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Stephanie Davey

Doctoral Researcher

Stephanie Davey

Doctoral Researcher

Examines how parents evaluate childhood influenza vaccination and the behavioural factors that shape uptake.

VaccinationPublic healthParental decision-making
King’s College London stephanie.davey@kcl.ac.uk ORCID

Biography

Stephanie A. Davey is a PhD student in Health Psychology at King’s College London. Her programme of research explores the barriers and facilitators of influenza vaccination in children. Her main research interests include vaccination decision-making and health promotion and health communication, particularly on social media. She is involved in a number of projects including HPV vaccination uptake in boys, trust and COVID-19 vaccination in Ghana, and mentoring in health psychology. Stephanie is supervised by Dr Daniel Gaffiero (Director of studies), Dr Amelia Woodward, Professor James Elander and Dr Michael Head. Stephanie is a former Co-Chair of the Midlands Health Psychology Network, Co-Lead Comms for the Division of Health Psychology (DHP) and a committee member of the Health Psychology Trainee Network.

Research Interests

  • Vaccination
  • Public health
  • Parental decision-making

Selected publications

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01

Understanding vaccine hesitancy: The role of fear and message framing in COVID-19 vaccination intention in adults in the UK

Vaccine · November 2025

02

Towards Gender-Inclusive HPV Vaccination in England: Addressing Misconceptions and Missed Opportunities for Boys

Future – MDPI · November 2025

03

Understanding barriers to influenza vaccination among parents is important to improve vaccine uptake among children

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics · January 2025

Doctoral supervisors

Dr Daniel Gaffiero - Primary Supervisor

PhD Supervisor

Dr Michael Head - Second Supervisor

PhD Supervisor

Professor James Elander - Supervisor

PhD Supervisor

Dr Amelia Woodward - Supervisor

PhD Supervisor

Better understanding. Better decisions. Better health.