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Brett Smith is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans interdisciplinary areas within Medicine and Social Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields including Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Sociology and Political Science, Marketing, and Automotive Engineering.

The scientist's recent scholarly output includes research articles published in various peer-reviewed journals. Notable publications are:

  • Detection of novel coronaviruses in bats in Myanmar (2020) in PLoS ONE
  • Consumer 'app-etite' for workers' rights in the Australian 'gig' economy (2020) in Journal of Choice Modelling
  • Peer-to-Peer (P2P) carsharing and driverless vehicles: Attitudes and values of vehicle owners (2021) in Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice
  • Surveillance for potentially zoonotic viruses in rodent and bat populations and behavioral risk in an agricultural settlement in Ghana (2022) in One Health Outlook
  • How governments influence autonomous vehicle (AV) innovation (2023) in Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice

The scientist's work frequently addresses topics related to zoonotic diseases and public health, viral infections and vectors, transportation and mobility innovations, the digital economy and work transformation, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, sharing economy and platforms, as well as labor movements and unions.

Brett Smith has collaborated extensively with several researchers, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Tracey Goldstein
  • Jonna A. K. Mazet
  • Doina Olaru
  • Christine K. Johnson
  • Sharon Purchase

The scientist publishes recurrently in specific venues, notably:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice
  • EcoHealth
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Choice Modelling

Brett Smith's contributions also include book publications. One such example is a chapter titled "Key trends in employment scams in Australia: What are the gaps in knowledge about recruitment fraud?" published in 2022 under the series Crime and justice briefing papers.

Best Publications

  • Sedentary behavior research network (SBRN) - terminology consensus project process and outcome

    Mark S. Tremblay;Salomé Aubert;Joel D. Barnes;Travis J. Saunders

  • Developing rigor in qualitative research: problems and opportunities within sport and exercise psychology

    Brett Smith;Kerry R. McGannon

  • Generalizability in qualitative research: misunderstandings, opportunities and recommendations for the sport and exercise sciences

    Brett Smith

  • Judging the quality of qualitative inquiry: Criteriology and relativism in action

    Andrew C. Sparkes;Brett Smith

  • A Meta-Analysis of Perceived Locus of Causality in Exercise, Sport, and Physical Education Contexts.

    Nikos Chatzisarantis;Martin S. Hagger;Stuart J. H. Biddle;Brett Smith

  • Contrasting perspectives on narrating selves and identities: an invitation to dialogue

    Brett Smith;Andrew C. Sparkes

  • Narrative inquiry in sport and exercise psychology: what can it mean, and why might we do it?

    Brett Smith;Andrew C. Sparkes

  • Participation of people living with disabilities in physical activity: a global perspective.

    Kathleen A Martin Ginis;Hidde P van der Ploeg;Hidde P van der Ploeg;Charlie Foster;Byron Lai

  • Evidence-based scientific exercise guidelines for adults with spinal cord injury: An update and a new guideline

    Kathleen A Martin Ginis;Jan W van der Scheer;Amy E Latimer-Cheung;Andy Barrow

  • Narrative analysis and sport and exercise psychology: Understanding lives in diverse ways

    Brett Smith;Andrew C. Sparkes

  • Men, sport, spinal cord injury, and narratives of hope

    Brett Smith;Andrew C. Sparkes

  • Narrative and its potential contribution to disability studies

    Brett Smith;Andrew C. Sparkes

  • Sport, Spinal Cord Injury, Embodied Masculinities, and the Dilemmas of Narrative Identity

    Andrew C. Sparkes;Brett Smith

  • Narrative inquiry in psychology: exploring the tensions within

    Brett Smith;Andrew C Sparkes

  • Interviews: qualitative interviewing in the sport and exercise sciences

    Brett Smith;Andrew C. Sparkes

  • Qualitative methods in sport: a concise overview for guiding social scientific sport research

    Brett Smith;Nick Caddick

  • Changing bodies, changing narratives and the consequences of tellability: a case study of becoming disabled through sport.

    Brett M. Smith;Andrew C. Sparkes

  • Centralizing culture in cultural sport psychology research: The potential of narrative inquiry and discursive psychology

    Kerry R. McGannon;Brett Smith

  • The impact of sport and physical activity on the well-being of combat veterans: A systematic review

    Nick Caddick;Brett Smith

  • The barriers, benefits and facilitators of leisure time physical activity among people with spinal cord injury: a meta-synthesis of qualitative findings

    Toni Louise Williams;Brett Smith;Anthony Papathomas

  • Narrative inquiry: ongoing conversations and questions for sport and exercise psychology research

    Brett Smith

  • Contrasting perspectives on narrating selves and identities: an invitation to

    Brett Smith;Andrew C. Sp

Frequent Co-Authors

Amy E. Latimer-Cheung
Amy E. Latimer-Cheung Queen's University
Kathleen A. Martin Ginis
Kathleen A. Martin Ginis University of British Columbia
Kerry R. McGannon
Kerry R. McGannon Laurentian University
Martin S. Hagger
Martin S. Hagger University of California, Merced
Robert J. Schinke
Robert J. Schinke Laurentian University
Andrew Soundy
Andrew Soundy University of Birmingham
Nikos Ntoumanis
Nikos Ntoumanis University of Southern Denmark
Stuart J. H. Biddle
Stuart J. H. Biddle University of Southern Queensland
Jean Côté
Jean Côté Queen's University

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