Chris Colvin

Appointments:
Reader in Economic History, Department of Economics
Research Associate, Centre for Economic History (QUCEH) 
Associate Fellow, Institute of Irish Studies

Leadership roles:
Co-Director, Centre for Economic History (QUCEH)
Associate Director, Centre for Economics, Policy and History (CEPH)

Professional service:
Associate, The Economics Network
Co-Editor, Business History 
Editorial board member, Economics Observatory 
Editor, QUCEH Working Paper Series

External links:
Full academic CV
Personal website 
QUB Find an Expert profile

Chris Colvin combines economics and history to better understand the performance of firms, industries, economies and societies.

His research addresses: the causes and consequences of banking crises; the formulation and implementation of monetary policy; the design and performance of cooperative organisations; the economics of bankruptcy and liquidation; famines, pandemics and sample selection; the economic analysis of language; 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 and business history field journals, including The Journal of Economic History, The Economic History Review and Business History Review. He is a co-editor of Business History.

• Economics: banking and financial institutions; cooperative enterprises; business failure; patent system design; government policymaking processes; economics of religion; demographic change; anthropometrics
• History: economic history; business history; financial history; social science history; the interwar period; famines; pandemics; the Netherlands; Ireland
• 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:

• Malte Hinrichs, as co-supervisor (with Alan Fernihough)
• Yibin Liu, as co-supervisor (with John Turner)
• Kyle Richmond, as primary supervisor (second supervisors: Stephen Billington and Graham Brownlow)
• Pallavi Singh, as second supervisor (primary supervisor: Michael Aldous)