Dr Scott Fitzpatrick
Research Fellow
Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health
Newcastle University
Australia
Biography
Scott Fitzpatrick is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health (CRRMH) at The University of Newcastle. His research focuses on the philosophical, moral, and socio-cultural frameworks that underpin suicide and suicide prevention including research, clinical, and public health policy and practice. His research explores such topics as the social determinants of suicide and mental health; methodological and ethical issues in suicide research, policy and practice; rural suicide; lived experience; and the use of qualitative social research methodologies, with a particular emphasis on narrative theory.
Research Interest
Mental Health, Rural Sociology, Applied Ethics
Publications
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Fitzpatrick SJ, River J. Beyond the Medical Model: Future Directions for Suicide Intervention Services. International Journal of Health Services. 2017 Jan 1:0020731417716086.
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Fitzpatrick SJ. Ethical and political implications of the turn to stories in suicide prevention. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology. 2016;23(3):265-76.
