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Book sections

Buchanan, H., Frank, R., Couch, M., & Amos, A. (2012). The re/making of men and penile modification. In L. Manderson (Ed.), Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health. (pp. 73-94). London and New York: Rouledge.

Couch, M. (2011). Finding Pleasure in the Culinary Memoir: Cultivating Appetites for Food, Identity and Sex. In S. Chaudhuri & R. B. Chatterjee (Eds.), The Writer's Feast: Food and the Cultures of Representation. (pp. 81-91). Delhi: Orient BlackSwan.

Couch, M. (2010). Transgender Self-Identification, Disjunctions with Clinical and Theoretical Accounts, and the Illuminating Potential of Queer. In B. Scherer (Ed.), Queering Paradigms. (pp. 65-77). Oxford: Peter Lang.

Articles in refereed journals

Lyons, A., Pitts, M. K., Grierson, J., Smith, A. M. A., McNally, S., & Couch, M. (2012). Age at first anal sex and HIV/STI vulnerability among gay men in Australia. Sexually Transmitted Infections, 88, 252-257. Refereed journal article awarded "Editor's Choice" and given free open access.

Couch, D., Liamputtong, P., & Pitts, M. K. (2011). Online Daters and the Use of Technology for Surveillance and Risk Management. International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society, 9(2), 116-134.

Lyons, A., Pitts, M. K., Smith, G., Grierson, J., Smith, A. M. A., McNally, S., & Couch, M. (2011). Versatility and HIV vulnerability: Investigating the proportion of Australian gay men having both insertive and receptive anal intercourse. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 8, 2164-2171.

Pitts, M. K., Couch, M., Croy, S., Mitchell, A., & Mulcare, H. (2009). Health service use and experiences of transgender people: Australian and New Zealand perspectives. Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review, 5(3).

Pitts, M. K., Couch, M., Croy, S., Mulcare, H., & Mitchell, A. (2009). Transgender People in Australia and New Zealand: Health, Well-being and Access to Health Services. Feminism and Psychology LGBTQ Health Psychologies: Charting the terrain. (Special Issue), 475-495.

Couch, M., Mulcare, H., Pitts, M. K., Smith, A. M. A., & Mitchell, A. (2008). The Religious Affiliation of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Australians: A Report From the Private Lives Survey. People and Place, 16(1), 1-11.

Couch, M., Pitts, M. K., Croy, S., Mulcare, H., & Mitchell, A. (2008). Transgender people and the amendment of formal documentation: Matters of recognition and citizenship. Health Sociology Review, 17(3), 280-289.

Dowsett, G. W., & Couch, M. (2007). Male circumcision and HIV Prevention: Is There Really Enough of the Right Kind of Evidence? Reproductive Health Matters, 15(29), 33-44.

Webster, L., Mertova, P., Torr, J., Parker, R., & Couch, M. (2007). ICT in the delivery of an international program on psychiatry of intellectual disability. Educational Media International, 44(2), 155-166.

Non-refereed contributions to a refereed journal

Lyons, A., Pitts, M. K., Grierson, J., Smith, A. M. A., McNally, S., & Couch, M. (2011). Sexual debut and sexual health: Is early age of first intercourse associated with heightened HIV vulnerability among gay men? Sexually Transmitted Infections, 87(Suppl. 1), A252-A253.

Reports

Leonard, W., Pitts, M. K., Mitchell, A., Lyons, A., Smith, A., Patel, S., Couch, M., & Barrett, A. (2012). Private Lives 2: The second national survey of the health and wellbeing of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) Australians. Monograph Series Number 86. Melbourne, Australia: Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University. ARCSHS Monograph.

Buchanan, H., Akuani, F., Kupe, F., Couch, M., Amos, A., Sapak, K., Be, F., Kawage, T., & Frank, R. (2010). Behavioural Surveillance Research in Rural Development Enclaves in Papua New Guinea. NRI Special Publication Number 61. Boroko, Papua New Guinea: National Research Institute (NRI). NRI Special Publication.

Buchanan-Aruwafu, H., Akuani, F., Kupe, F., Kawage, T., Sapak, K., Amos, A., Naemon, A., & Couch, M. (2010). Behavioural Surveillance Research with More at Risk Populations in Rural Development Enclaves in Papua New Guinea: A Study with the WR Carpenters Workforce. NRI Special Publication Number 59. Boroko, Papua New Guinea: National Research Institute (NRI). NRI Special Publication.

Corboz, J., Dowsett, G. W., Mitchell, A., Couch, M., Agius, P. A., & Pitts, M. K. (2008). Feeling Queer and Blue: A Review of the Literature on Depression and Related Issues among Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Other Homosexually Active People. Report prepared for beyondblue: The National Depression Initiative. Melbourne: Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University.

Couch, M., Pitts, M. K., Mulcare, H., Croy, S., Mitchell, A., & Patel, S. (2007). TranzNation: A report on the health and wellbeing of transgender people in Australia and New Zealand. Monograph Series Number 65. Melbourne: Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University. ARCSHS Monograph.

International conferences

Lyons, A., Pitts, M. K., Grierson, J., Smith, A. M. A., McNally, S., & Couch, M. (2011). Sexual debut and sexual health: Is early age of first intercourse associated with heightened HIV vulnerability among gay men?. 19th ISSTDR Conference. Quebec City, Canada, July.

Couch, M. (2010). The HIV virus, transmission practices and local, regional and global organisations and infrastructure: A critical realist look at the Pacific region. International Association of Critical Realism, Annual Conference. Padua, Italy, July.

Grierson, J., Couch, M., Pitts, M. K., Smith, A. M. A., McNally, S., & Smith, G. (2010). Sexual health and sexual practice among Indonesian MSM. Poster presentation at 16th IUSTI Asia Pacific Conference. Bali, Indonesia, May.

Pitts, M. K., Grierson, J., Couch, M., Smith, A. M. A., McNally, S., & Smith, G. (2010). Understanding versatility and reciprocity in sexual practices in male to male sex. 16th IUSTI Asia Pacific Conference. Bali, Indonesia, May.

Couch, M. (2009). Transgender self-identification, disjunctions with clinical and theoretical accounts, and the illuminating potential of queer. Queering Paradigms Conference. Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK, 27 February - 1 March 2009.

Grierson, J., McNally, S., Couch, M., & Pitts, M. K. (2008). Contextualising Male-To-Male-Sex in Indonesia and Thailand. Poster at XVII International AIDS Conference. Mexico City, 3-8 August 2008.

Grierson, J., Pitts, M. K., McNally, S., & Couch, M. (2008). Male to Male Sex and HIV in the Asia/Pacific Region: Politics, Polemics and Pragmatics. 3rd International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. Prato, Italy, 22-25 July 2008.

Pitts, M. K., Couch, M., Croy, S., Mulcare, H., & Mitchell, A. (2008). Health and wellbeing of transgender people in Australia and New Zealand. Poster at XVII International AIDS Conference. Mexico City, 3-8 August 2008.

Couch, M., Grierson, J., Swaminathan, S., Thorpe, R., Pitts, M. K., & Abraham, K. (2007). Living with HIV in a Tamil Nadu district: Indian-Australian capacity sharing in community research. Poster at 8th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP). Colombo, Sri Lanka, 19-23 August 2007.

McNally, S., Grierson, J., Couch, M., & Pitts, M. K. (2007). The Dynamics and Contexts of Male-to-Male Sex in Indonesia and Thailand. 8th International AIDS Impact Conference. Marseille, France, 1-4 July 2007.

McNally, S., Grierson, J., Couch, M., & Pitts, M. K. (2007). Same-sex-seeking cultures and patterns of sex between men in Indonesia and Thailand. 8th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP). Colombo, Sri Lanka, 19-23 August 2007.

Pitts, M. K., Couch, M., Mulcare, H., & Mitchell, A. (2007). Health and well-being of non-heterosexual men and women in Australia: A report from the Private Lives Survey. 8th International AIDS Impact Conference. Marseille, France, 1-4 July 2007.

Pitts, M. K., Couch, M., Mulcare, H., & Mitchell, A. (2007). Self-reported health of non-heterosexual men and women in Australia: A report from the Private Lives Survey. 8th International AIDS Impact Conference. Marseille, France, 1-4 July 2007.

Slavin, S., & Couch, M. (2007). Achieving sexuality justice: Is a rights-based discourse enough?. 6th International Conference of the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society. Lima, June.

National conferences

Leonard, W., & Couch, M. (2010). Reporting on the health and wellbeing of rural GLBT Victorians: Private Lives 2, the next iteration. Take Care OutBack There, Rural GLBT Health and Wellbeing Forum. Beechworth, 2-4 September 2010.

Couch, M. (2009). Civil society and responses to the HIV epidemic in the Asia-Pacific Region: Articulations with human rights, governance and regulation. 2009 Conference of The Australian Sociological Association, The Future of Sociology. Australian National University, Canberra, 1-4 December 2009.

Full written paper - refereed conference proceedings

Couch, M., & Pitts, M. K. (2007). Living with HIV in a Tamil Nadu district: A report from the HIV Futures Tamil Nadu Project. Refereed Conference Proceedings of The 8th Conference of the Asia Pacific Sociological Association. Asia Pacific Region: Societies in Transformation, Penang, Malaysia, 19-21 November 2007.

Couch, M. (2007). Session Introduction: Current Research on Sex, Health and Society in the Asia Pacific Region: The Under-labouring and the science. Refereed Conference Proceedings of The 8th Conference of the Asia Pacific Sociological Association. Asia Pacific Region: Societies in Transformation, Penang, Malaysia, 19-21 November 2007.

Couch, M., & Pitts, M. K. (2007). Social transformations and the dynamics and contexts of male-to-male-sex in Indonesia and Thailand. Refereed Conference Proceedings of The 8th Conference of the Asia Pacific Sociological Association. Asia Pacific Region: Societies in Transformation, Penang, Malaysia, 19-21 November 2007.

Couch, M., Pitts, M. K., Mulcare, H., Croy, S., & Mitchell, A. (2007). Transgenders, health services and desire for recognition. Refereed Conference Proceedings of Public Sociologies: Lessons and Trans-Tasman Comparisons, TASA/SAANZ 2007 Joint Conference Proceedings.

Pitts, M. K., & Couch, M. (2007). Health, wellbeing, and access to health services among transgendered people: A report from the TranZnation Survey. Refereed Conference Proceedings of The 8th Conference of the Asia Pacific Sociological Association. Asia Pacific Region: Societies in Transformation, Penang, Malaysia, 19-21 November 2007.