Professor Sir Roderick Floud FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 2002
- Subjects
- History, Sociology
Summary
Roderick Floud is an economic historian of modern Britain who has been a pioneer in several fields. He was one of the first British historians to make use of computing and statistical methods and published the first textbook in that field. He worked with an international group to create "anthropometric history", the study of human heights and weights as a means of understanding changes in nutrition and living standards. His current research is into the economic history of British gardening. He has also edited four editions of The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain, the leading textbook in the field. Roderick was vice-chancellor for 18 years of what is now London Metropolitan University; he was President of Universities UK and Vice-President of the European University Association and was knighted for services to higher education. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences and of the Academia Europaea and holds a number of honorary doctorates and fellowships.
Current post
Former Provost, Gresham College, London
Past appointments
London Metropolitan University President Emeritus
2014 - 2017
University of London President Emeritus, London Metropolitan University; Provost Gresham College
2008 - 2014
Leeds Beckett University Vice-Chancellor
1988 -
London Metropolitan University President, London Metropolitan University
1988 - 2006
Birkbeck College University of London Professor of Modern History
1975 - 1988
University of Cambridge Lecturer in European History
1969 - 1975
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Nava Ashraf FBA
Development Economics, Psychology and Economics, Economics of the Household, Incentives and Organisations, and Social Impact.
Professor Robert A. Bickers FBA
The history of 19th and 20th century colonialism and global history, and in particular of the British empire and its relations with China and the history of Shanghai (1843-1950s) and Hong Kong; modern China, photography
