Dr Sam Davis

Casual Academic

College of Nursing and Health Sciences

+61 4 37811618
place Sturt West
GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE, SA, 5001

Dr Sam Davis is a Social Gerontologist and experienced researcher. Fellowships at the University of Aberdeen and the Trafford Centre for Medical Research, Sussex University preceded a position with the Centre for Gerontology, Keele University. In Australia, Sam has held positions with the Centre for Ageing Studies, Flinders University, the Centre for Applied Gerontology, Northern Health (Melbourne) and Monash University. Since 2010, she has been the course coordinator for the Applied Gerontology Postgraduate Program, Flinders University. Dr Davis has received more than four million dollars in funding over the past six years in the areas of rural ageing, enabling environments and improving dementia care. Her last project was the rollout of the Dementia Dynamics Toolkit to all Australian residential aged care homes, funded by the Department of Social Services, Encouraging Better Practice Initiative. In early 2019 she spent three months at the University of Worcester, UK, hosted by the Association of Dementia Studies, consulting on their development of online postgraduate degrees in Dementia Studies. Although now retired from a full time academic position, Dr Davis has full academic status with Flinders University and continues to be involved in research supervision, casual online teaching and developing topics in the Bachelor of Healthy Ageing as part of her ongoing contribution to the university .

Key responsibilities

Full academic status - Associate Professor

Teaching interests

Dementia care

Residential aged care

Culture change

Enabling environments

Silver Industries

Climate change

Topic lecturer
AGES3001 Contemporary Issues in Ageing Societies
AGES1002 Attitudes, Language & Communication Influencing the Experience of Ageing
AGES8020 Introduction to Social Gerontology
AGES3004 Ageing Enterprise & the Rise of Silver Industries
AGES2010 Age as an asset: Production Ageing
AGES2002 Enabling Environments for Older People
Expert for media contact
Ageing
Dementia
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Media expertise
  • Ageing
  • Dementia
Further information

Please note that the link to the Dementia Dynamics training no longer active but the manual introduction and sections are available as PDFs below:

COVER__INTRO (pdf)

SECTION_1 (pdf)

SECTION_2 (pdf)

SECTION_3 (pdf)

SECTION_4 (pdf)

SECTION_5 (pdf)

SECTION_6 (pdf)