Dr Cristyn Davies
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Dr Cristyn Davies

PhD, B.A. (Hons. 1)
Senior Research Fellow
Specialty of Child and Adolescent Health
Sydney University Clinical School
Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW, Australia
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+61 2 9351 2222
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Dr Cristyn Davies

Publications

Books

  • Brady, A., Burns, K., Davies, C. (2018). Mediating sexual citizenship: Neoliberal subjectivities in television culture. Oxon: Routledge. [More Information]
  • Davies, C., Robinson, K. (2016). Working it out: An interactive resource for pre-service teachers, teachers and other professionals working with young people about homophobia and transphobia in schools. Melbourne: Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre.

Edited Books

  • Davies, C., Knox, S. (2014). Cultural Studies of Law. Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Robinson, K., Davies, C. (2012). Queer and Subjugated Knowledges: Generating Subversive Imaginaries. Sharjah: Bentham Science Publishers.
  • Robinson, K., Davies, C., Saltmarsh, S. (2012). Rethinking School Violence. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]

Book Chapters

  • Burns, K., Davies, C., Hayes, H. (2025). HPV vaccination, gender and schooling. In M. Winn & L. Winn (Eds.), Encyclopedia of social justice in education. In press: Bloomsbury.
  • Davies, C., Burns, K. (2024). Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and HPV Vaccine Literacy in Sexualities Education. In Mary Lou Rasmussen (Eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Sexuality Education. United States: Palgrave Macmillan Cham. [More Information]
  • Davies, C., Robinson, K., Kang, M. (2023). An Approach to Developing Shared Understandings of Consent with Young People. In Laurie James-Hawkins and Róisín Ryan-Flood (Eds.), Consent, (pp. 118-135). London: Routledge. [More Information]

Journals

  • McIndoe, L., Young, A., Davies, C., Vujovich-Dunn, C., Kean, S., Dives, M., Sheppeard, V. (2025). Provider Preference, Logistical Challenges, or Vaccine Hesitancy? Analyzing Parental Decision-Making in School Vaccination Programs: A Qualitative Study in Sydney, Australia. Vaccines, 13(1), 83. [More Information]
  • Klinner, C., Young, A., Strnadová, I., O'Neill, J., Newman, C., Wong, H., Davies, C., Vujovich-Dunn, C., Skinner, R., Brogan, D., Kang, M., et al (2025). Vaccinating Adolescents With Intellectual and Developmental Disability at School: An Opportunity to Promote Supported Decision Making. Journal of School Nursing. [More Information]
  • Davies, C., Baker, B., Berger, M., Knox, S., Mowbray, E., Stewart, B., Booy, R., Hacker, E., Marmol, E., Skinner, S., et al (2025). Vaccine microarray patch self-administration: A preliminary study in adults 50 years of age and over. Vaccine. [More Information]

Magazine / Newspaper Articles

  • Machalek, D., Davies, C. (2023). Australia’s HPV Vaccination Program: 15 years of success. HPV World.
  • Davies, C., Skinner, R. (2023). School-based vaccination is key to reducing HPV-related diseases. HPV World.
  • Skinner, R., Davies, C., Brotherton, J. (2020). Australia’s national HPV vaccination program. HPV World.

Report

  • Davies, C., Berger, M., Knox, S., Camenzind, E., Stewart, B., Skinner, R. (2022). Older adult study to evaluate the safety, performance, usability, and acceptability of skin application of a placebo excipient coated HDMAP technology intended for use in vaccinations.
  • Byron, P., Robinson, K., Davies, C., DSouza, S. (2021). LGBTQ+ young people, COVID-19, & service provision in Australia: A Twenty10 case study.
  • Robinson, K., Townley, C., Ullman, J., Denson, N., Davies, C., Bansel, P., Atkinson, M., Lambert, S. (2020). Advancing LGBTQ+ Safety and Inclusion: Understanding the lived experiences and health needs of sexuality and gender diverse people in Greater Western Sydney.

Reference Works

  • Davies, C., Burns, K. (2023). Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and HPV vaccine literacy in sexualities education. In Mary Lou Rasmussen (Eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Sexuality Education. (pp. 1-9). Online: Palgrave Macmillan Cham.

Other

  • Cooper, S., Davies, C. (2013), "Storks, Cabbage Patches, and the Birds and Bees - Our Broken Sex Education System", The Conversation, 30th January.
  • Davies, C., Knox, E. (2011), 'An easy alliance', Artistic Bedfellows: History & Discourse in Collaborative Art Practices, ed. by H. Crawford and L. Fellmann, New York: UPA/ Roman and Littlefield,108-115.
  • Davies, C. (2007), Review: Cultural Studies' Affective Voices. By Melissa Gregg, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Cultural Studies Review, 203-208.

2025

  • Burns, K., Davies, C., Hayes, H. (2025). HPV vaccination, gender and schooling. In M. Winn & L. Winn (Eds.), Encyclopedia of social justice in education. In press: Bloomsbury.
  • McIndoe, L., Young, A., Davies, C., Vujovich-Dunn, C., Kean, S., Dives, M., Sheppeard, V. (2025). Provider Preference, Logistical Challenges, or Vaccine Hesitancy? Analyzing Parental Decision-Making in School Vaccination Programs: A Qualitative Study in Sydney, Australia. Vaccines, 13(1), 83. [More Information]
  • Klinner, C., Young, A., Strnadová, I., O'Neill, J., Newman, C., Wong, H., Davies, C., Vujovich-Dunn, C., Skinner, R., Brogan, D., Kang, M., et al (2025). Vaccinating Adolescents With Intellectual and Developmental Disability at School: An Opportunity to Promote Supported Decision Making. Journal of School Nursing. [More Information]

2024

  • Berger, M., Davies, C., Mathieu, E., Shaban, R., Bag, S., Skinner, R. (2024). Developing and validating a scale to measure the perceptions of safety, usability and acceptability of microarray patches for vaccination: a study protocol. Therapeutic Advances in Vaccines and Immunotherapy, 11, 1-8. [More Information]
  • McIndoe, L., Young, A., Vujovich-Dunn, C., Sheppeard, V., Kean, S., Dives, M., Davies, C. (2024). Exploring Communication Barriers and Facilitators in School Vaccination: A Case Study in South Eastern Sydney, Australia. Vaccines, 12(11), 1243. [More Information]
  • Davies, C., Burns, K. (2024). Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and HPV Vaccine Literacy in Sexualities Education. In Mary Lou Rasmussen (Eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Sexuality Education. United States: Palgrave Macmillan Cham. [More Information]

2023

  • Swist, T., Collin, P., Lewis, J., Medlow, S., Williams, I., Davies, C., Steinbeck, K. (2023). A digital innovation typology: Navigating the complexity of emerging technologies to negotiate health systems research with young people. Digital Health, 9, 20552076231212286. [More Information]
  • Davies, C., Robinson, K., Kang, M. (2023). An Approach to Developing Shared Understandings of Consent with Young People. In Laurie James-Hawkins and Róisín Ryan-Flood (Eds.), Consent, (pp. 118-135). London: Routledge. [More Information]
  • Machalek, D., Davies, C. (2023). Australia’s HPV Vaccination Program: 15 years of success. HPV World.

2022

  • Davies, C., Rachel Skinner, S. (2022). Adolescent vaccination: The important role of GPs. Medicine Today, 23(3), 14-24.
  • Ussher, J., Power, R., Allison, K., Sperring, S., Parton, C., Perz, J., Davies, C., Hawkey, A., Robinson, K., Hickey, M., et al (2022). Erasure of identity or gender euphoria: the impact of cancer on trans embodiment. In Damien W. Riggs, Jane M. Ussher, Kerry H. Robinson, and Shoshana Rosenberg (Eds.), Trans Reproductive and Sexual Health: Justice, Embodiment and Agency, (pp. 116-136). London: Routledge.
  • Robinson, K., Davies, C., Ussher, J., Skinner, R. (2022). Holistic sexuality education and fertility counselling for trans children and young people. In Damien W. Riggs, Jane M. Ussher, Kerry H. Robinson, and Shoshana Rosenberg (Eds.), Trans Reproductive and Sexual Health: Justice, Embodiment and Agency, (pp. 98-115). London: Routledge. [More Information]

2021

  • Davies, C., Robinson, K., Metcalf, A., Ivory, K., Mooney-Somers, J., Race, K., Skinner, R. (2021). Australians of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities. In Tinashe Dune, Kim McLeod, Robyn Williams (Eds.), Culture, Diversity and Health in Australia, (pp. 213-231). Australia: Routledge. [More Information]
  • Davies, C., Marshall, H., Zimet, G., McCaffery, K., Brotherton, J., Kang, M., Garland, S., Kaldor, J., McGeechan, K., Skinner, R. (2021). Effect of adolescent education about the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine on Psychological outcomes: a cluster randomized controlled trial. JAMA Network Open, 4(11), e2129057. [More Information]
  • Lai, T., Davies, C., Robinson, K., Feldman, D., Elder, C., Cooper, C., Pang, K., McDougall, R. (2021). Effective fertility counselling for transgender adolescents: a qualitative study of clinician attitudes and practices. BMJ Open, 11(5), e043237. [More Information]

2020

  • Robinson, K., Townley, C., Ullman, J., Denson, N., Davies, C., Bansel, P., Atkinson, M., Lambert, S. (2020). Advancing LGBTQ+ Safety and Inclusion: Understanding the lived experiences and health needs of sexuality and gender diverse people in Greater Western Sydney.
  • Skinner, R., Davies, C., Brotherton, J. (2020). Australia’s national HPV vaccination program. HPV World.
  • Storr, R., Robinson, K., Davies, C., Nicholas, L., Collison, A. (2020). Game to Play? Exploring the Experiences and Attitudes Towards Sport, Exercise and Physical Activity Amongst Same Sex Attracted and Gender Diverse Young People.

2019

  • Robinson, K., Davies, C. (2019). A Sociological Exploration of Childhood Sexuality. In Lamb, S., & Gilbert, J. (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development: Childhood and Adolescence, (pp. 54-75). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]

2018

  • Robinson, K., Davies, C. (2018). A History of Constructions of Child and Youth Sexualities: Innocence, Vulnerability and the Construction of the Normative Citizen Subject. In Susan Talburt (Eds.), Youth Sexualities Volume 1: Public Feelings and Contemporary Cultural Politics, (pp. 3-29). Santa Barbara: Praeger.
  • Bailey, J., Davies, C., McCrossin, T., Kiernan, M., Skinner, R., Steinbeck, K., Mendis, K. (2018). Fit4YAMs: Structuring a Lifestyle Intervention for Rural Overweight and Obese Young Adult Males Using Participatory Design. Journal of Adolescent Health, 62(3S), S65-S71. [More Information]
  • Brady, A., Burns, K., Davies, C. (2018). Mediating sexual citizenship: Neoliberal subjectivities in television culture. Oxon: Routledge. [More Information]

2017

  • Davies, C., Skinner, R., Stoney, T., Marshall, H., Collins, J., Jones, J., Hutton, H., Parrella, A., Cooper, S., McGeechan, K., et al (2017). 'Is it like one of those infectious kind of things?' The importance of educating young people about HPV and HPV vaccination at school? Sex Education, 17(3), 256-275. [More Information]
  • Forster, A., McBride, K., Davies, C., Stoney, T., Marshall, H., McGeechan, K., Cooper, S., Skinner, R. (2017). Development and validation of measures to evaluate adolescents' knowledge about human papillomavirus (HPV), involvement in HPV vaccine decision-making, self-efficacy to receive the vaccine and fear and anxiety. Public Health, 147, 77-83. [More Information]
  • Davies, C. (2017). Introduction to volume 2, part 2. In P Aggleton (Eds.), Education and Sexualities: Major themes in education, (pp. 110-116). Abingdon: Routledge.

2016

  • Cooper, S., Davies, C., McBride, K., Blades, J., Stoney, T., Marshall, H., Skinner, R. (2016). Development of a human papillomavirus vaccination intervention for Australian adolescents. Health Education Journal, 75(5), 610-620. [More Information]
  • Davies, C., Skinner, R. (2016). Vaxxas Nanopatch First‐in‐Human Clinical Trial: A qualitative consultation to improve an understanding of the perception of the Nanopatch as a vaccine delivery modality.
  • Davies, C., Robinson, K. (2016). Working it out: An interactive resource for pre-service teachers, teachers and other professionals working with young people about homophobia and transphobia in schools. Melbourne: Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre.

2015

  • Robinson, K., Davies, C. (2015). Children's Gendered and Sexual Cultures: Desiring and Regulating Recognition through Life Markers of Marriage, Love and Relationships. In Emma Renold, Jessica Ringrose, R. Danielle Egan (Eds.), Children, Sexuality and Sexualization, (pp. 174-190). Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
  • Burns, K., Davies, C. (2015). Constructions of young women's health and wellbeing in neoliberal times: A case study of the HPV vaccination program in Australia. In Katie Wright, Julie McLeod (Eds.), Rethinking Youth Wellbeing: Critical Perspectives, (pp. 71-89). Singapore: Springer. [More Information]
  • Skinner, R., Davies, C., Cooper, S., Stoney, T., Marshall, H., Jones, J., Collins, J., Hutton, H., Parrella, A., Zimet, G., McCaffery, K., Leask, J., Kang, M., McGeechan, K., et al (2015). HPV.edu study protocol: A cluster randomised controlled evaluation of education, decisional support and logistical strategies in school-based human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination of adolescents. BMC Public Health, 15(1), 1-9. [More Information]

2014

  • Davies, C., Knox, S. (2014). Cultural Studies of Law. Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Robinson, K., Davies, C. (2014). Doing sexuality research with children and young people: Ethics, theory, methods and practice. Global Studies of Childhood, 4(4), 250-263. [More Information]
  • Davies, C., Burns, K. (2014). Mediating healthy female citizenship in the HPV vaccination campaigns. Feminist Media Studies, 14(5), 711-726. [More Information]

2013

  • Cooper, S., Davies, C. (2013), "Storks, Cabbage Patches, and the Birds and Bees - Our Broken Sex Education System", The Conversation, 30th January.
  • Davies, C. (2013). Constructing 'decency': Government subsidized cultural production during the culture wars. Cultural Studies, 27(1), 92-114. [More Information]
  • Davies, C., Burns, K. (2013). Imagining Queer Community in The L Word. In Dana Heller (Eds.), Loving the L Word: The Complete Series in Focus, (pp. 173-190). London: I.B. Tauris. [More Information]

2012

  • Davies, C. (2012). 'It's not at all chic to be denied your civil rights': Performing sexual citizenship in Holly Hughes's Preaching to the Perverted. Sexualities, 15(3-4), 277-296. [More Information]
  • Robinson, K., Davies, C., Saltmarsh, S. (2012). Conclusions: Rethinking School Violence: Implications for Theory, Policy and Practice. In C. Davies, K. Robinson and S. Saltmarsh (Eds.), Rethinking School Violence, (pp. 184-194). United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
  • Davies, C. (2012). Imagining Otherwise: Performance Art As Queer Time And Space. In Kerry H. Robinson, Cristyn Davies (Eds.), Queer and Subjugated Knowledges: Generating Subversive Imaginaries, (pp. 23-48). Sharjah: Bentham Science Publishers. [More Information]

2011

  • Davies, C., Knox, E. (2011), 'An easy alliance', Artistic Bedfellows: History & Discourse in Collaborative Art Practices, ed. by H. Crawford and L. Fellmann, New York: UPA/ Roman and Littlefield,108-115.
  • Madden, L., Davies, C. (2011). Rethinking inclusion: Reading for success. Every child : the magazine of the Australian Early Childhood Association, 17(3), 34-35.

2010

  • Davies, C., Robinson, K. (2010). Hatching Babies and Stork Deliveries: Risk and Regulation in the Construction of Children's Sexual Knowledge. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 11(3), 249-262. [More Information]
  • Saltmarsh, S., Davies, C. (2010). Risky Childhoods in Uncertain Times. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 11(3), 230-233. [More Information]
  • Robinson, K., Davies, C. (2010). Tomboys and Sissy Girls: Exploring Girls' Power, Agency and Female Relationships in Childhood Through the Memories of Women. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 35(1), 24-31.

2009

  • Burns, K., Davies, C. (2009). Producing Cosmopolitan Sexual Citizens on The L Word. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 13(2), 174-188. [More Information]

2008

  • Robinson, K., Davies, C. (2008). 'She's kickin' ass, that's what she's doing!': deconstructing childhood 'innocence' in media representations. Australian Feminist Studies, 23(57), 343-358. [More Information]
  • McInnes, D., Davies, C. (2008). Articulating Sissy Boy Queerness Within and Against Discourses of Tolerance and Pride. In S Driver (Eds.), Queer Youth Cultures, (pp. 105-121). New York: State University of New York Press.
  • Davies, C. (2008). Becoming Sissy. In Bronwyn Davies (Eds.), Judith Butler in Conversation: Analysing the Texts and Talk of Everyday Life, (pp. 117-133). New York: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis. [More Information]

2007

  • Davies, C., Robinson, K. (2007). Boy nerds, girls nerds: constituting and negotiating computing and information technologies and peer groups as gendered subjects in schooling. In Julieanne Lynch (Eds.), Gender and IT: ongoing challenges for computing and information technology in Australian secondary schools. Australia: Australian Curriculum Studies Association.
  • Davies, C., Knox, E. (2007). Disturbing the dialectics of the public toilet with the water closet. Hecate: an interdisciplinary journal of women's liberation, 33(2), 120-134.
  • Gannon, S., Davies, C. (2007). For Love of the Word: English Teaching, Affect and Writing. Changing English, 14(1), 87-98. [More Information]

2006

  • Davies, C. (2006), Review: Performance In America: Contemporary U.S Culture and the Performing Arts. By David Roman, Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2005.Australasian Journal of American Studies (AJAS), 25(2), 111-114.
  • Davies, C., Knox, E. (2006), ‘Holes in Our Maps: An Interview with Elizabeth Knox’ by Cristyn Davies’, HEAT, 11 (New Series), Sydney: Giramondo Press,123-135.

2005

  • Davies, C. (2005). Encountering Identity: Affect, Writing and the Feminist Scholar. MP Online, 1(2), 13-19.

2004

  • Davies, C. (2004). The poetics of Hip Hop: Elena Knox in dis Miss!. Southerly, 64(3), 117-129.

Selected Grants

2024

  • Improving health outcomes via the Australian Research Consortium for Trans Youth and Children (ARCTYC), Bista S, Pang K, Lin A, Skinner R, Perry Y, Davies C, Strauss P, Dutton M, Newman C, Mihalopoulos C, Simmons M, Zbukvic I, Wynne K, Anderson J, Cheung A, McKercher K, Lane R, Marino J, Donaghy O, Stathis S, Zwickl S, Byrne M, Tollit M, Bourne A, Knight K, Ravine A, Telfer M, Siafarikas A, Robinson K, O'Connell M, Coghill D, Russell D, Riggs D, Cabrera D, Cavve B, Moore J, Saunders L, Canty J, Furzer B, Cronin T, Pace C, Morgan H, Cooper M, Wiggins J, Crock P, Titmuss A, Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal - administered by NHMRC)/2023 Models of Care for Sexuality & Gender Diverse People,People w Innate Variations of Sex Charact.

2023

  • Phase 2 clinical study for a next-generation, needle-free COVID-19 vaccine - Vaxxas Pty Ltd, Skinner R, Davies C, Wood N, Department of Industry, Science and Resources/Cooperative Research Centre Project