QUT | Staff Profiles | Mark Brough

Name: Professor Mark Brough
Position(s): Professor
Faculty of Health,
School - Public Health and Social Work; IHBI Membership
Institute of Health Biomedical Innovation (IHBI),
IHBI Health Projects,
IHBI Public Health and Social Work - HDHS
Discipline *: Public Health and Health Services, Social Work
Phone: +61 7 3138 4664
Fax: +61 7 3138 0296
Email: m.brough@qut.edu.au
Location: View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
Identifiers and profiles
Qualifications: Doctor of Philosophy, Medical Anthropology (University of Queensland)
Professional memberships and associations: Fellow, Australian Anthropological Society
Keywords: Refugee Health, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, Mental Health, Qualitative Research, Ethnography

* Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008

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

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Teaching Interests

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.

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Mark has conducted numerous consultancies for both government and non-government organisation in the area of evaluation, program design and professional training. He has also undertaken significant research funded through the Australian Research Council in the area of refugee settlement. His research and service in the area if Indigenous health includes work for the Lowitja Institute in the area of Indigenous health workforce, and also includes a long established partnership with the Cherbourg community in supporting QUT student placements which meet the needs of the community.

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.

This information has been contributed by Professor Mark Brough.

Brough M, (2013) Toward cultural epidemiology: Beyond epistemological hegemony, When culture impacts health: Global lessons for effective health research p33-42
Mcphail-Bell K, Fredericks B, Brough M, (2013) Beyond the accolades: a postcolonial critique of the foundations of the Ottawa Charter, Global Health Promotion p22-29
Brough M, Wagner I, Farrell L, (2013) Review of Australian health related social work research 1990-2009, Australian Social Work p528-539
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 p565-581
Lenette C, Brough M, Cox L, (2013) Everyday resilience: Narratives of single refugee women with children, Qualitative Social Work p637-653
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 p207-225
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 p299-307
Brough M, Bond C, (2009) Little theory, big plans: Social capital and community building in Aboriginal Australia, Social Capital and Social Justice: Critical Australian Perspectives p245-258
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 p191-207
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. p229-238

For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.

Professor Mark Brough

Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)

Completed supervisions (Doctorate)