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Module 2 Online Lecture Series ‘An Introduction to Inequalities in Health using Historical Causes of Death’ open for registration – deadline 28 February 2025
Registration has opened for Module 2 of the Online Lecture Series ‘An Introduction to Inequalities in Health using Historical Causes of Death’. This online lecture series is scheduled as part of the COST Project CA22116 – The Great Leapand is organised in co-operation with the N.W. Posthumus Institute. It is targeted at students and scholars at all levels interested in exploring major issues related to health inequalities from a historical point of view. There are four modules, each module comprises several lectures. Module 2 will address sources and databases. Module 3 will address methods and analyses (expected September 2025 – June 2026). Depending on the feedback from participants, modules are repeated or new modules are added to the online lecture series. For each module it will be possible to earn 1 EC.
Module 2: Database Management
Description
This module is targeted at students and scholars at all levels interested in exploring (historical) database management related to health inequalities. Participants will gain detailed knowledge from six expertly-led lectures on various key topics.
General Learning objectives
Upon completion of the online modules, students are able to:
- understand how different disciplines approach the study of health inequalities;
- outline some of the major debates in the study of health inequalities;
- explain and reflect upon important determinants of inequality in health and how they relate to broader processes of change in the period 1800-2024;
- reflect on one specific article dealing with inequality in health and present it to an interdisciplinary group of scholars/peers.
Program
7 March 2025 – Tiziana Margaria (University of Limerick)
Best practices for data management
21 March 2025 – TBA
Using automatic transcription for processing sources
4 April 2025 – Angelique Janssens (Radboud University) and Isabelle Devos (Ghent University)
The creation of cause of death databases
25 April 2025 – TBA
Coding historical causes of death data with Large Language Models
16 May 2025 – Alice Reid (University of Cambridge) / Mayra Murkens (University of Groningen)
Historical International Classification for Diseases
23 May 2025 – Michail Raftakis (University of Bologna), Elena Crinela Holom (Babeș-Bolyai University), Grażyna Liczbińska (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań)
Cause of death sources around the world
30 May 2025 – Hannaliis Jaadla (University of Cambridge)
Measures of inequality and SES differences in mortality
ECs and Registration
The lecture series is open to everyone, but PhD students who attend all six sessions and present a reflection on a specific article from the lecture series during a final meeting will be entitled to earn 1 EC (European Credits) and receive an official certificate. As co-organiser, the N.W. Posthumus Institute, Research School for Economic and Social History, currently hosted by Utrecht University will issue these official certificates to participants who have successfully participated. Please register via the button below if you would like to follow the lecture series and receive the certificate with 1 ECTS.
Registration is open until 28 February 2025.
Please note that recordings of module 1 are still available via this page (external link).
