Blake Askelin

Position: Current PhD student
School and/or Centres: Institute for Communication in Healthcare
Blake Askelin is a non-practising registered nurse with experience across public and private hospitals, with close to five years of clinical practice in surgical, mental health, acute medicine, and high-dependency settings. Blake is currently undertaking a PhD examining hospital systems and discharge summaries to understand how systemic constraints shape patient agency, information needs, and the production and communication of clinical information, and how these dynamics generate clinical and ethical risk.