Philip Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3605537 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6849-8499 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1920 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
LGBTQIA+ Competence: A Pedagogical Paradigm Shift in Graduate Nursing Education
Background The omission of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual (LGBTQIA+) content in graduate nursing education leaves people who identify as sexually or gender diverse (SGD) with poorer health across the life span and a 12-year shorter life expectancy relative to heteronormative counterparts. Method An educational intervention was paired with an optional academic-community–based clinical immersion in LGBTQIA+ health wit…
Sudden Dignity in the Act of Reading
This essay argues that it is literature, and the serious reading of literature, which offers a sudden emotional experience of human dignity, realized anew through the care of its language. Case histories are provided from the work of The Reader, a charitable organization bringing live shared reading to hard-to-reach communities. The research was conducted by the Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society (CRILS), at the University o…
Stratospheric initial conditions provide seasonal predictability of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oscillations
The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), the regional manifestation of the Arctic Oscillation (AO), dominates winter climate variability in Europe and North America. Skilful seasonal forecasting of the winter NAO/AO has been demonstrated recently by dynamical prediction systems. However, the role of initial conditions in this predictability remains unknown. Using a latest generation seasonal forecasting system and reanalysis data, we show that the i…
The Very Grief a Cure of the Disease
This article uses Elizabethan poetics and the Renaissance sonnet as a template for understanding the power of reading as it is exhibited in modern-day mental health contexts, specifically in the work of national charity The Reader. Our concern is with the medicine of verbal beauty, representative expression and formal ordering towards perfection – in particular, the relation of ‘erected wit’ and ‘infected will’ in Sidney’s Defence of Poetry. We e…
Making sense of mental health difficulties through live reading: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of being in a Reader Group
Background: Reader Groups (RGs) involve a skilled facilitator reading aloud complex literature in a group setting, followed by group discussion of the text. This paper explores the experience of eight individuals with mental health problems participating in general community RGs, relating this to making sense of life experiences and relationships inside and outside the group. Method: Semi-structured interviews were transcribed and analysed using …
Shared Reading: Assessing the intrinsic value of a literature-based health intervention
Public health strategies have placed increasing emphasis on psychosocial and arts-based strategies for promoting well-being. This study presents preliminary findings for a specific literary-based intervention, Shared Reading, which provides community-based spaces in which individuals can relate with both literature and one another. A 12-week crossover design was conducted with 16 participants to compare benefits associated with six sessions of Sh…
The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature , by Andrew H. Miller
Reviewed by: The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature Philip Davis (bio) The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, by Andrew H. Miller; pp. xiv + 260. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2008, $39.95, £22.49. Andrew H. Miller is with F. H. Bradley: "precept is good, but example is better" (qtd. in Miller 4). He believes that through its spec…
Syntax and pathways
A series of thought-experiments bring together literary criticism and neuroscience to explore the possibility that the shapes of mentality formed by literary language, in particular syntax, lock into, shift and modify established pathways of the brain. The two ordinarily strange bedfellows thus complement each other: literature offers the best model of relatively unprogrammed human thinking, that is to say, human thinking not tied to preconceived…
Teaching & Learning Guide for: ‘The Victorian’
Author Recommends : The best book on the Victorians I have read since completing the OELH volume is one I wish I had read whilst writing it – Jan‐Melissa Schramm, Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology (Cambridge University Press, 2000). It gives a powerful account of the singular risk of testimony, in seeking either to apprehend the unproven real or to bestow personal reality upon otherwise notional ideas. In relation …
‘The Future in the Instant’
When on the heath, in act 4 scene 3, Lear first encounters Poor Tom, the king at once cries out at the sight of this piteous naked madman: ‘Didst thou give all to thy daughters? And art thou come to this?’ That is to say: gave all as I did, and came to this, like me. And then again he exclaims: ‘What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?’ and finally: ‘Nothing could have subdued nature / To such a lowness but his unkind daughters’.
The Porch-Ceiling of the Temple of Apollo on Delos
Immigration and Americanisation
Shared Reading: Assessing the intrinsic value of a literature-based health intervention
Public health strategies have placed increasing emphasis on psychosocial and arts-based strategies for promoting well-being. This study presents preliminary findings for a specific literary-based intervention, Shared Reading, which provides community-based spaces in which individuals can relate with both literature and one another. A 12-week crossover design was conducted with 16 participants to compare benefits associated with six sessions of Sh…
Making sense of mental health difficulties through live reading: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of being in a Reader Group
Background: Reader Groups (RGs) involve a skilled facilitator reading aloud complex literature in a group setting, followed by group discussion of the text. This paper explores the experience of eight individuals with mental health problems participating in general community RGs, relating this to making sense of life experiences and relationships inside and outside the group. Method: Semi-structured interviews were transcribed and analysed using …
Syntax and pathways
A series of thought-experiments bring together literary criticism and neuroscience to explore the possibility that the shapes of mentality formed by literary language, in particular syntax, lock into, shift and modify established pathways of the brain. The two ordinarily strange bedfellows thus complement each other: literature offers the best model of relatively unprogrammed human thinking, that is to say, human thinking not tied to preconceived…
The Porch-Ceiling of the Temple of Apollo on Delos
Immigration and Americanisation
The Porch-Ceiling of the Temple of Apollo on Delos
‘The Future in the Instant’
When on the heath, in act 4 scene 3, Lear first encounters Poor Tom, the king at once cries out at the sight of this piteous naked madman: ‘Didst thou give all to thy daughters? And art thou come to this?’ That is to say: gave all as I did, and came to this, like me. And then again he exclaims: ‘What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?’ and finally: ‘Nothing could have subdued nature / To such a lowness but his unkind daughters’.
Teaching & Learning Guide for: ‘The Victorian’
Author Recommends : The best book on the Victorians I have read since completing the OELH volume is one I wish I had read whilst writing it – Jan‐Melissa Schramm, Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology (Cambridge University Press, 2000). It gives a powerful account of the singular risk of testimony, in seeking either to apprehend the unproven real or to bestow personal reality upon otherwise notional ideas. In relation …
Syntax and pathways
A series of thought-experiments bring together literary criticism and neuroscience to explore the possibility that the shapes of mentality formed by literary language, in particular syntax, lock into, shift and modify established pathways of the brain. The two ordinarily strange bedfellows thus complement each other: literature offers the best model of relatively unprogrammed human thinking, that is to say, human thinking not tied to preconceived…
The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature , by Andrew H. Miller
Reviewed by: The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature Philip Davis (bio) The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, by Andrew H. Miller; pp. xiv + 260. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2008, $39.95, £22.49. Andrew H. Miller is with F. H. Bradley: "precept is good, but example is better" (qtd. in Miller 4). He believes that through its spec…
Making sense of mental health difficulties through live reading: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of being in a Reader Group
Background: Reader Groups (RGs) involve a skilled facilitator reading aloud complex literature in a group setting, followed by group discussion of the text. This paper explores the experience of eight individuals with mental health problems participating in general community RGs, relating this to making sense of life experiences and relationships inside and outside the group. Method: Semi-structured interviews were transcribed and analysed using …
Shared Reading: Assessing the intrinsic value of a literature-based health intervention
Public health strategies have placed increasing emphasis on psychosocial and arts-based strategies for promoting well-being. This study presents preliminary findings for a specific literary-based intervention, Shared Reading, which provides community-based spaces in which individuals can relate with both literature and one another. A 12-week crossover design was conducted with 16 participants to compare benefits associated with six sessions of Sh…
The Very Grief a Cure of the Disease
This article uses Elizabethan poetics and the Renaissance sonnet as a template for understanding the power of reading as it is exhibited in modern-day mental health contexts, specifically in the work of national charity The Reader. Our concern is with the medicine of verbal beauty, representative expression and formal ordering towards perfection – in particular, the relation of ‘erected wit’ and ‘infected will’ in Sidney’s Defence of Poetry. We e…
Stratospheric initial conditions provide seasonal predictability of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oscillations
The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), the regional manifestation of the Arctic Oscillation (AO), dominates winter climate variability in Europe and North America. Skilful seasonal forecasting of the winter NAO/AO has been demonstrated recently by dynamical prediction systems. However, the role of initial conditions in this predictability remains unknown. Using a latest generation seasonal forecasting system and reanalysis data, we show that the i…
Sudden Dignity in the Act of Reading
This essay argues that it is literature, and the serious reading of literature, which offers a sudden emotional experience of human dignity, realized anew through the care of its language. Case histories are provided from the work of The Reader, a charitable organization bringing live shared reading to hard-to-reach communities. The research was conducted by the Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society (CRILS), at the University o…
LGBTQIA+ Competence: A Pedagogical Paradigm Shift in Graduate Nursing Education
Background The omission of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual (LGBTQIA+) content in graduate nursing education leaves people who identify as sexually or gender diverse (SGD) with poorer health across the life span and a 12-year shorter life expectancy relative to heteronormative counterparts. Method An educational intervention was paired with an optional academic-community–based clinical immersion in LGBTQIA+ health wit…
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