Alice M Reid

Biography

Career 1992-1995: Research Assistant at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, University of Cambridge 1995-1999: PhD University of Cambridge 1999-2003: Research Fellow at St John's College, University of Cambridge 2003-2014: Senior Research Associate, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, University of Cambridge 2014-present: Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge Qualifications BA University of Oxford MSc London School of Economics PhD University of Cambridge

Research Interest

My research has focussed on the social, economic, and environmental influences on infant, early child and maternal mortality, particularly over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using a wide variety of demographic, statistical and geographical techniques such as indirect demographic estimation, event history techniques, multivariate hazards modeling, logistic modeling and GIS analysis, I have made significant contributions to the understanding of the influences on mortality, the roles of health personnel and the creation and interpretation of data. My current research project aims to create new measures of age-specific fertility for small areas and socio-economic groupings in the UK over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century fertility decline. These will allow new insights into the social and spatial influences on changes in family building patterns and the mutation of behavioural norms.