Rate My Professor Nathan Davies

Professor Nathan Davies is Centre Co-Lead and Professor of Ageing and Applied Health and Care Research in the Wolfson Institute of Population Health at Queen Mary University of London, having joined in 2024 after 13 years at University College London where he was Director of the Centre for Ageing Population Studies and Institutional Lead for the NIHR Research Support Service. He is Principal Investigator and Co-Director of the Alzheimer’s Society Doctoral Training Centre for Integrated Dementia Care (I-Care-DTC), a £3.4 million eight-year programme in partnership with the London School of Economics, Leeds Beckett University, University of Plymouth, and UCL, training 29 PhD students to become future dementia research leaders. Davies has secured over £37.5 million in research funding, including two postdoctoral fellowships, and authored more than 170 peer-reviewed publications. His research programme focuses on the complex needs of older people living with frailty, delirium, dementia, and other neurodegenerative conditions across five areas: managing clinical complexity including palliative and end-of-life care; communication and decision-making; intersection of community and hospital care; digital health and technology-enabled care; and co-production with applied qualitative methodologies. Equity, inclusion, and meaningful patient and public involvement are integral, with key outputs including a decision aid for family carers of people with dementia and a toolkit of rules-of-thumb for end-of-life care decisions that have been widely implemented in practice. Highly cited publications include "Internet-Based Interventions Aimed at Supporting Family Caregivers of People With Dementia: Systematic Review" (2018), "Factors influencing sexual and reproductive health of Muslim women: a systematic review" (2020), "Enteral tube feeding for people with severe dementia" (2021), and recent works such as "Key factors influencing post-diagnostic support and care planning for people with dementia from South Asian backgrounds: a systematic review of qualitative studies" (2026).

Davies serves as Qualitative Research Associate Editor for Age and Ageing and sits on national committees including the NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research Funding Committee, NIHR Three Schools Dementia Programme Commissioning Panel, and Marie Curie Research Funding Committee. He holds an Honorary Professorship at University College London and an honorary position at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.