Professor Simon Moore

: Media commentator
: Available for postgraduate supervision

Teams and roles for Simon Moore

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Research Theme

Applied Clinical Research & Public Health

Research Groups

Violence Research Group (https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/violence-research-group)

Security, Crime and Intelligence Innovation Institute (https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/security-crime-intelligence-innovation-institute)

Research Interests

Professor of Public Health Research at Cardiff University. He holds an honours degree in sociology and psychology and a PhD in experimental psychology. He has led several large projects mostly concerned with the causes and consequences of violence, alcohol, alcohol-related harm, and substance use. He uses a variety of methodologies, including “big data,” experimental techniques, computer simulation, econometrics, and occasionally qualitative methods. Through this work he aims to bring a multidisciplinary perspective that identifies pathways to harm and identify opportunities to reduce harm. Was publicly appointed by the Welsh Minister for Health as an advisor to the Welsh Government on matters relating to alcohol misuse and substance abuse. Chaired the advisory panel (APOSM) on minimum unit pricing and led the authorship of the report to the Welsh Government. Contributed to reports on tramadol dependency and substance misuse in the elderly. Contributed to the Welsh Government's Public Health White paper (2014).

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2017

Lewis, J. et al., 2017. Report on enhanced harm reduction centres.
Redfern, J. et al. 2017. An open-data, agent-based model of alcohol related crime. Presented at: 2017 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS) Lecce 29 August - 1 September 2017. Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), 2017 14th IEEE International Conference. IEEE Xplore(10.1109/AVSS.2017.8078513)
Lloyd, K. et al. 2017. Violent behaviour detection using local trajectory response. Presented at: 7th International Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention Madrid, Spain 23-25 November 2016. 7th International Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention (ICDP 2016). IET Seminar Digests 2016/0006 Institution of Engineering and Technology. , pp.78-83. (10.1049/ic.2016.0082)
Mahedy, L. et al. 2017. Parental alcohol use and risk of behavioral and emotional problems in offspring. PLoS ONE 12 (6) e0178862. (10.1371/journal.pone.0178862)
Lloyd, K. et al. 2017. Detecting violent and abnormal crowd activity using temporal analysis of grey level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM)-based texture measures. Machine Vision and Applications 28 , pp.361-371. (10.1007/s00138-017-0830-x)
Moore, S. C. et al. 2017. The ELAStiC (Electronic Longitudinal Alcohol Study in Communities) project. International Journal for Population Data Science 1 (1) 264. (10.23889/ijpds.v1i1.284)
Trubey, R. J. , Moore, S. C. and Chestnutt, I. G. 2017. Parental decisions about children's oral health behaviour - relative or absolute?. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology 45 (1), pp.35-42. (10.1111/cdoe.12256)

2016

Hallingberg, B. , Van Goozen, S. H. M. and Moore, S. C. 2016. Characteristics associated with risk taking behaviours predict young people's participation in organised activities. Journal of Adolescence 53 , pp.189-194. (10.1016/j.adolescence.2016.10.008)
Aresi, G. , Moore, S. C. and Marta, E. 2016. Italian credit mobility students significantly increase their alcohol intake, risky drinking and related consequences during the study abroad experience. Alcohol and Alcoholism 51 (6), pp.523-526. (10.1093/alcalc/agw028)
Moore, S. C. 2016. Human cognition tips the balance away from thresholds. Addiction 111 (10), pp.1732-1733. (10.1111/add.13305)
Moore, S. C. et al. 2016. A rank based social norms model of how people judge their levels of drunkenness whilst intoxicated. BMC Public Health 16 798. (10.1186/s12889-016-3469-z)
Williams, A. et al. 2016. Process evaluation of an environmental health risk audit and action plan intervention to reduce alcohol related violence in licensed premises. BMC Public Health 16 (1) 455. (10.1186/s12889-016-3123-9)
Aresi, G. , Moore, S. and Marta, E. 2016. Drinking, drug use, and related consequences among university students completing study abroad experiences: a systematic review. Substance Use and Misuse 51 (14), pp.1888-1904. (10.1080/10826084.2016.1201116)
Wells, J. P. et al. 2016. Telephone review after minor oral surgery. British Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery 54 (5), pp.526-530. (10.1016/j.bjoms.2016.02.016)

2015

Sivarajasingam, V. et al. 2015. Trends in violence in England and Wales 2010-2014. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 70 (6), pp.616-621. (10.1136/jech-2015-206598)
Hubble, K. et al. 2015. Improving negative emotion recognition in young offenders reduces subsequent crime. PLoS ONE 10 (6) e0132035. (10.1371/journal.pone.0132035)
Trubey, R. J. , Moore, S. C. and Chestnutt, I. G. 2015. Children's toothbrushing frequency: the influence of parents' rationale for brushing, habits and family routines. Caries Research 49 (2), pp.157-164. (10.1159/000365152)
Hallingberg, B. et al. 2015. Adolescent male hazardous drinking and participation in organised activities: Involvement in team sports is associated with less hazardous drinking in young offenders. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health 25 (1), pp.28-41. (10.1002/cbm.1912)
Moore, S. C. and Murphy, S. 2015. All-Wales licensed premises intervention (AWLPI): A randomised controlled trial of an intervention to reduce alcohol-related crime. Presented at: Kettil Bruun Society Munich, Germany 1 - 5 June 2015.
Roked, Z. , Moore, S. C. and Shepherd, J. P. 2015. Feasibility of alcohol misuse screening and treatment in the dental setting. The Lancet 385 , pp.S84. (10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60399-3)

2014

Morgan, J. E. et al. 2014. Executive functioning, reward processing, and antisocial behavior in adolescent males. In: DeLisi, M. and Vaughn, M. G. eds. The Routledge International Handbook of Biosocial Criminology. Routledge International Handbooks London: Routledge. , pp.315-327.
McDowall, C. , Lydall, E. S. and Moore, S. C. 2014. The potential role of patient stress in rates of dental post-extraction complication. Oral Surgery 7 (3), pp.162-167. (10.1111/ors.12074)
Roked, Z. et al. 2014. Identification of alcohol misuse in dental patients. Faculty Dental Journal 5 (3), pp.134-137. (10.1308/204268514X14017784506050)
Morgan, J. E. et al. 2014. The relationship between reward and punishment sensitivity and antisocial behavior in male adolescents. Personality and Individual Differences 63 , pp.122-127. (10.1016/j.paid.2014.01.054)
Sivarajasingam, V. et al. 2014. Trends in community violence in England and Wales 2005-2009. Injury 45 (3), pp.592-598. (10.1016/j.injury.2013.06.020)
Trubey, R. J. , Moore, S. C. and Chestnutt, I. G. 2014. Parents' reasons for brushing or not brushing their child's teeth: a qualitative study. International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry 24 (2), pp.104-112. (10.1111/ipd.12034)
Bowen, K. L. et al. 2014. Young offenders' emotion recognition dysfunction across emotion intensities: Explaining variation using psychopathic traits, conduct disorder and offense severity. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment 36 (1), pp.60-73. (10.1007/s10862-013-9368-z)

2013

Moore, S. C. et al. 2013. A feasibility study of short message service text messaging as a surveillance tool for alcohol consumption and vehicle for interventions in University students. BMC Public Health 13 1011. (10.1186/1471-2458-13-1011)
Brewster-Liddle, J. , Parsons, W. and Moore, S. C. 2013. Setting up an alcohol treatment centre. Emergency Nurse 21 (6), pp.14-18. (10.7748/en2013.10.21.6.14.s17)
Moore, S. C. and Heikkinen, M. 2013. Commentary on Lloyd et al. (2013): Secondary harms and opportunities for moderation. Addiction 108 (4), pp.710-711. (10.1111/add.12072)
Playle, R. A. et al. 2013. Overcoming the challenge of conducting a pragmatic randomised trial in premises licensed for the on-site sale and consumption of alcohol [poster presentation]. Trials 14 (Suppl), pp.P28. (10.1186/1745-6215-14-S1-P28)
Sivarajasingam, V. et al. 2013. OP44 trends in community violence in England and Wales 2005-2009. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 67 (Suppl), pp.A22-A23. (10.1136/jech-2013-203126.44)
Syngelaki, E. et al. 2013. Affective startle potentiation in juvenile offenders: The role of conduct problems and psychopathic traits. Social Neuroscience 8 (2), pp.112-121. (10.1080/17470919.2012.712549)
Syngelaki, E. et al. 2013. Fearlessness in juvenile offenders is associated with offending rate. Developmental Science 16 (1), pp.84-90. (10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01191.x)

2012

Moore, S. C. 2012. The UK Government's positive contribution to harm reduction in the night time economy, but we still need a better informed approach. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy 19 (5), pp.370-371. (10.3109/09687637.2012.698428)
Moore, S. C. et al. 2012. An exploratory randomised controlled trial of a premises-level intervention to reduce alcohol related harm including violence in the United Kingdom. BMC Public Health 12 (1), pp.412. (10.1186/1471-2458-12-412)
Roked, Z. , Moore, S. C. and Shepherd, J. P. 2012. Alcohol misuse: screening and treatment in primary dental care. Faculty Dental Journal 3 (2), pp.73-77. (10.1308/204268512X13312096186325)
Wood, A. M. et al., 2012. An evolutionary based social rank explanation of why low income predicts mental distress: A 17 year cohort study of 30,000 people. Journal of Affective Disorders 136 (3), pp.882-888. (10.1016/j.jad.2011.09.014)

2011

Brennan, I. et al., 2011. Interventions for disorder and severe intoxication in and around licensed premises, 1989-2009. Addiction 106 (4), pp.706-713. (10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.03297.x)
Moore, S. C. , Brennan, I. and Murphy, S. 2011. Predicting and measuring premises-level harm in the night-time economy. Alcohol and Alcoholism 46 (3), pp.357-363. (10.1093/alcalc/agr011)

2010

Adey, G. E. , Moore, S. C. and Chestnutt, I. G. 2010. Dose-response expectancies for alcohol: Validation and implications for brief interventions. Drug and Alcohol Review 29 (6), pp.662-668. (10.1111/j.1465-3362.2010.00229.x)
Boyce, C. J. , Brown, G. D. A. and Moore, S. C. 2010. Money and happiness: Rank of income, not income, affects life satisfaction. Psychological Science 21 (4), pp.471-475. (10.1177/0956797610362671)
Brennan, I. R. , Shepherd, J. P. and Moore, S. C. 2010. Risk factors for violent victimisation and injury from six years of the British Crime Survey. International Review of Victimology 17 (2), pp.209-229. (10.1177/026975801001700204)
Brennan, I. R. , Moore, S. C. and Shepherd, J. P. 2010. Aggression and attitudes to time and risk in weapon-using violent offenders. Psychiatry Research 178 (3), pp.536-539. (10.1016/j.psychres.2009.05.006)
Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Moore, S. C. 2010. Gratuitous violence and the rational offender model. International Review of Law and Economics 30 (2), pp.160-172. (10.1016/j.irle.2010.03.003)
Maughan, D. and Moore, S. C. 2010. Dimensions of child neglect: An exploration of parental neglect and its relationship with delinquency. Child Welfare 89 (4), pp.47-65.
Moore, S. C. 2010. Confectionery consumption and violence Reply. British Journal of Psychiatry 196 (3), pp.245-245. (10.1192/bjp.196.3.245a)
Moore, S. C. 2010. Substitution and Complementarity in the Face of Alcohol-Specific Policy Interventions. Alcohol and Alcoholism 45 (5), pp.403-408. (10.1093/alcalc/agq048)
Moore, S. C. and Brennan, I. R. 2010. Characteristics of alcohol consumption and associations with violence in licensed premises. Alcoholism-Clinical and Experimental Research 34 (8), pp.103A-103A.
Moore, S. C. and Cusens, B. 2010. Delay discounting predicts increase in blood alcohol level in social drinkers. Psychiatry Research 179 (3), pp.324-327. (10.1016/j.psychres.2008.07.024)
Sivarajasingam, V. et al. 2010. Violence in England and Wales 2009: an accident and emergency perspective. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.vrg.cf.ac.uk/nvit/NVIT_2009.pdf.

2009

Fairchild, G. et al., 2009. Decision making and executive function in male adolescents with early-onset or adolescence-onset conduct disorder and control subjects. Biological Psychiatry 66 (2), pp.162-168. (10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.02.024)
Moore, S. C. , Carter, L. M. and Van Goozen, S. H. M. 2009. Confectionery consumption in childhood and adult violence. British Journal of Psychiatry 195 (4), pp.366-367. (10.1192/bjp.bp.108.061820)
Syngelaki, E. et al. 2009. Executive Functioning and Risky Decision Making in Young Male Offenders. Criminal Justice and Behavior 36 (11), pp.1213-1227. (10.1177/0093854809343095)
Brennan, I. R. and Moore, S. C. 2009. Weapons and violence: A review of theory and research. Aggression and Violent Behavior 14 (3), pp.215-225. (10.1016/j.avb.2009.03.003)
Moore, S. C. 2009. The nonpecuniary effects of smoking cessation: happier smokers smoke less. Applied Economics Letters 16 (4), pp.395-398. (10.1080/13504850601018502)
Moore, S. C. and Foreman-Peck, J. 2009. Alcohol consumption predicts violent victimisation, impulsive decision making predicts violence. The Open Behavioral Science Journal 3 , pp.28-33.
Sivarajasingam, V. et al. 2009. Violence in England and Wales 2008: an accident and emergency perspective. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.vrg.cf.ac.uk/nvit/NVIT_2008.pdf.

2008

Moore, S. C. et al. 2008. A particle model of crowd behavior: exploring the relationship between alcohol, crowd dynamics and violence. Aggression and Violent Behavior 13 (6), pp.413-422. (10.1016/j.avb.2008.06.004)
Moore, S. and Shepherd, J. P. 2008. Observational and methodological issues in a multi-agency community-based intervention to reduce excessive drinking. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy 15 (SUPPL.), pp.26-37. (10.1080/09687630802511407)
Sivarajasingam, V. , Moore, S. C. and Shepherd, J. P. 2008. Violence in England and Wales 2007: an accident and emergency perspective. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.vrg.cf.ac.uk/nvit/NVIT_2007.pdf.

2007

Perham, N. R. et al. 2007. Identifying drunkenness in the night time economy. Addiction 102 (3), pp.377-380. (10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01699.x)
Moore, S. C. and Shepherd, J. P. 2007. The elements and prevalence of fear. British Journal of Criminology 47 (1), pp.154-162. (10.1093/bjc/azl006)
Dolan, P. and Moore, S. C. 2007. From Preferences to Experiences: Valuing the Intangible Victim Costs of Crime. International Review of Victimology 14 (2), pp.265-280. (10.1177/026975800701400206)
Moore, S. C. and Shepherd, J. P. 2007. Gender specific emotional responses to anticipated crime. International Review of Victimology 14 (3), pp.337-351. (10.1177/026975800701400304)
Moore, S. C. et al. 2007. The effect of rugby match outcome on spectator aggression and intention to drink alcohol. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health 17 (2), pp.118-127. (10.1002/cbm.647)
Moore, S. C. et al. 2007. The prevalence of alcohol intoxication in the night-time economy. Alcohol and Alcoholism 42 (6), pp.629-634. (10.1093/alcalc/agm054)

2006

Brennan, I. R. , Moore, S. C. and Shepherd, J. P. 2006. Non-firearm weapon use and injury severity: priorities for prevention. Injury Prevention 12 (6), pp.395-399. (10.1136/ip.2006.011858)
Moore, S. C. and Shepherd, J. P. 2006. The cost of fear: shadow pricing the intangible costs of crime. Applied Economics 38 (3), pp.293-300. (10.1080/00036840500367781)
Moore, S. C. 2006. The value of reducing fear: an analysis using the European Social Survey. Applied Economics 38 (1), pp.115-117. (10.1080/00036840500368094)
Moore, S. C. , Jones, T. and Shepherd, J. P. 2006. Red alert. Jane's Police Review 114 , pp.22-23.
Moore, S. C. and Sellen, J. L. 2006. Jumping to conclusions: A network model predicts schizophrenic patients’ performance on a probabilistic reasoning task. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 6 (4), pp.261-269. (10.3758/CABN.6.4.261)

2005

Sivarajasingam, V. , Moore, S. and Shepherd, J. P. 2005. Winning, losing, and violence. Injury Prevention 11 (2), pp.69-70. (10.1136/ip.2004.008102)
Phillips, H. K. et al., 2005. Risk Assessment in Offenders With Mental Disorders: Relative Efficacy of Personal Demographic, Criminal History, and Clinical Variables. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 20 (7), pp.833-847. (10.1177/0886260504272898)

2004

Oaksford, M. , Carlisle, J. and Moore, S. C. 2004. The effects of reasoning, prior mood, and personality on emotion. Psychologia 47 (4), pp.250-263.

2003

Moore, S. C. et al. 2003. Male and Female Reasoning Biases and Offending Behaviour. Journal of Criminal Justice 31 (6), pp.497-509. (10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2003.08.007)

2002

Moore, S. C. and Oaksford, M. eds. 2002. Emotional cognition: from brain to behaviour. Advances in Consciousness Research Vol. 44Amsterdam: J. Benjamins. (10.1075/aicr.44)
Moore, S. C. and Oaksford, M. 2002. An informational value for mood: negative mood biases attention to global information in a probabilistic classification task. In: Moore, S. C. and Oaksford, M. eds. Emotional Cognition: From Brain to Behaviour. Advances in Consciousness Research Vol. 44.Amsterdam: J. Benjamins. , pp.221-243.
Moore, S. C. and Oaksford, M. 2002. Emotional cognition: an introduction. In: Moore, S. C. and Oaksford, M. eds. Emotional Cognition: From Brain to Behaviour. Advances in Consciousness Research Vol. 44.Amsterdam: J. Benjamins. , pp.1-8.

2000

Moore, S. C. and Oaksford, M. 2000. Is what you feel what you don't know?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (2), pp.211-212. (10.1017/S0140525X00422429)

Research Funding

The aim of my research is to translate basic-level, fundamental, science and apply it to the real world in order to improve community safety and the health of our communities. My work is multi-disciplinary, crossing psychology, neuroscience, economics, medicine, public health and other disciplines and typically involves practitioners and policy makers. All projects have a clear impact pathway, whether that is to inform policy and practice directly or to seed further work such as an implementation trial. Methods include "big data" data linkage projects, randomised controlled trials, computer modelling and simulation and various other approaches

Current

Development of a Complex Intervention to Improve Bruise Evidence in Victims of Violence and Across Variations in Skin Tone. Medical Research Council (UKRI162).

The Emergency Department Violence Intervention Programme Evaluation (EDVIPE) is funded by the National Institute for Health Research, Public Health Research Board (NIHR134055).

Implementation of Process Evaluation of ED based Violence Prevention Teams is funded by the Youth Endowment Foundation

Recently Completed

2016 to 2018, Principal Investigator "An Evaluation of Alcohol Treatment Centres: Implications for Service Delivery, Patient Benefit and Harm Reduction" National Institute for Health Research Health Services and Delivery Research Programme (14/04/25): £1m with the University of Sheffield.

2015 to 2018, Principal Investigator "Electronic Longitudinal Alcohol Study in Communities (ELAStiC)" Economic and Social Research Council, Medical Research Council and Alcohol Research UK (ES/L015471/1): £1.2M (with Bristol and Swansea Universities)

2015 to 2017, Co-Investigator "Study Abroad Students' Drinking Behaviour: A Mixed Methods Longitudinal Study on Social Norms and Sojourner Adjustment" The European Foundation for Alcohol Research, €80k (with Catholic University of Milan)

2013 to 2018, Co-Investigator "Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement (UKCRC Public Health Research Centre of Excellence) – renewal grant" British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Economic and Social Research Council, Medical Research Council, the Welsh Government and the Wellcome Trust (MR/K023233/1): £4.4M

2012 to 2015, Principal Investigator "Randomised Controlled Trial of All-Wales Licensed Premises Intervention to Reduce Alcohol-Related Violence" National Institute for Health Research, Public Health Research (10/3010/21): £815k

2011 to 2016, Principal Investigator "Longitudinal study of social and Cognitive Risks for Alcohol Misuse in First Year University Students" The European Foundation for Alcohol Research, €80k

2011 to 2013, Co-Investigator "Knowledge Transfer Partnership: To Determine the Barriers and Facilitators to Embed Alcohol Brief Interventions within the NHS - Leading to a Model for Future Programmes" Welsh Assembly Government, National Health Service, Economic and Social Research Council: £141,000

2008 to 2010, Principal Investigator "A Feasibility Study of a Licensed Premise Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Misuse and Violent Injury" Medical Research Council (G0701758): £442k

2006 to 2009, Co-Principal Investigator "Assessment of Cognitive Models that Inform Deterring Young Vulnerable Gamblers" Economic & Social Research Council (ES/D000483/1): £263k

Year One: BDS and DTH Introduction to Social and Psychological Approaches to Patients as People
Year Two: BDS and DTH Behavioural Science as it Applies to Dentistry
Year Four: Dental Public Health

Researchers find some neurodevelopmental diagnoses are associated with a higher likelihood of violence-related A&E attendance

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