Idir Ouahes
Economics and Social History Alumni
PhD Researcher in Economic and Social History (ESRC +3)
College of Humanities, University of ExeterStart date: September 2011
Graduation date: October 2017
Research supervisors: Professor Henry French
Email: io212@exeter.ac.uk
Linda Henderson
Economics and Social History Alumni
PhD Researcher in Economic and Social History (ESRC 1+3)
College of Humanities, University of ExeterStart date: October 2018
Research topic: Class, Gender, and the Nature of Scientific Improvement – a case study of the Aylesbury Duck Industry 1820-1920 (PhD subject) “Feathering the Nest” – The Social and Economic Networks of the Aylesbury Duck Industry in the Nineteenth Century (MRes Dissertation)
My research will be investigating the notion of agricultural scientific improvement and progression, and how this is perceived and defined by gender and class.The Aylesbury Duck Industry will be used as a case study to explore these ideas in depth.
The MRes dissertation will focus on the social and economic networks of the Aylesbury Duck Industry in the 19th Century. This will involve exploring the trade connections between Buckinghamshire where the ducks were produced and the London markets of Smithfield and Leadenhall where the ducks were sold. The emphasis being on the lived experiences of women within all parts of the industry.
Research supervisors: Prof Henry French, Prof Jane Whittle
Professional memberships/Positions held:
Member of Economic History Society and British Agricultural History SocietyEmail: lh650@exeter.ac.uk
Dr Joanne Laban
Economics and Social History Alumni
PhD Researcher in Economic and Social history (ESRC +3)
College of Humanities, University of ExeterStart date: September 2011
Graduation date: December 2014
Research topic: The influence of culture on decision making under risk and uncertainty
Research supervisors: Professor Martin Thomas
Email: jl433@exeter.ac.uk
Dr Guy Solomon
Economics and Social History Alumni
PhD Researcher in Economic and Social History (ESRC 1+3)
College of Humanities, University of ExeterStart date: September 2014
Graduation date: January 2020
Research topic: The living standards of Tyneside coal miners during the Industrial Revolution
Email: gss208@exeter.ac.uk
Dr Josh Rhodes
Economics and Social History Alumni
PhD Researcher in Economic and Social History (ESRC 1+3)
College of Humanities, University of ExeterStart date: September 2013
Graduation date: 2018
Research topic: Agrarian Capitalism in England, c.1650 – c.1800: A new methodological approach
My research challenges traditional approaches to the development of agrarian capitalism in England by proposing a new way of defining and measuring capitalist agrarian development. I employ an innovative methodology to reconstruct and map seventeenth- and eighteenth-century landholding in more detail than has previously been possible. Using this dataset, I examine the lives of individual cultivators, focusing on subletting, by-employment, life cycle, labour, and market orientation.Research supervisors: Professor Henry French, Dr Freyja Cox Jensen
Professional memberships/Positions held:
Member of the Economic History Society
Member of the British Agricultural History Society
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Email: jmr208@exeter.ac.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/joshrhodes12
Website/Blog: https://eprofile.exeter.ac.uk/joshrhodes
Dr Amy Ridgway
Economics and Social History Alumni
PhD Researcher in Economic and Social History (ESRC +3)
College of Humanities, University of ExeterStart date: September 2014
Graduation date: September 2020
Research topic: Wage labour and poverty on a Dorset estate, c.1680-1834
For my PhD, I am undertaking a comprehensive analysis of wage labour and poverty in Dorset from c.1680 to 1834. My research, which will be a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, will help bridge the gap in literature by directly linking these two topics. It will consider how individuals and households managed to survive at the subsistence level and what happened if they did not manage to ‘get by’. The research will focus on the Kingston Lacy estate, in east Dorset.Research supervisors: Professor Jane Whittle, Professor Henry French
Professional memberships/Positions held:
Assistant Editor of Ex Historia, Member of the Economic History Society, SWDTC Conference Chair 2015Email: acr216@exeter.ac.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/amy_ridgway1
Dr Clare Maudling
Economics and Social History Alumni
PhD Researcher in Economic and Social History (ESRC 1+3)
College of Humanities, University of ExeterStart date: September 2013
Graduation date: July 2019
Research topic: Post-war reconstruction in the South West
I am researching the post-Second World War reconstruction of Bristol, Plymouth and Exeter and the challenges the cities faced in rebuilding. I am particularly interested in the political and architectural continuity between the inter-war and post-war eras and the economic and financial constraints placed on blitzed cities in the late 1940’s. I am also researching the interwar planning and housing projects undertaken in each city to demonstrate the continuity in planning seen in the 20th century. My other research interests include architectural history, the evolution of town planning and housing, local studies, and the history of Devon.Research supervisors: Professor Richard Overy, Professor Richard Toye
Professional memberships/Positions held:
Royal Historical Society (post-graduate member)International Planning History Society (student member)
Devon History Society
Email: clm228@hotmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ClareMaudling
Website/Blog: https://reconstructingcities.wordpress.com/
