Research output per year
Research output per year
PhD in Anthropology
Research activity per year
I am a trained anthropologist, and before that a social worker, and I research themes related to migration and mental health. I have a profound interest in the relationship between state interventions and intimate spheres. My methodological foundation stems from ethnographic fieldwork, and through that, I investigate social life and its connections to those institutional contexts and places in which it unfolds.
My PhD was conducted in collaboration with the Danish Refugee Council and focused on psychosocial work with children in refugee families. Here I was particularly engaged with intergenerational relationships and the moods and atmospheres that surround sensitive topics, in schools, at home, and in welfare state knowledge dissemination.
In recent years, I have been dealing with internal migration practices among socio-economically disadvantaged people, not least from city to countryside. I have investigated the inclusive and exclusive dynamics produced by housing markets – understood as both homes, infrastructure, and sociomateriality.
Currently, I am involved in the research project, 'The complexity of coercion in child and adolescent psychiatry'; an interdisciplinary project that examines the use and experiences of coercion in Norwegian youth psychiatry. My role is to contribute insights into both how and under what circumstances coercion is used, and how professionals, young people, and their relatives experience it.
I am very engaged in working and communicating across literary genres. Among other things, I have co-edited the short story collection, ‘Levn efter personspecifikke aktiviteter – Socialrådgivernoveller' and am part of the editorial team at AntroStorier, a digital magazine that publishes ethnographic fiction.
PhD in Anthropolgy , Research project concerned children in vulnerable refugee families in Denmark, University of Copenhagen
Award Date: 15 Jun 2016
Ma.Ed. Educational Athropology, Master in Educational Anthropology, Aarhus University
Award Date: 2 Jun 2008
Interkulturel/International socialrådgiver, Den Social Højskole, København
30 Sept 1999 → 30 Jun 2022
Award Date: 21 Jun 2002
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Contribution to book/anthology › Research › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
Research output: Contribution to conference without a publisher/journal › Paper › Research
Research output: Contribution to conference without a publisher/journal › Paper › Research
Henriksen, A.-K. E. (Co-researcher), Olesen, E. (Principle researcher), Bliksvær, T. (Principle researcher) & Brinkmann, T. (Co-researcher)
01/06/21 → 30/06/25
Project: Research
Bregnbæk, S. (Principle researcher), Brinkmann, T. (Co-researcher) & Jørgensen, A. H. (Co-researcher)
01/01/20 → 01/01/22
Project: Research
Brinkmann, T. (Co-researcher)
01/08/19 → 31/07/21
Project: Research
01/05/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
11/05/21 → 12/05/21
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
Højlund, H., Pors, J. G., Friis Christensen, J., Montgomery, E., Hirslund, D., Nørredam, M., Høgh Thøgersen, M., Blond, L., Olwig, K. F., Hastrup mso, K., Grønlykke Mollerup, N., Ravnbøl, C. I., Holst, T., de Montgomery, C. J., Krasnik, A., Gulsrud, N. M., Carey, M., Jensen, T. G., Lund Liebmann, L., Jacobsen Pérez, S., Lapida, L., Andersen, R., Kampmann, J., Vertelyte, M., Schmidt, G., Stenum, H., Grønbæk Jensen, S., Risager, K., Gulløv, E., Plotnikof, M., Staunæs, D., Ratner, H. G., Adriansen, H. K., Bach, D., Hovgaard Jørgensen, A., Esbensen, G. L., Kofoed, J., Valentin, K., Bossen, C., Khawaja, I., Kristensen, S. B., Danholt, P., Olesen, F., Karlsson, A., Mørck, L. L., Gilliam, L., Lauritsen mso, P., Simonsen, A., Petersen, S. L., Buch Segal, L., Thingstrup, S. H., Brinkmann, T., Bregnbæk, S., Vaaben, N. K., Munck, C., Møller, J. R. & Houmøller, K.
23/05/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Brinkmann, T. (Paricipant) & Jønsson, A. (Arranger)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Conference
Brinkmann, T. (Member in group of editors)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Reviewer/editor of journal
Brinkmann, T. (Member in group of editors)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Reviewer/editor of journal
Brinkmann, T. (Recipient), 2011
Prize: Scholarship