PhD Candidate - Social Media and Communication, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
Sam is pursuing a doctoral degree with the aim of exploring how to effectively convey risk information to social media users, specifically through location-based safety messaging. The research focuses on assessing the impact of such messaging in mitigating injuries and fatalities at aquatic locations frequently visited by individuals on social media platforms.
Research Interests:
Social media
Influencers
Risk communication
Risky behaviours
Injury prevention
Environmental and social impacts of social media
Experience
–present
PhD Candidate, UNSW Sydney
Education
2019
University of South Wales, Master of Science by Research
2017
University of Bristol, Bachelor of Science in Physiological Science (Hons)
Publications
2023
Preventing selfie-related incidents: Taking a public health approach to reduce unnecessary burden on emergency medicine services, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1742-6723.14219
2023
Should land managers be doing more to avert social media-related injuries and fatalities at tourism hotspots?, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13683500.2023.2248349
2023
Selfie-Related Incidents: Narrative Review and Media Content Analysis, https://www.jmir.org/2023/1/e47202/
2023
‘I actually thought that I was going to die’: Lessons on the rip current hazard from survivor experiences, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hpja.785