Samuel Brookfield.
Hello! I am an emergency Clinical Nurse and Social Scientist based in Brisbane, Australia. My research agenda is aimed towards integrating critical social science and public health research methods to understand complex experiences of health and illness and improve healthcare for marginalised populations. I have published research covering homelessness and natural disasters, sex workers’ access to sexual health services, qualitative methods, and methamphetamine use and recovery.
I completed my PhD in 2021, which was an ethnographic study using critical and relational theory to understand methamphetamine use and recovery. I currently split my time between a tertiary emergency and trauma centre and working for the NHMCR Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame at The University of Queensland.
My decade of clinical work has focused on tertiary emergency nursing, aeromedical retrievals, education/simulation, and also humanitarianism, most recently with the International Committee of the Red Cross in South Sudan and Gaza.
Outside of work I’m passionate about mountains, zen philosophy, standup comedy, podcasting about movies, and Ernest the chihuahua.
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