Megan Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1795-177X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A synthesis of distributed energy resource impacts and regulatory responses with a focus on soft law
Exploring the potential and limitations of deep learning and explainable AI for longitudinal life course analysis
These insights provide a foundation for future research applying DL and XAI to life course data, highlighting the challenges associated with sparse healthcare data, and the critical need for advancing interpretability frameworks in personalised public health
Professional Development and Workforce Issues of Activity Providers in UK Care Homes
Background and Aims: This scoping review explored the role of activity providers (APs), also known as activity coordinators, in care homes for older people, and focuses on workforce issues, resources and professional development of APs in the UK. An AP is a staff member of a care home who is typically responsible for implementing activities that meet the needs of residents. Engagement in meaningful activities in care homes for older adults plays …
Off-grid electricity imaginaries
Low-income households in South Africa’s rapidly urbanising cities often face significant challenges in accessing grid electricity. These challenges are illustrative of the limitations of conventional municipality-led grid expansion, and necessitate the exploration of alternative energy solutions that could reshape energy provision in these contexts. To better understand how such alternative solutions are envisioned and realised, this paper examin…
Gestational diabetes mellitus and its impact on the mother-infant relationship
Women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) are at increased risk of poor perinatal mental health outcomes. However, the association between GDM and the mother-infant relationship is unclear. This study aimed to examine whether GDM itself impacts the mother-infant relationship and maternal mental health using a cohort study design. We used data from the Cohort of Newborns in Emilia-Romagna (CoNER) study, which included 642 women recruited in B…
Strange Journey
Linking the energy transition and economic development
Substance use and sexuality
Previous research has found that sexual minority individuals are more likely than heterosexual individuals to engage in substance use behaviours such as the consumption of illicit drugs, heavy drinking and tobacco smoking. This study innovates by comparing the association of different measures of sexuality with substance use behaviours and exploring whether this association varies by place. We exploit multivariate multilevel models with sexual at…
Working to align energy transitions and social equity
Recent academic evidence suggests that, in contrast to what is often thought, the introduction of renewable energy infrastructures often leads to negative, not positive, social equity outcomes. Against this background, this paper aims to develop and empirically illustrate an integrative framework for analysing the work – or ‘agency’ – exercised by actors operating within and across different global contexts to align renewable energy and social eq…
Individual and contextual predictors of overweight or obesity among women in Uganda
Trends in smoking prevalence over time and space
A relational ethic of rural home support on two Gulf Island communities, 1978–2018
Alan Filewod, Committing Theatre
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Equality Deferred
Sexuality, space, gender, and health
Research on sexual orientation and gender identities, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ), has been limited in health geography compared with other sub-fields of the discipline. The reasons for this gap include both the logistical limitations of data on sexual orientation and the historical dominance of visible, measurable infectious, and chronic disease outcomes in medical geography research. While medical geographers …
Towards new configurations of urban energy governance in South Africa’s Renewable Energy Procurement Programme
A systems approach to understanding the effect of Facebook use on the quality of interpersonal communication
Linking public health agencies and hospitals for improved emergency preparedness
Public health epidemiologists effectively link public health agencies and hospitals to enhance syndromic surveillance, communicable disease management, and public health emergency preparedness and response. This comprehensive description of the program and its value to stakeholders, both in routine daily practice and in responding to a major public health emergency, can inform other states that may wish to establish a similar program as part of t…
Island disaster para-diplomacy in the Commonwealth
This paper presents a first exploration into disaster para-diplomacy for sub-national island territories, conceptualizing the notion and its actual execution. Following a brief theoretical background, an overview of the legal parameters and actual practices is provided by means of case studies in island disaster para-diplomacy drawn from the Commonwealth. De facto instances of island disaster para-diplomacy occur, but opportunities for using it a…
Competent Professionals and Modern Methods
Little has been written about the formation of state medicine in early-twentieth-century Canada, particularly during the Depression era. Indeed, many historians and policy analysts have assumed that this was a time of stagnation and retrenchment in state health provision. To foster a more nuanced analysis of the formation of the Canadian medical state during the Depression decade, this article focuses on British Columbia and the public health ini…
Whose Body? Recent Historiography Relating to Women, Health and the Medical Profession
Mitchinson, Wendy The Nature of Their Bodies: Women and Their Doctors in Victorian Canada Vertinsky, Patricia A. The Eternally Wounded Woman: Women, Exercise, and Doctors in the Late Nineteenth Century Borst, Charlotte, G. Catching Babies: The Professionalization of Childbirth, 1870–1920 Apple, Rima, D. (ed.) Women, Health and Medicine in America: A Historical Handbook Rothman, Sheila Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Exp…
Working to align energy transitions and social equity
Recent academic evidence suggests that, in contrast to what is often thought, the introduction of renewable energy infrastructures often leads to negative, not positive, social equity outcomes. Against this background, this paper aims to develop and empirically illustrate an integrative framework for analysing the work – or ‘agency’ – exercised by actors operating within and across different global contexts to align renewable energy and social eq…
Linking the energy transition and economic development
Towards new configurations of urban energy governance in South Africa’s Renewable Energy Procurement Programme
Island disaster para-diplomacy in the Commonwealth
This paper presents a first exploration into disaster para-diplomacy for sub-national island territories, conceptualizing the notion and its actual execution. Following a brief theoretical background, an overview of the legal parameters and actual practices is provided by means of case studies in island disaster para-diplomacy drawn from the Commonwealth. De facto instances of island disaster para-diplomacy occur, but opportunities for using it a…
Sexuality, space, gender, and health
Research on sexual orientation and gender identities, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ), has been limited in health geography compared with other sub-fields of the discipline. The reasons for this gap include both the logistical limitations of data on sexual orientation and the historical dominance of visible, measurable infectious, and chronic disease outcomes in medical geography research. While medical geographers …
A systems approach to understanding the effect of Facebook use on the quality of interpersonal communication
Individual and contextual predictors of overweight or obesity among women in Uganda
Whose Body? Recent Historiography Relating to Women, Health and the Medical Profession
Mitchinson, Wendy The Nature of Their Bodies: Women and Their Doctors in Victorian Canada Vertinsky, Patricia A. The Eternally Wounded Woman: Women, Exercise, and Doctors in the Late Nineteenth Century Borst, Charlotte, G. Catching Babies: The Professionalization of Childbirth, 1870–1920 Apple, Rima, D. (ed.) Women, Health and Medicine in America: A Historical Handbook Rothman, Sheila Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Exp…
Competent Professionals and Modern Methods
Little has been written about the formation of state medicine in early-twentieth-century Canada, particularly during the Depression era. Indeed, many historians and policy analysts have assumed that this was a time of stagnation and retrenchment in state health provision. To foster a more nuanced analysis of the formation of the Canadian medical state during the Depression decade, this article focuses on British Columbia and the public health ini…
Island disaster para-diplomacy in the Commonwealth
This paper presents a first exploration into disaster para-diplomacy for sub-national island territories, conceptualizing the notion and its actual execution. Following a brief theoretical background, an overview of the legal parameters and actual practices is provided by means of case studies in island disaster para-diplomacy drawn from the Commonwealth. De facto instances of island disaster para-diplomacy occur, but opportunities for using it a…
Linking public health agencies and hospitals for improved emergency preparedness
Public health epidemiologists effectively link public health agencies and hospitals to enhance syndromic surveillance, communicable disease management, and public health emergency preparedness and response. This comprehensive description of the program and its value to stakeholders, both in routine daily practice and in responding to a major public health emergency, can inform other states that may wish to establish a similar program as part of t…
A systems approach to understanding the effect of Facebook use on the quality of interpersonal communication
Towards new configurations of urban energy governance in South Africa’s Renewable Energy Procurement Programme
Equality Deferred
Sexuality, space, gender, and health
Research on sexual orientation and gender identities, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ), has been limited in health geography compared with other sub-fields of the discipline. The reasons for this gap include both the logistical limitations of data on sexual orientation and the historical dominance of visible, measurable infectious, and chronic disease outcomes in medical geography research. While medical geographers …
Alan Filewod, Committing Theatre
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Trends in smoking prevalence over time and space
A relational ethic of rural home support on two Gulf Island communities, 1978–2018
Substance use and sexuality
Previous research has found that sexual minority individuals are more likely than heterosexual individuals to engage in substance use behaviours such as the consumption of illicit drugs, heavy drinking and tobacco smoking. This study innovates by comparing the association of different measures of sexuality with substance use behaviours and exploring whether this association varies by place. We exploit multivariate multilevel models with sexual at…
Working to align energy transitions and social equity
Recent academic evidence suggests that, in contrast to what is often thought, the introduction of renewable energy infrastructures often leads to negative, not positive, social equity outcomes. Against this background, this paper aims to develop and empirically illustrate an integrative framework for analysing the work – or ‘agency’ – exercised by actors operating within and across different global contexts to align renewable energy and social eq…
Individual and contextual predictors of overweight or obesity among women in Uganda
Strange Journey
Linking the energy transition and economic development
Gestational diabetes mellitus and its impact on the mother-infant relationship
Women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) are at increased risk of poor perinatal mental health outcomes. However, the association between GDM and the mother-infant relationship is unclear. This study aimed to examine whether GDM itself impacts the mother-infant relationship and maternal mental health using a cohort study design. We used data from the Cohort of Newborns in Emilia-Romagna (CoNER) study, which included 642 women recruited in B…
Exploring the potential and limitations of deep learning and explainable AI for longitudinal life course analysis
These insights provide a foundation for future research applying DL and XAI to life course data, highlighting the challenges associated with sparse healthcare data, and the critical need for advancing interpretability frameworks in personalised public health
Professional Development and Workforce Issues of Activity Providers in UK Care Homes
Background and Aims: This scoping review explored the role of activity providers (APs), also known as activity coordinators, in care homes for older people, and focuses on workforce issues, resources and professional development of APs in the UK. An AP is a staff member of a care home who is typically responsible for implementing activities that meet the needs of residents. Engagement in meaningful activities in care homes for older adults plays …
Off-grid electricity imaginaries
Low-income households in South Africa’s rapidly urbanising cities often face significant challenges in accessing grid electricity. These challenges are illustrative of the limitations of conventional municipality-led grid expansion, and necessitate the exploration of alternative energy solutions that could reshape energy provision in these contexts. To better understand how such alternative solutions are envisioned and realised, this paper examin…
A synthesis of distributed energy resource impacts and regulatory responses with a focus on soft law
Political science (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Human sexuality (4 works)