NEWS & CALLS
Call for Registrations: Mentoring and
- GREATLEAP
- 12 February 2025
Join Us for a Mentoring & Networking Event in Leiden during the ESSHC! Are you looking to expand your academic network and gain valuable mentorship? We
Call for Papers: GREATLEAP Session
- GREATLEAP
- 12 February 2025
We invite submissions for a panel ‘Interpreting social inequalities of health from cause of death data, Europe (1850-1950)’ at the European Association for the History of
Call for Applications: Training Course
- GREATLEAP
- 17 December 2024
The recently launched ICD10h coding system is designed to support historical demographers and historians in coding historical causes of death. Widespread adoption of this system across
Calls from WG2 working groups
- GREATLEAP
- 17 December 2024
Working Group 2 has moved on the next stages of the work developing ICD10h. There are three strands to this work: Following an initial meeting, we
Call for Applications: MA Course
- GREATLEAP
- 09 December 2024
Are you a PhD or master’s student in economic and social history eager to work with historical records and data? GREATLEAP is has reserved a few
Call for Conference Grants: European
- GREATLEAP
- 05 December 2024
Are you presenting at the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) in one of the GREATLEAP sponsored session, but lack the financial means to cover travel
Call for Papers: GREATLEAP Sessions
- GREATLEAP
- 29 November 2024
We invite submissions for two exciting sessions we will propose for the upcoming European Society for Historical Demography (ESHD) Conference: 1. Unravelling inequalities in health using
Call for Registrations: Workshop and
- GREATLEAP
- 11 November 2024
As part of Working Group 3 ‘Creation Analytical tools: computational and visualization tools‘ of the COST Action ‘The Great Leap’, we will be hosting an in-person
Katarina Matthes receives SNSF COST
- GREATLEAP
- 08 November 2024
The SNSF COST Grant grant has been awarded to support a groundbreaking project in Switzerland titled “Socio-demographic inequalities in the causes of death in Switzerland 1877-2024”
Call for Papers 16th Conference
- GREATLEAP
- 17 October 2024
See the full call here. We encourage junior scholars to apply to the 16th Conference of Young Demographers (5-7 February in Prague): deadline 28 October 2024.
Call for Papers Special Issue:
- GREATLEAP
- 16 October 2024
Please download the full Call for Papers here. Since the 1800s, causes of death have been systematically recorded in various types of historical registries, including parish
Ingrid van Dijk receives ERC
- GREATLEAP
- 06 September 2024
Ingrid van Dijk, Associate senior lecturer at the Department of Economic History at LUSEM and researcher at the Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University, receives
Online Lecture Series ‘An Introduction
- GREATLEAP
- 30 August 2024
From October onwards we are organizing a Lecture series that will provide a introduction to studying inequalities in health using a long-term historical perspective and causes-of-death
Call for expression of interest
- GREATLEAP
- 07 August 2024
Working Group 2 is coordinating activities related to the standardization and coding of the causes of death into the ICD10h, and the development tools to classifying
Historical International Classification for Diseases
- GREATLEAP
- 07 August 2024
On Tuesday 27 July 2024 the Historical International Classification for Diseases (ICD10h) was launched, in which 76 scholars participated. Now all documents are available online: Alice
Article published by Katarina Matthes
- GREATLEAP
- 30 July 2024
Katarina Luise Matthes and@KasparStau Our members Katarina Luise Matthes and Kaspar Staub have published a short commentary ‘The Need to Analyse Historical Mortality Data to Understand
Tim Riswick receives NWO Veni
- GREATLEAP
- 28 July 2024
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a Veni grant to Tim Riswick for his project ‘Unravelling Health Inequalities. The Historical Roots of Inequality in Death
Maarten van Wijhe receives Sapere
- GREATLEAP
- 04 July 2024
Maarten van Wijhe is one of the 38 researchers to receive a Sapere Aude: DFF-Starting Grant this year. The project is called “Post-pandemic infectious disease landscapes:
1st Call for Project Proposals
- GREATLEAP
- 27 June 2024
Description 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
1st Call for Thematic Workshops
- GREATLEAP
- 27 June 2024
Description To be able to have more impact GREATLEAP opens a Call for Thematic Workshop proposals to officially co-organise events. This call is open for scholars
Call for Contributions: Special Issue
- GREATLEAP
- 27 June 2024
We are delighted to invite contributions for a special issue dedicated to exploring the patterns and causes of early child mortality (ages 1-4) across Europe during
GREATLEAP Kick-off: A Vibrant Start
- GREATLEAP
- 09 June 2024
Nijmegen, Netherlands, became a hub of excitement and intellectual synergy on May 2-3, 2024, as the COST Action project “The Great Leap: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Health
Interview with Tim Riswick, COST
- GREATLEAP
- 25 April 2024
‘I believe team science is the way forward’ – Dr Tim Riswick The first meeting for the COST Action programme, GREATLEAP, will be held on
Workshops IUSSP Panel
- GREATLEAP
- 14 March 2024
In collaboration with the IUSSP Panel Epidemics and Contagious Diseases: The Legacy of the Past three events are organized that are of interest to our Action’s
Call for Papers in ESSHC
- GREATLEAP
- 14 March 2024
The 15th European Social Science History Conference will take place 26-29 March 2025 in Leiden, the Netherlands. We are aiming for a session on ‘Changing diseases
Call for ITC Conference Grants
- GREATLEAP
- 14 March 2024
A call for ITC Conference Grants is from now open for the period April-September 2024. These grants are aimed at supporting young researchers – Early Career
Call for STSMs
- GREATLEAP
- 14 March 2024
The call for applications for Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) is now open for the period May-September 2024. An STSM comprises a visit by a young researcher
