Kevin Schürer
|
Kevin Schürer FAcSS FRGS |
|
|---|---|
| Born |
22 June 1957 Rochford, Essex |
| Other names | Kevin Schurer |
| Citizenship | British |
| Alma mater | University of London |
| Occupation | historian, genealogist, statistician, academic |
| Employer | University of Leicester |
| Known for | identification of King Richard III |
Kevin Schürer FAcSS FRGS (born 22 June 1957) is a British historian, genealogist and statistician who is currently on research leave at the University of Cambridge and was previously Pro-Vice Chancellor of Research and Enterprise at the University of Leicester. He specialises in the historical demography, the history of the family and migration in nineteenth-century England and Wales.
Schürer studied geography and history as an undergraduate before receiving his PhD from the University of London. He is a member of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure at the University of Cambridge, and then taught at the University of Essex, where he is now an honorary professor.
Schürer was the UK representative, on behalf of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Arts and Humanities Research Council, at the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructure (ESFRI) working group in Social Science and Humanities.
In 2009, he received a grant from the ESRC to create standardised version of the censuses for Great Britain for 1851 to 1911. Known as the Integrated Census Microdata (I-CeM) project, the result was one of the largest digital historical data resources in the world.
He served as president of the Association for History and Computing and the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives. Prior to his joining the University of Leicester, he served as the director of the UK Data Archive from 2000 to 2010. He is currently a senior member of Wolfson College, Cambridge; is chair of the British Library's EThOS advisory committee; having previously served as a member of the British Library’s Advisory Council and the Research Libraries Network Advisory Committee.
...
Wikipedia