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People

The following full and affiliated members of Campop are currently working on census related projects:

  • Ms Sophy Arulanantham is the administrator for the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. She plays an administrative role on many projects, maintains the website and plays a key outreach role in our public engagement and educational projects.
  • Dr Eilidh Garrett started working with census data for her PhD on a nineteenth century textile community. She has been a Co-Investigator on many of these projects, and is currently working on Britain's First Demographic Transition.
  • Dr Hanna Jaadla has been a key member of both the Atlas of Victorian Fertility and the Britain's First Demographic Transition projects. She also works with historical Estonian census data.
  • Dr Alice Reid has been Principal Investigator on many of these projects, and is currently working on Britain's First Demographic Transition. She is also Co-Director of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.
  • Ms Sarah Rafferty is a PhD student in the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (Geography Department), examining infant mortality in London, 1870-1929. As part of this she is analysing the determinants of early child mortality using the 1911 census.
  • Dr Max Satchell is our resident GIS expert. He is currently working on creating a consistent census GIS for Scotland 1851-1901.
  • Professor Kevin Schürer has recently renewed his association with the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure after many years at the UK Data Archive and the University of Leicester. He was one of the Principal Investigators on the I-CeM project and therefore brings deep knowledge of the data used by many of these projects. He is currently a Co-I on Britain's First Demographic Transition.
  • Ms Joanne Wallace is a PhD student in the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (History Faculty), exploring migration and family structure using the census.
  • Dr Lee Williamson is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and is associated with Britain's First Demographic Transition.

The following people have previously worked on census-related projects listed here:

  • Miss Ros Davies was a key member of the Demography of Victorian Scotland project, with responsibility for data linkage.
  • Dr Joe Day used the 1881 census for his PhD on migration in England and Wales. He then worked on the Atlas of Victorian Fertility project before starting an ESRC New Investigator's grant on migration, urbanisation and wages over the second half of the nineteenth century. Having been at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure since the start of his PhD, he recently took up a lectureship in the Department of Geography at Bristol University.
  • Professor Eddy Higgs, University of Essex, was one of the Principal Investigators on the I-CeM project and was a Co-I on the Atlas of Victorian Fertility project.

Image credit: People from a poor area of Victorian Sheffield, date unknown. Reproduced by permission of Sheffield Libraries and Archives http://www.picturesheffield.com/