Health Sciences

Sociology

Sexuality theory; HIV/AIDS; gay culture; masculinity and men’s health; community-based public health policy and practice; international health.

Post-structuralism; critical sexuality studies.

1. Victorian Health Health Promotion Foundation Senior Research Fellowship 2005-2010: 'Men, Sexuality and Health: New issues, New Directions'.

2. Victorian Department of Human Services, 2007. Dowsett G.W., Mitchell A & Slavin S. ‘Gay Men, Crystal Methamphetamine and HIV Prevention in Melbourne’

3.Ford Foundation 2007–09 Dowsett G.W. (Principal Investigator) and Slavin S (Associate Investigator), ‘Development of a Short Course in Advanced Sexuality Theory and Methodology in Developing Countries: Phases Two and Three.

28th June 2007, ‘Sexuality theory and research training internationally in the era of AIDS, Sean Slavin (presenting author), Maureen Reitze and Gary Dowsett, paper to 6th Biennial International Conference of the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society, Lima, Peru.

13-18 August 2006, XVI international AIDS Conference, Toronto.

1. ‘Internet recruitment techniques for face-to-face interviews of men who have sex with men’, Ventuneac A., Carballo-Diéguez, A., Rowe, M., Frasca, T., Nodin, N., Balán, I., Remien, R.H., Dowsett G.W., Lin, P., Dolezal, C., poster exhibition.
2. ‘Bareback sex and the Internet: MSM who seek men online for intentional unprotected anal intercourse (UAI)', Carballo-Diéguez A., Ventuneac, A., Dolezal, C., Balán, I., Remien, R.H., Dowsett G.W., Rowe, M., Frasca, T., Nodin, N., poster exhibition.
3. ‘Gay men, ‘bareback’ sex online, and HIV prevention: the masculinisation of risk’, published abstract.
4. Workshop presentation and Day 1 rapporteur, ‘MSM and HIV: Advancing a Global Agenda for Gay Men and other Men who have Sex with Men’, pre-conference Satellite Meeting (10-11 August).
5. Discussant, ‘Gender, Culture and Male Sexual Identities: Implications for HIV/STI Prevention’, EnGender Health Satellite Meeting (13 August).
6. Panel presentation, ‘HIV Prevention among Men who have Sex with Men (MSM)’, amfAR Satellite Symposium (17 August).

29 November 2005, ‘Moving Masculinity and social Change: Why do men matter?’, Invited public lecture, at Moving Masculinities: Crossing Regional and Historical Borders Conference, Canberra, Australian National University.

22 June 2005. ‘AIDS and moral panics’, presentation on opening plenary panel, “Sexual Rights and Moral Panics”: 5th International Conference of the International Association for the Study of Sex, Culture and Society, San Francisco, San Francisco State University.

21 October 2004, "A New Gender Issue: Feminists, Gays and HIV/AIDS - Latin America", invited panelist, at "Homosexuality and HIV/AIDS: More than a Question of Rights", HIVOS Foundation International Symposium, Amsterdam.

11-16 July 2004, '"Barebacking" and the Internet: ethnography of popular sites used by gay men to meet others for intentionally unprotected anal sex', Carballo-Diéguez, A. (presenting author), Shedlin, M., Dowsett, G ., Remien, R., Lin, P., Dolezal, C., Balan, C., Ventuneac, A., oral presentation at the XV International AIDS Conference, Bangkok, abstract no. WeOrD1335.

16-19 June 2004, 'Ethnography of "Bareback"' Internet Services', A. Carballo-Diéguez, (presenting co-author), M. Shedlin, G. Dowsett, R. Remien, P. Lin, C. Dolezal, I. Balan, A. Ventuneac, oral presentation at the International Academy of Sex Research Annual Meeting, Helsinki, Finland.

8 May 2004. Invited panel member on 'AIDS, Families and Global Politics', at Annual Conference of the Council on Contemporary Families, New York.

1 May 2004. 'I type, therefore I cum: Technologies of the Body-in-Sex', paper to the Love and Globalization conference, Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Health, Columbia University, New York.

11-16 July 2004, 'MSM-a catch-all term that catches little: rethinking MSM as a category for prevention following a four-country review of MSM research in the Asian region', Gary W Dowsett, Stephen McNally (presenting co-author) and Jeffrey Grierson, poster exhibition at the XV International AIDS Conference, Bangkok, Thailand.

22 February 2004 . Discussant, Paper session-Current Sociomedical Research on Youth and Risk, Eastern Sociological Society Conference, New York .
3 November 2003 , 'Sexuality Theory, Sex Research and HIV/AIDS: New Challenges, New Ways Forward', and 4 November 2003 , 'Activism, Community and HIV/AIDS', invited papers to the Colegia de México, México City , México.

14-16 August 2003, Opening plenary address to Critical Issues in American Sexuality: the First Annual National Sexuality Resource Center Conference, State University of San Francisco, Tiburon, California.

22-25 June 2003, 'Good gay men don't get messy: sex, drugs and secrets', panel presentation to 'Sex and Secrecy': the 4th International Conference of the International Association for the Study of Sex, Culture and Society, Johannesburg, South Africa.

10-14 March 2003, ' Sexual Cultures, Identities and Meanings of HIV/AIDS: Exploring diversity and commonalities', WHO-sponsored symposium at the 2003 XVI World Congress of Sexology of the World Association for Sexology, Havana, Cuba

7-12 July 2002, XVI International AIDS Conference, Barcelona

1. Member, International Conference Program Review Committee.
2. Member, Track E (Social Science) Planning Committee.
3. Member Track E (Social Sciences) Rapporteur Team.
4. Co-Chair, Poster Presentation session 'Foundation for the Future: Education and Training', 10 July.
5. Invited speaker: Bridging Session on 'Gender and Sexuality', 11 July.
6. Oral presentation, Dowsett GW, Wain D, Peterson K & Voon D, 'Double Jeopardy: Findings from Project HIGH on gay men who inject drugs and prevention education in Melbourne, Australia', in session on 'Man-to-Man: Communities, Identities and HIV/AIDS among Gay and other MSM', 9 July.
7. Poster presentation, Haque A, Dowsett GW & Ahmed S, 'Researching the Dimensions of MSM Activity in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to Assess the Risk of HIV/STD Transmission and Develop Prevention Programs' in session on 'Community-based Research'.
8. Poster exhibitions:
   i. Dowsett GW & Keys D, 'Peer Education among Injecting Drug Users: An Acclaimed Strategy, yet a Divergent Educational Practice';
    ii. Milburn N, Mallett S, Rosenthal D, Dowsett GW, Brooks R, Witkin A, Rossiter B, Meyers P, Alaya G, & Rotheram, M-J, 'HIV Prevention for Homeless Youth: Change the System-of-Care';
    iii. Hurley ME, Ryan D, Dowsett GW, Misson S. 'Rethinking the Relation between Media Circuits, Gay Men and Health Promotion';
   iv. Hurley ME, Ryan D, Dowsett GW, Misson S, 'Innovative Developments in Community-based Action Research'.
9. Published poster abstract:
   i. A I Hero, A Haque, S Ahmed, G Dowsett, 'Looking Out from the Inside: Male Sexualities, Gender Identities, HIV/AIDS and Dance in Bangladesh '.

1-3 October 2001. Plenary discussant on 'Masculinities, Sexualities: Hatred and Desire'; and invited paper on '"Johnnie comes marching…where?" Australian Gay Men, HIV/AIDS, Masculinity Sex and Health', in session on 'Masculinities and Social Change: Perspectives from the Pacific Islands ', at 'SexConf 2001': 3rd Conference of the International Association for the Study of Sex, Culture and Society, Melbourne.

3-6 December 2000. 'Baring Essentials: Science as Desire', paper to the Ford Foundation Workshop on Sexuality and Social Change. An Agenda for Research and Action in the 21st Century, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

26-27 October 2000. 'Desire, Deviance, Denial, Danger, Delight: My Life as a Sex Researcher', Opening Address at Sexual Desire: A Dialogue between the Mind and the Body, seminar held at HIV Center in Clinical and Behavioral Studies, Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York.

9-14 July 2000. 'Community-based HIV Social Research: Possibilities, Difficulties and Potentials', oral presentation to the XIII International AIDS Conference, Durban, South Africa, presenter and co-author with D McInnes & A Mitchell (abstract # WeOrD512).

9-14 July 2000. 'Researching the HIV Community Education Workforce: Policy, Training and Capacity-strengthening Issues', poster to the XIII International AIDS Conference, Durban, South Africa, co-author with D McInnes, E McDonnell & S Misson.

‘Masculinity, Sex and Health in Australian Men’s Health Magazine’, paper to 7th National Men’s Health Conference,October 3-5, 2007, Adelaide, South Australia, Ben Ciantar (presenting author) and Gary Dowsett.

22 June 2006, Invited plenary, ‘Masculinity and gender: unequal bedfellows’, 1st Australian Conference on Gender and Health Inequalities, Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society, The University of Melbourne,.

20 April 2006, ‘Brokeback to bareback: shifts in gay sexual culture and dilemmas for prevention research’, opening plenary address to ‘stigma/pleasure/practice’: 9th Social Research Conference on HIV, Hepatitis C and Related Diseases, Sydney.

10 October 2005, ‘I type, therefore I cum: Men, technology and sexual health', presentation to the 6th National Men’s Health Conference, Melbourne.

8 June 2004. ‘Gay Community and Drug Use: Findings from Project HIGH’, panel presentation on ‘Drugs at Work’, at ANEX Harm Reduction Conference 2005, Melbourne

18 March 2004. ‘The Active Anus and Post-queer Prevention: Rethinking Community, Incitement and Intervention’, opening address to Workshop 1–Increases in HIV Infections: Challenges for Researchers and Educators, Consortium for Social and Policy Research on HIV, Hepatitis C and Related Diseases, Sydney.

27 May 2002. ‘Social Research: A Resource, a Critic, a Servant?’, invited paper to Retrospectives – HIV/AIDS in Australia: Historical Perspectives on an Epidemic, Sydney.

29 May 2002. ‘Report on the Community-based HIV/HepC Education Workforce Project’, paper to the National HIV Educators Conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney.

9 November 2001. ‘Gay Men, Drug Culture and Hepatitis C Prevention’, paper to the National Health and Medical Research Council Workshop on Social and Behavioural Research into Hepatitis C, Melbourne.

9 August 2001. ‘Report on the Community-based HIV/HepC Education Workforce Project’, at the AIDS Council of New South Wales Roundtable on Peer Education: Principles, Practices and Priorities, Sydney

19 April 2001. 'Uncovering the "Men" in Men’s Health: Working with Desire, Diversity and Demons.' Opening Keynote Address to Common Ground: Men Actively Participating in Community, Adelaide, South Australia.

21 February 2001. The Research Agenda in Gay Men’s Health. Panel presentation to the AIDS Council of New South Wales Gay Men’s Health Roundtable, Sydney.

12-14 October 2000. The Community Health Education Workforce: Cornerstone of Prevention Education in HIV/AIDS and Related Diseases and Health Education for People Living with HIV/AIDS, poster at the 12th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine, Melbourne, with co-authors: D McInnes, E McDonnell & S Misson.

5-7 July 2000. 'A National Survey of Educators in HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C and Sexually Transmissible Infections: Preliminary Findings.' 2nd National Hepatitis C Educators’ Workshop, Brisbane, Queensland, co-author with E McDonnell (presenter), D McInnes & S Misson.

May 2000. 'Gay Life or Life with Gayness? Gay Men’s Life Experiences and Models of Community.' HIV/AIDS and Related Diseases Social Research Conference, Sydney, New South Wales, co-authors with: D McInnes (presenter), J Bollen & M Couch.

15-17 May 2000. Community Educators and the Work That They Do: Investigating the National HIV and Related Diseases Workforce and its Pedagogy, paper to the National Gay and Positive Educators Conference, Sydney, co-author with E McDonnell (presenter), D McInnes & S Misson.

Koerner, Jane, Dowsett, Gary W., Takahashi, Miyako & Kai, Ichiro (under review), ‘HIV/AIDS policy in Japan: A qualitative evaluation of health and education policy relating to young people using WHO and UNAIDS declarations’.

Carballo-Diéguez, A., Ventuneac, A., Bauermeister, J., Dowsett, G.W., Dolezal, C., Remien, R.H., Balan, I. & Rowe, M.S. (under review), ‘Is “bareback” a useful construct from a primary HIV-prevention perspective? Definitions, identity, and community issues’.

Rowe, Mathew S & Dowsett, Gary W. (in press), ‘Sex, love, friendship, belonging and place’: is there a role for ‘gay community’ in HIV prevention today?’, Culture, Health and Sexuality.

Dowsett, Gary W., Williams, Heru, Carballo-Diéguez, Alex & Ventuneac, Ana (in press), ‘“Taking it like a man”: masculinity and barebacking online’, Sexualities, 11(1): 121-141.

Dowsett, G. W., Couch, M., "Male Circumcision and HIV Prevention: Is There Really Enough of the Right Kind of Evidence?" Reproductive Health Matters 2007;15(29):33–44 (download pdf)

Dowsett, Gary W., Wain, David & Keys, Deborah,(2005) 'Good gay men don't get "messy": secrecy, community and injecting drug use', Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Journal ch NSRC, 2(1): 23-39.

Dowsett GW (2004), 'Baring Essentials: Science as Desire', Sexuality Research and Social Practice, 1(1): 69-82.

Wainberg ML, Box D, Carballo-Diéguez A, Dowsett GW, Dugan T, Forstein M et al. (2003),'Science and the Nuremburg code: a question of ethics and harm', Archives of Sexual Behavior, 32: 455-457.

Dowsett GW (2003), 'Some considerations on sexuality and gender in the context of HIV/AIDS' Reproductive Health Matters, 11(22):1-9.

Dowsett GW (2003), 'Johnnie comes marching.where: Australian gay men, masculinity, HIV/AIDS and sex', Culture, Health and Sexuality, 5(3): 237-248.

Dowsett GW (2003), 'HIV/AIDS and homophobia: subtle hatreds, severe consequences and the question of origins', Culture, Health and Sexuality, 5(2): 121-136.

Dowsett, Gary W., Bollen, Jonathon, McInnes, David, Couch, Murray & Edwards, Barry (2001), HIV/AIDS and constructs of gay community: researching educational practice within community-based health promotion for gay men', International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 4(3): 205-223.

Rosenthal, Doreen & Dowsett, Gary (2000), 'The changing perceptions of sex and sexuality', The Lancet Perspectives 356: s58.

Yeatman, Anna, with Dowsett, Gary W, Fine, Michael & Gursansky, Diane (accepted for publication), 'Individualization and the Delivery of Welfare Services' Basingstoke, UK; Palgrave Macmillan.

Dowsett, Gary W (accepted for publication), ‘HIV/AIDS: a case study in moral panics and sexual rights’, in G. Herdt (ed.), Moral Panics, Sex Panics: The Fear and the Fight over Sexual Rights, New York: New York University Press.

Dowsett, Gary W (2007), ‘Researching Gay Men’s Health: The Promise of Qualitative Research’, in Ilan H Meyer & Mary E Northbridge (eds), The Health of Sexual Minorities: Public Health Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Populations, New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, pp. 419-441

Dowsett, Gary W (2007), ‘Te enseño el mío si tú me enseñas el tuyo: Hombres gay, investigación sobre masculinidades, estudios sobre los hombres y sexualidad’, in Ana Amuchástegui and Ivonne Szasz (eds), Sucede que me canso de ser hombre…Relatos y reflexiones sobre hombres y masculinidades en México, México: El Colegio de México, pp. 73-94.

Ross DA, Wight D, Dowsett G, Buvé A, Obasi AIN. (2006), ‘The weight of evidence: a method for assessing the strength of evidence on the effectiveness of HIV prevention interventions among young people’, in DA Ross, B Dick & J Ferguson (eds), Preventing HIV/AIDS in Young People: A Systematic Review of the Evidence from Developing Countries, Geneva, World Health Organization Technical Report Series #938, pp. 79-102.

Dowsett, Gary W (2006), ‘Johnnie comes marching…where? Australian gay men, masculinity, HIV/AIDS and sex’, reprinted in Stephen M. Whitehead (ed.) Men and Masculinities: Critical Concepts in Sociology, Vol III—Identity, Association and Embodiment, London & New York: Routledge, pp. 417-427

Dowsett, Gary W., & Parker, Richard G (2006) ‘Culture, Sexuality and AIDS Syllabus’ in Carrie E. Foote-Ardah and Eric R. Wright (eds), Teaching the Sociology of HIV/AIDS: Syllabi, Lectures and Other Resources for Instructors and Students, 3rd edn, Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.

Dowsett GW (2003), ‘Masculinity, (homo)sexuality and contemporary sexual politics’ in Tomsen, S. & Donaldson, M. (eds) Male Trouble: Looking at Australian Masculinities, Sydney, Pluto Press, pp. 22-39.

Bennett LR, Manderson L & Dowsett GW (2003), 'Sexuality Research Training for Indonesian Professionals: The STD/HIV/AIDS Surveillance and Social Research in Australia Course', in D di Mauro, G Herdt & R Parker (eds), Handbook of Sexuality Research Training Initiatives, New York, Social Science Research Council, pp. 15-34.

Dowsett, GW (2000). 'Discussion Paper: Sexual orientation', in The Role of theory in Sex Research, ed. J Bancroft, The Kinsey Institute Series, Vol. VI, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, pp. 123-132.

Dowsett GW (2000), 'Bodyplay: Corporeality in a Discursive Silence', in, Framing the Sexual Subject: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality and Power, eds RM Barbosa, P Aggleton & R Parker, University of California Press , pp. 29-45.

Leonard, William, Dowsett, Gary, Slavin, Sean, Mitchell, Anne and Pitts, Marian, (2008), Crystal Clear: The social determinants of gay men’s use of crystal methamphetamine in Victoria, Melbourne: La Trobe University, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, monograph series #67.

Couch M, Dowsett GW, Duterte S, Keys D & Pitts MK (2006). Looking for More: A review of social and contextual factors affecting young people’s sexual health, Melbourne, La Trobe University, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, monograph series no. 61.

Dowsett, Gary, Grierson, Jeffrey & McNally, Stephen (2006), A Review of Knowledge about the Sexual Networks and Behaviours of Men who have Sex with Men in Asia, Melbourne, La Trobe University, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, monograph series no. 59.

Dowsett, Gary, Grierson, Jeffrey & McNally, Stephen (2003), A Review of Knowledge about the Sexual Networks and Behaviours of Men who have Sex with Men in Asia, Melbourne, La Trobe University, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society.

Pitts M, Couch M & Dowsett G (2002), Searching for Sex: A systematic literature review of international research related to sexuality and sexual behaviour, Report to World Health Organization, Geneva .

Dyson S, Mitchell A, Smith A, Dowsett G, Hillier L, Pitts M (2002), 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell', Hidden in the Crowd: the need for documenting links between sexuality and suicidal behaviours among young people, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne

Couch, M., Bollen, J., McInnes, D. & Dowsett, G. (2000), 'Social Science Research in Adelaide , 1994-1999', in Towards a Fourth South Australian HIV Strategy: Review of the South Australian HIV/AIDS Strategy 1997-1999, Communicable Disease Control Branch, Department of Human Services, Adelaide .

McInnes, David, Bollen, Jonathon, Couch, Murray & Dowsett, Gary (2000), Considering Australian Gay Communities in HIV Heath Promotion, Institute for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney , Sydney .

Dowsett, Gary W. (2007), ‘Gay Liberation’, in M Flood, JK Gardiner, B Pease & K Pringle (eds), Routledge International Encyclopaedia of Men and Masculinities, Vol 1, London: Routledge, pp. 226 - 229.

Dowsett, Gary W (2006), Moving Masculinities and Social Change: Why do Men Matter?, Gender Relations Centre Working Papers Series No 20, Canberra, Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.

Dowsett,Gary W. (2005), ‘Review of Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality, Patrick Moore, Beacon Press, Boston, 2004’, Sexualities, 8(2): 255-56.

Dowsett, Gary W. (2005), ‘Review of Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality, Patrick Moore, Beacon Press, Boston, 2004’, Sexualities, 8(2): 255-56.

Dowsett, Gary W. (2004), 'Review of Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology, Ellen Lewin & William L. Leap (eds), University of Illinois Press, Urbana & Chicago, 2002', Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 30(5), 371-373.

Dowsett, Gary W (2003), 'Gay communities', in K Christiansen and D Levinson (eds), Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, Thousand Oaks CA, London and New Delhi: Sage, pp. 529-22.

Dowsett Gary (2001), 'The research agenda on gay men's health' National AIDS Bulletin, 14 (Sept.), 10-12.

Dowsett GW, Misson, S, McDonnell E & McInnes D (2001), CEWT Broadsheet #5-The training needs of the community-based HIV/Hepatitis C education workforce, Melbourne: Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University.

Misson, S, McDonnell E, Dowsett GW & McInnes D (2001), CEWT Broadsheet #4-Developing educational expertise: reflections by the community-based HIV/Hepatitis C education workforce on educational work, Melbourne: Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University.

Misson, S, McDonnell E, Dowsett GW & McInnes D (2001), CEWT Broadsheet #3-Building a detailed picture of the educational practice of the community-based HIV/Hepatitis C education workforce, Melbourne: Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University.

Misson, S, McDonnell E, Dowsett GW & McInnes D (2001), CEWT Broadsheet #2-The educational practice of the community-based HIV/Hepatitis C education workforce, Melbourne: Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University.

Misson, S, McDonnell E, Dowsett GW & McInnes D (2000), CEWT Broadsheet #1-Who are the community-based HIV/Hepatitis C education workforce?, Melbourne: Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University.

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