Simon Szreter is professor of history and

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at the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

and a fellow of

St John's College, Cambridge St John's College, formally the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge, is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded by the House of Tudor, Tudor matriarch L ...

. He is a specialist in demographic and social history, the history of empirical social science, and the relationship between history and public policy issues.

Career

In 2009, Szreter was awarded the Arthur J. Viseltear Prize by the

American Public Health Association The American Public Health Association (APHA) is a Washington, D.C.–based professional membership and advocacy organization for public health professionals in the United States. APHA is the largest professional organization of public health pr ...

. With Keith Breckenridge, he edited ''Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History'', which was published by

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world. Its first book was printed in Oxford in 1478, with the Press officially granted the legal right to print books ...

and the

British Academy The British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the sa ...

in 2012 as part of the proceedings of the British Academy based on a workshop held in Cambridge in 2010. In 2019, he was the joint winner of the IPPR's Economics Prize. He is the co-founder of History and Policy, an international network of historians.

Selected publications

* ''Fertility, class and gender in Britain 1860-1940 (Cambridge 1996) * ''Changing family size in England and Wales 1891-1911: place, class and demography'' (co-authored, Cambridge 2001) * ''Categories and contexts. Anthropological and Historical Studies in Critical Demography'' (co-edited, Oxford 2004) * ''Health and Wealth: Studies in History and Policy'' (Rochester University Press 2005) * ''Sex Before the Sexual Revolution: Intimate Life in England 1918-1963''. 2010. * ''Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History''.

& The British Academy, 2012. (Edited with Keith Breckenridge) (Proceedings of the British Academy)

References

External links

Professor Simon Szreter
Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
History and Policy website
Living people Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-historian-stub