Nick Gibbs
LECTURER
Northumbria University, United Kingdom
image and performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs), social media, ethnography, deviant leisure, ultra-realist criminology
Dr Nick Gibbs is a Lecturer in Criminology at Northumbria University, where he completed his PhD in 2021. Prior to this, Nick attained his undergraduate and Masters degree in Criminology at Birmingham City University. His research concerns the consumption and supply of image and performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs) and the intersection of social media, contemporary gym culture and late-capitalist subjectivity. He values interdisciplinary collaboration as well as emerging research methodologies, including connective ethnography and visual methods. Nick works within the schools of ultra-realist criminology and deviant leisure, and is particularly interested in exploring IPEDs in relation to the current late-capitalist epoch.