Dr David Gray
Senior Lecturer, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences
Qualifications
Ph.D. (Florida)
Contact
| Email: | dgray@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2014 (or +61 2 6773 2014 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3748 |
Dr David Gray has worked at the University of New England since 1981. His main teaching interests are in the sociology of health and illness and qualitative research methods.
Research interests
His current research interests concern bodybuilding and the sociology of the body.
Books
Health Sociology: An Australian Perspective, Pearson Education Australia: Sydney, 2006.
Autism and the Family, Charles C. Thomas Publisher, 1998.
Publications
"Coping Over Time: The Parents of Children with Autism", Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, Volume 50, No. 12, 2006, pp. 970-976.
"Gender and Coping: The Parents of Children with High Functioning Autism", Social Science & Medicine, Volume 56, No. 3, 2003, pp 215-222.
"Everyone Just Freezes, Everyone is Embarrassed. Stigma and the Parents of Children with High Functioning Autism", Sociology of Health & Illness, Volume 24, No. 6, 2002, pp. 734-749.
"Ten Years On: A Longitudinal Study of Families of Children with Autism", Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, volume 27, No 3, 2002, pp 215-222.
"Accommodation, Resistance and Transcendence: Three Narratives of Autism", Social Science & Medicine, Volume 53, No. 9, 2001, pp 1247-1257.
"High Functioning Autism and the Construction of Normal Family Life", Social Science and Medicine , 44 (8): 1097-106, 1997.
"High Functioning Autism and the Construction of Normal Family Life", Social Science and Medicine , 44 (8): 1097-106, 1997.
"Lay Conceptions of Autism: Parents' Explanatory Models", Medical Anthropology , 16, 1995: 99-118.
"Coping with Autism: Stresses and Strategies", Sociology of Health and Illness , 16 (3), 1994: 275-300.
"Negotiating Autism: Relations between Parents and Treatment Staff", Social Science and Medicine , 36 (8), 1993: 1037-1046.
"Perceptions of Stigma: The Parents of Autistic Children", Sociology of Health and Illness , 15 (1), 1993: 102-120.
Holden, W.J. "Psycho-Social Well-Being among the Parents of Children with Autism", Australian and New Zealand Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 18 (2), 1992: 83-93.