Dr Mark Davis22 October 2014

Research programme

sexualities, health and digital media

disclosure of diagnosis and other aspects of health and the body

transformation of the sexual health clinic through diagnostic, treatment, information and digital media technologies

social, public policy and scientific aspects of pandemics, contagion and microbial life

narrative research approaches

Sexualities and digital media

Collaborators from Glasgow Caledonian University

NHS funded research in Scotland

Quantitative and qualitative research with gay men on HIV prevention and digital media

Focus on hook-up apps

Paper: Location, safety and (non) strangers in gay men’s narratives on ‘hook-up’ apps

Disclosure

Workshops in London and San Francisco

Book edited with Lenore Manderson

HIV; genetic diseases; mental illness; gender reassignment; sleep disorders; domestic violence

Davis, M. and Manderson, L. eds (2014) Disclosure in health and illness, London: Routledge, 201 pages.

Davis, M. and Flowers, P. (2014) 'HIV/STI prevention technologies and strategic (in)visibilities' in Davis, M. and Manderson, L. eds Disclosure in Health and Illness, Routledge, pages 72 - 88.

Editing special issue for Current Anthropology on ‘Life and death of the secret’

Transformation of the clinic

Interviews with HIV and sexual health experts in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stockholm

Focus on treatment as prevention; rapid testing; self-testing; PrEP; microbicides; self-triage; mobile phone clinics; pop-up testing

Editing special issue for Culture, Health & Sexuality on ‘Sex, Health and the Technological Imagination’

Davis, M. (2014) After the clinic? Researching sexual health technology in context, Culture, Health & Sexuality,  DOI:10.1080/13691058.2014.928371.

Pandemic influenza

ARC Discovery Project ($293K; 2011/13)

Interviews with scientists and policy makers in the UK and Australia (thematic analysis)

Interviews and focus groups with general public in Melbourne, Sydney and Glasgow (thematic analysis)

Focus on: prevention; immunity and embodiment; media and communications; diagnosis and symptoms; pregnant women; altruism and compliance with guidelines

http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/pandemicinfluenza/

Contagion and pandemics Davis, M., Flowers, P., Lohm, D., Waller, E and Stephenson, N. (2014) Immunity, biopolitics and pandemics:

Public and individual responses to the threat to life, Body & Society.

Davis, M., Flowers, P., Lohm, D., Waller, E. and Stephenson, N. (2014) “We became sceptics”: fear and media hype in general public narrative on the advent of pandemic influenza, Sociological Inquiry.

Flowers, P., Davis, M., Lohm, D., Waller, E. and Stephenson, N. (published online 23 June 2014) Understanding pandemic influenza behaviour: an exploratory biopsychosocial study, Journal of Health Psychology.

Waller, E., Davis, M. and Stephenson, N (published online 16 June 2014) Australia’s pandemic influenza ‘Protect’ phase: Emerging out of the fog of pandemic, Critical Public Health, DOI:10.1080/09581596.2014.926310.

Lohm, D., Flowers, P. Stephenson, N., Waller, E. and Davis, M. (2014) Biography, pandemic time and risk: pregnant women reflecting on their experiences of the 2009 influenza pandemic, Health (London), 18(5): 493-508.

Stephenson, N., Davis, M., Flowers, P., Waller, E. and MacGregor, C. (2014) Mobilising "vulnerability" in the public health response to pandemic influenza, Social Science & Medicine, 102:10-7.

Davis, M., Flowers, P. and Stephenson, N. (2014) ‘We had to do what we thought was right at the time’: retrospective public health discourse on the 2009 H1N1 pandemic in the UK, Sociology of Health and Illness, 36 (3): 369-82.

Davis, M., Flowers, P. and Stephenson, N. (2014) ‘We had to do what we thought was right at the time’: retrospective public health discourse on the 2009 H1N1 pandemic in the UK, Sociology of Health and Illness, 36 (3): 369-82.

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, 72(6): 912-918.

Narrative

Member advisory board Centre for Narrative Research in the UK (http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/pandemicinfluenza /)

Squire, C., Davis, M., Esin, C., Andrews, M., Harrison, B., Hyden, L. and Hyden, M. (2014) What is narrative research? London: Bloomsbury Academic, 156 pages.

Davis, M. (2013) ‘Doing research ‘on and through’ new media narrative’ in M. Andrews, M. Tamboukou and Squire, C. (eds) Doing narrative research, Sage: London, pages 159-175.

Davis, M. (2011) ‘You have to come into the world’: transition, emotion and being in narratives of life with the internet, Somatechnics, 1(2): 253-271.

Book project: ‘Flu stories’