Undergraduate and Postgraduate Studies in Criminology and Social Work
E-mail: socialwork@lancaster.ac.uk | criminology@lancaster.ac.uk
Dr Fiona Measham
Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Degree: BA/MA (Cambridge), MA (Warwick), PhD (Manchester), Registered Practitioner, Higher Education Academy
Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Children and Young People, Crime and Criminal Justice, Criminology, Young people, crime and criminal justice
Current Teaching
Research Interests
Fiona Measham was appointed to Lancaster University in 2000 and is now Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the Department of Applied Social Science.
Fiona is co-author of Illegal Leisure (1998), Dancing on Drugs (2001) and Illegal Leisure Revisited (2010), based on large scale studies of young people's drug and alcohol use, and co-editor of Swimming with Crocodiles (2008), a cross cultural comparison of young people's 'extreme drinking'. Her theoretical interests span cultural criminology, gender studies and the sociology of intoxication, with a particular interest in exploring the boundaries of transgression, the criminalisation of leisure and the problematic-recreational interface in leisure time consumption.
Her most recent, current and forthcoming research projects include:
* Ongoing studies exploring changing patterns of drug use, the changing nature of mature electronic dance music 'scenes' and related policy developments in the regulation and policing of intoxication (eg. Measham and Moore, 2008, 2009; Measham and Hadfield, 2009; Smith, Moore and Measham, 2009). For further details see www.clubbingresearch.com
* A British Academy-funded exploratory study of GHB and GBL use in the UK.
* An exploratory study of British ketamine use, the impact of its recent criminalisation and the role of insider knowledge in the research process (eg. Measham and Moore, 2006; Moore and Measham, 2006, 2008),
* Research on regulation, gentrification and criminalisation within the night time economy (eg. Hadfield and Measham, 2009a, 2009b, 2010), Senior Academic Consultant to Home Office national review of alcohol industry Social Responsibility Standards, including co-ordinating the fieldwork and managing a team of 28 researchers who conducted observations within on and off trade licensed venues across the country (Home Office/KPMG, 2008) available at: www.gov.uk
* Ongoing studies of 'binge' drinking, bounded consumption and changing cultures of intoxication from both a UK and international comparative perspective (eg. Measham and Brain, 2005; Measham, 2006; Measham, 2008; Martinic and Measham, 2008; Fox et al, 2010; Measham and Østergaard, 2009),
* an historical analysis of the attempted criminalisation of English barmaids (eg. Measham, forthcoming),
Fiona teaches criminology and drug and alcohol studies at undergraduate and postgraduate level, holds a Stage 2 certificate in learning and teaching in higher education and acts as external examiner and course validator in other UK universities at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Fiona is a member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, a member of the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology, Drugs and Alcohol Today and Alcohol and Culture, as well as regular referee for a wide range of academic journals. In recognition of her expertise, she has acted as expert witness in major trials and as consultant to the media.
Publications
Some of her recent publications are available at Past and Present Papers and Reports
Potential Doctoral Proposals
Fiona welcomes PhD applications within her specialist field including changing patterns of alcohol and drug use, gender, leisure and transgression.
Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database
Fiona Measham has 16 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk
Smith, Zoe and Measham, Fiona and Moore, Karenza (2009) MDMA Powder, Pills and Crystal: The persistance of ecstasy and the poverty of policy. Drugs and Alcohol Today, 9 (1). pp. 13-19. ISSN 1745-9265
Moore, Karenza and Measham, Fiona (2008) It's the most fun you can have for twenty quid: Meanings, Motivations and Consequences of British Ketamine Use. Addiction Research and Theory, 16 (3). pp. 231-244. ISSN 1476-7392
Moore, Karenza and Measham, Fiona C. (2006) Ketamine use : harm minimisation and pleasure maximisation. Drugs & Alcohol Today, 6 (3). pp. 29-32.
Moore, Karenza and Measham, Fiona C. (2006) Reluctant reflexivity, implicit insider knowledge, and the development of club studies. In: Drugs, Clubs and Young People. Ashgate, Aldershot :, pp. 13-25. ISBN 0-7546-4699-8
Measham, Fiona C. (2006) The new policy mix: alcohol, harm minimisation and determined drunkenness in contemporary society. International Journal of Drug Policy, 17 (4). pp. 258-268. ISSN 0955-3959
Measham, Fiona (2005) Drug and alcohol studies : key debates in the field. In: Questioning crime and criminology. Willan, Cullompton, pp. 83-101. ISBN 1843921278
Measham, Fiona and Paylor, Ian (2005) Legal and illicit drugs. In: Social work futures : crossing boundaries, transforming practice. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 195-207. ISBN 9781403916143
Measham, Fiona and Brain, K. (2005) ‘Binge’ drinking, British alcohol policy and the new culture of intoxication. Crime, Media, Culture, 1 (3). pp. 262-263. ISSN Online ISSN: 1741-6604 Print ISSN: 1741-6590
Measham, Fiona C. (2004) Play space: historical and socio-cultural reflections on drugs, licensed leisure locations, commericialisation and control. International Journal of Drug Policy, 15 (5-6). pp. 337-345. ISSN 0955-3959
Measham, Fiona (2003) The Gendering of Drug Use and the Absence of Gender. Criminal Justice Matters, 53 (1). pp. 22-23. ISSN Print: 0962-7251, Online: 1934-6220
Associated Keywords: Adolescent, Alcohol and illicit drug use, Altered states of consciousness, Applied Social Science, Bodies, Body image, Britain, Class and gender relations, Clubbing, Comparative women's studies, Consumption, Corporate social responsibility, Crime and society, Criminal careers, Criminal justice, Criminal justice policy, Criminal law, Criminology, Cultural & historical criminology, Culture, Disco, Drug related deaths, Drugs, Drugs and criminal justice, Young people and crime
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Contact Details
Tel: +44 (0)1524 594106
Room: Bowland College North,
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