Adjunct Professor
Mark Brough
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Biography
Mark is a critical social scientist who specialises in health inequality. His work is informed by a concern for the socio-political structures which surround health. He applies this lens in a range of cross-cultural circumstances as well as a range of health problems. He has worked extensively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities as well as communities with a refugee background. He has particular expertise in the social determinants of health and wellbeing and in the role of human service and health professionals in addressing those determinants.Research Interests
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
- Refugee and migrant health
- Qualitative social health research
- Role of social work and human services in health promotion
Personal details
Positions
- Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Keywords
Refugee Health, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, Mental Health, Qualitative Research, Ethnography
Research field
Public Health and Health Services, Social Work
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, Medical Anthropology (University of Queensland)
Professional memberships and associations
Teaching
Mark teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels predominantly in the area of social research including Social Research for Social Change. Mark has a particular interest in collaborative approaches to teaching and learning. He is also a very experienced supervisor of higher degree research students.
Experience
Mark also supervises a large number of higher degree research students involved in practical areas of health and social care. This research encompasses a broad spectrum of practitioner issues including health promotion practice, disability practice, community development practice and is based on both local, national and international projects.
Publications
- Brough, M., (2013). Toward cultural epidemiology: Beyond epistemological hegemony. In J. Dixon, C. Banwell & S. Ulijaszek (Eds.), When culture impacts health: Global lessons for effective health research (pp. 33–42). Academic Press. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/55320
- Mcphail-Bell, K., Fredericks, B. & Brough, M. (2013). Beyond the accolades: a postcolonial critique of the foundations of the Ottawa Charter. Global Health Promotion, 20(2), 22–29. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/62449
- Brough, M., Wagner, I. & Farrell, L. (2013). Review of Australian health related social work research 1990-2009. Australian Social Work, 66(4), 528–539. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/55311
- Bond, C., Brough, M., Spurling, G. & Hayman, N. (2012). 'It had to be my choice': Indigenous smoking cessation and negotiations of risk, resistance and resilience. Health, Risk and Society, 14(6), 565–581. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/55329
- Lenette, C., Brough, M. & Cox, L. (2013). Everyday resilience: Narratives of single refugee women with children. Qualitative Social Work, 12(5), 637–653. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/53025
- Brough, M., Schweitzer, R., Shakespeare-Finch, J., Vromans, L. & King, J. (2013). Unpacking the micro-macro nexus: Narratives of suffering and hope among refugees from Burma recently settled in Australia. Journal of Refugee Studies, 26(2), 207–225. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/218675
- Schweitzer, R., Brough, M., Vromans, L. & Asic-Kobe, M. (2011). Mental health of newly arrived Burmese refugees in Australia: Contributions of pre-migration and post-migration experience. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 45(4), 299–307. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/40622
- Brough, M. & Bond, C. (2009). Little theory, big plans: Social capital and community building in Aboriginal Australia. In G. Woolcock & L. Manderson (Eds.), Social Capital and Social Justice: Critical Australian Perspectives (pp. 245–258). Charles Darwin University Press. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/29279
- Brough, M., Henderson, G., Foster, R. & Douglas, H. (2007). Social Capital and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health - Problems and Possibilities. Beyond Bandaids: Exploring the Underlying Social Determinants of Aboriginal Health, 191–207. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/13117
- Bond, C. & Brough, M. (2007). The Meaning of Culture within Public Health Practice - Implications for the Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health. Beyond Bandaids: Exploring the Underlying Social Determinants of Aboriginal Health., 229–238. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/13118
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Mark, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Selected research projects
- Title
- Developing Best Practice for Settlement Services for Refugee Women-at-Risk
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP140100609
- Start year
- 2014
- Keywords
- Refugee Women; Health And Wellbeing; Settlement
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- A Five Year Longitudinal Study of Wellbeing in Resettlement amongst Humanitarian Migrants from Burma (2014)
- The Knowledge of Doing: Exploring the Knowledge of Support to Older People with an Intellectual Disability (2014)
- "Talking with lips" : Settlement, transnationalism and identity of Karen people from Burma living in Brisbane, Australia (2013)
- The Institutional Limits To, And Possibility Of, Understanding Young People Diagnosed With 'Mental Disorders', Within Inclusive Teacher-Student Relationships (2013)
- Diagnosed Artist: What is the understanding of 'artist' held by a person with a mental illness? (2011)
- Narratives of complexity: an ethnographic exploration of resilience and wellbeing among single refugee women in Brisbane (2011)
- Weaving Yarns: The Lived Experience of Indigenous Australians with Adult-Onset Disability in Brisbane (2010)
- 'Food to go round' : negotiating healthy eating for management and prevention of type 2 diabetes among some urban indigenous Australians (2006)
- Acumen, Ambivalence and Ambiguity: Stories of women with asthma (2005)
- Cultural strengths and social needs of Aboriginal women with cancer : take away the cancer but leave me whole (2005)