Laura Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604157 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3574-1610 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cultural dementia care
BACKGROUND: Museum-led dementia care programmes enable social and cognitive outcomes for people living with dementia and their caregivers. However, the long-term effects on informal caregivers and the scalability of these interventions remain under-researched. METHODS: A systematic search in 3 databases followed PRISMA guidelines, focusing on studies from 2004 to 2024 in Australia, Europe and North America. The study aimed to map the existing evi…
The social value of place‐based creative wellbeing
Creative well‐being is an increasing field of interest to which biomedical and social sciences have made uneven contributions. The instrumental value of culture and its subsequential public investment is grounded in the interplay of social, cultural and economic capital to attain and preserve wellbeing and health and foster social mobility. The current evidence addresses the effectiveness of arts interventions in improving illnesses. Little atten…
The experience of qualitative research with young fathers
Qualitative research into the lives and experiences of young fathers has seen some increased interest in recent years, yet comprehensive understandings of the ‘doing’ of such research remain absent from the literature. The small existing literature positions young men who are fathers as potentially difficult to research, in terms of access and encounters. This article draws on experiences and reflections from two UK-based research projects with y…
Performing Devotion
This article examines three texts published between 1775 and 1840 that attempt to model an ideal reading of the Anglican liturgy and to render it on the printed page, exploring the ways in which elocutionary instruction, acting theory and accounts of public worship intersect within them through the figures of inscription and incorporation. Reflecting on the choice of the famous actor David Garrick as an exemplary reader in the two later texts, an…
Are young fathers “hard to reach”? Understanding the importance of relationship building and service sustainability
Purpose This paper explores service provision for young fathers through analysis of data from the three-year ESRC funded project Following Young Fathers. The purpose of this paper is to explore the idea that young fathers are a “hard to reach” group. It begins with a discussion of literature and research evidence on this theme. The empirical discussion draws on data collected in interviews and focus groups with practitioners, service managers and…
Respectful Inter-Group Interactions
Supporting young fathers
This article provides a case study of the challenges faced by one local authority in supporting young fathers, in a context of changing models of service provision, resource constraints and professional training needs. Developments in service provision are tracked over a decade, starting with a mentoring service set up under New Labour’s 10-year Teenage Pregnancy Strategy, and considering how this has been refashioned under new models of service …
Seeing young fathers in a different way
I think it's absolutely outrageous that so many young men in our society feel they can go out, get women pregnant, allow them to have children, make them bring them up by themselves, often on benefits, and then just disappear. It is utterly shocking and I hope the ministers will get hold of some of these feckless fathers, drag them off, make them work, put them in chains if necessary
Some Useful Sources
We have provided here an annotated list of resources, key organisations and programmes that support young fathers and details of data sources for secondary use. The information complements the citations within the individual articles in this themed section
Becoming a Young Breadwinner? The Education, Employment and Training Trajectories of Young Fathers
The entry into fatherhood is a major life course transition involving the acquisition of new adult roles and responsibilities. This transition is rarely planned for young fathers, and may involve a range of challenges, not least their capacity to provide materially and financially for their child. Drawing on a Qualitative Longitudinal study of young fathers in the UK, this article charts their very different pathways through education, training a…
Social Policies and Social Control
Drawing on a wide array of policy domains and events, this book provides an innovative account of social control and behaviourism within welfare systems and social policies, and the implications for disadvantaged groups. This accessible collection reviews the controls, assumptions and persuasions applied to individuals and households and explores broader themes, including how 'new behaviourism' was consolidated during the New Labour and Cameron p…
Comparing thought suppression and mindfulness as coping techniques for spider fear
No Vain Speculation’
This essay won the 2007 Literature Compass Graduate Essay Prize, Eighteenth Century Section. The oral culture of pre‐literate peoples received unprecedented critical attention during the eighteenth century. The bard and the noble savage, oral tradition and original genius all rose to prominence and, despite the tenacity of a model of progress which equated orality and the primitive and literacy with civilisation, many writers were nevertheless ca…
Becoming a Young Breadwinner? The Education, Employment and Training Trajectories of Young Fathers
The entry into fatherhood is a major life course transition involving the acquisition of new adult roles and responsibilities. This transition is rarely planned for young fathers, and may involve a range of challenges, not least their capacity to provide materially and financially for their child. Drawing on a Qualitative Longitudinal study of young fathers in the UK, this article charts their very different pathways through education, training a…
Are young fathers “hard to reach”? Understanding the importance of relationship building and service sustainability
Purpose This paper explores service provision for young fathers through analysis of data from the three-year ESRC funded project Following Young Fathers. The purpose of this paper is to explore the idea that young fathers are a “hard to reach” group. It begins with a discussion of literature and research evidence on this theme. The empirical discussion draws on data collected in interviews and focus groups with practitioners, service managers and…
The experience of qualitative research with young fathers
Qualitative research into the lives and experiences of young fathers has seen some increased interest in recent years, yet comprehensive understandings of the ‘doing’ of such research remain absent from the literature. The small existing literature positions young men who are fathers as potentially difficult to research, in terms of access and encounters. This article draws on experiences and reflections from two UK-based research projects with y…
Seeing young fathers in a different way
I think it's absolutely outrageous that so many young men in our society feel they can go out, get women pregnant, allow them to have children, make them bring them up by themselves, often on benefits, and then just disappear. It is utterly shocking and I hope the ministers will get hold of some of these feckless fathers, drag them off, make them work, put them in chains if necessary
Respectful Inter-Group Interactions
Supporting young fathers
This article provides a case study of the challenges faced by one local authority in supporting young fathers, in a context of changing models of service provision, resource constraints and professional training needs. Developments in service provision are tracked over a decade, starting with a mentoring service set up under New Labour’s 10-year Teenage Pregnancy Strategy, and considering how this has been refashioned under new models of service …
No Vain Speculation’
This essay won the 2007 Literature Compass Graduate Essay Prize, Eighteenth Century Section. The oral culture of pre‐literate peoples received unprecedented critical attention during the eighteenth century. The bard and the noble savage, oral tradition and original genius all rose to prominence and, despite the tenacity of a model of progress which equated orality and the primitive and literacy with civilisation, many writers were nevertheless ca…
Comparing thought suppression and mindfulness as coping techniques for spider fear
Social Policies and Social Control
Drawing on a wide array of policy domains and events, this book provides an innovative account of social control and behaviourism within welfare systems and social policies, and the implications for disadvantaged groups. This accessible collection reviews the controls, assumptions and persuasions applied to individuals and households and explores broader themes, including how 'new behaviourism' was consolidated during the New Labour and Cameron p…
Supporting young fathers
This article provides a case study of the challenges faced by one local authority in supporting young fathers, in a context of changing models of service provision, resource constraints and professional training needs. Developments in service provision are tracked over a decade, starting with a mentoring service set up under New Labour’s 10-year Teenage Pregnancy Strategy, and considering how this has been refashioned under new models of service …
Seeing young fathers in a different way
I think it's absolutely outrageous that so many young men in our society feel they can go out, get women pregnant, allow them to have children, make them bring them up by themselves, often on benefits, and then just disappear. It is utterly shocking and I hope the ministers will get hold of some of these feckless fathers, drag them off, make them work, put them in chains if necessary
Some Useful Sources
We have provided here an annotated list of resources, key organisations and programmes that support young fathers and details of data sources for secondary use. The information complements the citations within the individual articles in this themed section
Becoming a Young Breadwinner? The Education, Employment and Training Trajectories of Young Fathers
The entry into fatherhood is a major life course transition involving the acquisition of new adult roles and responsibilities. This transition is rarely planned for young fathers, and may involve a range of challenges, not least their capacity to provide materially and financially for their child. Drawing on a Qualitative Longitudinal study of young fathers in the UK, this article charts their very different pathways through education, training a…
Are young fathers “hard to reach”? Understanding the importance of relationship building and service sustainability
Purpose This paper explores service provision for young fathers through analysis of data from the three-year ESRC funded project Following Young Fathers. The purpose of this paper is to explore the idea that young fathers are a “hard to reach” group. It begins with a discussion of literature and research evidence on this theme. The empirical discussion draws on data collected in interviews and focus groups with practitioners, service managers and…
Respectful Inter-Group Interactions
Performing Devotion
This article examines three texts published between 1775 and 1840 that attempt to model an ideal reading of the Anglican liturgy and to render it on the printed page, exploring the ways in which elocutionary instruction, acting theory and accounts of public worship intersect within them through the figures of inscription and incorporation. Reflecting on the choice of the famous actor David Garrick as an exemplary reader in the two later texts, an…
The experience of qualitative research with young fathers
Qualitative research into the lives and experiences of young fathers has seen some increased interest in recent years, yet comprehensive understandings of the ‘doing’ of such research remain absent from the literature. The small existing literature positions young men who are fathers as potentially difficult to research, in terms of access and encounters. This article draws on experiences and reflections from two UK-based research projects with y…
Cultural dementia care
BACKGROUND: Museum-led dementia care programmes enable social and cognitive outcomes for people living with dementia and their caregivers. However, the long-term effects on informal caregivers and the scalability of these interventions remain under-researched. METHODS: A systematic search in 3 databases followed PRISMA guidelines, focusing on studies from 2004 to 2024 in Australia, Europe and North America. The study aimed to map the existing evi…
The social value of place‐based creative wellbeing
Creative well‐being is an increasing field of interest to which biomedical and social sciences have made uneven contributions. The instrumental value of culture and its subsequential public investment is grounded in the interplay of social, cultural and economic capital to attain and preserve wellbeing and health and foster social mobility. The current evidence addresses the effectiveness of arts interventions in improving illnesses. Little atten…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (3 works)