Dr David McInnes

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Biography

Dr. David McInnes has a PhD from The University of Sydney. His doctoral research developed a semiotic model for the documentation of the page-to-stage process in text-based theatre, utilising a social semiotic/systemic functional linguistic model to describe and analyse language in concert with body movement.

Since 1994, Dr. McInnes has conducted research into the impact of the HIV epidemic on Australia's gay communities, investigated the development and delivery of prevention education programs through community sector organisations and has undertaken studies looking at the experience of risk taking in gay male sexual cultures. Dr. McInnes has also conducted educational and research training for national and state based HIV organisations.

Dr. McInnes is also very involved in undergraduate pedagogical development and research with interests in the lecture (as pedagogical discourse), engagement and in the development of curriculum responses to the development of academic literacy.

Dr. McInnes’s current research returns to the performance studies field; he is developing projects concerned with the structure and performance of songs (numbers) in the musical genre and their relationship to the production of masculinity.

Most recent publications

McInnes, D., & Murphy, D. (2011). Knowledge distribution and power relations in HIV-related education and prevention for gay men: an application of Bernstein to Australian community-based pedagogical devices. Sex Education, 11(1), 61-76.

McInnes, D., Bradley, J., & Prestage, G. (2010). Responsibility, risk and negotiation in the discourse of gay men's group sex. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 13(1), 73-87.

In preparation

Phase and sub-phase patterns in lecture discourse: A responsive model of the lecture as pedagogy

The performance of academic identity as pedagogical model and guide in/through lecture discourse