Theses

Brookfield, S. (2015). Qualitative analysis of homelessness & natural disasters: Expanding the role of NGOs with an all-people plan. (Master of International Public Health), School of Public Health, The University of Queensland.  

Brookfield, S. (2021). More human: An ethnographic study of methamphetamine recovery. School of Public Health, the University of Queensland.  

Journal Articles

Brookfield S, Chye NA, Carah N, Gartner C. (2025) Reporting on the “Next Generation of Nicotine Addicts”: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of How the Australian Media has Covered and Constructed Youth Vaping (2018-2023). Health Communication. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2025.2458648.

Brookfield, S., Chye, N. A., Carah, N., & Gartner, C. (2024). “I’ve lost my children to vaping”: A frame analysis of the Australian media’s construction of the “Youth vaping crisis”. International Journal of Drug Policy, 130, 104513. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104513

Brookfield, S. (2024). Choosing not to help: The ethical challenge of beneficence for clinicians conducting ethnographic research. Ethnography. doi: 10.1177/14661381241237407

Brookfield S., Steadman, K. J., Nissen, L., Gartner, C. E. (2024). Pharmacist-only supply of nicotine vaping products: proposing an alternative regulatory model for Australia. Tobacco Control. doi: 10.1136/tc-2023-058414

Brookfield, S., & Gartner, C. (2023). The impact of pseudoephedrine regulation at Australian pharmacies through Project Stop: A narrative review. Drug & Alcohol Review. doi:10.1111/dar.13777

Brookfield, S., Selvey, L., Fitzgerald, L., & Maher, L. (2023). “More human”: Using ethnographic insights to develop a posthuman framework of ‘extended recovery’ for harmful drug use. SSM – Qualitative Research in Health, 3. doi:10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100245

Brookfield, S. (2023). What isn’t public health? Journal of Public Health Policy. doi:10.1057/s41271-023-00404-x

Brookfield, S., Selvey, L., Maher, L., & Fitzgerald, L. (2022). ‘Making ground’: An ethnography of ‘living with’ harmful methamphetamine use and the plurality of recovery. Journal of Drug Issues. doi: 10.1177/00220426211073911

Brookfield, S., Fitzgerald, L., Selvey, L., & Maher, L. (2021). “We’re supposed to be a family here”: An ethnography of preserving, achieving, and performing normality within methamphetamine recovery. SSM – Population Health, 16. doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100969

Brookfield, S., Selvey, L., Maher, L., & Fitzgerald, L. (2021). “It just kind of cascades”: A critical ethnography of methamphetamine-related pleasure among people in recovery. International Journal of Drug Policy, 98. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103427

Brookfield, S., Selvey, L., Maher, L., & Fitzgerald, L. (2021). “There’s no sense to it”: A posthumanist ethnography of agency in methamphetamine recovery. Contemporary Drug Problems. doi: 10.1177/00914509211031609

Brookfield, S., Dean, J., Forrest, C., Jones, J., & Fitzgerald, L. (2020). Barriers to accessing sexual health services for transgender and male sex workers: A systematic qualitative meta-summary. AIDS & Behavior, 24(3), 682-696. doi: 10.1007/s10461-019-02453-4

Brookfield, S., Fitzgerald, L., Selvey, L., & Maher, L. (2019). The blind men & the elephant: Meta-ethnography 30 years On. Qualitative Health Research, 29(11), 1647-1681.

Brookfield, S., Fitzgerald, L., Selvey, L., & Maher, L. (2019). Turning points, identity, and social capital: A meta-ethnography of methamphetamine recovery. International Journal of Drug Policy, 67, 79-90. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.02.002

Brookfield, S., & Fitzgerald, L. (2018). Homelessness and natural disasters: the role of community service organisations. Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 33(4), 62-68. doi: 10.3316/agispt.20181121004079

Book Review

Brookfield, S. (2023). Recovering assemblages: unfolding sociomaterial relations of drug use and recovery. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 30:2, 227-228, DOI: 10.1080/09687637.2023.2181493

Reports

Jones, J., Dean, J., Brookfield, S., Forrest, C., & Fitzgerald, L. (2018). Factors influencing transgender and male sex worker access to sexual health care, HIV testing and support study (TaMS) report.

Public Writing

Pharmacies will soon be able to supply vapes without prescription: how might it work in practice? Insight+, 2024

Addressing the root causes of violence in emergency departments. Insight+, 2024

Making ground with methamphetamine use: Exploring experiences of growth, change and ‘normality’ outside of abstinence-only recovery. WHACK magazine, Harm Reduction Victoria, 2022

Is evidence for or against drug-testing welfare recipients? It depends on the result we’re after. The Conversation, 2017