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Honor Townshend

Lecturer

Image and Performance

Department of Law, Justice and Policing , Royal Docks School Of Business And Law

Dr. Honor Doro Townshend (BA(Hons), MsC, PhD) is a presenter, researcher and lecturer in all thing’s true crime and Criminology. She has multiple papers and book chapters published across a variety of topic areas and has worked as an expert Criminologist for programmes across Channel 4, Channel 5, Vice World News, Discovery, Amazon Prime and more. Most recently, she has been making shortform videos for her TikTok platform @honordorotownshend.

Qualifications

  • BA (Hons)
  • MSc
  • PGCert
  • PhD

Areas Of Interest

Image and performance enhancing drugs; Illicit drugs and drug policy; gender identities; idealised contemporary masculinities; subcultural Identities; dark web research; netnographic research methods; novel research dissemination (e.g., traditional media, graphic design and social media); ethical approaches to true crime and victimology.

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OVERVIEW

Dr Townshend's recent research projects have looked into illicit substance use, gender identities and crime, the dark web, and deviant subcultures, but she has a background in the study of all elements of criminology, from theory to criminal justice.

She has multiple papers and book chapters published across a variety of topic areas, and has worked as an expert criminologist for programmes across Channel 4, Vice World News, Discovery, Channel 5, Crime + Investigation, Amazon Prime and more. She also runs a criminology TikTok platform @criminologyhonor.

RESEARCH AND IMPACT

Media

Publications

  • Catalani V., Townshend, H.D., Prilutskaya, M., Chilcott, R.P., Metastasio, A., Banayoti, H., McSweeney, T. and Corazza, O. (2023) Illicit Covid-19 products online: A mixed-method approach for identifying and preventing online health risks. PLoS ONE. 18(6): e0287231. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287231
  • Townshend, H. D. and Tippett, A. (2023) “Bodybuilding, Exercise, and Image- and Performance-Enhancing Drug Use during the Covid-19 Pandemic,” in Corazza, O. and Rocha Dores, A. (eds) The Body in the Mind: Exercise Addiction, Body Image and the Use of Enhancement Drugs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 137–144. doi: 10.1017/9781911623731.010.
  • Catalani, V., Townshend, H.D., Prilutskaya, M., Roman-Urrestarazu, A., van Kessel, R., Chilcott, R., Banayoti, H., McSweeney, T. and Corazza, O. (2023). Profiling the vendors of Covid-19 related product on the Darknet: an observational study. Emerging Trends in Drugs, Addictions, and Health, p.100051.
  • Turnock, L.A. and Townshend, H.D. (2022), "How Digital Fitness Forums Shape IPED Access, Use, and Community Harm Reduction Behaviours", Henning, A. and Andreasson, J. (Ed.) Doping in Sport and Fitness (Research in the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 16), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 155-179.
  • Townshend, H. (2022). ‘Is It Worth Winning a Race if You Lose Yourself in the Process?: An Interview with Tyler Hamilton’, in Rabin, O. and Corazza, O. (ed.) Emerging Drugs in Sport. Springer.
  • Negri A., Townshend H. D., Corazza O. (2022) Untested Supplement Use Among Athletes: An Overlooked Phenomenon?. In: Rabin O., Corazza O. (eds.) Emerging Drugs in Sport. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79293-0_3 
  • Negri, A., Townshend, H., McSweeney, T., Angelopoulou, O., Banayoti, H., Prilutskaya, M., Bowden-Jones, O. and Corazza, O. (2021). ‘Carfentanil on the darknet: Potential scam or alarming public health threat?’. International Journal of Drug Policy, 91, pp.103-118.
  • Catalani, V., Negri, A., Townshend, H., Simonato, P., Prilutskaya, M., Tippett, A. and Corazza, O. (2021). The Market of Sport Supplement in the Digital Era: a Netnographic Analysis of Perceived Risks, Side-effects and other Safety Issues. Emerging Trends in Drugs, Addictions, and Health, p. 100014.

TEACHING

BA (Hons) Criminology and Criminal Justice

Study criminology at UEL and investigate the nature of crime and criminality and crime in contemporary societies. Analyse society's response through the criminal justice system.

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Publications

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