22 October 2014

 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

 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

 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’

 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.

 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/

 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.

 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’