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Dr Zowie Davy

Job: Associate Professor

Faculty: Health and Life Sciences

School/department: School of Applied Social Sciences

̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ group(s): Centre for LGBTQ ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡

Address: ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡, The Gateway, Leicester LE1 9BH

T: 0116 257 7844

E: zowie.davy@dmu.ac.uk

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Personal profile

Transgender Studies, LGBTQI Studies, Social Theory, Aesthetics, Body, Sociology of Health, Social Movements, Phenomenology, Depathologization, Affect

̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ group affiliations

Centre for LGBTQ ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡, School of Applied Social Science

Publications and outputs

Davy, Z. (2023). Nomadic ethics versus adultism: Towards equitable healthcare futures. In J. A. Langarita, A. C. Santos, M. Montenegro, & M. Urek (Eds.), Child-friendly perspectives on gender and sexual diversity: Beyond adultcentrism. London: Routledge: pp.47-62.

Davy, Z., Benson, J., & Barras, A. (2022). Shared care and gender identity support in Primary Care: The perspectives and experiences of parents/carers of young trans people. Health. [Open Access]

 

Davy, Z. (2023). Affective trans relationships: Towards a Deleuzian approach to friendship theory. In A. C. Santos (Ed.), LGBTQ+ Intimacies in Southern Europe: Citizenship, Care and Choice (pp. 213-232). London: Palgrave Macmillan. [Open Access]

Jordan, A., Anitha, S., Jameson, J., & Davy, Z. (2022). Hierarchies of Masculinity and Lad Culture on Campus: Bad Guys, Good Guys and Complicit Men. Men and Masculinities. doi:10.1177/1097184x211064321 [Open Access]

Davy, Z. (2021). Sex/Gender and Self-Determination. Policy developments in law, medicine and pedagogical contexts. Bristol: Policy Press.

Davy, Z. (2020). Freedom Affects in Trans Erotica. In Z. Davy, A. C. Santos, C. Bertone, R. Thoresen, & S. E. Wieringa (Eds.), SAGE Handbook of Global Sexualities (Vol. 2, pp. 969-991). London: Sage.

Santos, A. C., Wieringa, S. E., Thoresen, R., Bertone, C., & Davy, Z. (2020). Editors' Introduction. In Z. Davy, A. C. Santos, C. Bertone, R. Thoresen, & W. S. E (Eds.), SAGE Handbook of Global Sexualities (Vol. 1, pp. 1-29). Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Davy, Z., Santos, A. C., Bertone, C., Thoresen, R., & Wieringa, S. E. (Eds.). (2020). SAGE Handbook of Global Sexualities (Vol. 1 & 2). London: Sage.

Anitha, S., Jordan, A., Jameson, J., & Davy, Z. (2020 online first). A Balancing Act: Agency and Constraints in University Students’ Understanding of and Responses to Sexual Violence in the Night-Time Economy. Violence Against Women. doi:10.1177/1077801220908325

Davy, Z., & Cordoba, S. (2020). School Cultures and Trans and Gender Diverse Children: Parents' Perspectives. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 16(4), 349-367.  doi:10.1080/1550428X.2019.1647810

Davy, Z. (2019). Genderqueer(ing): ‘on this side of the world against which it protests’. Sexualities, Special Edition: Trans Genealogies. 22(1-2), 80-96. doi:10.1177/1363460717740255

Davy, Z., & Toze, M. (2018). What Is Gender Dysphoria? A Critical Systematic Narrative Review. Transgender Health, 3(1), 159-169. doi:10.1089/trgh.2018.0014

Jordan, A., Anitha, S., Jameson, J. and Davy, Z (2018). Understanding student
responses to gender-based violence on campus: negotiation, reinscription and resistance. In Anitha, S. and Lewis, R. Gender Based Violence in University Communities: policies, prevention and educational initiatives. Bristol, Policy Press: 189-210.

Hines, S., Davy, Z., Monro, S., Motmans, J., Santos, A. C., & Van Der Ros, J. (2018). Introduction to the themed issue: Trans* policy, practice and lived experience within a European context. Critical Social Policy, 38(1), 5-12. doi:10.1177/0261018317732879

Davy, Z., Sørlie, A., & Suess Schwend, A. (2018). Democratising diagnoses? The role of the depathologisation perspective in constructing corporeal trans citizenship. Critical Social Policy, 38(1), 13-34. doi:10.1177/0261018317731716

Davy, Z. (2015). Facilitating LGBT Medical, Health and Social Care Content in Higher Education Teaching. Qualitative ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ in Education, 4(2), 134-162. doi:10.4471/qre.2015.1210

Davy, Z. (2015). The DSM 5 and the politics of diagnosing transpeople. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44(5), 1165-1176. doi:10.1007/s10508-015-0573-6

Davy, Z., Middlemass, J., & Siriwardena, A. N. (2015). Patients' and clinicians' experiences and perceptions of the primary care management of insomnia: qualitative study. Health Expectations, 18(5), 1371–1383. doi:10.1111/hex.12119

Davy, Z. (2015). Trans Intelligentsia: A Western Pictorial? TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, 2(4), 676-678. doi:10.1215/23289252-3151601

Siriwardena, A., Shaw, D., Essam, N., Togher, F., Davy, Z., Spaight, A., & Dewey, M. (2014). The effect of a national quality improvement collaborative on prehospital care for acute myocardial infarction and stroke in England. Implementation Science, 9(17), 1-9.

Davy, Z. (2013). Commentary on the construction of Gender Dysphoria at Classifying Sex: Debating DSM 5. Psychology of Women Review Section, Autumn: 63-67.

Togher, F. J., Davy, Z., & Siriwardena, A. N. (2013). Patients’ and ambulance service clinicians’ experiences of prehospital care for acute myocardial infarction and stroke: a qualitative study. Emergency Medicine Journal, 30(11), 942-948. doi:10.1136/emermed-2012-201507

Middlemass, J., Davy, Z., Cavanagh, K., Linehan, C., Morgan, K., Lawson, S., et al. (2012). Integrating online communities and social networks with computerised treatment for insomnia: qualitative study. British Journal of General Practice, 62(605), Avaialbale at  e840-850.  doi:https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp12X659321

Davy, Z and Steinbock, E. (2012). ‘Sexing it Up’: Notes towards Theorizing Trans Sexuality. In Hines, S. & Taylor, Y. (Eds), Sexualities: Past Reflections, Future Directions, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan: 266-285.

Davy, Z., Quinn, C., Togher, F., Wilson, H., and Siriwardena, A. N. (2012). Investigating qualitative and quantitative validity of PSYCHLOPS: a novel Patient Reported Outcome Measure in a pilot study of primary care management of insomnia. International Journal of Person Centered Medicine, 2(4), 845-852.

Davy, Z. & Siriwardena, A. N. (2012). To be or not to be LGBT in primary health care: health care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. British Journal of General Practice. 62(602), 491-492. doi:https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp12X654731

Davy, Z. (2011). The promise of intersectionality theory in primary care. Quality in Primary Care, 19(5), 279-281.

Davy, Z (2011). Recognizing Transsexuals: Personal, Political and Medicolegal Embodiment, Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing. (2012 Winner BSA’s Philip Abrams’ Memorial Prize).

Davy, Z. (2011). Crossing Sexual Boundaries: Transgender Journeys Uncharted Paths. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 40, 1065-1066.

Davy, Z., Siriwardena, A. N., and Togher, F., (2010). Education for Quality Improvement Projects for General Practice Registrars (EQuIP- GPR): Educational Intervention and Evaluation. Commissioned by East Midlands Deanery.

Kane, R. & Davy, Z. (2010). Evaluation of the Greta Ross sexual health clinic, Louth. Commissioned by NHS Lincolnshire.

Davy, Z. (2010). The Disabling Affects of a Sexed System: An Exploration of Intersexuality, Transgender and Sexual Citizenship. In Shuttleworth, R. & Sanders, T. (Eds), Sexuality & Disability: Politics, Identity, Access. Leeds, Disability Press: 179-195.

Davy, Z. (2010). Transsexual Agents: Negotiating Authenticity and Embodiment within the UK’s Medicolegal System. In Hines, S. & Sanger, T. (Eds) Transgender Identities: towards a social analysis of gender diversity. London, Routledge: 106-126.

Davy, Z. (2009). United Kingdom. In Stewart, C (Ed). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of LGBT Issues Worldwide Volume 2. Santa Barbara, Greenwood Press: 439-452.

Davy, Z., Downes, J., Eckert, L., Gerodetti, N., Llinares, D., & Santos, A. C. (Eds.). (2008). Bound and Unbound: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Genders and Sexualities, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Davy, Z. (2008). Bound to the Dual-Sex/Gender System: (Trans) Gendering and Body Modification as Narcissistic Self Regard. In Davy, Z., Llinares, D., Gerodetti, N., Santos, A. C., Downes, J., Ekert, L. (Eds). Bound and Unbound: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Genders and Sexualities. Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Press: 112-130.

̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ interests/expertise

The body, feminist theory, queer theory, phenomenology, human rights,Inequalities, LGBTQ, Sociology of Health, ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Methods

Areas of teaching

Dissertation Supervision (UG and PG)

Health and Wellbeing in Youth Work and Community Development

Health and Social ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Methods

Human Growth and Development

Inter-professional Education

̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ methods

Sociology of Health

Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights (Honorary Teaching Fellow, University of Coimbra, Portugal)

Qualifications

BA

MA

PhD

PGCE HE

Honours and awards

[Nov 2013] Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

[Oct 2012] Feminist Review Trust £300 Forthcoming Feminisms Conference Weetwood Hall, Leeds. This award has been granted annually (2012-2015) for events organized by the BSA Gender Study Group.

[Apr 2012] Winner, British Sociological Association Philip Abram’s Memorial Prize for Recognizing Transsexuals: Personal, Political and Medicolegal Embodiment. Ashgate.

[Aug 2011] BSA ECF development award: £300

[Oct 2010] Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness: £550. Award granted for Intersectionality: Theory and Practice for Quality Improvement in Healthcare. School of Health and Social Care Seminar Series 2010/11, University of Lincoln.

[Jun 2006] Roberts Money: £500 Award granted for Gender: The Next Generation, Conference University of Leeds.

[Jun 2006] Feminist Trust: £750 Award granted for Gender: The Next Generation, Conference, University of Leeds.

[2003 - 2007] Economic and Social ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Council, 1+3 Scholarship Award: University of Leeds.

Membership of external committees

International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society 2015 - 2018, Board of Directors

European Sociological Association Sexuality ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Network (RN23) 2015 - 2017, Co-Chair

Membership of professional associations and societies

British Sociological Association Gender Study Group Co-founder and Coordinator 2009 - 2015

British Sociological Association Member 2004 - present

European Sociological Association Member 2010 - present

Projects

Gender identity support in Primary Care: the perspectives and experiences of transgender young people (YP) and their families. In collaboration with Mermaids.

School Cultures and Gender Variant Children: Parents’ and Guardians’ Perspectives.

SAGE Handbook of Global Sexualities, Editors Davy, Z., Santos, A. N., Bertone, C., Thoresen, R. and Weiringa, S.

Conference attendance

 [Aug 2021] European Professional Association for Transgender Health: Reconnecting and Redefining Transgender Healthcare, Gothenburg. A Year+ in review (Keynote)  

[Jun 2021] ESA Sexuality Network, Seminar Series. Mapping Global Sexualities. The SAGE Handbook of Global Sexualities, book launch, Davy et al. (Invited Speakers)

[Jun 2021] Queering the Curriculum, University of Suffolk. Queering the Curriculum. (Invited Speaker)

[Feb 2019] Feminist Methodologies 2019, Loughborough University. Ì½»¨¾«Ñ¡ assemblages and epistemological commitments. (Invited Speaker)

[Oct 2018] Queering Friendship, INTIMATE Conference, Lisbon, Portugal. Gendered School Cultures as Limit-Situations: The Roles of friendship and Friends in Challenging Gender-Normativity.

[Jun 2018] Trans Health: Discourse, Power and Possibility. What is Gender Dysphoria? At least, in the Literature. Co-Presenting Michael Toze. University Of Leeds, UK.  (Invited Speaker)

[May 2018] Summer School 2018: The Good, the Bad and the Monster: Queers, Crips and (other) Misfits. University of Coimbra, Portugal. (Invited Speaker)

[Feb 2018] LGBT History Month, ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡. What are the Facilitators of and Barriers to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Medical, Health and  Social Care Teaching in Higher Education? (Invited Speaker)

 [Aug 2017] European Sociological Association, Athens. School Cultures: Trans and Gender Diverse Kids at School: Parents Perspectives.

[Jul 2017] Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil. ‘School Cultures: Parents of Trans and Gender Diverse Children Perspectives. (Vising Speaker Seminar)

[Jul 2017] Queer Studies: Looking Back, Looking Forward, (BSA). University of Surrey. ‘Genderqueer(ing): “on this side of the world against which it protests”’ (Keynote)

[Apr 2017] European Professional Association of Transgender Health, Belgrade. Gender Dysphoria: A Meta-Narrative Review.

[Feb 2017] History of Sexuality, Institute of Historical ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡, University of London. ‘Contesting linear health services for trans people: a genealogical approach.’ (Visiting Speaker Seminar)

[Feb 2017] DMU Pride, ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡. Trans Social Movements and Mental Health Issues. (Invited Speaker)

[May 2016] Transforming ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Practice: Towards ‘Best Practice’ in Transgender and Non-binary Inclusive Social ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡. University of Strathclyde. (Keynote)

[Mar 2015] European Professional Association of Transgender Health, Ghent. Democratizing Diagnoses: (Trans*)forming the DSM 5.

[Feb 2015] Equality is Not Enough, Brussels. The contestation of a linear model of health and psychiatric service provision for a heterogeneous trans community. (Invited Speaker)

[Jul 2014] XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Facing and Unequal World, Challenges for Global Sociology, Yokohama.  Bodily aesthetic affects in trans erotica: towards a wider ‘spectra of desire.’

[Jun 2014] ESRC Retheorizing Gender and Sexuality: The Emergence of ‘Trans’, University of Warwick, (Keynote). Kinsey’s Misused Legacy: Moving on from continuums.

[Apr 2014] British Sociological Association, Changing Society, University of Leeds. Special Event Panel: Changing Bodies Changing Society: Where are the bodies?: LGBT (dis)embodiment in health education, accreditation policies and teaching spaces.

[Mar 2013] Visiting Speaker Seminar, Department of Sociology, University of York: The Construction of Gender Dysphoria: Debating DSM-5.

[Sep 2013] European Sociological Association, Crisis, Critique and Change, Universita Delgi Studi di Torino. Changing healthcare practitioners’ and teachers’ views about Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Medical, Health and Social Care.

[Jul 2013] Classifying Sex: Debating DSM-5, University of Cambridge. (Invited Speaker) Will it make a difference or is it just semantics?: Diagnosing trans people in the DSM 5.

[Jun 2013] Recognizing Diversity?: Gender and Sexual Equalities In Principle and Practice, University of Leeds. (Invited Speaker) Recognition in the DSM V: Gender Dysphoria and the Semantics of Power.

[Apr 2013] Spotlight on Genderqueer, Warwick University, UK. (Keynote) Genderqueer(ing): ‘on this side of the world against which it protests’

[Dec 2012] Controversies and Confrontations: Violence and Agency, University Wien, Austria. (Invited Speaker) Differences in sexual development: Towards a phenomenological understanding of gender variance.

[Oct 2012] Medical Education Conference, University of Leeds. Facilitating LGBT Medical, Health and Social Care Content in Higher Education Teaching and Postgraduate General Practice Training.

[Dec 2011] Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Seminar Series, University of Leeds, UK (Invited Speaker). Erotic Images: towards new conceptualizations of trans sexualities.

[Jul 2011] IASSCS VIII, Madrid. ‘Sexing it Up: Towards New Conceptualizations of Trans-Sexuality.’

[Feb 2011] Visiting Speaker Seminar, University of Huddersfield, UK. ‘Suppressive Tropes: (mis)recognition of transsexuals’ agency.’

Recent research outputs

 

Key articles information

Davy, Z., Santos, A. C., Bertone, C., Thoresen, R., & Wieringa, S. E. (Eds.). (2020). SAGE Handbook of Global Sexualities (Vol. 1 & 2). London: Sage.

Davy, Z. (2021). Sex/Gender and Self-Determination. Policy developments in law, medicine and pedagogical contexts. Bristol: Policy Press.

Davy, Z. (2011). Recognizing Transsexuals: Personal, Political and Medicolegal Embodiment. Aldershot: Ashgate. Winner of the BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Proze 2012

Consultancy work

[Apr 2015] Post Graduate: Teaching, Social Construction of Genders and Sexualities in Health. University of Santa Catarina, Brazil.

[Sept 2013] Lincoln Hospital Trust, Transgender Employee Policy.

[Oct 2012] Swansea Hospital Trust, Transgender Employee Policy.             

[Aug 2010] Focus Group Training, East Midlands Ambulance service (EMAS).

[Oct 2008] ‘Wig Out’ Directed by Dominic Cooke, Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Sq. London.

Current research students

Alexus Martinez (California Institute for Integral Studies, US) External Committee Member: Non-Binary Subjectivities.

Sitira Williams (̽»¨¾«Ñ¡) Primary Supervisor: The lived experiences of parents of trans and gender expansive children's familial relationships: An Intersectionality Approach.

Paschal Gumadwong Bagonza (̽»¨¾«Ñ¡) Primary Supervisor: Queer Lenses: Lived and Embodied Experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans or queer Asylum Seekers and Refugees in United Kingdom. 

Externally funded research grants information

[Jun 2017-May 2019] British Academy: £6045. Davy, Z. (PI) Moretti-Pires, R (CO-I). Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Sex-Work Migration and Health Implication.

[Mar 2011-Feb 2012] East Midlands Health Innovation and Education Cluster (EMHIEC): £39,833. Siriwardena, A N, Kane R, Davy, Z Middlemass, J., Johnson, C., Fyall, A., Harrison, A. Improving Primary Care Resources for Effective Sleep Treatment (IPCREST).

Internally funded research project information

[Jan 2018-Jun 2018] School ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Funds: Ì½»¨¾«Ñ¡. £988. School Cultures Workshop for Leicestershire Health and Social Care Professionals.

[Feb 2017-Jan 2018] VC2020 Investment Fund: Ì½»¨¾«Ñ¡. £5000. School Cultures and Gender Variant Children: Parents’ and Guardians’ Perspectives.

[Jan 2017- Dec 2018] RIF: Ì½»¨¾«Ñ¡. £1000. Jaspal, R and Davy, Z. The experience of living with HIV among Trans Women: A Qualitative Study.

[Sept 2014-Jul 2017] PhD Studentship: Michael Toze, University of Lincoln. RIF2014S-19

[Oct 2013- Sep 2015] RIF: University of Lincoln. £45,948. Sundari, A, Davy, Z,             Walsh, A. Jordan, A and Jones, J. Stand Together: Challenging gender-based   violence through prevention education.

[Oct 2012-Sep 2013] College of Social Science Fund: University of Lincoln, £3000. Davy, Z. (PI), Amsler, S., Duncombe, K. Facilitating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Medical, Health and Social Care Content in Higher Education Teaching.

Professional esteem indicators

[2015-2018] International Consultant, Santos, A. C. INTIMATE - Citizenship, Care and Choice: The Micropolitics of Intimacy in Southern Europe, University of Coimbra. European ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Council Funded Project.

[2016 - Present] Associate Board: Sociology.

[2015 - Present] Board of Directors/Full member: International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (IASSCS). Scientific Coordinator Conference.

[2015 - Present] Scientific Coordinator (Social Science) European Professional Association of Transgender Health Conference.

[2013 - 2018] Editorial Board: Sociological ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Online.           

[2013 - Present] Vice-Chair/Member European Sociological Association Sexuality ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Network

[2011 - 2014] Co-Founder and Co-Convener: BSA Gender Study Group.

http://www.britsoc.co.uk/study-groups/gender.aspx

Case studies

[Apr 2017] DMU Trans and Non-Binary Staff and Student Policy

[Sept 2013] Lincoln Hospital Trust, Transgender Employee Policy.

[Oct 2012] Swansea Hospital Trust, Transgender Employee Policy.

̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Students Completed

Sebastian Cordoba (̽»¨¾«Ñ¡) Completion January 2020 - Exploring Non-binary Genders: Language and Identity.

Michael Toze (University of Lincoln) External Supervisor, Completion: February 2018 - Health and Social Care for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Older People in Primary Care