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Dr Roger Schofield FBA

Demography, Epidemiology and Health
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1988
Year of birth
1937
Year of death
2019
Subjects
Sociology
Sections
Sociology, Demography and Social Statistics
Website
http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/schofield/

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Director of Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure

1974 - 1994

Publications

The population history of England, 1541-1871 1981

Famine, disease and crisis mortality in early modern society Famine, disease and the social order in early modern society 1989

English population history from family reconstruction, 1580-1837 1997

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The micro-sociological perspectives of symbolic interactionism and Goffman's dramaturgy, applied to questions of self-identity, emotions, mental health and everyday life. Originator of the sociology of shyness and sociology of nothing

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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

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Professor Heather Joshi FBA

Interdisciplinary and international studies of residential mobility, neighbourhood, children's mental health; the co-development of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in children, and their consequences in adult life

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