Simon Szreter

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Simon Szreter is professor of history and public policy at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He is a specialist in demographic and social history, the history of empirical social science and the relationship between history and public policy issues.

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Career

In 2009 Szreter was awarded the Arthur J. Viseltear Prize by the American Public Health Association. [1] [2]

With Keith Breckenridge he edited Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History which was published by Oxford University Press and the British Academy in 2012 as part of the proceedings of the British Academy based on a workshop held in Cambridge in 2010. [3] [4] In 2019 he was the joint winner of the IPPR's Economics Prize. [5]

He is the co-founder of History and Policy, an international network of historians. [6]

Selected publications

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References

  1. "Professor Simon Szreter — Faculty of History". Hist.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  2. "Professor Simon Szreter - StJohns". Joh.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  3. Caplan, J. (28 August 2014). "Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History, ed. Keith Breckenridge and Simon Szreter". The English Historical Review. 129 (540): 1254–1256. doi:10.1093/ehr/ceu202 . Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  4. "A registration crisis? History and policy" (PDF). Britac.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  5. "The IPPR Economics Prize: The winners". Institute for Public Policy Research . 10 July 2019.
  6. Policy, History &. "History & Policy". Historyandpolicy.org. Retrieved 30 July 2018.{{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)