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Samantha Davies
Samantha Davies
is the Course Leader for the BSc in Public Health and Society (UK) and teaches on a number of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the UK and overseas. Sam began her professional career teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) and teaching English for speakers of other languages (ESOL), before becoming a qualified Community Educator in the early 90's. Since then she has worked as a Youth and Community Worker and Manager in both urban and rural settings; a Learning Mentor for the Excellence in Cities Initiative; a Study Support Officer and a Basic Skills Co-ordinator before being appointed by a Primary Care Trust for the first national post of Health Literacy Manager. In addition, she has been the Commissioning Lead for the Voluntary Sector and Child Poverty Officer for a local authority. Sam's research interests lie in investigating the structure-agency relationship; the reproduction of disadvantaged identities; Marxist and Critical Realist analyses; transformative pedagogy and participatory approaches. She was awarded her doctorate in 2014 from Leeds Metropolitan University. For her thesis she explored the value of transformative education for the working class.
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