Pamela is a qualitative researcher with expertise in health and well-being in organisations, technological and service innovation for health and well-being, ageing research, linguistic discourse analysis, co-creation methodologies. She is also a practising critical care nurse.
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Pamela harmonises her professional role as a nurse with her academic role as a qualitative researcher in health. She has extensive history of collaborative research, service evaluation and implementing best practice with health and social care providers in the NHS, GP, and community settings and with service users, nationally and internationally. She is highly innovative in participatory research and co-design methodologies, particularly related to technological and service innovation for the health and well-being of older people and minority ethnic groups. She has growing interest in innovative research for nurse education.
Pamela also has a background in sociolinguistic research, including linguistic discourse analysis and language variation and change. She has applied this training in the field of medical discourses, talk in organisations and cultural and migratory variation in the use of language.
Pamela welcomes opportunities to supervise doctoral students in the following areas:
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McVicar, A., Pettit, A., Knight-Davidson, P., Shaw-Flach, A., (2020), Promotion of professional quality of life through reducing fears of compassion and compassion fatigue: Application of the Compassionate Mind Model to Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (Health Visiting) training. Journal of Clinical Nursing (2021), 30: 101-112
Knight-Davidson, P., McVicar, A., and Lane, P., (2020) Methods for co-creating with older adults in living laboratories: a scoping review. Health and Technology (2020) 10 997-1009.
Pettit, A., McVicar, A., Knight-Davidson, P., and Shaw-Flach, A. (2018), Releasing latent compassion through an innovative compassion curriculum for Specialist Community Public Health Nurses. Journal of Advanced Nursing (2018) Vol 75 Issue 5, 1053-106
McVicar, A., and Knight-Davidson, P., Real-time evaluation of stress antecedents for students during their first adult-care practice placement and for newly qualified nurses working in critical care (2018) Sigma Theta Tau (SSTI) 4th Biennial European Conference 4th – 6th June 2018, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, https://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/pcu/event/stti-4th-biennial-european-conference.
Knight-Davidson P., Ethical considerations relating to conducting linguistic research in the UK National Health Service (NHS): How to make studies applicable to practitioners and of benefit to participations (2017) Conducting Communication Medicine and Ethics Conference, June 26-28th 2017, Indianapolis University, Purdue University, Indianapolis, USA.
Knight, P, (2002), London Jamaican in the speech of two subjects: Sociolinguistic Symposium 14, Gent, Belgium (2002)
April 2021, Oral presentation of living lab services: UK-Basque Country Healthy Ageing workshops – IV. Healthy Ageing workshop 22nd April – Mobility: Online, organised by the Department for International Trade.
March 2018, Oral presentation of living lab services for the Seas2 grow project: Palais des Académies - Academy Palace Hertogstraat 11000 Brussel, Belgium.