Nick Davey graduated from Bedford College London in 1980 with a zoology BSc, studying neural control of breathing for his subsequent PhD at Imperial College. His contributions to the science of spinal cord injury developed from early post-doctoral work on gamma motoneurone activity. Subsequent clinical research at the National Spinal Injuries Centre, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, led to a position there as Honorary Research Physiologist. After moving to the Department of Physiology at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School (1988), he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in the Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine at Imperial College in 2002. He was widely published and his findings that repetitive magnetic stimuli can have a therapeutic effect in spinal cord injury generated Clinical Initiative funding from the International Spinal Cord Trust. He also sought to engage the public with science, working with partners like the BBC and the Science Museum.

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