Dr Joanna Davies is a social epidemiologist and King’s Prize Fellow researching inequalities in palliative and end of life care. Her PhD investigated ‘Patterns and determinants of socioeconomic inequality in palliative and end-of-life care for older adults’ and was funded through a personal fellowship from the Dunhill Medical Trust.

Her research bridges the disciplines of sociology, public policy, data science, and palliative and end-of-life care. She has expertise in using routinely collected data and advanced statistical methods including analysing the accumulation and intersection of social determinants of health and in understanding causal pathways.

Joanna previously worked for the Social Disadvantage Research Centre at Oxford University on projects using and developing the Indices of Multiple Deprivation for England and Namibia. She has an MSc in Social Research Methods from the University of Bristol, and a BA in Criminology and Sociology from the University of Liverpool.

Joanna is a sitting member of KCL Council where she represents research staff across the university.

Research interests

• Inequalities in palliative and end of life care
• Use of routinely collected data to understand and improve palliative and end of life care
• Causal mediation analysis
• Moderation analysis for understanding intersectional risk factors
• Geographical analysis

Enquiring about potential PhD supervision

If you’re thinking of applying for one of our PhD programmes and are looking for potential supervisors, please email nmpc_pgr_enquiries@kcl.ac.uk listing the names of the supervisors you’ve identified as having expertise in your chosen area, along with your CV and a short research proposal. 

Our Postgraduate Research Team will contact supervisors on your behalf and get back to you. If you have any queries in the meantime, please use the email address above, rather than contacting potential PhD supervisors directly, because they are unable to respond to initial enquiries.

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