annual International Conference 2016, London, 30th August – 2nd September 2016.

Moore, K. (2015), Afterparties: Unspectacular Spaces of Drug Use? Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Law, Manchester University, 2nd December 2015. Invited Speaker

Moore, K. (2015), Mixed Methods in Alcohol and Drug Research, British Sociological Association (BSA) Sociology of Alcohol Study Group, BSA Meeting Rooms, Imperial Wharf, London, 27th February 2015. Invited Speaker. 

Moore, K. (2014), Novel Psychoactive Substances Round Table, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), London, 9th October 2014. Invited Contributor.

Moore, K. and Bhardwa, B. (2014), Ibiza Discovered? Exploring the politics and contesting the practices of contemporary research in Ibiza, British Sociological Association (BSA) Annual Conference, Leeds University, 25th April 2014.

Moore, K. (2014), “The Trance Triangle”? Club drugs, trance clubs and identities in the north west of England, Landscapes of Identity Symposium, Manchester Metropolitan University, 9th April 2014.

Measham, F., Moore, K. and Welch, Z. (2013), Phase 4 Emerging Drug Trends Research: The reorientation towards recovery in UK drug debate, policy and practice: Exploring Lancashire County Council, Recovery in Lancashire, Preston, 22nd November 2013. Invited Speakers.

Moore, K. (2013), Capturing Emerging Drug Trends in the Night-time Economy, HIT conference, FACT, Liverpool, UK, 15th November 2013. Invited Speaker.

Moore, K. (2013), What place for harm reduction in the ‘recovery age’?, International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA) Annual Conference, Lithuania, 10th-13th June 2013. Abroad/international.

Moore, K. (2013), Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS), ACROSS Practitioner Conference: Drugs - The Final Frontier, Accrington And Rosendale College, Lancashire, 21st February 2013. Invited Speaker.

Moore, K. (2012), Masculinities in the North of England’s Trance Music Scene, BSA Youth Study Group - Young Masculinities: Challenges, Changes and Transitions, London, 2nd November 2012. 

Moore, K. (2012), Futures of Psychoactive Drug-taking, Security Lancaster Launch Event Lancaster University, 19th October 2012.

May-Chahal, C., Brennan, M., Walkerdine, J., Greenwood, P., Bhardwa, B., Moore, K. and Rashid, A. (2012), Safeguarding Cyborgs: Developing knowledge for safeguarding assessments in the context of new technologies: New Horizons in Safeguarding Children, Manchester University Conference Centre, 23rd-24th May 2012.

Moore, K. (2012), Mobile Technologies and Social Media in Club Cultures, New Interaction Orders, New Mobile Publics? Lancaster University, 13th-14th April 2012.

Moore, K. (2012), Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use in an Age of Austerity, British Sociological Association (BSA) Annual Conference 2012, University of Leeds, UK, 11th-13th April 2012.

Moore, K. (2012), The Role of Drugs in Club Culture (invited speaker), TED event: Redefining the DJ, Vibe Bar, London, 29th March 2012. Invited Speaker.

Moore, K. (2011), GBL: The Forgotten Legal High, Contemporary Drug Problems Conference: Beyond the Buzzword: Problematising ‘Drugs’, Prato, Italy, 3rd-4th October 2011.

Moore, K. (2011), Doing Gender, (Still) Doing Drugs: Past, Present and Future Feminist Scholarship on Gender and Drug Use, FWSA 2011 Conference: The Futures of Feminism: New directions in Feminist, Women’s and Gender Studies, Brunel University, West London, 5th-7th July 2011.

Moore, K. (2011), Ketamine Use in the UK, Birmingham City Hospital Urologists’ Group, 6th June 2011. Invited Speaker. 

Moore, K. (2010), Digital Affect: ‘Committed Clubbers’, ICTs and the War on Drugs, The Technological Dimension of the Public Realm, Piensa Madrid, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain, 22nd-24rd September 2010. Invited Speaker. Abroad/International.

Moore, K. (2010), Health, Safety and Pleasure in UK Clubland, Public Safety in the Night Time Economy (academic/practitioner seminar), Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, 21st September 2010. Invited Speaker. 

Moore, K. (2010), Digital Affect and Clubbing Cultures: Reflection, anticipation and counter-reaction, Affective Fabrics of Digital Cultures: Feelings, technologies, politics, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, 3rd-4th June 2010. International.

Moore, K (2010), Doing Gender, (Still) Doing Drugs, Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies (CGWS) Research Day, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, 2nd June 2010.

Measham, F., Moore, K. and Welch, Z. (2010), From Pills and Powders to Plant Feed: Deterrence, displacement and harm reduction in a climate of successful supply reduction, International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA) 21st International Conference, Liverpool, UK, 25th-29th April 2010. Abroad/international.

Boyko, C., Buscher, M., Dant, T. and Moore, K. (2010) New IO? Interaction in the networked city, Futureeverything, Manchester, UK, 14thApril 2010.

Moore, K. (2009), Clubbing, Ketamine and Cultural Elites: Drugs and Diversity in the British Night-Time Economy, University of Sheffield Centre for Criminological Research Seminar, University of Sheffield, UK, 18th March 2009. Invited Speaker. 

Moore, K. (2009), Post-rave Electronic Dance Music (EDM) Cultures, Determined Druggedness, and Contemporary Capitalist Consumer Culture: An unholy alliance? AHRC Religion, Spirituality and Consumer Culture Conference, Cumberland Lodge, Egham, Surrey, UK, 2nd -3rd March 2009. International.

Moore, K. (2008), Exploring Symbolic, Emotional and Spiritual Expression Amongst ‘Crasher Clubbers’, BSA Religion and Youth Study Group Annual Conference, Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Birmingham, UK, 8th-10th April 2008.

Moore, K. (2007), The New Criminalisation of Clubbing: Polydrug repertoires, club cultures and virtual methodologies, American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 14th – 17th November 2007.        International

Moore, K. (2007), Intoxication, Prohibition and Pleasure: Official and user constructions of pleasure in alcohol and illicit drug use, British Society of Criminology Conference: Crime and Justice in an Age of Global Insecurity, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, 18th-20th September 2007.

Moore, K. (2007), Policing Pleasurable Leisure? ESRC Research Seminar Series on Identities and Consumption: Seminar Six: Disorders of Consumption, University of Bath, UK, 3rd-4th September 2007.

Moore, K., Adam, A., Griffiths, M and Richardson, H. (2006), Inclusion through the Ages? Gender, ICT Workplaces and Lifestage Experiences in England, International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) WG8.2 conference, University of Limerick, Ireland, 14th-18th July 2006.

Moore, K. (2006), Producing and Consuming Trance Dancing: Using insider knowledge to study legal and illegal leisure practices, British Sociological Association (BSA) Leisure Studies Workshop: Theorising Leisure: The Consumer Experience, Roehampton University, London, UK, 26th May 2006. 

Moore, K. and Measham, F. (2006), Recreational Ketamine Use and the Role of Insider Knowledge (Poster), 17th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm, Vancouver, Canada, 30th April-4th May 2006. International

Moore, K., Griffiths, M and Richardson, H. (2005), Gender on the Agenda: Flexible working and work-life balance in the UK ICT Industry, The Gender Politics of ICT 6th International Women in Computing Conference (WIC), University of East London, UK, 14th-16th July 2005.

Adam, A., Griffiths, M, Keogh, C., Moore, K., Richardson, H. and Tattersall, A. (2005), You don’t have to be male here but it helps!”: Gender and the IT Labour Market, The Gender Politics of ICT 6th International Women in Computing Conference (WIC), University of East London, UK, 14th-16th July 2005.

Moore, K., Griffiths, M and Richardson, H. (2005), Gendered Futures? Women, the ICT Workplace and Stories of the Future, Gender, Work and Organisation: 4th International Interdisciplinary Conference, Keele University, UK, 22nd– 24th June 2005.

Moore, K., Griffiths, M and Richardson, H. (2005), Moving In, Moving Up, Moving Out? A Survey of Women in ICT, Symposium on Gender and ICT: Working for Change, University of Manchester, UK, 1st February 2005.

Moore, K. (2004), “Sort Drugs, Make Mates”: The Use and Meanings of Mobiles in Club Culture, ESRC Digiplay Seminar Series: Mobile Leisure and the Technological Mediascape, University of Surrey, UK, 26th April 2004.

Moore, K. (2003), “Proper Mashed Like”: Spectacular and Mundane Aspects of Hard House, Funky House and Trance Clubbing in Manchester, BSA Youth Study Group Conference, University of Northampton, UK. 

Moore, K. and Rutter, J. (2003), In the future your games will go with you? Mobile entertainment in Europe, Digital Games Industries: Developments, Impact and Direction, Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC), University of Manchester, UK.

Moore, K. (2002), Teenagers and Mobiles: Producing the Future-Possible Through Humour, Young People and New Technology: BSA Youth Study Group Seminar, Roehampton Institute, London, UK.

Moore, K. (2002), Science Fiction, Mobile Technologies and Versions of the Future, Technotopias: Texts, Identities and Technological Cultures, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK.

Cooper, G., Green, N. and Moore, K. (2001), Representations of Mobile Devices in Contemporary Culture, British Psychological Association Annual Conference, New Technology Symposium, University of Central London (UCL), UK.  

Moore, K. (2000), Young People and Substance Use in Dance Club Settings, BSA Youth Study Group Conference, University of Surrey, UK.

Teaching

PhD Supervision

I welcome prospective PhD candidates in my research field and related disciplines/topics. Please email me for a chat!

Undergraduate

I am Module Leader for the Stage 2 module SOC2044: Sociology of Crime - Social Control in Neoliberal Societies

Masters

I co-lead our MA Sociology optional module SOC8006: Perpetual Wars? Crime, Policing and Security

Current PhD Supervision

PhD, p/t. Peter Owusu Ansah, Sale and supply of cannabis-based products: A study of the role community pharmacist and an evaluation of the clinical outcome (co-supervision with Dr Lynne Marrow, University of Salford), self-funded. September 2020 - date.        

PhD, f/t. Molly King, What role do nightclubs, as affectual, experiential spaces, play in individual and collective identity formation of students? (co-supervision with Professor Anne-Marie Fortier and Professor Anne Cronin, Lancaster University) AHRC NWDTC Studentship Award. September 2019 - April 2024.

PhD Completions

PhD, f/t, Eleni Theodoropoulou, A Comparative Study of Drug Treatment and Harm Reduction in Liverpool, UK, and Athens, Greece (co-supervision with Dr Nicole Vitellone, Liverpool University). ESRC NWDTC Studentship. Completed February 2020.

PhD, f/t, Emma Long, Help-seeking around mental health and alcohol and drug issues in Armed Forces families (co-supervision with Dr Ian Paylor, Lancaster University), ESRC NWDTC Case Award. Completed October 2019.

PhD, f/t, Nicolas Woodrow, Alcohol, NPS and drug use among young people in a South Yorkshire town (co-supervision with Dr. Anne Cronin, Lancaster University). ESRC NWDTC Case Award. Completed February 2018.

PhD, f/t, H. Marsh, Student Drinking Cultures (co-supervision with Dr. Anne Cronin, Lancaster University and Dr Judith Aldridge, Manchester University). ESRC NWDTC (Red Rose) Case Studentship. Completed February 2018.

PhD, f/t, Liviu Alexandra, Novel Psychoactive Substances in Romania (co-supervision with Professor Tim Dant, Lancaster University). Completed (Dual award UK and Poland) December 2016.

PhD, f/t, B. Bhardwa, An Exploration of Substance Use in Leisure Spaces. Completed January 2015.

PhD, f/t, H. Mack, An Investigation into the Treatment Experiences of People Living with Hepatitis C (co-supervision with Dr Ian Paylor), University of Lancaster Alumni Award. Completed February 2014.

PhD, p/t, H. Asher, The Role of the Therapeutic Alliance in Prison Based Drug Treatment (co-supervision with Professor David Smith, Lancaster University), Lifeline Project award. Completed February 2014.

PhD, f/t, A. Sparkes, Contesting ‘Recovery’ in Secondary Mental Health: Discursive and Material Practices (co-supervision with Dr Carolyn Taylor, Lancaster University), ESRC award. Completed March 2014.

Publications