Dr Mark David McGregor Davis
Tel: +61 3 990 59190Fax: +61 3 990 52410
Email: Mark.Davis@monash.edu
Room W11.15 11th Floor
Building 11 (Menzies), Clayton Campus
Dr Mark Davis, BA Hons (UQ), MA (London), PhD (London) is a sociologist with experience in clinical, community and academic sectors in Australia and the United Kingdom. He is a member of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Health, International Sociological Association. Mark is a member of the advisory board of the Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London. His research interests include: health and medicine; sexualities; theories of self and society; and innovative qualitative methodologies.
Selected publications
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Davis, M., Stephenson, N. and Flowers, P. (2011) Compliant, complacent or panicked? Investigating the problematisation of the Australian general public in pandemic influenza control, Social Science & Medicine. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.01.016 Davis, M. (2010) Advancing biosocial pedagogy for HIV education, Health Education Research, doi: 10.1093/her/cyq047 Davis, M. and Squire, C. eds (2010) HIV treatment and prevention technologies in international perspective, Palgrave Macmillan, 224 pages. Davis, M. (2009) Sex, technology and public health, Palgrave Macmillan, 198 pages. Davis, M. (2008) The ‘loss of community’ and other problems for sexual citizenship in recent HIV prevention, Sociology of Health and Illness, 30(2), 182-196. Davis, M., Hart, G., Bolding, G., Sherr, L. and Elford, J. (2006) E-dating and HIV prevention: theorising sexual interaction, risk and network society, Sociology of Health and Illness, 28 (4), 457-478. Davis, M., Rhodes, T. and Martin, A. (2004) Preventing hepatitis C: ‘Common sense’, ‘the bug’ and other perspectives from the risk narratives of people who inject drugs, Social Science and Medicine, 59, 1807-1818. |
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Grants and commissions
2011-3: ARC Discovery Project ($293,000), Using a biosocial approach to advance pandemic influenza control, Davis, M (Monash), Stephenson, N (UNSW) & Flowers, P (Glasgow Caledonian University).
2009: Australian Research Centre in Sex Health and Society, La Trobe University ($5000). Ford Foundation Sexualities Research Teaching Module.
2008: Monash University, Faculty of Arts Strategic Initiatives ($10,000) Prato Roundtable: Healthy living and citizenship, Petersen, A., Davis, M., Fraser, S., & Lindsay, J.
2007-9: Monash University, Faculty of Arts New Researchers Grant ($10,000)
2006: Promising Researcher Fellowship, University of East London (£5000), Sex, Technology and Public Health book proposal and related publications.
2006-7: ESRC Small Grants Scheme (£45000), Experiencing HIV treatment in the context of uncertainty: A qualitative study in Serbia/Montenegro, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Rhodes, T., Bernays, S., Davis, M. & Green J.
2001-3: ESRC Innovative Health Technologies Programme (£213, 210), Transitions in HIV management: the role of innovative health technologies, Glasgow Caledonian University, Flowers, P, Davis, M., Imrie, J, & Hart, G.
Teaching
ATS2717 / ATS3717 Sociology of Health and Medicine
ATS2726 / ATS3726 Social Psychology
Monash Faculty of Arts Teaching Awards
2008 Dean's Commendation for Excellence in Teaching (Health, Technologies and Society)
2009 Highly Commended in the Dean's Teaching Award
2010 Dean's Commendation for Excellence in Teaching (Sociology of Health and Medicine)
HDR Supervision
Postgraduate research students currently being supervised include:
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| Student | Topic | Supervisor / s |
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| Centurion Priyatna | Cigarette Advertising in Indonesia in the midst of the Global Anti Smoking Campaign and Indonesian Local Smoking Culture | Professor Alan Petersen, Dr Mark Davis |
| Eloise Zoppos | Friends, fans and followers: Contextualising virtual identity, friendship and social networking in the digital age | Dr Francesca Collins, Dr Roseann Misajon, Dr Mark Davis |
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Gudrun Loehrer [external] University of East London (completed 2009) |
Fighting epidemics through conduct: the campaigns against Tuberculosis and Polio in US-American public health films from 1938 to 1957, University of East London. | Professor Barbara Harrison, Dr Maria Tamboukou, Dr Mark Davis |