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Professor Gail Davies

Professor Gail Davies

Professor in Human Geography

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 01392 723346

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Amory Building, University of Exeter, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4RJ , UK

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Overview

My work is situated at the interface between human geography, science and technology studies, and animal studies. Most of my research looks at the relationships between different ways of knowing nonhuman animals, environments, and human health in public, policy, and science. As a geographer, I am interested in developing conversations between differently situated knowledges and data in a generous and constructive way.

My recent research charts the changing geographies of biomedical research, including laboratory animal science, and seeks innovative and collaborative ways to support research involvement and responsibility in science policy and practice.

I am currently working on a collaborative programme of work on ‘The Animal Research Nexus: Changing Constitutions of Science, Health and Welfare’ (2017-2023). This grant is funded by the Wellcome Trust and involves developing innovative approaches to the social dimensions of animal research with Dr Beth Greenhough (Oxford University), Dr Pru Hobson-West (University of Nottingham), Dr Rob Kirk (University of Manchester) and Dr Emma Roe (University of Southampton). At Exeter, I have been working with Dr Rich Gorman, now at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School and Gabrielle King, now at MND Scotland, on the changing interfaces between patient involvement and animal research.

I am also collaborating on the Resisting Bodies: The Politics and Practices of the Immune System project (2020-2024), led by Dr Tone Druglitrø at the University of Olso, which is generating new social science research on the connections between human and animal immune systems in research and policy.

My work is associated with the Life Geographies Research Cluster in Geography. I am an Honorary Senior Fellow at Egenis, the Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences and an affiliate member of the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health. My current departmental responsibilities include being Chair of the Geography Ethics Committee and acting as Director of Postgraduate Research from September 2023 to April 2024.

I was recently elected to the Steering Committee for the Swiss National Research Programme on Advancing 3R - Animals, Research and Society (2021-2028). I also sit on Wellcome’s Social Sciences Discovery Advisory Group and am part of the Editorial Board for Science, Technology and Human Values.

I sat on the UK Animals in Science Committee (ASC) from 2013-2019 and chaired the subgroup reviewing harm-benefit analysis in the UK. The ASC is an advisory non-departmental public body, which provides impartial, balanced and objective advice to the Secretary of State on issues relating to the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.

Qualifications

BA Hons in Geography (Oxford),
PhD in Human Geography (London)

Career

I graduated in Geography from Hertford College at Oxford University in 1993. My undergraduate degree was a mix of physical and human geography and I completed my undergraduate dissertation in physical geography. I continued my studies with a PhD in Geography at University College London, exploring the relationship between scientific and popular knowledges of nature in the development of natural history film-making at the BBC. I was appointed as lecturer and then senior lecturer at UCL and moved to my current position as Professor of Human Geography at Exeter in 2013. I continue to be motivated by an interest in how different knowledges of nonhuman animals, environments, and health are situated, embodied, and practiced, and how these interact within policy, ethics, scientific practices, and popular culture.

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Research

Research interests

  • Developing social science approaches for understanding the changing spaces and challenges for laboratory animal research. With colleagues, I am working on the Animal Research Nexus Programme, which explores how the use of animals in scientific research is contingent upon a complex and changing network of relations and assurances across science and society. Exeter is leading the project exploring the changing patterns of patient and public involvement with the practices of animal research. Past work has explored the changing geographies of laboratory animal research from international collaborations around mutant mice, the growing attention to environment in post-genomics, the increasing demands of translational medicine, to the use of internet of things appraoches in animal facilities. I have also worked on the material and discursive practices which shape how boundaries are understood and enacted in organ transplantation protocols and discussion of xenotransplantation. Insights from this research inform my work on the UK Government's Animals in Science Committee (ASC) 2013-2019.
  • Facilitating collaborative ways of working with policy and across disciplinary perspectives to inform learning and decision-making in contexts where there are plural values and scientific uncertainties. Past research includes the development of 'Deliberative Mapping' decision-support processes, with colleagues at SPRU, which integrates multi-criteria decision analysis with deliberation between citizens and stakeholders. I led the LASSH (Laboratory Animals in the Social Sciences and Humanities) network, using a structured and iterative process for developing a collaborative agenda for future humanities and social scientific research on laboratory animal science and welfare. I recently held an ESRC Impact Fellowship exploring challenges around the characterisation of benefits in the UK Harm-Benefit Analysis of animal research, which has informed my work chairing the UK Review of Harm-Benefit Analysis in the Use of Animals in Research.

Research projects

  • Resisting bodies: The practices and politics of the immune system (2020-2024). This grant is is funded by The Research Council of Norway and led by Dr Tone Druglitrø at the University of Olso, with further collaborators including Kristin Asdal and Silje Morsman (University of Oslo) and Mette Nordahl Svendsen (University of Copenhagen). The project will develop new social science research on the connections between human and animal immune systems in research and policy. My work explores the emergence and application of the recent 'animal-rule' in vaccine development.
  • The Animal Research Nexus: Changing Constitutions of Science, Health and Welfare (2017-2023). This major grant is led by Professor Gail Davies (University of Exeter) with Dr Beth Greenhough (Oxford University), Dr Pru Hobson-West (University of Nottingham), Dr Rob Kirk (University of Manchester) and Dr Emma Roe (University of Southampton). This major award has three main aims: 1) to understand the historical interrelations between science, health and animal welfare 2) to identify challenges to animal research raised by scientific and social shifts around species and supply, professional roles, and patient engagements and 3) to facilitate dialogue with stakeholders, scientists and publics across the Animal Research Nexus. The overall programme seeks to identify what is required to remake the social contract around animal use in 21st century science and medicine.
  • Appraising Benefits in Laboratory Animal Research. An ESRC Impact Accelerator Award (2015-2017) developing the capacity for social science research to understand and inform the changing landscapes of translational biomedicine, with a specific focus on the process of appraising benefits in laboratory animal research.
  • In vivo skills training and the changing landscapes of biomedical research in the UK. A co-authored evaluation of the Integrative Pharmacology Fund (2015-2016). This research funded by the British Pharmacological Society and the project led by the University of Exeter.
  • Developing a collaborative agenda for humanities and social scientific research on laboratory animal welfare. A series of workshops funded by a Wellcome Trust Small Grant and University of Exeter Project Development Grant (2014-2015).  Co-applicants include Carrie Friese (LSE), Beth Greenhough (University of Oxford), Pru Hobson-West (University of Nottingham), Rob Kirk (University of Manchester) and Elisabeth Ormandy (UBC).
  • Making It Big? Tracing Collaboration in the Life Sciences. ESRC Genomics Forum Event (2011) with E Frow (ESRC Genomics Forum, Edinburgh) and S Leonelli (Egenis, Exeter). An international workshop developing comparative insights across projects in 'big biology’, exploring what is at stake, for both natural and social scientists, in projects seeking to rescale biology.
  • Biogeography and Transgenic Life. Three-year ESRC Research Fellowship (2007-2010) funding a series of projects exploring spatial issues in the production and coordination of mutant mouse resources, furthering understanding of international scientific collaboration, translational research and the spaces of postgenomics.
  • Locating Technoscience: Geographies of Science, Technology and Politics. ESRC Research Seminar Series (2005-2007) with B Balmer and C Thorpe (STS, UCL), A Hedgecoe (Sociology, Sussex), R Doubleday (Geography, Cambridge) and S Whatmore (OUCE, Oxford). ESRC seminar series building interdisciplinary and institutional conversations around the geographies of contemporary science and technology.
  • Deliberative Mapping: Appraising Options for Addressing ‘the Kidney Gap'. Wellcome Trust Grant (2001-2003) with J Burgess and S Williamson (UCL), A Stirling and S Meyer (SPRU) and M Eames (PSI). Project developing an innovative participatory methodology, combining scientific, expert-driven risk assessment techniques and deliberative approaches to public engagement. This was tested this through a full-scale public engagement exercise on the range of future options available for the treatment of human organ failure.

Research networks

Past PhD and Postdoctoral Students

I have supervised and acted as mentor for a broad range of PhD, post-doctoral students and artists with research interests in:

  • The geographies of health, science and technology, including innovative forms of public engagement on the boundaries between science and art;
  • The embodied, situated and relational knowledges of food, plants, animals, bodies, and biotechnology;
  • Nature-society relationships and experimental approaches to thinking about and living alongside animals and nature.

I welcome enquiries from potential students and others interested in these and related areas. I have acted as research mentor for the following colleagues and students in the past.

 

  • Dominic Walker (Geography, Exeter) Experiments, social practice, and the spaces of art: experimenting with science and technology through artist-led institutions
  • Katie Ledingham (Geography, Exeter) Synthetic biology in a fractiversal world: on novel biologies and modest geographies
  • Angeliki Balayannis (University of Melbourne and Geography, Exeter) The ethics and the emergence of toxic waste
  • Hilary Geoghagen (Geography, UCL) Harnessing Enthusiasm – Ecosocialities and Citizens as Early-Warning Systems (ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellowship)
  • Angela Last (Geography, UCL) Creating Common Futures – Embedding experimental methods for public engagement with innovative technologies (ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship)
  • Sara Peres (Geography/STS, UCL) Seed banking networks and the globalisation of plant biodiversity (ESRC Studentship)
  • Carina Fearnley (Geography/Earth Sciences, UCL) Understanding the dynamics of volcanic forecasting and warning systems (ESRC/NERC Studentship)
  • Richard Milne (Geography/STS, UCL) The role of research 'origin' in the formation of public attitudes towards biotechnology in the UK (UCL Institute of Human Genetics and Health)
  • Kezia Barker (Geography, UCL) Bio-security and discourses of national identity in New Zealand (ESRC Studentship)
  • Isobel Tomlinson (Geography, UCL) The 'organic' and the 'state': a critical analysis of the UK's organic action plan (ESRC Studentship)
  • Russell Hitchings (Geography, UCL) Plants and society: an ethnographic approach to the changing role of botanical life in London homes (ESRC Studentship)
  • Robert Doubleday (Geography, UCL) Political Innovation: corporate engagements in controversy over genetically modified foods (ESRC Studentship)
  • Kersty Hobson (Geography, UCL) Evaluating and understanding lifestyle change in environmental information programmes (ESRC Case Studentship)

Publications

Key publications | Publications by category | Publications by year

Key publications

Davies G, Greenhough B, Hobon-West P, Kirk RGW, Palmer A, Roe E (2024). Researching Animal Research: What the humanities and social sciences can contribute to laboratory animal science and welfare. Manchester, Manchester University Press. Abstract.
Davies G, Greenhough B, Hobon-West P, Kirk RGW, Palmer A, Roe E (2024). Researching Animal Research: What the humanities and social sciences can contribute to laboratory animal science and welfare. Manchester, Manchester University Press. Abstract.
Grimm H, Biller-Andorno N, Buch T, Dalhoff M, Davies G, Cederroth C, Maissen O, Passini E, Törnqvist E, Olsson A, et al (2023). Advancing the 3Rs: Innovation, implementation, ethics and society. Frontiers in Veterinary Science Abstract.
Gorman R, Davies G (2023). When 'cultures of care' meet: entanglements and accountabilities at the intersection of animal research and patient involvement in the UK. SOCIAL & CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY, 24(1), 121-139. Author URL.
Davies G (2021). Locating the ‘culture wars’ in laboratory animal research: national constitutions and global competition. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Abstract.
Davies G, Gorman R, Greenhough B, Hobson-West P, Kirk RGW, Message R, Dmitriy M, Palmer A, Roe E, Ashall V, et al (2020). The Animal Research Nexus: a new approach to the connections between science, health, and animal welfare. Medical Humanities Abstract.

Publications by category

Books

Davies G, Greenhough B, Hobon-West P, Kirk RGW, Palmer A, Roe E (2024). Researching Animal Research: What the humanities and social sciences can contribute to laboratory animal science and welfare. Manchester, Manchester University Press. Abstract.
Davies G, Greenhough B, Hobon-West P, Kirk RGW, Palmer A, Roe E (2024). Researching Animal Research: What the humanities and social sciences can contribute to laboratory animal science and welfare. Manchester, Manchester University Press. Abstract.

Journal articles

Grimm H, Biller-Andorno N, Buch T, Dalhoff M, Davies G, Cederroth C, Maissen O, Passini E, Törnqvist E, Olsson A, et al (2023). Advancing the 3Rs: Innovation, implementation, ethics and society. Frontiers in Veterinary Science Abstract.
Palmer A, Greenhough B, Hobson-West P, Davies G, Message R (2023). What Do Scientists Mean When They Talk About Research Animals “Volunteering”?. Society and Animals, 1-22.
Gorman R, Davies G (2023). When 'cultures of care' meet: entanglements and accountabilities at the intersection of animal research and patient involvement in the UK. SOCIAL & CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY, 24(1), 121-139. Author URL.
Greenhough B, Davies G, Bowlby S (2022). Why ‘cultures of care’?. Social & Cultural Geography, 24(1), 1-10.
Davies G (2021). Locating the ‘culture wars’ in laboratory animal research: national constitutions and global competition. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Abstract.
Davies G, Gorman R, McGlacken R, Peres S (2021). The social aspects of genome editing: Publics as stakeholders, populations, and participants in animal research. Laboratory Animals Abstract.
Davies G, Gorman R, Greenhough B, Hobson-West P, Kirk RGW, Message R, Dmitriy M, Palmer A, Roe E, Ashall V, et al (2020). The Animal Research Nexus: a new approach to the connections between science, health, and animal welfare. Medical Humanities Abstract.
Joseph M, Neely AH, Davies GF, Sparke M, Craddock S (2019). Compound Solutions: Pharmaceutical Alternatives for Global Health. AAG Review of Books, 7(1), 47-58. Author URL.
Lowe J, Leonelli S, Davies G (2019). Training to translate: Understanding and informing translational animal research in pre-clinical pharmacology. Tecnoscienza : Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, 10 (2), 5-30.
Davies GF (2018). Harm-Benefit Analysis: Opportunities for enhancing ethical review in animal research. LabAnimal
Davies GF, Greenhough B, Hobson-West P, Kirk R (2018). Science, Culture, and Care in Laboratory Animal Research: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the history and future of the 3Rs. Science, Technology, and Human Values
Niemi S, Davies GF (2016). Animal Research, the 3Rs, and the “internet of things”: Opportunities and Oversight in International Pharmaceutical Development. Institute for Laboratory Animal Research (ILAR) Journal
Davies GF, Greenhough B, Hobson-West P, Kirk R, et al (2016). Developing a collaborative agenda for humanities and social scientific research on laboratory animal science and welfare. PLoS One Abstract.
Leonelli S, Rappert B, Davies GF (2016). Introduction: Data Shadows: Knowledge, Openness and Absence. Science, Technology, and Human Values, 42, 191-202.
Whitehead M (2016). Neuro: the new brain sciences and the management of the mind by Nikolas Rose and Joelle M. Abi-Rached Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013, 352 pp, $27.95/£19.95 paperback ISBN 9780691149615. Area, 48(1), 122-122.
Davies GF (2016). Remapping the brain: towards a spatial epistemology of the neurosciences. Area, 48, 125-125.
Davies GF, Mackay A (2014). Introducing Geo: Geography and Environment. Geo: Geography and Environment
Davies GF, Dwyer C (2014). Qualitative methods III: animating archives, artful interventions and online environments. , 4
Davies GF (2014). Searching for GloFish™: Aesthetics, Ethics and Encounters with the Neon Baroque. Environment and Planning A: international journal of urban and regional research, 46(11), 2604-2621. Abstract.
Davies GF (2013). Arguably big biology: Sociology, spatiality and the knockout mouse project. Biosocieties, 4(8), 417-431. Abstract.
Frow E, Leonelli S, Davies GF (2013). Bigger, Faster, Better? Rhetorics and Practices of Large-Scale Research in Contemporary Bioscience. BioSocieties, 8(4), 386-396.
Davies GF (2013). Mobilizing Experimental Life: Spaces of Becoming with Mutant Mice. Theory, Culture and Society: explorations in critical social science, 30, 129-153. Abstract.
Davies G (2013). Writing biology with mutant mice: the monstrous potential of post genomic life. Geoforum, 48, 268-278.
DAVIES G (2012). Caring for the multiple and the multitude: assembling animal welfare and enabling ethical critique. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 30, 623-638.
Fearnley CJ, McGuire WJ, Davies G, Twigg J (2012). Standardisation of the USGS Volcano Alert Level System (VALS): analysis and ramifications. Bulletin of Volcanology, 74, 2023-2036.
Davies G (2012). What is a humanized mouse? Remaking the species and spaces of translational medicine. Body & Society, 18, 126-155. Author URL.
Greenhough B, Lorimer J, Davies G (2011). Corporal compassion: animal ethics and the philosophy of the body. ENVIRON PLANN D, 29, 188-190.
Davies G (2011). Playing dice with mice: building experimental futures in Singapore. New Genetics and Society, 30, 433-441.
Bourke J, Greenhough B, Lorimer J, Davies G (2011). Review: Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence, Corporal Compassion: Animal Ethics and the Philosophy of the Body. Environment and Planning D Society and Space, 29(1), 187-190.
Davies G (2010). Captivating behaviour: mouse models, experimental genetics and reductionist returns in the neurosciences. The Sociological Review, 58, 53-72.
Lorimer J, Davies G, Hinchliffe S, Hird M, Greenhough B, Roe E, Beisel U, Loftus A, Haraway D (2010). Collaborative book review of ‘When species meet’. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 28, 32-55.
Dwyer C, Davies G (2010). Qualitative methods III: animating archives, artful interventions and online environments. Progress in Human Geography, 34, 88-97.
Lorimer J, Davies G, Hinchliffe S, Hird MJ, Greenhough B, Roe E, Beisel U, Loftus A, Haraway D (2010). When species meet. ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D-SOCIETY & SPACE, 28(1), 32-55. Author URL.
Davies GF (2010). Where do experiments end?. Geoforum, 41, 667-670.
Davies G, Dwyer C (2008). Qualitative methods II: minding the gap. Progress in Human Geography, 32, 399-406.
Davies G (2008). Thinking, Reasoning and Writing with Animals in the Biosciences. BioSocieties, 3(4), 446-451.
Davies GF (2008). Thinking, Reasoning and Writing with Animals in the Biosciences: book review essay. BioSocieties, 3, 446-451.
Burgess J, Stirling A, Clark J, Davies G, Eames M, Staley K, Williamson S (2007). Deliberative mapping: a novel analytic-deliberative methodology to support contested science-policy decisions. Public Understanding of Science, 16, 299-322. Author URL.
Davies G, Dwyer C (2007). Qualitative methods: are you enchanted or are you alienated?. Progress in Human Geography, 31, 257-266. Author URL.
Davies G (2007). The funny business of biotechnology: better living through (chemistry) comedy. Geoforum, 38, 221-223.
Davies G (2006). Mapping deliberation: calculation, articulation and intervention in the politics of organ transplantation. Economy and Society, 35, 232-258.
Davies G (2006). Nature performed: environment, culture and performance. Cultural Geographies, 13, 476-477.
Davies G (2006). Patterning the geographies of organ transplantation: corporeality, generosity and justice. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 31, 257-271.
Davies G (2006). The sacred and the profane: biotechnology, rationality, and public debate. Environment and Planning A, 38, 423-443. Author URL.
Davies G, Burgess J (2004). 'Challenging the view from nowhere’: citizen reflections on specialist expertise in a deliberative process. Health & place, 10, 349-361.
Davies G, Day R, Williamson S (2004). The geography of health knowledge/s. Health and Place, 10, 293-297.
Davies G (2003). A geography of monsters?. Geoforum, 34, 409-412.
Harrison C, Davies G (2002). Conserving biodiversity that matters: practitioners’ perspectives on brownfield development and urban nature conservation in London. Journal of Environmental Management, 65, 95-108.
Davies G (2000). Narrating the Natural History Unit: institutional orderings and spatial strategies. Geoforum, 31, 539-551.
Davies G (2000). Science, observation and entertainment: competing visions of postwar British natural history television, 1946-1967. Cultural Geographies, 7, 432-460.
Davies G (1999). Exploiting the archive: and the animals came in two by two, 16mm, CD-ROM and BetaSp. Area, 31, 49-58.

Chapters

Davies G, Gorman R, Milne R (2024). Fabricating mice and dementia: opening up relations in multi-species research. In Jenkins N, Jack-Waugh A, Ritchie L (Eds.) Multi-Species Dementia Studies: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach, Bristol University Press. Abstract.
Davies GF, Gorman R, Crudgington B (2019). Which patient takes centre stage? Placing patient voices in animal research. In Atkinson S, Hunt R (Eds.) GeoHumanities and Health, Springer, 141-155.  Abstract.  Author URL.
Davies GF, Scalway H (2018). Diagramming. In Lury C, Fensham R, Heller-Nicholas A, Lammes S, Last A, Michael M, Uprichard E (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Research Methods, Routledge. Abstract.
Davies G (2011). Molecular Life. In Del Casino Jr V, Thomas M, Cloke P, Pannelli R (Eds.) A Companion to Social Geography, Wiley Blackwell, 257-274.
Davies GF (2010). Captivating behaviour: mouse models, experimental genetics and reductionist returns in the neurosciences. In Parry S, Dupre J (Eds.) Nature After the Genome, Wiley-Blackwell, 52-72.
Davies GF (2008). Science, observation and entertainment: competing visions of post-war British natural history television, 1946-1967. In  (Ed) Contemporary Foundations of Space and Place – Culture and Society: Critical Essays in Human Geography, Ashgate Press, 387-416.
Davies GF (2005). Exploiting the archive: and the animals came in two by two, 16mm, CD-Rom and BetaSP Area. In Thrift N, Whatmore S (Eds.) Cultural Geography: Critical concepts, Routledge.
Davies GF (2004). Wildlife. In Harrison S, Pile S, Thrift N (Eds.) Patterned Ground: ecologies of nature and culture London, Reaktion Press, 255-258.
Burgess J, Bedford T, Hobson K, Davies G, Harrison C (2003). (Un)sustainable consumption. In Berkhout F, Leach M, Scoones I (Eds.) Negotiating Environmental Change: New perspectives from social science, Edward Elgar, 261-291.
Davies G (2003). Researching the networks of natural history film-making. In Blunt A, Gruffudd P, May J, Ogborn M, Pinder D (Eds.) Cultural Geography in Practice, London: Edward Arnold, 202-217.
Davies G (2000). Virtual animals in electronic zoos: the changing geographies of animal capture and display. In Philo C, Wilbert C (Eds.) Animal Spaces, Beastly Places, London: Routledge, 243-267.

Reports

Davies G, Gorman R, King G (2022). Informing Involvement around Animal Research. Abstract.
Gorman R, Davies G (2019). Patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) with animal research.
Davies GF, Golledge H, Hawkins P, Rowland A, Smith J, Wolfensohn S (2017). Review of harm-benefit analysis. in the use of animals in research. Animals in Science Committee,  London, Home Office. 87 pages.  Abstract.
Lowe JWE, Collis M, Davies G, Leonelli S, Lewis DI, Zecharia AY (2016). An Evaluation of the Integrative Pharmacology Fund: Lessons for the future of in vivo education & training. British Pharmacological Society,  London.
Davies G, Burgess J, Eames M, Mayer S, Staley K, Stirling A, Williamson S (2003). Deliberative Mapping: Appraising Options for Addressing ‘the Kidney Gap’.
Murlis J, Davies G, others (2001). Public perception of the health impacts of climate change., Department of Health. 4 pages.
Harrison C, Davies G (1998). Lifestyles and the Environment., ESRC.

Publications by year

2024

Davies G, Gorman R, Milne R (2024). Fabricating mice and dementia: opening up relations in multi-species research. In Jenkins N, Jack-Waugh A, Ritchie L (Eds.) Multi-Species Dementia Studies: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach, Bristol University Press. Abstract.
Davies G, Greenhough B, Hobon-West P, Kirk RGW, Palmer A, Roe E (2024). Researching Animal Research: What the humanities and social sciences can contribute to laboratory animal science and welfare. Manchester, Manchester University Press. Abstract.
Davies G, Greenhough B, Hobon-West P, Kirk RGW, Palmer A, Roe E (2024). Researching Animal Research: What the humanities and social sciences can contribute to laboratory animal science and welfare. Manchester, Manchester University Press. Abstract.

2023

Grimm H, Biller-Andorno N, Buch T, Dalhoff M, Davies G, Cederroth C, Maissen O, Passini E, Törnqvist E, Olsson A, et al (2023). Advancing the 3Rs: Innovation, implementation, ethics and society. Frontiers in Veterinary Science Abstract.
Palmer A, Greenhough B, Hobson-West P, Davies G, Message R (2023). What Do Scientists Mean When They Talk About Research Animals “Volunteering”?. Society and Animals, 1-22.
Gorman R, Davies G (2023). When 'cultures of care' meet: entanglements and accountabilities at the intersection of animal research and patient involvement in the UK. SOCIAL & CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY, 24(1), 121-139. Author URL.

2022

Davies G, Gorman R, King G (2022). Informing Involvement around Animal Research. Abstract.
Greenhough B, Davies G, Bowlby S (2022). Why ‘cultures of care’?. Social & Cultural Geography, 24(1), 1-10.

2021

Davies G (2021). Locating the ‘culture wars’ in laboratory animal research: national constitutions and global competition. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Abstract.
Davies G, Gorman R, McGlacken R, Peres S (2021). The social aspects of genome editing: Publics as stakeholders, populations, and participants in animal research. Laboratory Animals Abstract.

2020

Davies G, Gorman R, Greenhough B, Hobson-West P, Kirk RGW, Message R, Dmitriy M, Palmer A, Roe E, Ashall V, et al (2020). The Animal Research Nexus: a new approach to the connections between science, health, and animal welfare. Medical Humanities Abstract.

2019

Joseph M, Neely AH, Davies GF, Sparke M, Craddock S (2019). Compound Solutions: Pharmaceutical Alternatives for Global Health. AAG Review of Books, 7(1), 47-58. Author URL.
Gorman R, Davies G (2019). Patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) with animal research.
Lowe J, Leonelli S, Davies G (2019). Training to translate: Understanding and informing translational animal research in pre-clinical pharmacology. Tecnoscienza : Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, 10 (2), 5-30.
Davies GF, Gorman R, Crudgington B (2019). Which patient takes centre stage? Placing patient voices in animal research. In Atkinson S, Hunt R (Eds.) GeoHumanities and Health, Springer, 141-155.  Abstract.  Author URL.

2018

Davies GF, Scalway H (2018). Diagramming. In Lury C, Fensham R, Heller-Nicholas A, Lammes S, Last A, Michael M, Uprichard E (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Research Methods, Routledge. Abstract.
Davies GF (2018). Harm-Benefit Analysis: Opportunities for enhancing ethical review in animal research. LabAnimal
Davies GF, Greenhough B, Hobson-West P, Kirk R (2018). Science, Culture, and Care in Laboratory Animal Research: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the history and future of the 3Rs. Science, Technology, and Human Values

2017

Davies GF, Golledge H, Hawkins P, Rowland A, Smith J, Wolfensohn S (2017). Review of harm-benefit analysis. in the use of animals in research. Animals in Science Committee,  London, Home Office. 87 pages.  Abstract.

2016

Lowe JWE, Collis M, Davies G, Leonelli S, Lewis DI, Zecharia AY (2016). An Evaluation of the Integrative Pharmacology Fund: Lessons for the future of in vivo education & training. British Pharmacological Society,  London.
Niemi S, Davies GF (2016). Animal Research, the 3Rs, and the “internet of things”: Opportunities and Oversight in International Pharmaceutical Development. Institute for Laboratory Animal Research (ILAR) Journal
Davies GF, Greenhough B, Hobson-West P, Kirk R, et al (2016). Developing a collaborative agenda for humanities and social scientific research on laboratory animal science and welfare. PLoS One Abstract.
Leonelli S, Rappert B, Davies GF (2016). Introduction: Data Shadows: Knowledge, Openness and Absence. Science, Technology, and Human Values, 42, 191-202.
Whitehead M (2016). Neuro: the new brain sciences and the management of the mind by Nikolas Rose and Joelle M. Abi-Rached Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013, 352 pp, $27.95/£19.95 paperback ISBN 9780691149615. Area, 48(1), 122-122.
Davies GF (2016). Remapping the brain: towards a spatial epistemology of the neurosciences. Area, 48, 125-125.

2015

Davies GF (2015). Reading alongside the pipeline. Dialogues in Human Geography, 5(1), 108-110.

2014

Davies GF, Mackay A (2014). Introducing Geo: Geography and Environment. Geo: Geography and Environment
Davies GF, Dwyer C (2014). Qualitative methods III: animating archives, artful interventions and online environments. , 4
Davies GF (2014). Searching for GloFish™: Aesthetics, Ethics and Encounters with the Neon Baroque. Environment and Planning A: international journal of urban and regional research, 46(11), 2604-2621. Abstract.

2013

Davies GF (2013). Arguably big biology: Sociology, spatiality and the knockout mouse project. Biosocieties, 4(8), 417-431. Abstract.
Frow E, Leonelli S, Davies GF (2013). Bigger, Faster, Better? Rhetorics and Practices of Large-Scale Research in Contemporary Bioscience. BioSocieties, 8(4), 386-396.
Davies GF (2013). Mobilizing Experimental Life: Spaces of Becoming with Mutant Mice. Theory, Culture and Society: explorations in critical social science, 30, 129-153. Abstract.
Davies G (2013). Writing biology with mutant mice: the monstrous potential of post genomic life. Geoforum, 48, 268-278.

2012

DAVIES G (2012). Caring for the multiple and the multitude: assembling animal welfare and enabling ethical critique. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 30, 623-638.
Davies GF, Scalway H (2012). MiceSpace.  Abstract.  Author URL.
Fearnley CJ, McGuire WJ, Davies G, Twigg J (2012). Standardisation of the USGS Volcano Alert Level System (VALS): analysis and ramifications. Bulletin of Volcanology, 74, 2023-2036.
Davies G (2012). What is a humanized mouse? Remaking the species and spaces of translational medicine. Body & Society, 18, 126-155. Author URL.

2011

Greenhough B, Lorimer J, Davies G (2011). Corporal compassion: animal ethics and the philosophy of the body. ENVIRON PLANN D, 29, 188-190.
Davies G (2011). Molecular Life. In Del Casino Jr V, Thomas M, Cloke P, Pannelli R (Eds.) A Companion to Social Geography, Wiley Blackwell, 257-274.
Davies G (2011). Playing dice with mice: building experimental futures in Singapore. New Genetics and Society, 30, 433-441.
Bourke J, Greenhough B, Lorimer J, Davies G (2011). Review: Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence, Corporal Compassion: Animal Ethics and the Philosophy of the Body. Environment and Planning D Society and Space, 29(1), 187-190.

2010

Davies G (2010). Captivating behaviour: mouse models, experimental genetics and reductionist returns in the neurosciences. The Sociological Review, 58, 53-72.
Davies GF (2010). Captivating behaviour: mouse models, experimental genetics and reductionist returns in the neurosciences. In Parry S, Dupre J (Eds.) Nature After the Genome, Wiley-Blackwell, 52-72.
Lorimer J, Davies G, Hinchliffe S, Hird M, Greenhough B, Roe E, Beisel U, Loftus A, Haraway D (2010). Collaborative book review of ‘When species meet’. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 28, 32-55.
Dwyer C, Davies G (2010). Qualitative methods III: animating archives, artful interventions and online environments. Progress in Human Geography, 34, 88-97.
Lorimer J, Davies G, Hinchliffe S, Hird MJ, Greenhough B, Roe E, Beisel U, Loftus A, Haraway D (2010). When species meet. ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D-SOCIETY & SPACE, 28(1), 32-55. Author URL.
Davies GF (2010). Where do experiments end?. Geoforum, 41, 667-670.

2009

Davies G (2009). The Geographies of knowledge’ Virtual issue of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.  Author URL. Web link.

2008

Davies G, Balmer B, Barker K, Doubleday R, Milne R (2008). Locating Technoscience: an on-line reader exploring the geographies of science and technology.  Author URL. Web link.
Davies G, Dwyer C (2008). Qualitative methods II: minding the gap. Progress in Human Geography, 32, 399-406.
Davies GF (2008). Science, observation and entertainment: competing visions of post-war British natural history television, 1946-1967. In  (Ed) Contemporary Foundations of Space and Place – Culture and Society: Critical Essays in Human Geography, Ashgate Press, 387-416.
Davies G (2008). Thinking, Reasoning and Writing with Animals in the Biosciences. BioSocieties, 3(4), 446-451.
Davies GF (2008). Thinking, Reasoning and Writing with Animals in the Biosciences: book review essay. BioSocieties, 3, 446-451.

2007

Burgess J, Stirling A, Clark J, Davies G, Eames M, Staley K, Williamson S (2007). Deliberative mapping: a novel analytic-deliberative methodology to support contested science-policy decisions. Public Understanding of Science, 16, 299-322. Author URL.
Davies G, Dwyer C (2007). Qualitative methods: are you enchanted or are you alienated?. Progress in Human Geography, 31, 257-266. Author URL.
Davies G (2007). The funny business of biotechnology: better living through (chemistry) comedy. Geoforum, 38, 221-223.

2006

Davies G (2006). Mapping deliberation: calculation, articulation and intervention in the politics of organ transplantation. Economy and Society, 35, 232-258.
Davies G (2006). Nature performed: environment, culture and performance. Cultural Geographies, 13, 476-477.
Davies G (2006). Patterning the geographies of organ transplantation: corporeality, generosity and justice. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 31, 257-271.
Davies G (2006). The sacred and the profane: biotechnology, rationality, and public debate. Environment and Planning A, 38, 423-443. Author URL.

2005

Davies GF (2005). Exploiting the archive: and the animals came in two by two, 16mm, CD-Rom and BetaSP Area. In Thrift N, Whatmore S (Eds.) Cultural Geography: Critical concepts, Routledge.

2004

Davies G, Burgess J (2004). 'Challenging the view from nowhere’: citizen reflections on specialist expertise in a deliberative process. Health & place, 10, 349-361.
Davies G, Day R, Williamson S (2004). The geography of health knowledge/s. Health and Place, 10, 293-297.
Davies GF (2004). Wildlife. In Harrison S, Pile S, Thrift N (Eds.) Patterned Ground: ecologies of nature and culture London, Reaktion Press, 255-258.

2003

Burgess J, Bedford T, Hobson K, Davies G, Harrison C (2003). (Un)sustainable consumption. In Berkhout F, Leach M, Scoones I (Eds.) Negotiating Environmental Change: New perspectives from social science, Edward Elgar, 261-291.
Davies G (2003). A geography of monsters?. Geoforum, 34, 409-412.
Davies G, Burgess J, Eames M, Mayer S, Staley K, Stirling A, Williamson S (2003). Deliberative Mapping: Appraising Options for Addressing ‘the Kidney Gap’.
Davies G (2003). Researching the networks of natural history film-making. In Blunt A, Gruffudd P, May J, Ogborn M, Pinder D (Eds.) Cultural Geography in Practice, London: Edward Arnold, 202-217.

2002

Harrison C, Davies G (2002). Conserving biodiversity that matters: practitioners’ perspectives on brownfield development and urban nature conservation in London. Journal of Environmental Management, 65, 95-108.

2001

Murlis J, Davies G, others (2001). Public perception of the health impacts of climate change., Department of Health. 4 pages.

2000

Davies G (2000). Narrating the Natural History Unit: institutional orderings and spatial strategies. Geoforum, 31, 539-551.
Davies G (2000). Science, observation and entertainment: competing visions of postwar British natural history television, 1946-1967. Cultural Geographies, 7, 432-460.
Davies G (2000). Virtual animals in electronic zoos: the changing geographies of animal capture and display. In Philo C, Wilbert C (Eds.) Animal Spaces, Beastly Places, London: Routledge, 243-267.

1999

Davies G (1999). Exploiting the archive: and the animals came in two by two, 16mm, CD-ROM and BetaSp. Area, 31, 49-58.

1998

Harrison C, Davies G (1998). Lifestyles and the Environment., ESRC.
Davies G (1998). Networks of Nature: Stories of Natural History Film-making at the BBC.  Author URL.

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External Engagement and Impact

Committee/panel activities

I was recently elected to the Steering Committee for the Swiss National Research Programme on Advancing 3R - Animals, Research and Society. I also sit on Wellcome’s Social Sciences Discovery Advisory Group.

I was appointed to the Animals in Science Committee from 2013-2019. The committee is an advisory non-departmental public body of the Home Office, advising the Secretary of State on matters concerning the use of animals in scientific procedures.

I was elected Member of the Research Committee of the Royal Geographical Society, from 2010-2013, building on her previous work as Secretary (2006-2009) and then Chair (2009-2012) of the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group of the RGS. I have been a member of the Economic and Social Research Council College of Reviewers since 2009.


Editorial responsibilities

I was one of the inaugural co-editors of the new RGS-IBG open access journal Geo: Geography and Environment, with Anson Mackay at UCL.

I have previously held editorial board positions for the journals The Sociological Review (2013-2018), the Cultural Geography Section of Geography Compass (2010-2016), Geoform (2001-2011), the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (2006-2012) and Public Understanding of Science (1997-2001).


External Examiner Positions

I was External Examiner for the Geography/Environmental Studies module group at The Open University (2016-2020).

I have previously worked as external examiner for the Undergraduate Honours Degree in Geography at the University of Oxford (2012-2015), the MA in Nature, Society and Environmental Governance, University of Oxford (2016-2019), the MA in Society, Technology and Nature in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Lancaster University (2010-2016) and the MA in Geography (Research Methods at Durham University (2010-2013).


Invited lectures & workshops

I have given a large number of plenary lectures and invited talks at workshops. Recent and forthcoming talks are focused on developing collaborations between social science, policy, and the animal research community, and include:

  • Animal Research Nexus Sponsored Session: The role of publics in animal research: Is the aim for understanding, engagement or involvement? AST 2020, Animal Science and Technology Conference, Edinburgh, March 2020
  • Invited speaker: ‘Local practices and global politics in the regulation of laboratory animal research’ National Cultures of science, animals and care workshop, LSE, London, September 2019
  • Invited speaker: Posthumanism and Animal Welfare, School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Royal Holloway University of London, March 2019
  • Invited speaker: The ASC Review of Harm-Benefit Analysis for AWERB Hubs, with Penny Hawkins, at AWERB regional chairs hub, London, March 2019
  • Invited speaker: The Animals in Science Committee (ASC) report on harm/benefit assessment – key points and recommendations, RSPCA lay members forum, London, December 2018
  • Invited speaker: ‘Research Integrity: power calculations, publishing metrics and the politics of a research crisis’ Laboratory Animal Science Association Annual Conference, November, Birmingham 2018
  • Invited speaker: Patient Involvement and Animal Research Shared Learning Group on Research Involvement, London, September 2018
  • Invited speaker: Micespace: Experiments in Mapping Laboratory Animal Science, Institute of Animal Technology workshop, with Helen Scalway, April, Manchester 2018
  • Invited speaker: What might the social sciences and humanities offer the NC3Rs? Board of Trustees, National Centre for the 3Rs, London, October 2017

Media Coverage

I have has acted as advisor for a wide range of media and public engagement activities, including the curation of genetically-modified mice for the Center for PostNatural History, the development of anniversary programmes for the BBC Natural History Unit, and the evaluation of novel methods of public engagement with science for the Committee for Radioactive Waste Management and the New Economics Foundation. I am currently an associate of the critical art institution the Office of Experiments, directed by Neal White.

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Postgraduate researchers

Alumni

  • Rich Gorman Research Fellow at Brighton and Sussex Medical School and Honorary Research Fellow at Exeter
  • Katie Ledingham
  • Dominic Walker

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