CONTACTS
Contacts
Leadership
Dr Tim Riswick
Action Chair & Grant Holder Scientific Representative
Dr Tim Riswick
Action Chair & Grant Holder Scientific Representative
Tim Riswick is an assistant professor of Historical Demography who specializes in comparative family history in East Asia and Western Europe, 1800-2000. His research focus on how health inequalities arose in 19th century and 20th century societies by studying themes such as epidemics, cause-specific mortality, and hospital patients. Currently, he is affiliated with the project 'Lifting the burden of disease. The modernization of health in the Netherlands: Amsterdam 1845-1940', the SHIP+ network, and COST Action Chair of 'The Great Leap. Multidisciplinary approaches to health inequlities, 1800-2022'.
- Email:tim.riswick@ru.nl
Dr Ciara Breathnach
Action Vice-Chair
Dr Ciara Breathnach
Action Vice-Chair
Professor Ciara Breathnach is an expert in Irish social, cultural and health history. She has been Principal Investigator of four major research awards funded by the Irish Research Council. Over the past twenty years she has published widely on poverty and the social inequality of health in Ireland. Her recent monograph Ordinary lives, death and social class: Dublin City Coroner’s Court, 1876-1902 (Oxford University Press, 2022) was winner of the American Conference of Irish Studies, James S. Donnelly Sr. Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences in June 2023
- Phone:061202700
- Email:ciara.breathnach@ul.ie
Dr Marieke van Egeraat
Grant Holder Manager
Dr Marieke van Egeraat
Grant Holder Manager
Marieke van Egeraat is project coordinator for the Faculty of Arts at Radboud University. She is the Grant Holder Manager for The Great Leap and as such deals with the administrative side of the Action and helps in organizing the many events.
- Email:marieke.vanegeraat@ru.nl