Mark Davis

Mark completed his PhD in sociology in 2005 at the Institute of Education, University of London (now part of University College London). Before his PhD, Mark worked as a psychologist in clinical settings and in HIV prevention and research. During his PhD, he worked 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.

Mark leads a programme of research on the sociology of infection and immunity. His research has been funded by grants from the Economic and Social Research Council, and National Health Service, in the UK, and the Australian Research Council. He leads an international ARC Discovery Project and is chief investigator on an ARC Linkage Project, both of which investigate the social and cultural responses to antimicrobial resistance to better inform efforts to reduce the social and economic burdens of drug-resistant infections.

Mark supervises Honours, Masters and PhD projects on a variety of topics, including: narrative, discourse, sexualities, public health and health promotion, HIV and sexual health, pandemics, social pharmacy, and digital media.

ATS3717 Health, Culture & Society

APG4681 Social Research Practice