Peter Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 80785 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8469-5203 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 72 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 158 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 69 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Embedding Multiperspective Reflections in Co‐Producing a Training Intervention for Care Home Staff: Understanding Group Members' Journeys and Impacts
BACKGROUND: Co-production can be used to develop research, resources or interventions that are relevant for the groups they are co-produced with. We co-produced a training intervention to improve personal care assistance for people with dementia living in care homes. We aimed to reflect on the process to learn more about the co-production journeys of all group members and impacts. METHODS: A co-production group comprised of five care home staff, …
Documenting Apartheid: A memoir of filming South Africa
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Flora of Turkey, Volume 3
Collecting and Preserving Fishes: A Historical Perspective
A variety of techniques have been used in collecting fishes for scientific purposes; most of these proved relatively successful, and despite the difficulties of travel and disease faced by early collectors, fishes formed a main component of many early collections. They were incorporated into well-known institutions throughout Europe and North America, and remain a major resource for today's taxonomists. However, it was the limited preservation an…
Heritage and Peacebuilding
Changing Perceptions of Nature
Exploring Reasons for Varying Support for the Status Quo among Ontario’s Moose Hunters
Strong public support for the status quo often occurs when wildlife managers propose changes to regulations and policies. We illustrated that this support is highly variable for three contexts (vague, general, and specific) that involved potentially more restrictive regulations for hunting moose (Alces alces) in northeastern Ontario, Canada. Status quo support was highest (88%) when hunters were questioned with a vague context (i.e., do you suppo…
Changing the balance of social care for older people: Simulating scenarios under demographic ageing in New Zealand
The demographic ageing of New Zealand society, as elsewhere in the developed world, has dramatically increased the proportion of older people (aged 65 years and over) in the population. This has major policy implications for the future organisation of social care. Our objective was to test the effects on social care use, first, of putative changes in the overall disability profile of older people, and second, of alterations to the balance of thei…
Determinants and disparities: A simulation approach to the case of child health care
The Role of The Ecomuseo Dei Terrazzamenti E Della Vite, (Cortemilia, Italy) in Community Development
One important reaction to globalization in the twenty-first century has been the democratization of culture and heritage. Local communities have increasingly attempted to recognise and conserve their heritage resources and use them to create sustainable economic development through ecotourism and cultural tourism. Ecomuseum philosophy and practical processes, although they originated in France, have been used in many countries to enable local res…
A collaborative approach to bridging the research-policy gap through the development of policy advice software
We have developed a software-based tool to support a dynamic micro-simulation model of life-course development (to age 13) as an aid to policy makers assessing the impact of policies affecting children. We demonstrate how this approach bridges the research-policy gap by creating: (1) an easy transfer of evidence in a form that policymakers can use (for example, ‘What is the policy influence of X on Y?’); and (2) a ‘pull’ system of knowledge trans…
The impact of an unconditional tax credit for families on self-rated health in adults: Further evidence from the cohort study of 6900 New Zealanders
Exhibition Reviews
Steampunk (Bradford Industrial Museum, UK) Framing India: Paris-Delhi-Bombay . . . (Centre Pompidou, Paris) E Tū Ake: Māori Standing Strong/Māori: leurs trésors ont une âme (Te Papa, Wellington, and Musée du quai Branly, Paris) The New American Art Galleries, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Scott's Last Expedition (Natural History Museum, London) Left-Wing Art, Right-Wing Art, Pure Art: New National Art (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw) Focus…
Modelling \"Marriage Markets\": A Population-Scale Implementation and Parameter Test
Choice mechanisms and social networks, including "marriage markets", seem well-suited to be modelled using agent-type simulations. Few real-world empirical examples are available in the public literature, particularly those using human populations of size. We reviewed partnership models in both the micro-simulation and agent-based literatures. We then empirically implemented an algorithm derived from two established models using inter-censal data…
The impact of in-work tax credit for families on self-rated health in adults: A cohort study of 6900 New Zealanders
BACKGROUND: In-work tax credit (IWTC) for families, a welfare-to-work policy intervention, may impact health status by improving income and employment. Most studies estimate that IWTCs in the USA and the UK have no effect on self-rated health (SRH) and several other health outcomes, but these estimates may be biased by confounding. The current study estimates the impact of one such IWTC intervention (called In-Work Tax Credit) on SRH in adults in…
Contributions to Competition Economics: Introduction
Journal Article Contributions to Competition Economics: Introduction Get access Peter Davis, Peter Davis University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Amelia Fletcher Amelia Fletcher University of East Anglia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 123, Issue 572, November 2013, Pages F493–F504, https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12090 Pub…
Developing capacity building: Reflections on Chicago's Field Museum, USA
This article explores one aspect of the debate concerning the role of museums in contemporary society. From dusty storage facilities for ancient artifacts that are considered important by a handful of scholars, museums have become “social agents” (Janes, 2009), able not only to assume social responsibility (Janes and Conaty 2005), but to trigger changes by developing capacity building (Anderson, 2011). This idea is an evolution and an active expr…
Critical Reflections on Safeguarding Culture: The Intangible Cultural Heritage and Museums Field School in Lamphun, Thailand
This article examines the educational approaches taken by the Intangible Cultural Heritage and Museums Field School in Lamphun, Thailand, organized by the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (SAC). Since 2009, the Field School, which takes place over a period of two weeks, has brought together fifty-five heritage professionals from throughout South East Asia to learn about intangible cultural heritage and its safeguarding. Through…
How Culture Shapes Nature: Reflections on Ecomuseum Practices
This paper describes the main characteristics of ecomuseums as a prelude to analyzing the ways in which they interpret the relationship between nature and culture. It appears that ecomuseums have the capability to interpret this relationship as a dynamic process. However, ecomuseum practices are not simply dedicated to conserving aspects of heritage, but also provide a system of norms and values that contribute to shaping habitus and where “geniu…
Information needs as perceived by caregivers and patients following stroke: A qualitative systematic review
Jamsim: A Microsimulation Modelling Policy Tool
JAMSIM (JAva MicroSIMulation) is an innovative synthesis of open source packages that provides an environment and set of features for the creation of dynamic discrete-time microsimulation models that are to be executed, manipulated and interrogated by non-technical, policy-oriented users. Combining the leading open source statistical package R and one of the foremost agent-based modelling (ABM) graphical tools Ascape, JAMSIM is available as an op…
Patterns of family doctor decision making in practice context. What are the implications for medical practice variation and social disparities
Making Sense of Place: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
The Co-operative movement and communities in Britain, 1914-1960: Minding their own business - By Nicole Robertson
Harvey established his reputation as a scholar with two pioneering volumes on the manor of Cuxham, Oxfordshire: his monograph on the agrarian economy of the manor, 1240-1400, published in 1965; and his 1976 edition of the Cuxham manorial accounts and court rolls in Merton College, Oxford, which acquired the manor.Most of Harvey's more recent work, however, has been in article form, for at heart he is a miniaturist and the article form suits him.I…
Parallel Realities: Exploring Poverty Dynamics Using Mixed Methods in Rural Bangladesh
This paper explores the implications of using two methodological approaches to study poverty dynamics in rural Bangladesh. Using data from a unique longitudinal study, we show how different methods lead to very different assessments of socio-economic mobility. We suggest five ways of reconciling these differences: considering assets in addition to expenditures, proximity to the poverty line, other aspects of well-being, household division, and qu…
The sociology of pharmaceuticals: Progress and Prospects
This paper takes a critical look at progress and prospects regarding the sociology of pharmaceuticals over the years. Key themes examined include: (i) medicalisation and pharmaceuticalisation; (ii) regulation; (iii) consumption and consumerism; (iv) expectations and innovation. Papers in the monograph are also introduced and discussed in relation to these themes. The paper concludes with some further comments and reflections on progress and prosp…
Translating research findings into health policy
Civil society, international donors and poverty in Bangladesh
The recent donor emphasis on building civil society in poor countries assumes that such support will benefit the poorest sections of these societies. It therefore presumes to be readily connected to the international agency goal of poverty eradication. Unfortunately, most foreign donors define civil society using a Western liberal framework, which in many development contexts understates both configurations of power within civil society and also …
Rethinking the Welfare Regime Approach: The Case of Bangladesh
This article examines the potential value added by using a ‘welfare regime approach’ to explore welfare provision in low-income countries. Although the study of welfare regimes has traditionally focused on the welfare states of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, it has recently extended its purview to include ‘emerging’ welfare regimes in middle- and low-income countries, where the welfare state is considered…
Patient responses to benzodiazepine medication: A Typology of Adaptive Repertoires Developed by Long‐term Users
Since the late 1970s there has been a marked decline in the prescribing of the benzodiazepines. Yet long‐term use of this drug persists despite widespread media condemnation and growing professional concern. The study seeks to illuminate this phenomenon by deploying qualitative methods to investigate the meaning that such medication has for the users themselves and their styles of management. In‐depth interviews were conducted with fifteen commun…
Ecomuseum Evaluation: Experiences in Piemonte and Liguria, Italy
The term ecomuseum has been applied to a wide range of projects that seek to conserve and interpret aspects of tangible and intangible heritage of a defined geographical territory. Ecomuseum theorists have assigned a number of characteristics to these organisations, including in situ conservation, fragmented site interpretation and a democratic, community‐based approach. However, there has been a tendency for the term to be applied casually—somet…
Health expectancy in New Zealand, 1981-1991: Social variations and trends in a period of rapid social and economic change
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To assess social variations and trends in health expectancy over a period of rapid social and economic change. DESIGN: Cross sectional survey data on the association between social status--gender, socioeconomic class and ethnic group--and measures of health status at two points in time approximately a decade apart. The Sullivan method of calculating health expectancy was used. SETTING: The adult population of New Zealand in the p…
Early sex and its behavioral consequences in New Zealand
A steady trend towards earlier sexual intercourse is now well documented. However, the relationship of this development to trends in other early sexual formative experiences has not been explored, nor has there been an analysis of the longer‐term behavioral consequences. The data examined in this paper were drawn from a two‐stage national survey of sexual lifestyles on a sample of 2,361 adult New Zealanders in the age range 18–54. Techniques of s…
Adaptation, Survival, and Growth of the Family Business: An Integrated Systems Perspective
Family ownership and control are still significant in the majority of business enterprises in the United States. A high percentage of these companies face special problems particularly related to corporate development and transition from an enterpreneurial to a professional management structure. The dual criteria for corporate membership (family and professional competence) require special management efforts. Without these efforts, organizational…
Compression, expansion, or dynamic equilibrium? The evolution of health expectancy in New Zealand
Study objective: To evaluate the New Zealand evidence for three theories of population health change: compression of morbidity, expansion of morbidity, and dynamic equilibrium. Design: Using the Sullivan method, repeated cross sectional survey information on functional limitation prevalence was combined with population mortality data and census information on the utilisation of institutional care to produce health expectancy indices for 1981 and …
Social class, ethnic group, and male mortality in New Zealand, 1974-8
Social class mortality differences in New Zealand males aged 15 to 64 were investigated for the period 1974-8 using the Registrar-General's classification. The mortality gradient was similar to that previously found in England and Wales, but the New Zealand pattern was non-linear with particularly high mortality in class V. Smoking patterns accounted for much of the increased risk for classes III and IV but did not appear to explain the high mort…
Ecomuseum Performance in Piemonte and Liguria, Italy: The Significance of Capital
Research carried out by the authors in northern Italy (see Corsane et al., ‘Ecomuseum Evaluation: Experiences in Piemonte and Liguria, Italy’, International Journal of Heritage Studies 13, no. 2 (2007): 101–16) was designed to assess how closely selected ecomuseums met the demands of ecomuseum theory. However, the discussions with ecomuseum personnel at five sites in Piemonte and Liguria also provided an opportunity to explore how these community…
Ecomuseums and the Democratisation of Japanese Museology
The idea of the 'integrated museum', a more socially inclusive form of cultural institution, was a key outcome from the UNESCO/ICOM 'Round Table of Santiago' in 1972. Many of the concepts embodied in this idea became part of ecomuseum philosophy and practice during the 1970s and 1980s, in particular the need to involve local communities and make museums more democratic. The ecomuseum has the potential to be a socially inclusive mechanism and is n…
Compliance structures and the delivery of health care: The case of dentistry
Changing the balance of social care for older people: Simulating scenarios under demographic ageing in New Zealand
The demographic ageing of New Zealand society, as elsewhere in the developed world, has dramatically increased the proportion of older people (aged 65 years and over) in the population. This has major policy implications for the future organisation of social care. Our objective was to test the effects on social care use, first, of putative changes in the overall disability profile of older people, and second, of alterations to the balance of thei…
The impact of an unconditional tax credit for families on self-rated health in adults: Further evidence from the cohort study of 6900 New Zealanders
The impact of in-work tax credit for families on self-rated health in adults: A cohort study of 6900 New Zealanders
BACKGROUND: In-work tax credit (IWTC) for families, a welfare-to-work policy intervention, may impact health status by improving income and employment. Most studies estimate that IWTCs in the USA and the UK have no effect on self-rated health (SRH) and several other health outcomes, but these estimates may be biased by confounding. The current study estimates the impact of one such IWTC intervention (called In-Work Tax Credit) on SRH in adults in…
Accounting for medical variation: The case of prescribing activity in a New Zealand general practice sample
Class Structuration and Patterns of Social Closure in Australia and New Zealand
On the basis of patterns of intergenerational mobility and class endogamy in Australia and New Zealand, we develop models of exchange between the generations. Data on intergenerational change in terms of social mobility (father-to-son mobility) and class endogamy (the social origins of spouses) reveal considerable stability in patterns of exchange in each country and across age cohorts. The analysis shows that, while considerable social interchan…
Health patterns in New Zealand: Class, ethnicity and the impact of economic development
Contextual Sex-Saliency and Sexual Activity: The Relative Effects of Family and Peer Group in the Sexual Socialization Process
Peter Davis, Contextual Sex-Saliency and Sexual Activity: The Relative Effects of Family and Peer Group in the Sexual Socialization Process, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Feb., 1974), pp. 196-202
The Role of The Ecomuseo Dei Terrazzamenti E Della Vite, (Cortemilia, Italy) in Community Development
One important reaction to globalization in the twenty-first century has been the democratization of culture and heritage. Local communities have increasingly attempted to recognise and conserve their heritage resources and use them to create sustainable economic development through ecotourism and cultural tourism. Ecomuseum philosophy and practical processes, although they originated in France, have been used in many countries to enable local res…
A collaborative approach to bridging the research-policy gap through the development of policy advice software
We have developed a software-based tool to support a dynamic micro-simulation model of life-course development (to age 13) as an aid to policy makers assessing the impact of policies affecting children. We demonstrate how this approach bridges the research-policy gap by creating: (1) an easy transfer of evidence in a form that policymakers can use (for example, ‘What is the policy influence of X on Y?’); and (2) a ‘pull’ system of knowledge trans…
Developing capacity building: Reflections on Chicago's Field Museum, USA
This article explores one aspect of the debate concerning the role of museums in contemporary society. From dusty storage facilities for ancient artifacts that are considered important by a handful of scholars, museums have become “social agents” (Janes, 2009), able not only to assume social responsibility (Janes and Conaty 2005), but to trigger changes by developing capacity building (Anderson, 2011). This idea is an evolution and an active expr…
Critical Reflections on Safeguarding Culture: The Intangible Cultural Heritage and Museums Field School in Lamphun, Thailand
This article examines the educational approaches taken by the Intangible Cultural Heritage and Museums Field School in Lamphun, Thailand, organized by the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (SAC). Since 2009, the Field School, which takes place over a period of two weeks, has brought together fifty-five heritage professionals from throughout South East Asia to learn about intangible cultural heritage and its safeguarding. Through…
Wake of the Great Sealers, by Farley Mowat
Contextual Sex-Saliency and Sexual Activity: The Relative Effects of Family and Peer Group in the Sexual Socialization Process
Peter Davis, Contextual Sex-Saliency and Sexual Activity: The Relative Effects of Family and Peer Group in the Sexual Socialization Process, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Feb., 1974), pp. 196-202
The Liberal Unionist Party and the Irish Policy of Lord Salisbury's Government, 1886–1892
In the House of Commons on 23 May 1892, following a speech by Joseph Chamberlain in qualified support of Balfour's Irish Local Government Bill, Tim Healy assailed ‘our Birmingham Diogenes’ with considerable warmth for the manner in which such support was habitually rendered: What happens is this. The Government bring in a Bill. Its proposals are attacked, and the Government gets into distress, and then of course ‘a friend in need is a friend inde…
Compliance structures and the delivery of health care: The case of dentistry
The social sciences and dentistry: Current influence and future opportunity
Culture, inequality and the pattern of dental care in New Zealand
Adaptation, Survival, and Growth of the Family Business: An Integrated Systems Perspective
Family ownership and control are still significant in the majority of business enterprises in the United States. A high percentage of these companies face special problems particularly related to corporate development and transition from an enterpreneurial to a professional management structure. The dual criteria for corporate membership (family and professional competence) require special management efforts. Without these efforts, organizational…
Middletown Revisited
Health patterns in New Zealand: Class, ethnicity and the impact of economic development
Social class, ethnic group, and male mortality in New Zealand, 1974-8
Social class mortality differences in New Zealand males aged 15 to 64 were investigated for the period 1974-8 using the Registrar-General's classification. The mortality gradient was similar to that previously found in England and Wales, but the New Zealand pattern was non-linear with particularly high mortality in class V. Smoking patterns accounted for much of the increased risk for classes III and IV but did not appear to explain the high mort…
Class Structuration and Patterns of Social Closure in Australia and New Zealand
On the basis of patterns of intergenerational mobility and class endogamy in Australia and New Zealand, we develop models of exchange between the generations. Data on intergenerational change in terms of social mobility (father-to-son mobility) and class endogamy (the social origins of spouses) reveal considerable stability in patterns of exchange in each country and across age cohorts. The analysis shows that, while considerable social interchan…
The Backhouses of Weardale, Co. Durham, and Sutton Court, Hereford: Their Botanical and Horticultural Interests
Accounting for medical variation: The case of prescribing activity in a New Zealand general practice sample
Patient responses to benzodiazepine medication: A Typology of Adaptive Repertoires Developed by Long‐term Users
Since the late 1970s there has been a marked decline in the prescribing of the benzodiazepines. Yet long‐term use of this drug persists despite widespread media condemnation and growing professional concern. The study seeks to illuminate this phenomenon by deploying qualitative methods to investigate the meaning that such medication has for the users themselves and their styles of management. In‐depth interviews were conducted with fifteen commun…
Translating research findings into health policy
Association of environmental tobacco smoke exposure with socioeconomic status in a population of 7725 New Zealanders
In this study population, ETS exposure was inversely associated with socioeconomic status. Greater ETS exposure might therefore contribute to the higher risks of disease and death among low socioeconomic groups. These results provide a further rationale for targeting tobacco control measures to people in low socioeconomic groups
Health expectancy in New Zealand, 1981-1991: Social variations and trends in a period of rapid social and economic change
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To assess social variations and trends in health expectancy over a period of rapid social and economic change. DESIGN: Cross sectional survey data on the association between social status--gender, socioeconomic class and ethnic group--and measures of health status at two points in time approximately a decade apart. The Sullivan method of calculating health expectancy was used. SETTING: The adult population of New Zealand in the p…
Early sex and its behavioral consequences in New Zealand
A steady trend towards earlier sexual intercourse is now well documented. However, the relationship of this development to trends in other early sexual formative experiences has not been explored, nor has there been an analysis of the longer‐term behavioral consequences. The data examined in this paper were drawn from a two‐stage national survey of sexual lifestyles on a sample of 2,361 adult New Zealanders in the age range 18–54. Techniques of s…
The “supply hypothesis” and medical practice variation in primary care: Testing economic and clinical models of inter-practitioner variation
Civil society, international donors and poverty in Bangladesh
The recent donor emphasis on building civil society in poor countries assumes that such support will benefit the poorest sections of these societies. It therefore presumes to be readily connected to the international agency goal of poverty eradication. Unfortunately, most foreign donors define civil society using a Western liberal framework, which in many development contexts understates both configurations of power within civil society and also …
Sills, Beverly
Singher, Martial (opera)
Rethinking the Welfare Regime Approach: The Case of Bangladesh
This article examines the potential value added by using a ‘welfare regime approach’ to explore welfare provision in low-income countries. Although the study of welfare regimes has traditionally focused on the welfare states of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, it has recently extended its purview to include ‘emerging’ welfare regimes in middle- and low-income countries, where the welfare state is considered…
Health policy: "Drawing on a "Global Laboratory
The Moral Life of Trees: Pastoral Farming and Production Forestry in Northern New Zealand
For the first time in the history of production forestry in northern New Zealand, forests are being planted on "good farmland." In this article we analyze conflicting narratives of sustainability in relation to this change, using concepts from Žižek (1993, 1997) and Hage (1998). We argue that forestry presents a threat to the identity of pastoral farmers as the backbone of the country, to their enjoyment of community, and to their sense of themse…
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