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Collaborators

Collaborators

  • Professor Maria Ågren directs the Gender and Work in Sweden projects at the University of Uppsala. Amy Erickson serves on the advisory board and works with the Swedish project in the Leverhulme Network Producing Change: Gender and Work in Early Modern Europe.
  • Professor Gareth Austin (Cambridge) is co-organiser of the AFCHOS project which aims to emulate for sub-Saharan Africa, what the INCHOS project has achieved for Eurasia and North America.
  • Professor Anna Bellavitis, of the University of Rouen, directs the project Garzoni: Work, Apprenticeship and Society and collaborates with Amy Erickson on urban occupational structure in the Leverhulme Network Producing Change: Gender and Work in Early Modern Europe.
  • Professor Bob Bennet (Cambridge). Leigh Shaw-Taylor is CI on an ESRC project, Drivers of Entrepreneurship 1851-1911 in the Department of Geography (Cambridge)
  • Professor Dan Bogart, UCI Irvine, is collaborating with us on our transport project. Together we have created new GIS data on transportation networks, like ports, railways, canals, and roads. These data document the expanding opportunities for trade and travel in England and Wales from 1650 to 1911. Future work will focus on the movement of people and commodities and the diffusion of skills and technologies across space via transportation networks. Of special interest is whether transport fostered growth through the concentration of population and secondary employment.
  • Professor Stuart Brookes, and Professor Andrew Reynolds Institute of Archaeology, University College, London. We are collaborating with their project, Travel and communication in Anglo-Saxon England which has considerable thematic overlaps with our transport and towns projects but for a much earlier period.
  • Professor Mark Casson, Director of the Centre for Institutions and Economic History, University of Reading. We are working with Professor Casson on the impact of railway development in the nineteenth century.
  • Professor Ian Gregory, University of Lancaster. We plan to collaborate with Professor Gregory to extend our parish population datasets 1801-1911 down to the present.
  • Professor Murat Güvenç, Director İstanbul Studies Center, Kadir Has University, Istanbul. Professor Güvenç is working with us on a multiple correspondence analysis of our data.
  • Stephan Heblich, Department of Economics, University of Bristol. We have collaborated with Stephan Heblich on the creation of a number of datasets of mutual interest. Leigh Shaw-Taylor is also collaborating with Stephan Heblich and Alex Trew on an INET funded project, Transport Infrastructure, Long-Run Development, and Policy: Evidence from England and Wales, c.1817 to 2011, on the long run impact of transport infrastructure changes.
  • Erdem Kabadayi, Koc University, Istanbul. Leigh Shaw-Taylor is a partner in Kabadayi's ERC funded project, Industrialisation and Urban Growth from the mid-nineteenth century Ottoman Empire to Contemporary Turkey in a Comparative Perspective, 1850-2000
  • Professor Osamu Saito, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, is co-organiser of INCHOS. We are about to finish a book project on the evolution of occupational structure and economic development, which brings together the results of estimates for 18 countries and discusses the long-run changes in occupational structure in relation to the growth of per capita income. On this empirical basis, we will critically re-examine the long-held theoretical views about how sectoral development proceeded for the past several hundred years. Leigh Shaw-Taylor is also collaborating Osamu Saito ad Mark Thomas on an international project on historical input/output tables.
  • Professor Carmen Sarasua, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, collaborates with Amy Erickson in the Leverhulme Network Producing Change: Gender and Work in Early Modern Europe..
  • Dr Ariadne Schmidt, University of Leiden, directs the project Crime and gender 1600-1900: a comparative perspective and collaborates with Amy Erickson in examining labour migration in the Leverhulme Network Producing Change: Gender and Work in Early Modern Europe.
  • Professor Kevin Schurer, University of Leicester. We have collaborated with Professor Schurer by contributing boundary GIS data for the ICeM project and in refining and enhancing the ICeM datasets for England and Wales. In the future we hope to collaborate on refining and enhancing the ICeM datasets for Scotland.
  • Professor Alex Shepard, University of Glasgow, leads the Leverhulme Network Producing Change: Gender and Work in Early Modern Europe in which Amy Erickson collaborates, focussing on care work, both unpaid and paid.
  • Dr Judy Stephenson, Wadham College, Oxford, is collaborating with Amy Erickson in an article on female contractors in 18th-century London.
  • Alex Trew, Department of Economics, St Andrews University. Leigh Shaw-Taylor is collaborating with Stephan Heblich and Alex Trew on n INET funded project, Transport Infrastructure, Long-Run Development, and Policy: Evidence from England and Wales, c.1817 to 2011, on the long run impact of transport infrastructure changes. Trew (2017) has developed a quantitative model of spatial economic change and endogenous infrastructure formation over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. That paper shows that policies that bring infrastructure improvements forward can stimulate growth, but that the spatial distribution of that infrastructure matters significantly. Future work will look to incorporate both more recent periods and other geographies. The study of infrastructure policy and its long-run interaction with economic geography and growth is a key objective.
  • Professor Mark Thomas, Department of Economics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Leigh Shaw-Taylor is collaborating with Mark Thomas and Osamu Saito on an international project on historical input/output tables.
  • Professor Harry Wu, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. Professor Wu, who is writing our INCHOS chapter on China, plans to work with us on developing the theoretical implications of occupational structural changes arising from the INCHOS project, in which labour productivity and compensation are to be addressed as driving forces
  • We are also collaborating with 46 research groups around the world to produce commensurable datasets on historical occupational structure, all devised according to common standards and consistently coded to the PSTI coding scheme. Read details of these collaborations.