Chris Colvin

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

External links:
Full academic CV
Personal website 
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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. 

• 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

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.

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)