Stephen Boyd Davis is a member of the subpanel for Art and Design of the Higher Education Funding Council for England Research Excellence Framework, which evaluates research across the higher education sector. He is a member of the Peer Review College of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, and has also reviewed for the Medical Research Council, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, for journals including Universal Access in the Information Society (Springer) and Interacting with Computers (Elsevier), and conferences including Design Research Society, British Computer Society Human-Computer Interaction, Association for Computing Machinery Computer-Human Interaction and Experiential Knowledge Special Interest Group. He is on the editorial board of the Creative Industries Journal. He is frequently invited as adviser by a range of bodies, for example the Technology and Innovation Futures Project of the UK Government Office for Science, 2010; Leadership Perspectives on Technology and Art Research, University of North Texas, 2009; Digital Expert advising a British Library working group on changes in higher education research, 2007; consultancy to Skillset on Interactive Media, 2007.

He is a consultant on the design of chronographics such as timelines, advising specialist companies and the BBC.

Stephen’s work has been funded by Wellcome Trust, Leverhulme Trust, Economic and Social Research Council and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Collaborations have included BBC, BT, and Hewlett-Packard.