Dr Karenza Moore

PhD Supervision Interests

Drug and alcohol use (risks, harms, pleasures); clubbing/raving; electronic dance music (EDM) cultures; crime, deviance and transgressionin the night-time economy; national and international drug policy; youth crime; cybercrime; crime and new technologies; crime and the media; sociology of 'the future'.

Through my links with Lancaster University's Centre for Gender and Women's Studies (http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/gws/index.php), I'm also interested in potential doctoral students in the areas of: female illicit drug use; gender and illicit drug use;gender and EDM club cultures.

Research Interests

Research interests include (poly)drug use, specifically in clubbing contexts. Young people and UK/global electronic dance music club cultures. Gender and drug use. Ketamine use. GHB/GBL use. Harm reduction. Pleasure and drug use. Policing of pleasure, and cultures of control in contemporary societies. The night-time economy (NTE). 'War on Drugs', prohibition policies, and alternatives. ABC classification system. Deterrence. Displacement. Cybercrime. Crime and new technologies such as the Internet and mobile phones. The New Interaction Order (NIO) in public/semi-public spaces

Research on Weekend Polydrug Use in the UK Night-time Economy

Alongside Dr Fiona Measham, I undertake in-situ self-report surveys of drug use in bars and clubs in the night-time economy. This work was recently covered by the local and national press (following publication in a special issue of Criminology and Criminal Justice on the UK night-time economy).

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article6879862.ece

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8315941.stm

Research on Ketamine Use in the UK

I was recently involved in the first UK study of ketamine users with Dr Fiona Measham. Our ketamine research resulted in a special issue of Addiction Research and Theory (ART) on social, cultural and international perspectives on ketamine use (June 2008).

Below are a couple of links to media coverage about this research

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=147381&in_page_id=34

http://www.dontstayin.com/uk/article-8087

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/united-kingdom/090505/ketamine-use-grows

Research on GHB/GBL Use in the UK

I am currently PI on a British Academy funded research project on GHB/GBL use, with Dr Fiona Measham.

Please see 'My Projects' for more information (right-hand menu).

The ketamine research and GBL/GHB research is part of a broader and ongoing study of (electronic dance music) clubbing and polydrug use using online surveys, in-club surveys, and interviews with club-goers. Please visit our research website http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/clubresearch/ for more details.

Research on British 'mainstream'dance music club cultures

2010: 'Digital Affect and Clubbing Cultures: Reflection, anticipation, counter-reaction', presented at the Affective Fabrics of Digital Cultures International Conference, Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC), Manchester University, 3rd/4th June, 2010.

2009: Religion, spirituality and consumer culture AHRC seminar details can be found here: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/crcs/research/Rel_seminar1/

You can listen to my 2009 presentation by clicking on the link below:

'Post-rave EDM cultures, "determined druggedness", and contemporary consumer culture: an unholy alliance'

Research on the 'New Interaction Order'

Alongside Monika Buscher (Department of Sociology, LU) and Chris Boyko (LICA, UK) I am currentlyco-PI on a Lancaster University funded project on the 'New Interaction Order'. Please visit ourresearch website http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/new-interaction/for more details.

External Positions of Responsibility

Reviewer for Temple University Press; Addiction Research and Theory; International Journal of Drug Policy; Information, Communication, Society; International Journal of Social Inquiry. 2007-date

Subject Specialist for Triennial Review (Criminology courses) of Associated Colleges (Blackpool and Blackburn) in 2008

Chair of Joint Validation Event - FD Drug and Alcohol Misuse - Blackpool & ACROSS in 2009

Steering Committee Member for 'Reverberating Rhythms' project, University of Bath, 2006-2007.

Advisory Board Member and Reviews Editor for Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture. 2008 - date http://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/journal

Current Teaching

• ASSC102 Crime and Social Life
• ASSC205 Criminological Thought
• ASSC205 Criminological Thought
• ASSC205 Criminological Thought
• ASSC231 Half-unit crime-related extended essay
• ASSC311 Cybercrime
• ASSC322 Crime and the Media

• ASSC331 Half-unit crime-related extended essay

• ASSC336 Full-unit crime-related dissertation

• ASSC380 Research based dissertation

  (Only current students may go directly to the above sites)

 

Additional Information

Conference papers

Moore, K (2010), Digital Affect: 'Committed Clubbers', ICTs and the War on Drugs, (invited speaker), The Technological Dimension of the Public Realm, Piensa Madrid, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain, 22nd-24rd September 2010.

Measham, F. and Moore, K. (2010) Health, Safety and Pleasure in UK Night Time Economy, Public Safety in the Night Time Economy, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, 21st September 2010.

Moore, K. (2010), Digital Affect and Clubbing Cultures: Reflection, anticipation, counter-reaction, Affective Fabrics of Digital Cultures International Conference, Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC), Manchester University, UK, 3rd/4th June, 2010.

Buscher, M., Boyko, C., Dant, T. and Moore, K (2010), The New Interaction Order?, Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) Annual Research Day, Lancaster University, UK, 14th June, 2010.

Buscher, M., Boyko, C., Dant, T. and Moore, K (2010), The New Interaction Order? - Interaction in the networked city, Experimental City Panel Discussion, FutureEverything, Manchester, UK, 14th June, 2010.

Measham, F. and Moore, K. (2010), The emergence of mephedrone, the peversity of prohibition and the policy conundrum, International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA) conference, Liverpool, UK,25th-29th April,

Moore, K. (2009), Keynote: Mobile Technology at Play: Exploring electronic dance music (EDM) digital cultures, 2nd Digital Cultures Workshop, University of Salford, UK, 4th-5th June 2009.

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

Measham, F. and 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 (Dr Measham presenting).

Measham, F. and 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, 18th-20th September 2007.

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

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, 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, 30th April-4th May 2006.

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, 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.

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

• Researching clubbing and polydrug use

  01/11/2005 →
  Karenza Moore, Fiona Measham
  This is an ongoing research project looking at electronic dance music communities, clubbing as a leisure practice, and related polydrug use. Using a variety of methods including large scale quantitat ... Read more»

• Lancashire Drug and Alcohol Action Team (LDAAT) fund two-year research programme

  18/10/2010
  Lancashire Drug and Alcohol Team (LDAAT) are funding a two year rolling research programme looking at emergent trends in drug use across Lancashire, UK. Dr Fiona Measham, Dr Karenza Moore and Dr J ... Read more»

• Karenza to speak at the 'Affective Fabrics of Digital Cultures' conference in Manchester

  03/06/2010
  Karenza Moore will present at the 'Affective Fabrics of Digital Cultures' conference at the University of Manchester, UK, 3-4th June 2010. Karenza's paper, titled 'Digital Affect and Clubbing Cult ... Read more»

• Weekend Recreational Polydrug Use Increases accross the UK Night-time

  19/10/2009
  Weekend use of drugs such as ecstasy and cocaine is more popular than ten years ago whilst young adults are taking a greater variety of drugs than ever, according to new research by Lancaster Univer ... Read more»

• Dr Karenza Moore to deliver keynote at Internet Studies Festival, Liverpool John Moores University,

  23/06/2009
  Dr Karenza Moore, Applied Social Science, is to deliver the keynote speech at the Internet Studies Festival, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK, on the 17th July 2009. This year the focus ... Read more»