Howard Davis (BA Cambridge; PhD Edinburgh) was appointed Professor of Social Theory and Institutions at Bangor University in 1997 and was Head of the School of Social Sciences from 1999-2007.  He worked previously at the universities of Kent and Glasgow, where he was a founder member of the Glasgow Media Group. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. From 2008- 2018 he was Co-Director of the Wales Institute for Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD). His main areas of research are social theories of culture and creativity; cultural formations and transitions in post-Soviet societies; social identities at local, national and international levels; research methods for the sociological analysis of culture, language and identities.  His most recent project is part of WISERD Civil Society and examines experiences of participation at the local level and their implications for civic exclusion and expansion.

Email: h.h.davis@bangor.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0) 1248 382123

Location: Room 113.3, Main Arts Mezzanine

2023

• PublishedAre local students disadvantaged? Understanding institutional, local and national sense of belonging in higher education
  Ahn, M. Y. & Davis, H., Feb 2023, In: British Educational Research Journal. 49, 1, p. 19-34
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedSerhii Plokhy The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
  Davis, H., Dec 2023, In: Society. 60, p. 1040-1044 5 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
• PublishedStudents’ sense of belonging and their socio-economic status in higher education: a quantitative approach
  Ahn, M. Y. & Davis, H., Feb 2023, In: Teaching in Higher Education. 28, 1, p. 136-149 14 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2022

• PublishedBiographical Research Methods
  Davis, H. H. & Eichsteller, M. J., 4 May 2022, First ed. London: SAGE Publications Ltd. 217 p.
  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

2021

• PublishedLocal Civil Society: Place, Time and Boundaries
  Mann, R., Dallimore, D., Davis, H., Day, G. & Eichsteller, M., 2 Dec 2021, Policy Press. 160 p. (Civil Society and Social Change)
  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
• PublishedReligion and local civil society: participation and change in a post-industrial village
  Davis, H., Dallimore, D., Mann, R. & Eichsteller, M., Sept 2021, In: Journal of Contemporary Religion. 36, 2, p. 287-309 23 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2020

• PublishedFour domains of students’ sense of belonging to university
  Ahn, M. Y. & Davis, H., 3 Mar 2020, In: Studies in Higher Education. 45, 3, p. 622-634 13 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedSense of belonging as an indicator of social capital
  Ahn, M. Y. & Davis, H., 13 Jul 2020, In: International Journal of Sociology & Social Policy. 40, 7/8, p. 627-642
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2019

• PublishedPushing the boundaries of Big Local
  Dallimore, D., Davis, H., Eichsteller, M. & Mann, R., 31 Mar 2019, Local Trust. 18 p.
  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

2018

• PublishedPlace, belonging and local voluntary association leadership
  Dallimore, D., Davis, H., Mann, R. & Eichsteller, M., Jul 2018.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
• PublishedPlace, belonging and the determinants of volunteering
  Dallimore, D., Davis, H., Eichsteller, M. & Mann, R., Mar 2018, In: Voluntary Sector Review. 9, 1, p. 21-38
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2017

• PublishedLanguage in autobiographical narratives: Motivation, capital and transnational imaginations
  Davis, H., Day, G., Eichsteller, M. & Baker, S., Jun 2017, In: Language, Discourse & Society. 5, 1, p. 53-70 18 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedPlace, belonging and the determinants of volunteering
  Dallimore, D., Davis, H., Eichsteller, M. & Mann, R., Sept 2017.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

2016

• PublishedCivil Society: Participation in Wales, in place and over time
  Dallimore, D., Davis, H., Mann, R. & Eichsteller, M., 6 Jul 2016.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
• PublishedDissociation, reflexivity and habitus
  Rafieian, S. & Davis, H. H., Nov 2016, In: European Journal of Social Theory. 19, 4, p. 556-573
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedFour domains of students’ sense of belonging to university
  Ahn, M. Y. & Davis, H., 2016.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
• PublishedHypnosis, Placebo, and Performance
  Rafeian, S. & Davis, H., 18 Aug 2016, Biosemiotic Medicine: Healing in the World of Meaning. Goli, F. (ed.). Springer Verlag, p. 133-154 (Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality; vol. 5, no. 1).
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• PublishedSense of belonging, as an indicator of social capital
  Ahn, M. Y. & Davis, H., 2016.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
• PublishedSocial engagements, as the key factor for students’ sense of belonging to university
  Ahn, M. Y. & Davis, H., 2016.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
• PublishedThe complexity of student’s sense of belonging to higher education institutions
  Ahn, M. Y. & Davis, H., 2016.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

2015

• PublishedAlan Touraine
  Davis, H. H. & Wright, J. (Editor), 2 Apr 2015, International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. Elsevier Science
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• PublishedFalse Self-Employment
  Davis, H. H., Dawson, M. (Editor), Fowler, B. (Editor), Miller, D. (Editor) & Smith, A. (Editor), 1 Oct 2015, Stretching the Sociological Imagination: Essays in Honour of John Eldridge. Palgrave Macmillan, p. 83-98
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2014

• PublishedThe category of religion in Alain Touraine's critique of modernity
  Davis, H. H., 17 Jul 2014, p. -.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

2012

• PublishedInternational Education in the Life Course
  Davis, H., Day, G., Baker, S. & Eichsteller, M., 1 Jan 2012, The Evolution of European Identities: Biographical Approaches. Day, G. & Miller, R. (eds.). 2012 ed. Palgrave Macmillan, p. 45-60
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2011

• PublishedReframing Society and Culture in Post-Soviet Russia
  Davis, H. H. & Erofeev, S., 1 Jan 2011, In: Comparative Sociology. 10, 5, p. 710-734
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2010

• PublishedAttitudes to Language and Bilingualism among English In-Migrants to North Wales.
  Davis, H. H., Day, G. A. & Morris, D. (Editor), 1 Jan 2010, Welsh in the Twenty-First Century. 2010 ed. University of Wales Press, p. 148-167
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• PublishedInside out: An 'English' dispersal into North-West Wales.
  Drakakis-Smith, A., Day, G. A. & Davis, H. H., 1 Mar 2010, In: Immigrants and Minorities. 28, 1, p. 42-69
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedLanguage Acquisition in Biographical Narratives: Steps in Supranational Identity Formation.
  Davis, H. H. & Baker, S., 12 Jul 2010.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
• Published'There's one shop you don't go into if you are English': The social and political integration of English migrants into Wales.
  Day, G. A., Davis, H. H. & Drakakis-Smith, A., 1 Nov 2010, In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 36, 9, p. 1405-1423
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2009

• PublishedBad News
  Beharrell, P., Davis, H. H., Eldridge, J., Hewitt, J., Hart, J., Philo, G., Walton, P. & Winston, B., 1 Jan 2009, Routledge.
  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• PublishedExploring European identities through biographical narrative interviews.
  Davis, H. H., Baker, S., Day, G. A. & Kowalska, M., 1 Jan 2009.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
• PublishedMore Bad News
  Beharrell, P., Davis, H. H., Eldridge, J., Hewitt, J., Hart, J., Philo, G., Walton, P. & Winston, B., 1 Jan 2009, Routledge.
  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• PublishedRepresentations of Otherness in Russian Newspapers: the theme of migration as a counterpoint to Russian national identity.
  Davis, H. H. & Sosnovskaya, A., 1 Oct 2009, In: Journal of Intercultural Communication. 21, p. 1-15
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedRevisiting the concept of the Public Intellectual
  Davis, H. H., Fleck, C. (Editor), Hess, A. (Editor) & Lyon, E. S. (Editor), 1 Jan 2009, Intellectuals and Their Publics: Perspectives from the Social Sciences. 2009 ed. Ashgate
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2008

• PublishedMigrating to North Wales: The 'English' Experience
  Day, G. A., Day, G., Drakakis-Smith, A. & Davis, H. H., 1 Sept 2008, In: Contemporary Wales. 21, 1, p. 101-129
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedPortrait of a Locality? The local press at work in North West Wales 2000-2002
  Day, G. A., Day, G., Drakakis-Smith, A. & Davis, H. H., 1 Jan 2008, In: Contemporary Wales. 21, p. 25-26
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2007

• PublishedBuilding a Tatar elite: Language and national schooling in Kazan.
  Veinguer, A. A. & Davis, H. H., 1 Jun 2007, In: Ethnicities. 7, 2, p. 186-207
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedThe regional and the global in the context of changing cultural production.
  Davis, H. H. & Yerofeyev, S., 1 Dec 2007, In: Regionologiia. 4, p. 5-14
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2006

• PublishedBeing English in north Wales: Inmigration and the immigrant experience
  Day, G., Davis, H. H. & Drakakis-Smith, A., 2006, In: Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. 12, 3-4, p. 577-598
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2005

• PublishedMediating religion in post soviet Russia: Orthodoxy and national identity in broadcasting
  Davis, H. H., 1 Jan 2005, In: Studies in World Christianity. 11, 1, p. 65-86
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• WISERD - Large Grant

  01/10/2014 – 01/08/2019 (Finished)

• ESENER Project

  01/07/2010 – 31/07/2011 (Finished)

• Analysis of the Correlates of Self-Reported Work Related to Illness in the labour Force Survey

  01/01/2010 – 30/07/2010 (Finished)

• PRIMO_RF Development of the Model for Professional Recognition of Foreign Qualifications in Russia

  01/01/2009 – 30/06/2016 (Finished)

• The Evolution of European Identity: Using biographical Methods to study the development of European

  01/03/2008 – 05/09/2013 (Finished)

• Mothers, Wives And Changing Lives:Uncove

  15/01/2007 – 23/08/2012 (Finished)

• CEC-Tolerance And Intolerance

  01/04/2005 – 31/08/2009 (Finished)