Mr Mark Doyle

Mark is a lecturer in Sociology and a co-convenor of the Analysing Social Change (ASC) research group. Mark lectures in sociology, politics, research methods and policy on the social science, arts, social care and early childhood programmes. His PhD research examined the self-presentation and interaction strategies of gbMSM on Grindr in Ireland through a symbolic interactionist lens and was funded by the IRC PG Scholarship fund. During his PhD, Mark collaborated with the Mpower Programme at HIV Ireland where he was involved in pioneering tailored strategies to engage with harder-to-reach cohorts of gbMSM through dating applications and social media platforms. Since 2019, the Mpower programme at HIV Ireland has recorded approximately ten thousand interactions with gbMSM in Ireland via the aforementioned applications and platforms. Mark earned a postgraduate qualification in sexual health advising from Staffordshire University (2023) and is a member of the Sexual Health Advisers Association (SHA) and the Society for the Study of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Infections (SSSTDI). His most recent conference presentations concerned the practical utility of the dating application Grindr as a community outreach and public health tool, delivered at the Gay Health Forum (Dublin Castle, 2023), Fast Track Cities (Seville, 2022) and The All Ireland LGBT+ Health Symposium (UCD, 2022). 

Mark is the co-editor of the edited book, Sex and Sexualities in Ireland: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. (2023). Mark is also a co-author of the forthcoming (December 2023) chapter, Digital Artifacts: Feminist Topology in the Case of a Belfast Rape Trial and #Ibeliveher in the Handbook of Social Media in Education, Consumer Behaviour and Politics.