Health Sciences

Sociology

Experienced in mixed methods, qualitiative inquiry, Weberian methodological approaches, Realistic Evaluation, and the Systematic Sentinel Searching of large publication sets

HIV Futures Tamil Nadu
(in collaboration with the Indian Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS (INP+) and the Living with HIV Program, ARCSHS)

Understanding the experience of health services of transgender people (TranZnation Survey)
(in collaboration with Professor Marian Pitts and Associate Professor Anne Mitchell)

Male-to-male sexual cultures (MACE): An internet study
(in collaboration with Professor Marian Pitts, Professor Anthony Smith, Dr Jeffrey Greirson, and Dr Stephen McNally)

Men paying for sex in Vietnam
(in collaboration with Dr Khuat Thu Hong, Director, Institute for Social Development Studies, Hanoi )

Improving health and wellbeing outcomes for street sex workers in Melbourne through an innovation in therapeutic jurisprudence
(in collaboration with Associate Professor Anthony Smith and Professor Marian Pitts ; funded by La Trobe University Faculty of Health Sciences Research Grant)

Sissy boys, epistemophilia, and academic citizenship
(in collaboration with Dr David McInnes, University of Western Sydney )

The dynamics and contexts of male-to-male sex in Indonesia and Thailand
(in collaboration with Professor Marian Pitts , Dr Stephen McNally and Dr Jeffrey Grierson ; funded by Asia Regional Office, Family Health International)

Religious affiliation and non-heterosexual men and women in Australia: Findings from the Private Lives Survey
(in collaboration with Professor Marian Pitts)

Self-reported health and non-heterosexual men and women in Australia: Findings from the Private Lives Survey
(in collaboration with Professor Marian Pitts)

Dowsett, G. & Couch, M. 2007 ‘Male circumcision and HIV prevention: Is there really enough of the right kind of evidence’ Reproductive Health Matters, vol. 15. no. 29 (in press)

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, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 155-166.

Pitts, M.K. Couch, M & Smith, A.M.A. 2006 ‘Men who have sex with men (MSM): how much to assume and what to ask?’ Medical Journal of Australia, vol.185, no.8, pp. 450-452.

Couch, M. & Pitts M.K. 2006 ‘The positioning of bisexuals and 'men who have sex with men' in sex, sexuality and sexual health research, 1990-2004’ Health Sociology Review vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 269-276.

Couch, M. McNally, S., & Pitts, M. 2005 ‘Using the category MSM (men who have sex with men) in the Asia-Pacific region: Towards recognition of sexual experience and practice or its misrecognition?’ Proceedings of 7th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Sociological Association, APSA: Bangkok and Mahidol University, Salaya Campus.

Couch, M. &. Pitts, M. 2005 ‘Who’s there? Is anybody there?: Bisexuals and ‘men who have sex with men’ in sex and sexuality research’, Julian, R., Rottier, R. & White, R. (eds) TASA 2005 Conference Proceedings, TASA:Sandy Bay Campus, University of Tasmania.

Pitts, M. & Couch, M. 2005 'Bisexuality and health psychology: 'Strange bedfellows?', Health Psychology Update, vol. 14, no.2, pp27-32.

Couch, M. &. Hong, K. T. 2004 'Exchanges between men within the sexual economies of prostitution in Viet Nam', Richmond, K. (ed) TASA 2004 Conference Proceedings, TASA:Beechworth Campus, La Trobe University.

McInnes, D. & Couch, M. 2004 'Quiet please! There's a lady on stage: Boys, gender and sexuality non-conformity and class', Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, vol 25, no.4, pp. 431-443.

Sutherland, G., Couch, M. A., & Iacono, T. 2002, ‘Health issues for adults with developmental disability’, Research in Developmental Disabilities, vol. 23, no 6, pp. 422-445.

Dowsett, G. W., Bollen, J., McInnes, D., Couch, M. & Edwards, B. 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 , vol. 4, no.3, pp. 205-223.

Couch, M., Dowsett, G., McInnes, D., Bollen, J & Edwards, B. 1999 ‘HIV/AIDS Health Promotion: Strategic Deployment of “Gay Community”’ in the Framework of the National Public Health Partnership’, Third Sector Review, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 81-89.

Couch, M. 1998 ‘Masculinity below the surface: pornography and suppression in images of Broken Hill miners', Artlink, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 50-51.

Couch, M. 1994 ‘Friends with your testicles?, XY: men, sex, politics', vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 12-3 (1993); Reprinted as: Meeting men’s needs. In A Man’s World?, ed Kaye Healey, The Spinney Press, Sydney.

Couch, M. 2006 ‘The sublime with a vestige of the human: Peter Richards’ images from the Lake Eyre Basin’, in Lake Eyre Basin 1992-2003: Photographs by Peter Richards, 1st ed. Peter Richards: South Australia.

Couch, M., McInnes, D., Bollen, J., & Dowsett, G. 2000 'Size matters: The production of gay lives and/or lives with gayness in Adelaide ', in Considering Australian Gay Communities in HIV Health Promotion, ed McInnes, D., Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies, University of Western Sydney Nepean, Sydney.

Bollen, J., McInnes, D., Couch, M. & Dowsett, G. 2000 'Over it and on with it: Gay community and the scene in inner Sydney ' in Considering Australian Gay Communities in HIV Health Promotion , ed McInnes, D., Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies, University of Western Sydney Nepean , Sydney.

McInnes, D., Bollen, J., Couch, M. & Dowsett, G. 2000 'Gay life or life with gayness? Gay men's life experience in western Sydney ', in Considering Australian Gay Communities in HIV Health Promotion , ed McInnes, D., Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies, University of Western Sydney Nepean, Sydney.

Carson E. & Couch M. 1999 ‘Dilemmas of outsourcing in labour-market programs’ in Work in the New Economy: Policy, Programs, Populations, eds J. Lee, B. Probert & R. Watts, Centre for Applied Social Research, RMIT University, Melbourne.

Couch, M. 1999 ‘Men sticking together: Homosociality and Broken Hill’ in Century of Struggle or Path to Convergence? New Perspectives in Australian Labour History, eds D. Palmer, R. Shanahan & M. Shanahan, Australian Humanities Press, Sydney.

Couch, M. 1994 ‘Health impacts of work: The case of Broken Hill miners’ in Just Health: Inequality in illness, care and prevention, eds Charles Waddell and Alan Petersen, Churchill Livingstone, Melbourne.

Couch, M. & Pitts, M. 2005 'Limits on how bisexuals, and their health, are seen by researchers'. Presentation to Health in Difference 5, 2005 GLBTI Health Conference, Melbourne , Victoria , 20-22 January.

McInnes, D., &. Couch, M., 2001 'Quiet please! There's a lady on stage: Boys, gender and sexuality non-conformity and class', Inner Sanctums & Bifurcating Selves: Navigating cultural worlds and educational contexts, School of Education, University of South Australia, Adelaide, 19-20 October 2001.

Couch, M., McInnes, D., Bollen, J., & Dowsett, G. 2000 'Size matters: The production of gay lives and/or lives with gayness' in Adelaide, HIV/AIDS & Related Diseases (HARD) Social Research Conference, Sydney, 13-14 May.

McInnes, D., Bollen, J., Couch, M. & Dowsett, G. 2000 'Gay life or life with gayness?: Gay men's life experiences and models of community', HIV/AIDS & Related Diseases (HARD) Social Research Conference, Sydney, 13-14 May.

Couch, M., Oliver, D. & Wentzlaff-Eggebert, M. 2000 'Being young and doing gay in Adelaide: Findings, implications and learnings from a research project emphasizing researcher/practitioner interaction', The Gay and Positive HIV Educator's Conference, Sydney, 14-16 May.

Pitts, M., Couch, M., Grierson, G. & McNalley, S. 2006 The dynamics and contexts of male-to-male sex in Indonesia and Thailand. Report on research conducted with country investigators: Dede Oetomo, GAYa NUSANTARA Foundation, Surabaya, Indonesia; and Chai Podhisita, Wassana Im-em, Dusita Phuengsamran, Suporn Jaratsit, Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Bangkok Thailand.

Pitts, M. & Couch, M. 2004 Sexuality and Sexual Health: What's the Evidence?, Report on the roundtable under the auspices of the Ford Foundation,, New York , 23-25 February, 2004.

Couch, M. et al, 2004 Looking for more: A review of social and contextual factors affecting young people's sexual health, Report to the World Health Organisation. (Link to pdf of this report)

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

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.

Email m.couch@latrobe.edu.au

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