Professor Howard Davis

Job Title: WISERD Co-Director & leader of WISERD Training & Capacity Building Programme

Institution: Bangor University

Email: H.h.davis@Bangor.ac.uk

Telephone: 01248 382123

Role: Responsibility for leading the Bangor team & overall responsibility (with Claire O’Neill) for leading the WISERD training & capacity building programme

 

Biography 

Howard Davis 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, Glasgow and Edinburgh. 

Research Interests

Howard is interested in social theories of culture and creativity; cultural formations and transitions in post-Soviet societies; social implications of new technologies; the formation of social identities at local, national and international levels; research methods for the sociological analysis of culture, media and communications

Current Research 

2008-11 The Evolution of European Identity: Using biographical methods to study the development of European identity (EU 7th Framework Programme)

Howard is the leader of Bangor team which includes Dr Sally Baker (Research Fellow) and Marta Kowalska (researcher assistant). This three year project is coordinated by Professor Robert Miller from Queen’s University, Belfast. The other partners are from the Institute of Sociology, Magdeburg, Germany; the Department of European Culture Studies, University of Lodz, Poland; the School of Economics and Business Administration, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia; the Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria; and the Department of Sociology, ‘Frederico II’ University, Naples, Italy.
The project website can be found here

Click here to view Howard’s official Bangor University bio page. 

Recent Publications

Davis H, Erofeev S, 2011, ‘Reframing Society and Culture in Post-Soviet Russia’ Comparative Sociology 10(5) pp 710-734 (Available here)

Davis H, 2009, “Revisiting the concept of the public intellectual” in Intellectuals and their Publics Eds C Fleck, A Hess, ES Lyon (Ashgate, London) pp 261-69 (Available here)

Davis H, Sosnovskaya A, 2009, “Representations of Otherness in Russian Newspapers: the theme of migration as a counterpoint to Russian national identity” Journal of Intercultural Communication 21, ISSN 1404-1634 (Available here)

Davis H, Day G , Drakakis-Smith A, 2008, “Migrating to North Wales: the ‘English’ experience’” Contemporary Wales 21 pp 101-12, ISSN 0951-4937

Davis H, Day G , Drakakis-Smith A, 2008, “Portrait of a Locality? The local press at work in North West Wales 2000-2002″ Contemporary Wales 21 pp 25-26, ISSN 0951-4937

Davis H, Yerofeyev S, 2007, “The Regional and the Global in the Context of Changing Cultural Production” Regionologiia 4 pp 5-14, ISSN 0131-5706