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I graduated with first-class honours in Modern History from the University of Oxford in 1984. I then followed a civil service career at the Department of Health and the European Commission, working on public health and service delivery policies. My increasing interest in the social history of medicine and demography motivated me to leave the civil service and study full time for a PhD in History at the University of Leeds.
My PhD thesis, supervised by the late Dr Katrina Honeyman and Dr John Chartres, was on the cultural causes of the fertility decline, based on a study of three Yorkshire towns: it was awarded in 2010. The thesis compares and contrasts Bradford, Leeds and Middlesbrough between 1860 and 1920. Relationships between culture, employment, and fertility were examined by studying differences in local cultures and local labour markets, including female and child employment. The thesis emphasised the impact of rising expectations about how a working-class family should live. Working-class parents pursued higher living standards, not to emulate the better-off but, for example, to give their children better lives than they had experienced. To make these goals achievable, they chose to have fewer children.
My first two articles were rated 3* and entered in the REF. I continue to publish regularly and in 2015 received an offer of a contract from Boydell & Brewer to publish my first monograph, in their respected series People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History. This should come out in 2018. I am a peer reviewer for Social History of Medicine (OUP), the demographic history journal Continuity and Change (CUP) and for the ESRC’s Secondary Data Analysis Initiative. I was the organizer of the joint Economic History Society/Social History Society conference on consumption and living standards in 2011, and of the Voluntary Action History Society’s 2013 International Conference.
In my time at Huddersfield I extended my expertise in quantitative methods, and was successful in promoting their use through an AHRC Collaborative Development Award which brought early career historical researchers together with acknowledged experts such as the Economic and Social Research Council’s John MacInnes for a seminar series. I have continued this activity by bringing Deborah Oxley to the 2015 Social History Society conference for a workshop which I organized. On moving to Lancaster I took on new quantitative techniques with the help of one of our Professors of Statistics, who assisted a project I ran to explore infant mortality using latent trajectory modelling and longitudinal analysis.
I worked on the European Research Council-funded Spatial Humanities project, which used digital tools to explore spatial patterns, analysing unstructured texts within a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) environment. I studied influences on infant mortality in nineteenth-century England and Wales, using GIS to examine patterns in Victorian statistics. I also used corpus linguistics to explore large corpora of digitised Victorian documents such as the mortality reports of William Farr and his successors at General Register Office, and geo-tagged titles from the British Library Nineteenth Century Newspapers collection.
At the University of Liverpool my current research concerns the recent history of England’s National Health Service, specifically health services research since 1988. From February 2017 I have been based at the University of Liverpool in the Department of Public Health and Policy (Institute of Psychology, Health and Society). The principal investigators on my new project are Professors Tom Walley (health services research) and Sally Sheard (history of medicine). I maintain an interest in the historical development of health inequalities in Britain, and in the history and efficacy of measures to reduce them.
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CJEMno. 5 (2024): 312-315
PLOS ONEno. 2 (2024)
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CJEMno. 4 (2024): 217-218
PLOS ONEno. 2 (2024)
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicineno. 7 (2024): 1-3
PloS oneno. 2 (2024): e0297084-e0297084
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicineno. 5 (2024): 1-2
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