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Karenza is a Lecturer in Sociology of Crime at Newcastle University, UK, and co-convenor of the British Sociological Association’s Youth Study Group. Karenza has researched drug use, markets and policies for 18 years. She focuses on alcohol, illicit medications, novel psychoactive substances (NPS) and illegal drug consumption in youth leisure spaces/times, including raves, nightclubs, festivals and afterparties. Her work explores drug prevalence, patterns, emerging trends, alongside meanings and motivations of drug use, and the impact of the War on Drugs on young people. In 2019 she wrote the first report of its kind laying out a pragmatic ‘roadmap’ towards the legal regulation of the popular dance drug MDMA/Ecstasy for the Beckley Foundation.
Online registration has now closed, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register. The Placemaking session in our Researching Youth Seminar series will explore the impact and affect of space and...
Rachel Benchekroun and Pippa Curtin share their reflections on the contributions and challenges of co-producing research with young people, drawing on their two projects exploring growing up in...
Online registration has now closed, to register please email events@bera.ac.uk This first session in our Researching Youth Seminar series will explore talking and listening approaches to...
In the Breakout rooms, event attendees were task with discussing their own approaches to talking and listening and how they would deal with sensitive topics or potentially unsayable stories. Trust...