Research and Pedagogy Projects at QUCEH
QUCEH hosts a number of large projects in business, economic, financial and social science history. Researchers at the centre have a particular strength in the study of how economic and financial institutions respond to changes in their technological and institutional environments. Their research places a strong emphasis on both historical and evolutionary approaches, but also one that contrasts how institutions vary across different social and regulatory environments within a given time frame. Researchers also have a particular interest in the economic history and political economy of Ireland.
Ongoing externally-funded research projects:
Measuring Business Performance in the UK (1900-1986)
This data project, funded by the Economic History Society, aims to collect historical accounting data of the Top 100 UK listed companies across the 20th century.
This data project, funded by the Economic History Society, aims to collect historical accounting data of the Top 100 UK listed companies across the 20th century.
The Rise of Corporate Titans: CEOs in the UK, 1900-2016
This research project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, aims to discover the characteristics and career paths of UK CEOs from 1900 to 2016.
This research project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, aims to discover the characteristics and career paths of UK CEOs from 1900 to 2016.
The Sterling Area Revisited: The Political Economy of International Economic Disintegration
This research project, funded by the ESRC, involves collecting a range of data on the Sterling Area.
This research project, funded by the ESRC, involves collecting a range of data on the Sterling Area.
The Causes and Consequences of the Great Irish Famine
This research project, funded by the ESRC, re-examines the Famine using the wealth of newly-digitised data sources and cutting-edge methodologies from the fields of econometrics and spatial statistics.
This research project, funded by the ESRC, re-examines the Famine using the wealth of newly-digitised data sources and cutting-edge methodologies from the fields of econometrics and spatial statistics.
What can prison inmates tell us about Ireland in the nineteenth century?
This project, funded by small grants from the Economic History Association, the University of Edinburgh and the Economic History Society, makes use of prison records to answer important questions in Irish social history and anthropometrics.
This project, funded by small grants from the Economic History Association, the University of Edinburgh and the Economic History Society, makes use of prison records to answer important questions in Irish social history and anthropometrics.
Completed externally-funded research projects:
Representation of the people: Franchise extension and the ‘Sinn Féin Election’ in Ireland, 1918
This study, funded by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust, assesses how changes in voting rights shaped the outcome of the 1918 election in Ireland.
This study, funded by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust, assesses how changes in voting rights shaped the outcome of the 1918 election in Ireland.
Corporate ownership and control in nineteenth-century Britain
This project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, determined quantitatively and comprehensively the extent of ownership diffuseness in the nineteenth century.
This project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, determined quantitatively and comprehensively the extent of ownership diffuseness in the nineteenth century.
The development of the British equity market, 1825-1870
This project, funded by the ESRC, constructed a comprehensive new dataset of British equity prices for the period 1825-70.
This project, funded by the ESRC, constructed a comprehensive new dataset of British equity prices for the period 1825-70.
Research networks and infrastructure:
Northern Ireland Productivity Forum
The Northern Ireland Productivity Forum is part of a network of regional productivity forums for the ESRC-funded Productivity Institute.
The Northern Ireland Productivity Forum is part of a network of regional productivity forums for the ESRC-funded Productivity Institute.
EURHISFIRM: Historical high-quality company-level data for Europe
This research project, funded by the EU Commission, involves collecting a range of firm-level data for countries across Europe.
This research project, funded by the EU Commission, involves collecting a range of firm-level data for countries across Europe.
Crime and conflict
An initial conference funded by the Economic History Society with the intention of establishing a network in the area of crime and conflict in economic history.
An initial conference funded by the Economic History Society with the intention of establishing a network in the area of crime and conflict in economic history.
Pedagogical research projects:
An Economist's Guide to Economic History
This textbook project aims to introduce the field of economic history to economics students and their educators.
This textbook project aims to introduce the field of economic history to economics students and their educators.