Personal statement
My research is concerned with various aspects of the social history of health and welfare since circa 1700. I have worked on a wide range of topics within this field, including work on the history of height, morbidity and mortality; unemployment and poverty; the relationship between statutory and voluntary welfare provision; and the origins and development of the British welfare state.
Prizes and awards
- International Conference on the History of Insurance in a Global Perspective Best Paper Award
- Recipient
- 22/7/2022
- Fellow of the Acdemy of Social Sciences
- Recipient
- 20/10/2016
- PROSE Award for Excellence in Economics (2011)
- Recipient
- 2011
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Qualifications
I was awarded a BA (Hons) in History by the University of Cambridge in 1983 and obtained my PhD (also in History) from Birkbeck College, London, in 1989.
I held a Temporary Lectureship in the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Bristol from 1987 to 1991, when I joined the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Southampton. I joined the School of Applied Social Sciences (now the School of Social Work and Social Policy) at the University of Strathclyde in September 2013.
Research interests
I am currently working on a number of different topics, including the following:
- Various issues associated with the use of anthropometric indicators to study the health and wellbeing of past populations
- The history of sickness and morbidity
- The impact of sanitary intervention on mortality decline (with Andrew Hinde, University of Southampton)
- The comparative history of social policy in the different parts of the UK and the English-speaking world
Professional activities
- Sanitary investment and the decline of mortality in England and Wales, 1817-1914
- Speaker
- 21/2/2018
- Evaluation Panel, Eudaimonia Institute, University of Oulu, Finland (Event)
- Advisor
- 25/10/2017
- International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
- Speaker
- 11/7/2017
- HEDG Workshop on Public interventions, health and population in history and 8th Annual Workshop on Growth, History and Development
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 15/6/2017
- PhD viva
- Examiner
- 26/5/2017
- Queen's University, Belfast, Economic History Seminar
- Invited speaker
- 23/3/2017
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Projects
- Border Crossings: Charity and voluntarism in Britain's mixed economy of health care since 1948
- Harris, Bernard (Principal Investigator) Harris, Bernard (Principal Investigator) Stewart, Ellen (Principal Investigator) Stewart, Ellen (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2024
- Border Crossings: Charity and voluntarism in Britain's mixed economy of health care since 1948
- Harris, Bernard (Principal Investigator) Harris, Bernard (Principal Investigator) Stewart, Ellen (Principal Investigator) Stewart, Ellen (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2024
- Gender and morbidity: Individual sickness trajectories of women and men in Sweden during the first half of the 20th century (supported by the Swedish Research Council)
- Harris, Bernard (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 30-Jan-2022
- Equally Safe in Higher and Further Education
- Harris, Bernard (Principal Investigator) McCarry, Melanie (Co-investigator) McGoldrick, Roisin (Co-investigator) Pilkington, Kevin (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2016 - 30-Jan-2019
- Scottish ESRC Doctoral Training Centre DTG 2011 | Rawcliffe, Sue
- Harris, Bernard (Principal Investigator) Rawcliffe, Sue (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2014 - 16-Jan-2019
- Scottish ESRC Doctoral Training Centre DTG 2011 | Robbin, Melvina Rachael Valrete
- MacIntyre, Gillian (Principal Investigator) Harris, Bernard (Co-investigator) Robbin, Melvina Rachael Valrete (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2013 - 16-Jan-2020
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