Dr Mark David McGregor Davis
- Tel: +61 3 990 59190
- Fax: +61 3 990 52410
- Email: Mark.Davis@arts.monash.edu.au
- Room W11.15 11th Floor
- Building 11 (Menzies), Clayton Campus
Mark's research addresses the social aspects of biomedicine, public health and health promotion with particular reference to HIV and other infectious diseases. Mark is a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of East London, where he is also a member of the advisory board for the Centre for Narrative Research .
Qualifications
- PhD, Sociology in Education, Institute of Education, University of London
- MA in Education with Distinction in Health Education and Health Promotion, Institute of Education, University of London
- BA Hons, Psychology, University of Queensland
Selected publications
Davis, M. (2009) Sex, technology and public health, Palgrave Macmillan. 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) Sex and the Internet: gay men, risk reduction and serostatus, Culture, Health and Sexuality, 8 (2), 161-174. 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. Davis, M. (2002) HIV prevention rationalities and serostatus in the risk narratives of gay men, Sexualities, 5(3), 281-299. |
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Teaching
SCY2050 / SCY3050 Sociology of Health and Medicine
SCY2021 / SCY3021 Media, Technologies and SocietyHDR Supervision
Postgraduate research students currently being supervised include:
| PhD | ||
| Student | Topic | Supervisor / s |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |