Samuel Brookfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 117488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Brookfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Brookfield |
| SIGNATURE | BROOKFIELD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2199-1109 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Advancing Australia’s tobacco control policy and taxation strategies to reduce illicit trade, improve health equity, and resist industry narratives
There is strong evidence for the effectiveness of tobacco taxes on reducing smoking at a population level, both in Australia and internationally. While Australia has implemented tobacco taxation at levels in line with the WHO's recommendations, critics claim this policy has unintended negative impacts on health equity and has caused growth in the illicit tobacco trade (ITT). Higher tobacco prices can drive consumers to seek cheaper illicitly trad…
Reporting on the “Next Generation of Nicotine Addicts”
In May 2023, the Australian Federal Government announced further restrictions on the sale of vaping devices, partly due to concern over widespread use by young people. We conducted a mixed methods study to examine how youth vaping has been reported in the Australian news media and compare these articles to media guidelines on responsible reporting of drug use. Drawing a sample from the Factiva database, we conducted quantitative content analysis …
The impact of pseudoephedrine regulation at Australian pharmacies through Project Stop
I've lost my children to vaping”
These findings are discussed in the context of moral panic theory and how framings are constructed by the media in collaboration with policy actors to support particular policy measures
Choosing not to help
For clinicians conducting ethnographic research, conflict can arise between the clinical understanding of beneficence, meaning to apply skills and knowledge for people towards whom there is a duty of care, and enacting beneficence through research, which can sometimes allow researchers to withhold assistance in the interests of generating data which may have a broader beneficent effect when applied. As a nurse and ethnographic researcher, I prese…
Recovering assemblages
At the source of many theoretical and practical challenges in drug use research has been the tendency to construct the various elements of drug use in opposition: agency versus structure, personal
“More human”
The enduring conceptual confusion within drug use literature and research regarding the definition of addiction arises from the lack of reconciliation between two key concepts: (1) addiction occurs when someone loses control over their behaviour, and (2) recovery can only proceed when that individual chooses to regain control. This paper uses ethnographic insights to illustrate an alternative framework based on posthumanism and extended health th…
There’s No Sense to It”
The orthodox construction of agency within addiction recovery discourse is built upon a fault line between two conflicting principles: that people who use drugs in harmful ways cannot control their behavior, but that they can also regain that control through intentional effort. The conceptual confusion inherent in this framework can harm people using drugs by producing inadequate accounts of commonly invoked aspects of recovery such as “triggers,…
We’re supposed to be a family here”
The perception of being abnormal, and a visceral desire to 'feel normal again', is a common feature of the literature on drug use and recovery. Normality is constructed, however, in response to context-dependent values and priorities, thereby legitimating certain behaviours as normative and therefore the assumed goal of people in recovery. In this paper we draw on an ethnographic study with twelve people attempting to reduce harmful methamphetami…
It Just Kind of Cascades”
Turning points, identity, and social capital
The Blind Men and the Elephant
In the 30 years since its introduction, meta-ethnography has become a critical tool for synthesizing qualitative health research and providing a holistic understanding of complex health and social phenomena. Meta-ethnography has also been adapted to integrate a wider range of research methodologies, expanded to include a detailed taxonomy of research methods, and has led to the development of multiple other methods of synthesis. In this article, …
There’s No Sense to It”
The orthodox construction of agency within addiction recovery discourse is built upon a fault line between two conflicting principles: that people who use drugs in harmful ways cannot control their behavior, but that they can also regain that control through intentional effort. The conceptual confusion inherent in this framework can harm people using drugs by producing inadequate accounts of commonly invoked aspects of recovery such as “triggers,…
The Blind Men and the Elephant
In the 30 years since its introduction, meta-ethnography has become a critical tool for synthesizing qualitative health research and providing a holistic understanding of complex health and social phenomena. Meta-ethnography has also been adapted to integrate a wider range of research methodologies, expanded to include a detailed taxonomy of research methods, and has led to the development of multiple other methods of synthesis. In this article, …
Turning points, identity, and social capital
The Blind Men and the Elephant
In the 30 years since its introduction, meta-ethnography has become a critical tool for synthesizing qualitative health research and providing a holistic understanding of complex health and social phenomena. Meta-ethnography has also been adapted to integrate a wider range of research methodologies, expanded to include a detailed taxonomy of research methods, and has led to the development of multiple other methods of synthesis. In this article, …
We’re supposed to be a family here”
The perception of being abnormal, and a visceral desire to 'feel normal again', is a common feature of the literature on drug use and recovery. Normality is constructed, however, in response to context-dependent values and priorities, thereby legitimating certain behaviours as normative and therefore the assumed goal of people in recovery. In this paper we draw on an ethnographic study with twelve people attempting to reduce harmful methamphetami…
It Just Kind of Cascades”
There’s No Sense to It”
The orthodox construction of agency within addiction recovery discourse is built upon a fault line between two conflicting principles: that people who use drugs in harmful ways cannot control their behavior, but that they can also regain that control through intentional effort. The conceptual confusion inherent in this framework can harm people using drugs by producing inadequate accounts of commonly invoked aspects of recovery such as “triggers,…
Recovering assemblages
At the source of many theoretical and practical challenges in drug use research has been the tendency to construct the various elements of drug use in opposition: agency versus structure, personal
“More human”
The enduring conceptual confusion within drug use literature and research regarding the definition of addiction arises from the lack of reconciliation between two key concepts: (1) addiction occurs when someone loses control over their behaviour, and (2) recovery can only proceed when that individual chooses to regain control. This paper uses ethnographic insights to illustrate an alternative framework based on posthumanism and extended health th…
The impact of pseudoephedrine regulation at Australian pharmacies through Project Stop
I've lost my children to vaping”
These findings are discussed in the context of moral panic theory and how framings are constructed by the media in collaboration with policy actors to support particular policy measures
Choosing not to help
For clinicians conducting ethnographic research, conflict can arise between the clinical understanding of beneficence, meaning to apply skills and knowledge for people towards whom there is a duty of care, and enacting beneficence through research, which can sometimes allow researchers to withhold assistance in the interests of generating data which may have a broader beneficent effect when applied. As a nurse and ethnographic researcher, I prese…
Reporting on the “Next Generation of Nicotine Addicts”
In May 2023, the Australian Federal Government announced further restrictions on the sale of vaping devices, partly due to concern over widespread use by young people. We conducted a mixed methods study to examine how youth vaping has been reported in the Australian news media and compare these articles to media guidelines on responsible reporting of drug use. Drawing a sample from the Factiva database, we conducted quantitative content analysis …
Advancing Australia’s tobacco control policy and taxation strategies to reduce illicit trade, improve health equity, and resist industry narratives
There is strong evidence for the effectiveness of tobacco taxes on reducing smoking at a population level, both in Australia and internationally. While Australia has implemented tobacco taxation at levels in line with the WHO's recommendations, critics claim this policy has unintended negative impacts on health equity and has caused growth in the illicit tobacco trade (ITT). Higher tobacco prices can drive consumers to seek cheaper illicitly trad…
Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Qualitative research (5 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (5 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Medicine (4 works)