- Managing the Manage Processes (Co-investigator)
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Education: BA PhD (Durham) FBPsS John Davies is Director of the . The main research agendas are public health and human factors. In the area of public health, CASP has undertaken work for the Scottish Executive, the Chief Scientist's Office, numerous health boards and trusts, the Department of Employment, the WHO, the Social Work Services Directorate and many other organisations. The topics researched include alcohol and smoking, illicit drug use, health education, suicide, depression and prison work. In the area of human factors, there is an equally wide agenda. CASP works in close collaboration with Human Factors Analysts Limited (HFAL), a University spin-out company, which was founded to commercialise ideas developed within CASP. CASP/HFAL developed the CIRAS risk management system for the UK railways and the SECAS system for the UK nuclear industry. CASP/HFAL are also involved in Human Factors work for Rolls Royce, Unilever and British Aerospace. They are also involved in classified work under the Official Secrets Act. John Davies is also a member of the special Health Board, Quality Improvement Scotland, the NHS 24 Review Group and a number of other health-related committees. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Addiction Research & Theory journal. |
Research Grants
| 2005 | Scottish Executive. Smoking Prohibition. HEIM, S.D. and DAVIES, J.B. 12 months. £ 112,000.00 |
| 2004 | EPSRC Understanding and Managing the Management Process. 36 months (full time). Joint award with DMEM. DAVIES, J.B. and BITITCI, U. £ 420,000.00 |
| 2004 | Greater Glasgow Health Board. The Health and Well-Being of Two Minority Ethnic Communities in Greater Glasgow. HEIM, S.D. and DAVIES, J.B. £37,872.00. 1 March 2004 |
| 2004 | University Research & Development Fund. Metacognition of Depression in a Sample of Dysphoric & Non-Dysphoric Undergrads. HEIM, S.D. and DAVIES, J.B.£9,645.00. 1 July |
| 2003 | Greater Glasgow NHS Health Board and East Dumbartonshire Council. Review of Purchased Alcohol and Drug Services. £20,000. 1 October (HFAL) |
| 2003 | CIRAS Centre 4 National System. £850,000. 1 July 2003 (HFAL) |
| 2003 | CIRAS Current contract for Region One. £380,000. (HFAL) |
| 2002 | Greater Glasgow NHS Health Board. Summary review of Drinkwise and production of Exit Report. £15,000. 1 May (HFAL) |
| 2002 | Greater Glasgow NHS Health Board. Service Provision for the homeless with addiction problems. £49,000. 26 April (HFAL) |
| 2001 | NB Associates. Drug and Alcohol Use in Ethnic Minorities in Glasgow. £11,360. 1 November (HFAL) |
| 2001 | Research & Development Fund - Metacognition of Depression in a sample of Dysphoric and non-Dysphoric undergrads. 8 months (half-time) £9,645.00 |
| 2001 | Scotrail. SASSPAD Focus Groups. £5,000. 1 September (HFAL) |
| 2000 | Railtrack (safety and standards division). Set up and run a mandated national CIRAS System for the UK railways. £1.2 million . 1 June 2000 - 1 June 2001 ScotRail |
| 2001 | Virgin Trains. Further extension of existing CIRAS coverage. DAVIES, J.B. £28,000 . 1 Feb 00 - 31 Jan 2001 |
| 2001 | GT Rail Maintenance. Enrolment of staff in CIRAS programme. DAVIES, J.B. £45,000. 1 Mar 00 - 28 Feb 2001 |
Recent Publications
HEIM, D., SMALLWOOD, J. & DAVIES, J.B. (in press). Lay Perceptions of Depression: A vignette study. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory Research and Practice.
ROSS, A.J., HEIM, D., FLATLEY, K.J., DAVIES, J.B. & SUDBERY, M. (2005) An exploration of Street Drinking in Drumchapel, Scotland. Health Education Research, 20, 314-322
DAVIES, J.B., McCONNOCHIE, F., ROSS, A.J., HEIM, D. & WALLACE, B. (2004). Evidence for social learning in the self-presentation of alcohol problems. Alcohol & Alcoholism, 39:3, 220-226.
DAVIES, J.B. (2004). Time for a Paradigm Shift; Bring on the Physics Revolution. The Psychologist, 17:12, 692-693.
ROSS, A.J., DAVIES, J.B. & CLARKE, P. (2004)). Attributing to Positive and Negative Sporting Outcomes: A structural analysis. Athletic Insight, 6:3, 770-788
ROSS, A.J., BAKSHI, N., HEIM, D., DAVIES, J.B., FLATLEY, K.J. & HUNTER, S. (2004). Drug Issues Affecting the Pakistani, Indian and Chinese Communities in Greater Glasgow. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy 11(1): 49-65.
SMALLWOOD, J.M., DAVIES, J.B., COOPER, T., HEIM, D., FINNIGAN, F., SUDBErY, M., O'CONNOR, R.C., SUDBURY, M.V. & OBONSAWIN, M. (2004) Subjective Experience and the Attentional Lapse: Task engagement and disengagement during sustained attention. Consciousness & Cognition, 13, 657-690
HEIM, D., HUNTER, S.C., ROSS, A.J., BAKSHI N., DAVIES, J.B., FLATLEY, K.J. & MEER, N. (2004). Alcohol Consumption, Perceptions of Community Responses and Attitudes to Service Provision: Results from a survey of Indian, Chinese and Pakistani young people in Greater Glasgow, Scotland. Alcohol & Alcoholism.
ROSS, A.J., WALLACE, B. & DAVIES, J.B. (2004). Technical note: measurement issues in taxonomic reliability. Safety Science, 42:8, 771-778.
DAVIES, J.B., (2003). Why wear blinkers in a dark room for 100 years when it's a lovely day outside? New Directions in the Study of Alcohol 28: 61-70.
O'CONNOR, S.M., DAVIES, J.B., HEFFERNAN, D.D. & VAN EIJK, R. (2003). An Alternative Method for Predicting Attrition from an Alcohol Treatment Programme. Alcohol & Alcoholism 38(6): 568-573.
SMALLWOOD, J.M., DAVIES, J.B., HEIM, D., O'CONNOR, R.C., SUDBERY, M.V. & OBONSAWIN, M. (2003). Behavioural and Physiological Consequences of Task Unrelated Thought During Vigilance. Consciousness & Cognition 12, 169-189.
DAVIES JB (2003). Drugs, Crime and the Law: An attributional perspective. In D. Carson and R. Bull (Eds). Handbook of Psychology in Legal Contexts, Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons: UK pp 475-492.
DAVIES, J.B. (2003). What is Addiction? In W. Saunders and S. Helfgott (Eds) Perspectives on Addiction: Understanding the Issues. Taylor and Francis; London.
MACDONALD R, MITCHELL L, DILLON T, SERPELL M, DAVIES JB and ASHLEY E (2003). An Empirical Investigation of the Anxyiolitic and Pain-Reducing Effects of Music. Psychology of Music, 31(2); 187-203.
DAVIES, J.B., ROSS, A., WALLACE, B. & WRIGHT, L. (2003). Safety Management: A qualitative systems approach, Taylor & Francis: London.
WALLACE B, ROSS A & DAVIES JB (2003). Information Processing Models: Benefits and Limitations. In PT McCabe (ed) Contemporary Ergonomics 2003, Taylor & Francis: London, pp.543-548.
WALLACE, B., ROSS, A. & DAVIES, J.B. (2003). Applied Hermeneutics and Qualitative Safety Data: The CIRAS Project. Human Relations, 56(5): 587-607.
DAVIES, J.B., DRUCKER, E. & CAMERON, D. (2002). The Farmington Consensus: Guilt by Association. Addiction Research and Theory 10(4): 329-334.
WALLACE B, ROSS A, DAVIES JB & WRIGHT L (2002). Information, Arousal and Control in the UK Railway Industry. In A Thatcher, J Fisher and K Miller (eds). CYBERG, 3rd International Cyberspace Conference on Ergonomics. International Ergonomics Association Press: South Africa.
WALLACE, B., ROSS, A., DAVIES, J.B., WRIGHT, L. & WHITE, M. (2002). The creation of a new minor event coding system. Cognition, Technology and Work, 4; 1-8.
DAVIES, J.B. (2001). The Myth of Addiction. Journal of Cognitive Liberties, 11(2); 39-44.
HEIM D., DAVIES, J.B. CHEYNE, & SMALLWOOD, J. (2001). Addiction as a functional representation. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 11(1); 57-62.
WRIGHT, L., DAVIES J.B., COURTNEY, E. & REID, H. (2000). "CIRAS": collecting and analysing human factors data from the UK rail industry. In COTTAM, HARVEY, PAPE & TAIT (Eds) Foresight and Precaution. Balkema: Rotterdam, pp. 941-948 (ISBN 90 5809 140 6)
DAVIES, J.B. (2000). Young People and Drug Use. In P. Aggleton, J. Hurry & I. Warwick (Eds) Young People and Mental Health. Chichester: John Wiley.
MIDGLEY, S.J., HEATHER, N., BEST D., HENDERSON, D., McCARTHY, S. & DAVIES, J.B. (2000). Risk Behaviours for HIV and Hepatitis Infection among Anabolic-Androgen Steroid Users. AIDS Care, 12(2); 163-170.
DAVIES, J.B., WRIGHT, L.B. & COURTNEY, E.C. (2000). Confidential Incident Reporting on the UK Railways: the CIRAS System. Cognition, Technology & Work, 2; 117-125.
SHEWAN, D. & DAVIES, J.B. (Eds) Drugs in Prison. Reading: Harwood Academic Press (1999) (ISBN 90-5823-003-1).
WRIGHT, L. & DAVIES, J.B. (1998). ScotRail Benefiting from a Year of CIRAS. Railway Gazette International: Rail Business Report.
WRIGHT, L. & DAVIES, J.B. (1997). Setting up of a third party reporting system and human factors database with ScotRail. Conference Proceedings, International Disaster and Emergency Response, The Hague. Warminster: Andrich International. (ISBN 0 952 3721 6 9).
DAVIES, J.B. (1997). Drugspeak: the analysis of drug discourse. Reading: Harwood Academic Publishers (ISBN 90-5702-191-9)