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Particulars
Appointments:
Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics
Research Associate, Centre for Economic History (QUCEH)
Associate Fellow, Institute of Irish Studies
Leadership roles:
Director of Research Impact, Queen's Management School
Co-Director, Centre for Economic History (QUCEH)
Associate Director, Centre for Economics, Policy and History (CEPH)
Professional service:
Associate, The Economics Network
Editorial board member, Business History
Editorial board member, Economics Observatory
Editor, QUCEH Working Paper Series
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Research Focus
Chris Colvin combines economics and history to better understand the performance of firms, industries, economies and societies.
Chris is an expert on the interwar economy. His research addresses: the causes and consequences of banking crises; the formulation and implementation of monetary policy; the design and performance of cooperative organisations; famines, pandemics and sample selection; and the optimal design of patent systems.
Besides his disciplinary research, Chris is also very interested in pedagogical scholarship. He is particularly interested in ways of integrating economic history into economics teaching.
Chris has published in leading economic history field journals, such as The Journal of Economic History, The Economic History Review and Business History Review. He is a member of the editorial board of Business History.
Research Interests
- Economics: banking and financial institutions; cooperative enterprises; competition and innovation policy; macroeconomic policymaking process; economics of religion; demographic economics; anthropometrics
- History: economic history; financial history; business history; demographic history; penal and prison history; the Netherlands in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries; post-Famine Ireland; Spanish flu pandemic
- Pedagogy: curriculum and syllabus design; research-led teaching practices
Achievements
Chris holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Bristol, and an MSc and PhD in Economic History from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He also completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching at Queen's University Belfast. He is an Associate of the Economics Network, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Before joining Queen's in 2012, Chris was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence. He has spent time as a visiting fellow at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the University of California at Davis, and Utrecht University. In 2019 he was a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Amsterdam.
Teaching
Current teaching duties:
- ECO3020 Economic History (level-3 undergraduate economics module)
Current PhD students:
- Kyle Richmond (expected completion in 2025), as primary supervisor (second supervisors: Stephen Billington and Graham Brownlow)
- Pallavi Singh (expected completion in 2025), as second supervisor (primary supervisor: Michael Aldous)
- Paul Winfree (part-time; expected completion in 2024), as co-supervisor (with John Turner)
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An Economist's Guide to Economic History Without economic history, economics runs the risk of being too abstract or parochial, of failing to notice precedents, trends and cycles, of overlooking the long-run and thus misunderstanding ‘how we got here’. This edited volume demonstrates the power of historical thinking in economic research with a collection of 50 short chapters that guide economics lecturers and their students through the field of economic history. |
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Keywords
- HC Economic History and Conditions
- HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
- HG Finance
- DH Netherlands (The Low Countries)
- LB2361 Curriculum
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R7873MAE: Research Fellowship at Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS-KNAW)
23/01/2019 → 30/06/2019
Project: Research
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R8302MAE: What Can Prison Inmates Tell Us About Ireland in the Nineteenth Century?
01/08/2012 → 31/01/2023
Project: Research
Research output
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Going Dutch: monetary policy in the Netherlands during the interwar gold standard, 1925–1936
Fliers, P. T. & Colvin, C. L., 01 Aug 2022, In: Financial History Review. 29, 2, p. 121-151Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Death, Demography and the Denominator: Age-Adjusted Influenza-18 Mortality in Ireland
Colvin, C. L. & McLaughlin, E., May 2021, In: Economics and Human Biology. 41, p. 100984 22 p., 100984.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The origins of the (cooperative) species: Raiffeisen banking in the Netherlands, 1898–1909
Colvin, C. L., Henderson, S. & Turner, J., 01 Nov 2020, In: European Review of Economic History. 24, 4, p. 749-782 34 p., 782.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Organizational Determinants of Bank Resilience: Explaining the Performance of SME Banks in the Dutch Financial Crisis of the 1920s
Colvin, C. L., 07 Mar 2019, In: Business History Review. 92, 4 (Winter 2018), p. 661-690Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Cohort component population estimates for Ireland, 1911-1920: A new county-level dataset for use in historical demography
Colvin, C. L., McLaughlin, E. & Richmond, K. J. J., 2023, In: Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences. 7Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile11 Downloads (Pure)
Datasets
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Cohort component population estimates for Ireland, 1911-1920
Colvin, C. (Creator), McLaughlin, E. (Creator) & Richmond, K. (Creator), UK Data Service, 22 Jun 2021
DOI: 10.5255/UKDA-SN-854673, https://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/854673/
Dataset
Prizes
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Associate of the Economics Network
Colvin, Chris (Recipient), Sep 2019
Prize: Election to learned society
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Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Colvin, Chris (Recipient), Dec 2019
Prize: Election to learned society
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NIAS-KNAW Individual Fellowship
Colvin, Chris (Recipient), 15 Mar 2018
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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The Economics Network Best New Lecturer Award
Colvin, Chris (Recipient), 05 Sep 2013
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Arthur H. Cole Grant-in-Aid of Research
Colvin, Chris (Recipient), 2012
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Activities
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QMS Impact and Engagement Toolkit: Launch and Workshop
Ruth Flanagan (Invited speaker) & Chris Colvin (Advisor)
25 Jan 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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World Economic History Congress 2022
Chris Colvin (Presenter), Stephen Billington (Contributor) & Christopher Coyle (Contributor)
27 Jul 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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World Economic History Congress 2022
Chris Colvin (Contributor), Kyle Richmond (Contributor) & Eoin McLaughlin (Presenter)
25 Jul 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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ABH Conference: Turning Points and Persistent Problems
Philip Fliers (Presenter), Abe de Jong (Contributor), Florian Madetoner (Contributor) & Chris Colvin (Contributor)
01 Jul 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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European Historical Economics Society Conference
Chris Colvin (Speaker), Stephen Billington (Advisor) & Christopher Coyle (Advisor)
18 Jun 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Press/Media
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Op-ed about war, famine and Ukraine
Eoin McLaughlin, Chris Colvin & Matthias Blum
31/03/2022 → 08/06/2022
2 Media contributions
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Podcast interview about economic history
15/12/2020
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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Op-ed about Covid-19 mortality statistics in Ireland
Chris Colvin & Eoin McLaughlin
16/09/2020
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Non-technical summary of research on the Spanish flu
Chris Colvin & Eoin McLaughlin
19/06/2020
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Podcast about economic recovery following the Spanish flu and WW1
17/06/2020
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment