Mark Davis

In 2005, Mark completed his PhD in sociology at the Institute of Education, University of London (now part of University College London). Before then, he worked in Australia on HIV education, policy and research and, in the UK, on public health research at Royal Free and UCL Medical School; Imperial College Medical School, and; Institute of Health Sciences, City University, London. Directly before coming to Monash University in 2007, Mark taught in the psychosocial studies programme at the University of East London. He is a member of the international advisory board for the Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London, and Visiting Reader, School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University.

Mark's research has been funded by grants from the ESRC, ARC and NHS. He leads an international ARC Discovery Project and is chief investigator on an ARC Linkage Project, both of which investigate the social response to antimicrobial resistance.

Mark supervises Honours, Masters and PhD projects in the sociology of identities and lived experience, including: narrative approaches to lived experience, discourse theory, queer theory,  and; psychosocial theory.

In medical sociology and science and technology studies, Mark supervises research on: public health and health promotion, HIV and sexual health, pandemics, social pharmacy, and narrative bioethics.

Mark also supervises research on digital media and health communications.

ATS3717 Health, Culture & Society

APG4681 Social Research Practice