Professor Richard Smith FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1991
- Subjects
- Geography, History, Sociology
Summary
My research and publications have focused on the history of marriage, principally in medieval Europe, peasant inheritance practices and customary law, welfare practices and their demographic correlates in medieval and early modern England and urban historical epidemiology. Much of this work has been undertaken while Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at Oxford University and Director of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. I currently hold a Senior Investigator Award from the Wellcome Trust (2014-2019) to undertake research on 'Migration, Mortality and Medicalization: investigating the long-run epidemiological consequences of urbanisation in England 1600-1939'.
Current post
Past appointments
University of Cambridge Emeritus Professor of Historical Demography and Geography
2011 -
University of Cambridge Director, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
1994 -
University of Oxford Reader in History of Medicine and Director of Wellcome Unit for History of Medicine
1990 - 1994
University of Oxford University Lecturer in Population History
1983 - 1989
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Deborah Mayo FBA
Philosophy of science, foundations of statistical and inductive inference; the epistemology of experiment and learning from error; interdisciplinary work on value-laden controversies in science and evidence policy
Professor Sir Roderick Floud FBA
Economic History. Anthropometric history. The economic history of British gardening
Professor Elizabeth Shove FBA
Social theories of practice; sociology of energy and mobility; infrastructures, technologies and everyday life; time and flexibility
