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Contact Details

Email
gabrielle.jenkin@otago.ac.nz
Position
Associate Professor
Department
Department of Psychological Medicine (Wellington)
Qualifications
BA (Sociology), MPH (Dist), PhD
Research summary
Public health

Research

I am a social scientist with the Suicide and Mental Health Research Group at University of Otago, Wellington. My training is in public health with expertise in food policy and food politics. Recently I have been engaged in mental health research with a focus on suicide and suicide prevention.

As a social scientist with training in epidemiology and public health, I am have undertaken quantitative and qualitative health research in many areas including: tobacco and smoking, alcohol and drink driving, gambling, food and nutrition policy, food marketing, obesity, the politics of health promotion, mental health, suicide, and the framing of public health issues and debates.

My current research is focused on suicide. Recently I led a process evaluation of the Multi-level Intervention for Suicide Prevention in New Zealand, was PI on University of Otago funded research to study the media discourse on suicide news reporting in NZ, and was Co-PI (with Professor Sunny Collings) on the Suicide Mortality Review Feasibility Study (funded by the Health Quality of Safety Commission on behalf of the Ministry of Health).

Publications

Lopes de Lyra, R., McKenzie, S., Jenkin, G., & Every-Palmer, S. (2026). “Everything that you do tears away a little piece of you”: How police officers cope with occupational exposure to suicide. Death Studies. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/07481187.2026.2683690 Journal - Research Article

Mathieson, F., Cumming, R., Stubbe, M., & Jenkin, G. (2026). What's it like? What service user metaphors reveal about experiences of acute mental health inpatient facilities. Current Psychology, 45, 864. doi: 10.1007/s12144-026-09295-z Journal - Research Article

Lopes de Lyra, R., McKenzie, S. K., Jenkin, G., & Every-Palmer, S. (2025). ‘How can you not be traumatised’: Experience of paramedics occupationally exposed to suicide. Paramedicine, 22(2), 80-90. doi: 10.1177/27536386241283986 Journal - Research Article

Aspin, C., Jenkin, G., & Taylor, S. (2024). “Through the eyes of the coroner”: Lessons learned from coronial investigations and their contribution to suicide prevention. Proceedings of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) 11th Asia Pacific Conference. (pp. 167-168). Retrieved from https://dev.new.iasp.info Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Jenkin, G., Bowden, C., & Donnan, L. (2024). A culture of silence, sucking it up and learning through osmosis: Psychosocial stressors faced by construction industry apprentices. Proceedings of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) 11th Asia Pacific Conference. (pp. 49). Retrieved from https://dev.new.iasp.info Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

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