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Dr Emma Davies

BSc, MSc, PGDip PhD, PCTHE, FHEA

Reader in Psychology

School of Psychology, Social Work and Public Health

Emma Davies
Teaching and supervision
Research
Publications
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Teaching and supervision

Courses

Modules taught

  • Health Behaviour Change.
  • Health Behaviour Across the Lifespan.
  • Research Methods.
  • Psychology Projects.

Supervision

PhD students

  • Chris Blythe 2022 How do language, barriers, and motivations drive the development of urban food growing?
  • Josie Jacobs 2018 Developing a reslience intervention to promote thriving in parents of primary school children.
  • Natalie Wilde 2021-2024 The feasibility of CoMUni: a co-developed intervention to increase mental health help-seeking intentions in UK undergraduate students.
  • Fiona Matley 2018-2024 Using automatic processes to change drinking behaviour in midlife adults
  • Urvita Bhatia 2019-2025 Co-producing a prevention intervention for adolescent substance use. and misuse in a sports-based setting in India: A Formative Research Project.
  • Parvati Perman Howe 2016-2020 The effect of alcohol strength on alcohol consumption. 
  • Catherine Wheatley 2015-2018 Explaining Young Adolescents’ Physical Activity Decision-Making Using the Prototype Willingness Model of Health Behaviour. 

Research

Dr Emma Davies' research programme involves developing and evaluating theory based behaviour change interventions with a significant focus on alcohol and mental health. Emma's current strand of reseach focuses on the co-production of interventions for mid-life women who would like to drink less alcohol. Emma also leads the alcohol theme for the Global Drug Survey and has conducted research on the social and psychological factors involved in alcohol use, including intoxication, pleasures, regrets and alcohol's effects on wellbeing. Emma was a co-editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Psychological Perspectives on Alcohol Consumption. 

Research grants

  • Davies, E.L., Chigevenga, R. & Seddon, J. Oxford Brookes University Knowledge Exchange Grant. £11,242. Not just taking NoLo for the answer: developing a shared understanding of the benefits and drawbacks of recommending no and low (NoLo) products as alternatives to regular strength products for mid-life women who would like to drink less alcohol. Awarded January 2025.
  • Davies, E.L. & Cooke, R. Centre for Psychological Research Support Fund. £2530. The BAR-MAN study: exploring barriers to alcohol reduction in mid-life men. Awarded January 2025.
  • Seddon, J., Cormier, O. & Davies, E.L. Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) Mind Matters Mental Health Research Impact Grant. £15,000. Mental health, alcohol use behaviours and barriers to help seeking within UK veterinary practice. Awarded January 2025.
  • Davies, E.L., Seddon, J., Rose, A.K. & Watson, E. Medical Research Council Public Health Intervention Development - PHIND: £149,922. Development of the Storytelling Promoting Alcohol Choice, Empowerment, and Sharing (SPACES) intervention for alcohol reduction in mid-life women. Awarded May 2024.
  • Davies, E.L., Seddon, J., Liddiard, C. & Watson, E. Prevent Breast Cancer Grants Scheme: £29,772. Alcohol consumption and breast cancer: co-production of a behaviour change intervention to reduce risk in mid-life women, awarded January 2023.
  • Ehrlich, C., Davies, E.L., & Hennelly, S.E. (Oxford Brookes), Lennon, O., Beck, A., (Syndeo Ltd) Innovate UK Smart Grants/Northern Ireland Department for the Economy: £212,323. University wellbeing Artificial Intelligence, awarded August 2021.
  • Watson, E., Brett, J., Davies, E.L., Mcgeagh, L., & Matheson, L. Research Excellence Award 2021/2022: £19,994.62. Alcohol consumption following breast cancer diagnosis, awarded February 2021.
  • Davies EL, Brett, J. & Watson, E. Healthy Ageing and Care Network Research Competition: £6,931. Alcohol, Health, and Breast Cancer: Developing a messaging strategy, awarded December 2020.
  • Davies, E.L. Oxford Brookes University Research Excellence Awards 2020/2021: £12,000, awarded January 2020
  • Brett, J., Watson, E., Radley, A., Stoner, N., Davies, E.L., Foxcroft, D.R., Matley, F., & Jakes, S. Cancer Research UK Tobacco Advisory Group: £49,733.22. Community and Hospital Pharmacists and E-cigarettes, awarded June 2019.
  • Davies, E.L. Department of Psychology, Health and Professional Development Research Support Scheme: £3,000. Theoretical moderators of the impact of alcohol health information labels, awarded October 2018.
  • Brett, J., Watson, E., Aveyard, P., Wells, M., Nicholson, B., Foxcroft, D., Sinclair, L., Davies, E.L., De Silva-Minor, S., & Jakes., S. Cancer Research UK Tobacco Advisory Group: £44,582. Knowledge, attitudes and current practice of health professionals regarding the use of e-cigarettes and other smoking cessation interventions in cancer survivors, awarded January 2017.
  • Davies, E.L. Department of Psychology, Social Work & Public Health Research Award Scheme: £8,750. Pilot study to explore teachers' views about digital alcohol interventions for use in Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education, awarded December 2016.
  • Davies, E.L, Lonsdale, A. & Foxcroft, D.R. Oxford Brookes Oxford Brookes University Competitive Funding Call: £15,785. Alcohol related social embarrassment: A pilot trial to explore the feasibility and effectiveness of a novel intervention to reduce alcohol consumption in undergraduates, awarded May 2015.
  • Davies. E.L. Alcohol Research UK Small grant scheme: £4,930. A digital media intervention tool to reduce alcohol misuse in adolescents: programming and pilot work, awarded July 2014.
  • Carter, W., Davies, E.L. & Paltoglou, A.E., Oxford Brookes Team Teaching Fellowship Award: £15,000. Vertical Enhancement of Statistics and Psychology Research, awarded June 2014.
  • Davies, E.L, Martin, J. & Foxcroft, D.R. Alcohol Research UK Studentship: £21,000. Designing and testing an intervention to reduce alcohol misuse in young people based on the Prototype Willingness Model, awarded September 2010.

Centres and institutes

Groups

Projects

  • Edible Streets
  • A digital media intervention tool to reduce alcohol misuse in adolescents
  • Alcohol consumption following breast cancer diagnosis
  • Messaging strategies that communicate the link between alcohol and breast cancer in women aged 40-65

Projects as Principal Investigator, or Lead Academic if project is led by another Institution

  • Development of the Storytelling Promoting Alcohol Choice, Empowerment, and Sharing (SPACES) intervention for alcohol reduction in mid-life women (01/10/2024 - 31/12/2025), funded by: Medical Research Council (MRC)
  • Alcohol consumption and breast cancer: co-production of a behaviour change intervention to reduce risk in mid-life women. (01/03/2023 - 29/02/2024), funded by: Prevent Breast Cancer, funding amount received by Brookes: £29,772

Projects as Co-investigator

  • Mental health, Alcohol-use behaviours and Barriers to help seeking within UK Veterinary practice: The MAB-VET study(01/02/2025 - 30/09/2025), funded by: Royal Veterinary College, funded by: Royal Veterinary College

Publications

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