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Prof Francis Davis, FRSM

Fellow, Visiting Fellow

Visiting Fellow

PhD (Warwick), MPA (Warwick Bus. Sch.), MSc (London SOAS), PG Cert (Southampton), BA (Durham)

Francis Davis is a social scientist whose work focuses on health, social care, civic participation and inclusive growth in complex settings with a particular interest in exploring and amplifying the voice of those excluded by background, disability, place/geography.  His 2020 study of the social protection challenges of elderly  Rwandan genocide survivors was the first of its kind. He also has interests in aspects of ‘radicalisms’, including ‘the Radical Right’, and the civic (mal) function of aspects of religion.

Professorial appointments and Professorial Fellowships have included Oxford, Birmingham, London, Roehampton and Lincoln Bishop Universities. He has also been a Fellow at the Helen Suzman Foundation in South Africa and is currently on the governing body of the Chaldean Catholic University of Erbil, Iraq which specialises in co-existence between communities after genocide.

In 2025 the UK Muslim Community Association gave him a national award for the educational empowerment of Muslims by a non Muslim.

Francis has held public and ministerial appointments – including at cabinet level – under three UK governments and led training and development projects for the FCDO, the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, and many INGOs.