Howard Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3700204 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Howard Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Howard |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bangor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9794-3325 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 123 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Row House in Washington, DC
Students’ sense of belonging and their socio-economic status in higher education
This study aims to explore the main aspects of sense of belonging, including academic and social engagement, life satisfaction, thoughts of leaving university, demographic characteristics and socio-economic status by applying quantitative measurement. Having considered the concepts of disadvantaged or non-traditional groups deployed in previous studies, a survey questionnaire was designed to investigate how certain factors are related to students…
Obituary
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Are local students disadvantaged? Understanding institutional, local and national sense of belonging in higher education
Research on inequality in higher education (HE) is often dominated by class‐based assumptions about traditional and non‐traditional students. This binary distinction emphasising students’ socio‐economic status tends to oversimply the complexity of educational inequality, neglecting crucial factors which affect the perception of social position. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the understanding of inequalities in HE with new data on the …
Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War
Biographical Research Methods
Investigating across borders
Victims (direct and indirect) of gross human rights violations have implicit recognition in terms of a duty of effective investigation and other focused principles. In the context of migration and extraordinary rendition, this duty gives rise to a particular problem of investigation in a multi-national situation, where, arguably, an effective investigation requires elements of transnational cooperation. Recent decisions by the European Court of H…
Religion and local civil society
The relationship between religion and civil society at the macro-level has attracted the attention of sociologists of religion but empirical detail of how religion is connected to the social relations and practices that constitute local civil society is relatively lacking. This article explores the contemporary social and communal significance of the religious dimension in local civil society using the authors’ ethnographic fieldwork and biograph…
Sense of belonging as an indicator of social capital
Purpose This paper examines the possibility of using sense of belonging as an indicator for social capital. Social capital, from the collective social capital theory perspective, is constructed from three main elements: trust, social network and participation. Social capital is crucial to civil society and well-being, but there is no consensus on how to define and measure it. This paper approaches this problem with the different but related conce…
Four domains of students' sense of belonging to university
Students’ sense of belonging is known to be strongly associated with academic achievement and a successful life at university. To achieve a comprehensive understanding of belonging, this study collected data via the 10 Words Question. Responses from 426 participants were analysed using a sequence of analytic methods including In Vivo coding, systematic coding, clustering, and contingency analysis. The results show that, in addition to academic an…
From city networks to network economies
The aim of this article is to investigate the relationship between urban form and knowledge–based economies through an example of how the spatial ordering of London’s 19th–century and early 20th–century furniture industry took place. Archival research, quantitative measures of urban form, and geographic information system–based business analytics were combined to test this proposition in 2 areas of London: Shoreditch and Fitzrovia. We hypothesize…
Ignorance, Power and Harm
Social Change and Political Transformation
Organisational challenges in the United Kingdom's post-disaster 'crisis support' work
Local authorities in the United Kingdom are required to 'lead' multi-agency humanitarian responses to major disasters. Concerns mounted in the late twentieth century that responses to people bereaved in the immediate aftermath of such events at best failed to meet their needs and at worst compounded their distress. Subsequent reviews and reforms reframed some victim needs as 'rights' and established legal, administrative, and practice frameworks …
From empowering the shameful to shaming the empowered
Poor-blaming and poor-shaming have become intrinsic parts of the neoliberal order. For neoliberal discourse to enter and to dominate wider public ‘common sense’, vehicles of ‘populist language’ are required and the mass media has taken a central place in propagandising neoliberalism through their narration of poverty. This article focuses on so-called ‘reality TV’ and its neoliberal framing of the poor, particularly since 2007 and specifically in…
Dissociation, reflexivity and habitus
Many theorists, in their search for a better explanation of the dynamics of structure and agency, have expressed the need for a theory in which reflexivity and habitus are reconciled. In this article, we argue that a dissociative theory of mind can provide the essential framework in which habitual routines and reflexivity function in parallel. This is explored using the examples of athletic training and hypnosis, where the interplay between consc…
Touraine, Alain (1925–)
Urban morphology
Human Rights and Civil Liberties
This book provides a wide-ranging and accessible textbook covering the main areas of civil liberties and human rights law as it applies to England and Wales, meeting the requirements of undergraduate law syllabuses. The book sets out not only the legal rules, common law and statutes which relate to the field of civil liberties and human rights, but also the arguments and debates which have surrounded the development of an increasingly controversi…
Human Rights Law Directions
Contextual Challenges for Crisis Support in the Immediate Aftermath of Major Incidents in the UK
Crisis support teams guide survivors and bereaved through the traumatic first hours and days after disaster. Comprised largely of volunteer social workers, they focus on providing practical, pragmatic support: ‘orienting’, rather than ‘counselling’ service users. This article examines the generally unacknowledged contextual challenges of crisis support work in the UK. In time-compressed circumstances, making sense of ‘major incidents’ requires im…
Making Sense of Disaster
Notwithstanding their visibility and the evident harm they cause, criminological attention to organisationally based acute civilian disasters (OBACDs) has been sporadic and the field has been left, in the main, to practitioners and scholars from other disciplines. This article suggests a research template for the contextual analysis of OBACDs examining the actions and omissions of key stakeholders through a succession of phases. A review of disas…
Reframing Society and Culture in Post-Soviet Russia
How far have social theorists in Russia engaged with the international academic world since the era dominated by Soviet-style historical materialism? Mainstream theories in sociology and 'culturology' use new vocabulary but remain loyal to ideological interpretations of society and culture. A minority of Russian sociologists have translated, adopted and critiqued Western ideas. Works by three such authors are explored and compared. This leads to …
The development of an urban atlas of Portland H. Davis and H. Neis
Managing Creativity
Индустрии творчества растут как экономически, так и с точки зрения их культурного авторитета. Книга посвящена организации творчества и его динамике. Различные компании в сфере культуры по-своему структурируют свою работу с учетом стремления творческих работников к автономии. Вместе с тем, менеджмент предполагает контроль и координацию, направленные на обеспечение эффективности производства. Понятие творческого императива вводится с тем, чтобы пок…
Changing Identities and Practices in Post-Soviet Journalism
Journalism in Russia is being shaped by new forms of regulation, ownership and economic organization as well as new conceptions of the role of the journalist in relation to authorities and audiences. While centralized broadcasting and communications in the Russian Federation continue to have a dominant role, the centrifugal tendencies of the post-Soviet period have enhanced the autonomy and importance of the provincial media. Using data from rese…
Quangos and local government
QUANGOs and local government - a changing world, Howard Davis understanding the new magistracy - a study of characteristics and attitudes, Chris Skelcher, Howard Davis business as usual? the new police authorities and the police and Magistrates' Courts Act, Barry Loveday independence in further education - managing the change process, Jean C. Easton public accountability in today's health service, Guy B.J. Daly the indirectly elected world of loc…
Four domains of students' sense of belonging to university
Students’ sense of belonging is known to be strongly associated with academic achievement and a successful life at university. To achieve a comprehensive understanding of belonging, this study collected data via the 10 Words Question. Responses from 426 participants were analysed using a sequence of analytic methods including In Vivo coding, systematic coding, clustering, and contingency analysis. The results show that, in addition to academic an…
Sense of belonging as an indicator of social capital
Purpose This paper examines the possibility of using sense of belonging as an indicator for social capital. Social capital, from the collective social capital theory perspective, is constructed from three main elements: trust, social network and participation. Social capital is crucial to civil society and well-being, but there is no consensus on how to define and measure it. This paper approaches this problem with the different but related conce…
Perspectives on contractual relationships and the move to best value in local authorities
This article is concerned with the nature of the contracting relationship in local authorities. After considering some of the implications of a basic model of contracting (principal‐agent theory) and questioning some of its implications, we briefly examine whether the Compulsory Competitive Tendering (CCT) regime is likely to have forced many clients and contractors into the more adversarial style of contract management that the theory predicts. …
Building a Tatar elite
Tatarstan, a bi-cultural region in the Russian Federation, has been experiencing a significant revival of Tatar language, culture and ethnic identities during the post-Soviet period. This article examines the significance of language policy in schools, and elite Tatar schools in particular, for this Tatar renaissance. It describes the political context and institutional setting and uses qualitative research data to analyse ethnic identification a…
What works and for whom? The competing rationalities of ‘Best Value
English This article argues that the UK Best Value regime is rooted in a ‘rational’ model of strategic planning that privileges performance management and external inspection and implicitly denigrades traditional forms of representative democracy. This poses important questions about how and by whom Best Value is to be defined. Central government has stressed the need for political leadership of and public involvement in Best Value. However,the r…
Media, Language Policy and Cultural Change in Tatarstan
The politics of national identity in the Republic of Tatarstan are complex and often contradictory. Although sometimes posed in terms of an historical legacy, claims to nationhood are also strongly shaped by more pragmatic contemporary concerns. In addition to more conventional forms of political mobilisation, national identity is also contested in cultural arenas. Examining policies on language reform and media development, for example, sheds li…
From empowering the shameful to shaming the empowered
Poor-blaming and poor-shaming have become intrinsic parts of the neoliberal order. For neoliberal discourse to enter and to dominate wider public ‘common sense’, vehicles of ‘populist language’ are required and the mass media has taken a central place in propagandising neoliberalism through their narration of poverty. This article focuses on so-called ‘reality TV’ and its neoliberal framing of the poor, particularly since 2007 and specifically in…
Social Change And Political Transformation
Evaluating the Best Value Pilot Programme
In 2000 new 'Best Value' duties were placed on local government, seeking continuous improvement in local public services. This article draws upon our experience of evaluating the Best Value pilot programme, which took place ahead of implementation of the legislation. The results of the pilot programme influenced the Best Value guidance, demonstrated that the Best Value framework can deliver improvements and helped to shape ministerial expectation…
Impact of the abolition of the metropolitan county councils
1990). Impact of the abolition of the metropolitan county councils. Local Government Studies: Vol. 16, Impact of the Abolition of Metropolitan County Councils, pp. 1-11
From Community Government to Communitarian Partnership? Approaches to Devolution in Birmingham
The article provides an analysis of recent attempts by a major local authority (Birmingham City Council) to devolve decision making and localise service provision. In recent years the council has developed a series of initiatives to promote devolution of decision making and localisation of service provision to sub-city levels. Utilising a model presented by Sullivan, we argue that the council has been moving from an approach initially informed by…
Dissociation, reflexivity and habitus
Many theorists, in their search for a better explanation of the dynamics of structure and agency, have expressed the need for a theory in which reflexivity and habitus are reconciled. In this article, we argue that a dissociative theory of mind can provide the essential framework in which habitual routines and reflexivity function in parallel. This is explored using the examples of athletic training and hypnosis, where the interplay between consc…
Reframing Society and Culture in Post-Soviet Russia
How far have social theorists in Russia engaged with the international academic world since the era dominated by Soviet-style historical materialism? Mainstream theories in sociology and 'culturology' use new vocabulary but remain loyal to ideological interpretations of society and culture. A minority of Russian sociologists have translated, adopted and critiqued Western ideas. Works by three such authors are explored and compared. This leads to …
Representations of otherness in Russian newspapers
This article examines the coverage of migration topics in a selection of Russian newspapers with nationwide circulations in the first six months of 2005 and tries to answer to the question: how does the Russian national press represent people and features which are significantly different from so-called Russian character and national identity? The analysis is based on three main themes: immigration, the national project, and Russians abroad. The …
Being English in North Wales
English migration into rural Wales presents migrants with unexpected experiences of ethnic and national difference. A study of English migrants in north Wales shows that many adapt by adopting new or alternative definitions of national belonging, including being British, claiming to be “really” Welsh, becoming more “Welsh,” or assuming some hyphenated identity. A minority find themselves more conscious of their Englishness, and unable to integrat…
Understanding the new magistracy
Fire and police ‐ local or regional services
Are local students disadvantaged? Understanding institutional, local and national sense of belonging in higher education
Research on inequality in higher education (HE) is often dominated by class‐based assumptions about traditional and non‐traditional students. This binary distinction emphasising students’ socio‐economic status tends to oversimply the complexity of educational inequality, neglecting crucial factors which affect the perception of social position. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the understanding of inequalities in HE with new data on the …
Investigating across borders
Victims (direct and indirect) of gross human rights violations have implicit recognition in terms of a duty of effective investigation and other focused principles. In the context of migration and extraordinary rendition, this duty gives rise to a particular problem of investigation in a multi-national situation, where, arguably, an effective investigation requires elements of transnational cooperation. Recent decisions by the European Court of H…
Religion and local civil society
The relationship between religion and civil society at the macro-level has attracted the attention of sociologists of religion but empirical detail of how religion is connected to the social relations and practices that constitute local civil society is relatively lacking. This article explores the contemporary social and communal significance of the religious dimension in local civil society using the authors’ ethnographic fieldwork and biograph…
From city networks to network economies
The aim of this article is to investigate the relationship between urban form and knowledge–based economies through an example of how the spatial ordering of London’s 19th–century and early 20th–century furniture industry took place. Archival research, quantitative measures of urban form, and geographic information system–based business analytics were combined to test this proposition in 2 areas of London: Shoreditch and Fitzrovia. We hypothesize…
There's One Shop You Don't Go Into If You Are English
Research into ethnic minorities in Wales has gathered pace in recent years. Yet little is known about Wales' largest ethnic group, the English, although the Welsh–English boundary remains the main marker of ethnic distinction, and migration into Wales from England represents a continuing challenge to the maintenance of distinctive ‘Welshness’—including Welsh language and associated culture. Evidence from a study of English migrants into selected …
The ‘Wicked Machinery of Government
This is a study focused on the early years of British rule in Malta (1800–13). It explores the application to the island of the ‘new model’ of colonial government, one based on direct rule from London mediated by the continuation of existing laws and institutions. Systemic deficiencies are identified. These tended to undermine the effectiveness of direct British rule. This study also reveals, in the context of legal and constitutional continuity,…
Cicero's Burial
THE BIMILLENNIUM of Cicero's death is perhaps an appropriate time for the following mortuary note. The lurid details pertaining to the execution of the proscription by Antony's soldiers-the violence of Cicero's death, the subsequent severing of his head and hands, and their despatch to Rome where after ignominious treatment at Antony's house they were fastened to the Rostra-are well attested in the classical authors, and furnished material for th…
An MMPI Factor Analytic Study of Alcoholics, Narcotic Addicts and Criminals
Poetry and the Voice of Michael Oakeshott
Journal Article POETRY AND THE VOICE OF MICHAEL OAKESHOTT Get access Howard Davis Howard Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 15, Issue 1, WINTER 1975, Pages 59–68, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/15.1.59 Published: 01 January 1975
News ideology
(1977). News ideology: Neutrality and naturalism. Paper in Linguistics: Vol. 10, No. 3-4, pp. 313-339
Sources of variation in news vocabulary
Shorter Notices
Language, Image, Media
Western Capitalism and State Socialism
Common Houses in America's Small Towns
"So Good a Design"
Impact of the abolition of the metropolitan county councils
1990). Impact of the abolition of the metropolitan county councils. Local Government Studies: Vol. 16, Impact of the Abolition of Metropolitan County Councils, pp. 1-11
The experience of the joint boards — The case of fire protection
Architects and Builders in North Carolina
Development of Class Structure in Eastern Europe
The regulation and deregulation of televison
This article compares and contrasts the systems of regulation and deregulation in the British and West European television industries. Although all television systems were affected by the information revolution and neo-liberal political economy in the 1980s,in many respects the British experience was Unique. The evolution of a mixed public/private system over forty years and the unique position of the BBC as a source of skilled labour and as a cu…
Fire and police ‐ local or regional services
Quangos and Local Government
Recent years have seen a major transformation in the way that local communities are governed. There has been a growth of 'government by appointment'. It has, of course, never been the case that local authorities have exercised all governmental powers in any particular locality. Others have always been involved but, in the past, local authorities confidently saw themselves as the rightful and undisputed leaders of their communities. Now their posi…
A New Europe? Economic Restructuring and Social Exclusion
Understanding the new magistracy
Quangos and local government
QUANGOs and local government - a changing world, Howard Davis understanding the new magistracy - a study of characteristics and attitudes, Chris Skelcher, Howard Davis business as usual? the new police authorities and the police and Magistrates' Courts Act, Barry Loveday independence in further education - managing the change process, Jean C. Easton public accountability in today's health service, Guy B.J. Daly the indirectly elected world of loc…
Changing Identities and Practices in Post-Soviet Journalism
Journalism in Russia is being shaped by new forms of regulation, ownership and economic organization as well as new conceptions of the role of the journalist in relation to authorities and audiences. While centralized broadcasting and communications in the Russian Federation continue to have a dominant role, the centrifugal tendencies of the post-Soviet period have enhanced the autonomy and importance of the provincial media. Using data from rese…
Perspectives on contractual relationships and the move to best value in local authorities
This article is concerned with the nature of the contracting relationship in local authorities. After considering some of the implications of a basic model of contracting (principal‐agent theory) and questioning some of its implications, we briefly examine whether the Compulsory Competitive Tendering (CCT) regime is likely to have forced many clients and contractors into the more adversarial style of contract management that the theory predicts. …
Media, Language Policy and Cultural Change in Tatarstan
The politics of national identity in the Republic of Tatarstan are complex and often contradictory. Although sometimes posed in terms of an historical legacy, claims to nationhood are also strongly shaped by more pragmatic contemporary concerns. In addition to more conventional forms of political mobilisation, national identity is also contested in cultural arenas. Examining policies on language reform and media development, for example, sheds li…
What works and for whom? The competing rationalities of ‘Best Value
English This article argues that the UK Best Value regime is rooted in a ‘rational’ model of strategic planning that privileges performance management and external inspection and implicitly denigrades traditional forms of representative democracy. This poses important questions about how and by whom Best Value is to be defined. Central government has stressed the need for political leadership of and public involvement in Best Value. However,the r…
Evaluating the Best Value Pilot Programme
In 2000 new 'Best Value' duties were placed on local government, seeking continuous improvement in local public services. This article draws upon our experience of evaluating the Best Value pilot programme, which took place ahead of implementation of the legislation. The results of the pilot programme influenced the Best Value guidance, demonstrated that the Best Value framework can deliver improvements and helped to shape ministerial expectation…
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