Tony Knox
PHD STUDENT
University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
image and performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs), anabolic-androgenic steroids, bodybuilding, harm reduction
Tony Knox has a first-class honours degree in sociology, an MSc in the history of medicine and a postgraduate certificate in research methods. Since 2008 he has worked in academic research specialising in projects investigating addiction. He has worked on several high-profile studies including the Glasgow Recovery Project, The Scottish Prison Study on Blood Borne Viruses and until recently he managed the day-to-day running of the Needle Exchange Surveillance Initiative at the University of the West of Scotland. Tony has co-authored several articles on recovery from addiction and harm associated with injecting drugs. His main research interests are motivations for performance and image enhancing drugs (PIED) use, vocabularies of motive regarding PIED use, and harm associated with the use of enhancement drugs. He is due to begin PhD study at the University of Birmingham in October 2017. The focus of his PhD will be harm associated with PIED use. Email Tony: tonyknox@ntlworld.com.