About
Tim Riswick is an Assistant Professor of Historical Demography at Radboud University, Nijmegen. He leads the COST Action network “The Great Leap: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Health Inequalities, 1800-2022” and is currently working on his Dutch Research Council Veni project, “Unravelling Health Inequalities: The Historical Roots of Inequality in Death and Disease in West-European Port Cities, 1850-1950.”
As researcher his expertise lies in comparative family history in East Asia and Western Europe from 1800 to 2000. His work examines the emergence of health inequalities in 19th and 20th-century societies, focusing on epidemics, cause-specific mortality, and hospital patients.
In his role as an educator, he teaches about global family history, historical demography, historical life courses, and life stories. He also contributes to interdisciplinary teaching modules, including Health Care Humanities.
Lastly, he actively contributes to the field of historical demography through various roles: he is a board member of the European Society of Historical Demography, Associate Editor of The History of the Family, and Chair of the IUSSP Panel on Epidemics and Contagious Diseases. Additionally, he serves on the board of Museum de Kantfabriek.
Research subjects
Cause-specific mortality
Medical History: Patients
Taiwanese Historical Demography
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📣 1st Call for Thematic Workshops (co-organised)
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To be able to have more impact GREATLEAP opens a Call for Thematic Workshop proposals to officially co-organise events. 🧵⬇️
📢 1st Call for Project Proposals Host Institutes
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To be able to have more impact GREATLEAP opens a Call for Proposals for Host Institutes to create a small project for a visiting scholar during their Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM). 🧵⬇️
Extremely happy to receive a Veni-grant from the Dutch Research Council to work on inequality in health (185-1950) in the next years!