Population structure, fertility and migration

Current and recent projects

	Migration, Mortality and Medicalisation: investigating the long-run epidemiological consequences of urbanisation How and when did towns and cities transform from urban graveyards into promoters of health between 1600 and 1945?
	Housing, mobility and the measurement of child health from the 1911 Irish census Did Belfast families who moved house most often suffer an infant and child mortality penalty, during the first decade of the twentieth century?
	The Demography of Early Modern London circa 1550 to 1750 In a rapidly expanding metropolis where population growth was driven by in-migration, how heavy was the mortality burden on Londoners' children, and what choices did they make when entering marriage and starting a family?
	Malthus and welfare revisited Did poor relief in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when payments were increased according to family size, encourage early and improvident marriage and thereby undermine the preventive check and lead to excessive population growth? Were there regional contrasts in population growth rates between areas that paid outdoor relief and those where welfare was provided in workhouses?