This Australian Research Council-funded project explores how different forms of knowledge have contributed to the rise of traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a health concern. In addition to looking at scientific and public health discourses, it examines approaches to regulating TBI among sport participants, military personnel, and survivors of intimate partner violence in Australia, Canada and the United States. The study illuminates how science and regulation reflect shifting beliefs about brain health, the mind and body and (injured) human agency.

This work is the foundation of a co-authored book (with Matt Ventresca), Violent Impacts: How Power and Inequality Shape the Concussion Crisis, which is under contract with University of California Press. It traces how social stratification informs who is more likely to experience TBI and how it is understood as a public health problem.