Samantha Davies

Samantha Davies is the Course Leader for the BSc in Public Health and Society (UK) and teaches on a number of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the UK and overseas. Sam began her professional career teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) and teaching English for speakers of other languages (ESOL), before becoming a qualified Community Educator in the early 90's. Since then she has worked as a Youth and Community Worker and Manager in both urban and rural settings; a Learning Mentor for the Excellence in Cities Initiative; a Study Support Officer and a Basic Skills Co-ordinator before being appointed by a Primary Care Trust for the first national post of Health Literacy Manager. In addition, she has been the Commissioning Lead for the Voluntary Sector and Child Poverty Officer for a local authority. Sam's research interests lie in investigating the structure-agency relationship; the reproduction of disadvantaged identities; Marxist and Critical Realist analyses; transformative pedagogy and participatory approaches. She was awarded her doctorate in 2014 from Leeds Metropolitan University. For her thesis she explored the value of transformative education for the working class.

Publications

Students as Peer Researchers: Lessons From Exploring Lived Experiences of Social Divisions in Relation to Postgraduate Education
Students as Peer Researchers: Lessons From Exploring Lived Experiences of Social Divisions in Relation to Postgraduate Education
Louise Warwick-Booth, Susan Coan, Sara Rushworth, Samantha Davies, Ruth Cross, Simon Rowlands, Muhammad Sanusi Ismaila, Ekwutosi Uneke, Olamide Inioluwa Osoro, Dolapo Oladele, Jake Wagland. © 2023. 21 pages.
This chapter reports learning from students participating as peer researchers in a pedagogically focused study. The chapter documents the peer research model used, its...