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Julia Davies

Julia Davies is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is also director for The Centre for the Study of Literacies @ Sheffield which focuses on researching the impact of new technologies on literacy practices http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/education/research/group/csnl. She is an advocate for broadening the definition of literacy to incorporate the use of digital technologies in literacy education in England. In 2009, she co-wrote Web 2.0 for Schools: Learning and Social Participation with Guy Merchant from Sheffield Hallam University. She has edited two books about literacy and had numerous internationally available book chapters and articles published. She is co-editor of the Wiley Blackwell Literacy Journal

Education

Dr. Davies received her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Language Studies from the University of Leeds, UK, in 1981. She completed her Postgraduate Certificate in Education in Secondary English and Drama at the University of Sheffield in 1982. She studied for her Masters in Communication Studies at Sheffield City Polytechnic in 1987. She received her PhD. in 1999 from the University of Sheffield with her research focus on the underachievement of boys in relation to discourse styles.

Career

She began her teaching career in 1982 and worked at Valley Comprehensive School in Worksop as a teacher of English and Drama and then in 1984, became Head of English at Birley Comprehensive School in Sheffield. In 1994 she was appointed Lecturer at the University of Sheffield and from 2007 until present, she works as Senior Lecturer at the university.

Teaching

Dr. Davies has had a varied and successful teaching career to date. She has worked with secondary pupils, undergraduate, PGCE, Masters and Doctoral students and has designed an online Masters program in New Literacies. Her teaching has included international visits to universities in Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada and Malta. The focus throughout her teaching career has been her interest in Literacy in its broadest definition.

Sharing knowledge

Dr. Davies' contribution to the wider discourse in Literacy has resulted in her being invited to give keynote addresses to conferences including in England, Canada and the West Indies. She has also presented at conferences hosted by learned societies of which she is a member: the United Kingdom Literacy Association, the British Educational Research Association and the Gender and Education Association. She has played a key role in presenting literacy seminars funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, UK. In January 2013, she will lead a web seminar hosted by Global Conversations in Literacy Research. The title of the session will be(Im)Material Girls living in (I'm)material worlds: identity curation through time and space.

Personal information

Julia Davies is married with three adult children. She lives in Sheffield, UK.

Suggested Further Reading 

Book - in print

Davies, J and Merchant, G. (2009) Web 2.0 for Schools: Learning and Social Participation. New York: Peter Lang.

Edited Books in print

Davies, J. and Weinberger, J. (Eds.) (2000) The National Literacy Trust’s International Annotated Bibliography of Books about Literacy 1999-2000. Stoke on Trent: Trentham. 120 pages.

Gillen, J. Merchant, G., Marsh, J. and Davies, J. (Eds.) (2012) Virtual Literacies: Interactive Spaces for Children and Young People. London: Routledge.

Book chapters – in print

Davies, J. (2011) ‘Computer Mediated Communication’. In Companion to Discourse Analysis. Paltridge, B. (University of Sydney, Australia) and Hyland, K. (Institute of Education, London) (Eds.). Palgrave: London.

Davies, J. (2011) ‘Expressions of Gender: An Analysis of Pupils' Gendered Discourse Styles’. In Coates, J. and Pichler, P. (Eds.)  Language and Gender: A Reader. London: Routledge. Reprinted article from Discourse and Society. Vol.14 (2) pp115-132. Pp112 – 125.

Davies, J. (2009a) A space for play: crossing boundaries and learning online´ In Carrington and Robinson (eds.) Contentious Technologies: Digital Literacies, Social Learning and Classroom Practices. London: Sage.

Davies, J. and Merchant, G. (2009b) `Negotiating the blogosphere: narratives of the self onscreen´. In Carrington and Robinson (eds. ) Contentious Technologies: Digital Literacies, Social Learning and Classroom Practices. London: Sage.

Davies, J. (2009c) Online Connections, collaborations, chronicles and crossings´. In Marsh, J. Robinson, M. and Willett, R. (Eds.) Play, Creativity and Digital Cultures. London: Routledge. (Pp 108 - 124).

Davies, J. (2009d) `Keeping connected: textual selves, textual cohesion and online support networks´. In Thomas, N. (Ed). Children, Politics and Communication. London: Palgrave. (Pp 167 - 184).

Davies, J. (2008) `Pay and Display: The Digital Literacies of Online Shoppers´. In Lankshear, C. and Knobel, M. (Eds.) Digital Literacies: Concepts, Policies and Practices. New York: Peter Lang. (Pp227 - 248).

Davies, J. and Merchant, G. (2007a) `Looking from the inside out: academic blogging as new literacy´. In Lankshear, C. and Knobel, M. (Eds.) A New Literacies Sampler. New York: Peter Lang. (Pp 167 - 198).

Davies, J. and Pahl, K. (2007b), ‘Blending Voices, Blending learning: Lessons in pedagogy from a post-16 classroom’. In Closing The Gap. In Marsh, J. and Bearne, E. (Eds.) London: Sage. (Pp 118 - 138).

Davies, J. (2007c) `"Hello newbie! **big welcome hugs** hope u like it here as much as i do! " An exploration of teenagers´ informal on-line learning´. Reprinted in Mackey, M. (Ed.) Media Literacies: Major Themes in Education. London: Routledge). From Buckingham, D. and Willett, R. (Eds.) Digital Generations. New York: Lawrence Ehrlbaum. (Pp 211 – 228). (Reproduced in Mackey, M. (2007) Media Literacies: Major Themes in Education. London: Routledge.)

Davies, J. (2006a) `Escaping to the Borderlands: An exploration of the Internet as a cultural space for teenaged Wiccan girls´. In Pahl, K. and Rowsell, J. (Eds.) Travel Notes from the New Literacy Studies: Instances of Practice. Multilingual Matters. (Pp 57 – 71).

Davies, J. (2006b) `"Hello newbie! **big welcome hugs** hope u like it here as much as i do! " An exploration of teenagers´ informal on-line learning´. In Buckingham, D. and Willett, R. (Eds.) Digital Generations. New York: Lawrence Ehrlbaum. (Pp 211 – 228). (Reproduced in Mackey, M. (2007) Media Literacies: Major Themes in Education. London: Routledge.)

Davies, J. (2005) Nomads and Tribes: On line meaning-making and the Development of New Literacies. In J. Marsh and E. Millard (eds.) Popular Literacies, Childhood and Schooling. London: Routledge/Falmer. (Pp 160 – 175).

Davies, J. (2000) ‘Literacy Across the Curriculum’ in Millard, E. (Ed.) Enquiries into Literacy: Research papers from The Literacy Research centre at Sheffield, Sheffield: Sheffield Publications in Education. (Pp 99-115).

Davies, J. (1998) ‘Risk Takers and Safe-Betters: Boys and Girls’ Talk’ in Clarke, A. and Millard, E. (Eds.) Balancing the Books. London: Routledge. (Pp 11 – 26).

Refereed Journal Articles in print

Davies, J. (2013 forthcoming) ‘Trainee hairdressers’ uses of Facebook as a community of gendered literacy practice’. Pedagogy, Culture and Society. Davies, J. (2012) ‘Facework on Facebook as a new literacy practice’. Computers and Education. Vol 59 pp19 – 29. Davies, J. (2008) ‘Talking ‘bout a (digital) Revolution: New Literacies, New Practices for New Times’. Journal of Education and Development in the Caribbean. Vol. 10 No 1.

Davies, J. (2007) ‘Display; Identity and the Everyday: Self-presentation through online image sharing’. In Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education. Vol. 28, No. 4, December 2007, pp. 549_564. ISSN 0159-6306 (print)/ISSN 1469-3739 (online) /07/040549-16 (Not included in last RAE).

Davies, J. (2006) `Affinities and beyond!! Developing ways of seeing in online spaces´. In e-learning- Special Issue: Digital Interfaces. Vol.3 (2) pp217-234. Accessed at http://www.wwwords.co.uk/elea/.

Davies, J. (2005) `We know what we are taking about, don´t we? An examination of girls´ classroom-based learning allegiances´. In Linguistics and Education. Vol. 15 (3) pp 199-216.

Davies, J. (2004) Negotiating Femininities On-Line. In Gender and Education. Vol.16 (1) pp 35 – 49.

Davies, J. (2003) Expressions of Gender: An Analysis of Pupils' Gendered Discourse Styles. In Discourse and Society. Vol.14 (2) pp115-132.

Refereed Journals – in print - Reviews

Davies, J. (2006) Review of ‘Reading the Everyday’ by Joe Moran (2005) London: Routledge. In Discourse: Cultural Studies in Education. Vol. 27: 3 (pp 417 - 420).

Davies, J. (2006) Review of Children’s Literature and Computer based teaching  by Unsworth, L. Thomas, A., Simpson, A., and Asha, J.L. Open University Press: Buckingham. In English in Education. Autumn 2006. (Pp 83 – 86).

Davies, J. (2006) Review of Outside the Classroom: researching literacy with adult learners. By Fowler, E. and Mace J. (Eds.). NIACE: Leicester. In English in Education. Autumn 2006. (Pp 86 – 88).

Davies, J. (2005) Review of The Impact of ICT on Literacy Education. Edited by Richard Andrews (2005), London Routledge. Review in English in Education. Summer 2005. (Pp 96 – 99).

Davies, J. (2002) Review of Researching Children’s Popular Culture: The Cultural Spaces of Childhood. By Claudia Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh. Review in The Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Vol 3: 2. (Pp 208 – 211).

Davies, J. (2001) Review of Good Guys Don’t Wear hats. By Joseph Tobin (2000) New York: Teacher’s College press. In The Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Vol 1:1. (Pp123 – 126).

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