Julia Davies, B.A., PGCE, Ph.D
Senior Lecturer
Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 8144
Fax: (+44) (0)114 279 6236
Email: j.a.davies@Sheffield.ac.uk
Room: 7.03
Research interests
Digital Literacies
Julia researches language and literacy in relation to digital text making practices. She investigates how people use technology to produce texts as part of their everyday-life, such as in social networking sites like facebook.com, flickr.com or Youtube, for example.. She looks at how individuals produce texts using a range of modes, such as pictures, emoticons, moving images, different fonts, specialised spelling and vocabulary. Julia considers how this affects the way we live our lives, see ourselves and communicate with each other. She explores how this all might affect how we conceptualise literacy and how literacy teaching could embrace `New Literacies´.
Online learning
Julia is investigating ways in which people learn in online spaces. As well as exploring learning within informal web 2.0 spaces, she also has an interest in the ways in which the processes in these spaces can be harnessed to influence learning and teaching in more formal spaces such as schools and universities. She is interested in the cultural and social implications of new literacy practices and the ways in which these impact on individual lives and identities.
Discourse Analysis and Multimodal Analysis
Julia is developing ways of analysing online communication, particularly in relation to teaching and learning which also takes account of non-linguistic features such as emoticons, textual layout, sound and moving image.
Teaching
Julia directs the online MA in New Literacies and the Literacy and Language route of the Education Doctorate programme. She also teaches on the MA in Educational Research and contributes to the MA in Education Policy and Practice, and the Initial Teacher Education English and Educational Professional Studies programmes.
Activities
- Research Committee member of the United Kingdom Literacy Association
- Co-editor of Literacy abstracts for Taylor and Francis journals (2004 – 2008)
- Reginal Representative of the United Kingdom Literacy Association (2005 – 2009)
- Reviewer for Discourse, Cultural Studies in Education; English in Education and The British Education Research Journal.
Publications
Davies, J. and Merchant, G. (2009) Web 2.0 for Schools: Learning and Social Participation. New York: Peter Lang.
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.
Davies, J (2007) `Display; Identity and the Everyday: self-presentation through digital image sharing.´ In: Discourse, Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 28:4
Davies, J. and Pahl, K. (2007) `Blending Voices, Blending learning: Lessons in pedagogy from a post-16 classroom´. In Literacy and Social Inclusion: Closing The Gap. In Bearne, E. and Marsh, J. (Eds.) London: Trentham.
Davies, J. and Merchant, G. (2007) `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. (10,000 words).
Davies, J. (2006) `Affinities and beyond!! Developing ways of seeing in online spaces´. In e-learning- Special Issue: Digital Interfaces. Vol.3 issue 2. Pages 217-234. Accessed online here.
Davies, J. (2004) Negotiating Femininities On-Line. In Gender and Education. Vol.16 Issue 1. Pages 35 – 49.
View a full list of Julia Davies’ publications
Recent Funded Projects
Evaluation of the Sheffield College English GCSE Online and Blended learning Courses; funded by the DfES. September 2005 – June 2007.
Evaluation of the Sheffield College/ Sheffield LEA `Literacy through Technology´ Project ; funded by
Sheffield LEA. February 2005 – July 2005.
Pathways to Success/ re-engagement through Work-related learning; (with Anne-Marie Bathmaker and Pam Cole); funded by European Objective One through Doncaster Local Authority. September 2004 – December 2006.
New ways of engaging new learners: lessons from round one of the practitioner-led research initiative; (with Kate Pahl); funded by the NRDC. March 2004 – October 2004.
Investigating gendered attitudes to school and learning; (with Training School Practitioners); funded by DfES/TDA. September 2003 – July 2007.
Research Students
Patrick Camilleri - A Study in the Interpretive Schemes of the Social Perception of Internet in the Maltese Information Society.
Nicci Hague – Gifted Children in the Early Years
Sara Hannam – The Role of English as Lingua Franca in the Balkans
Johan Jowallah – Critical Literacy in Secondary School English
Josephine Milton - Investigations into the impact of Primary School student teachers' language biographies on their use of English as L2 in the classroom
Becky Parry – Children and Children´s Films: What do children learn about narrative from their experiences of film?
Roberta Taylor – Multimodal Analysis of Children´s Communication
Miriam Teuma -
Albin Wallace - A comparison of children´s in school and out of school use of the internet: the coherence of the inchoate (EdD awarded 2009)
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