Justin joined the Centre as Research Fellow, SCIPPS in 2009. He is an experienced qualitative researcher with a Masters degree in social anthropology. He has carried out social research in a wide range of health and other contexts including working with older Australians, people with mental illness, young drug users, and HIV positive men. His research experience has also involved working on government and non-government evaluation projects including health and community service evaluations using both qualitative and quantitative methods.

Justin has a strong interest in theory and analysis of qualitative data and has had 15 years practical experience in qualitative data collection using a variety of methods such as in-depth face-to-face interviewing, participant observation, surveys, telephone interviews and focus groups. Justin has recently submitted a PhD focusing on health promotion from a sociology of health perspective through the National Centre in HIV Social Research at the University of New South Wales.

Email: justin.mcnab@sydney.edu.au

Phone: +61 2 9036 7004

Fax: +61 2 9351 5204