Contact details:
Tel.: +44 (0)20 7679 1966
Fax:  +44 (0)20 7916 1989
e-mail:  rosemary.davidson@ucl.ac.uk
Centre:  STICERD,  External

  Research interests:

• Family dynamics, parenting and social exclusion

• Regeneration of inner city neighbourhoods

• Media coverage of health issues and public health policy

• Health inequalities, social status and social capital

• Qualitative research methodology

 Selected publications:

• 'Funding research through directed programmes: AIDS and the human genome project in the UK' (with B Balmer and N Morris), Science and Public Policy, 25: 185-194, 1998

• 'More than 'just coping': The Antecedents and Dynamics of Resilience in a Qualitative Longitudinal Study' Social Policy & Society, 8:1, 115-125, 2009

• 'Radical blueprint for social change? Media representations of New Labour's policies on public health' (with K Hunt and J Kitzinger) Sociology of Health and Illness, 25(6): 532-552, 2003

• 'The wealthy get healthy, the poor get poorly? lay perceptions of health inequalities' (with J Kitzinger and K Hunt) Social Science and Medicine, 62: 2171-2182, 2006

• Location, location, location: The role of experience of disadvantage in lay perceptions of area inequalities in health (with R Mitchell and K Hunt) Health & Place, 14:167-81, 2008

 Other publications:  

•   Families’ and children’s experience of sport and informal activity in Olympic areas of the East End [CASEreport 35] , January 2007, Out of Print