Call for STSM candidate at Lancaster University: “A Demographic Kernel Framework for Predicting Psychosis Risk Across Urban Space.” Autumn 2026, up to 2 months, funding up to €2,500 via GREATLEAP COST Action. Apply with CV + motivation to [email protected] by 4 March ⬇️

Join us online on the 4mar for a #searchathon on Health #inequality in history ! We teamed up with @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social to search documents in APE related to health in medical history - the best archival digger wins a £40 voucher www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/health-ine...

Come join our workshop on excess mortality methodology! It will be two great days of expert talks, discussion groups, and me revealing the results of our many analyst project! 40+ teams have signed up to estimate 1918 pandemic deaths with the method of their choice -- results should be fascinating!

Workshop “Bridging methods to measure excess mortality: One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)”. 21–22 May 2026, London School of Economics. In-person. Open to all; limited travel funding for UK/EU grad students & GREATLEAP members. Register by 15 Mar 2026 (funding: 15 Feb).🧵⬇️

#HistoricalDemographers #Mortality #Researchers may be interested in this super fab #COST workshop using spatial methods #Skystorians @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social greatleap.eu/calls/worksh...

Call for Papers: International Workshop #Epidemics, Gender, and Public Institutions in the 19th and 20th Centuries’ @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social #CFP Abstract due 1 May 2026 greatleap.eu/calls/call-f...

Call for Papers: International Workshop “Epidemics, Gender, and Public Institutions in the 19th–20th Centuries”. 📍2–3 July 2026, University of the Balearic Islands (Spain). 📝Abstracts (300–350 words) due 1 May 2026. Registration free. Full info here: greatleap.eu/calls/call-f...

🚨 Workshop “Putting mortality on the map – spatial methods to study the urban mortality transition”, Univ. of Copenhagen, 20–21 Aug 2026. For researchers using or planning spatial approaches in historical mortality. Apply by 1 Feb 2026: [email protected] & [email protected]

Call for proposals: "Bridging Perspectives and Connecting Threads on Historical Health Inequalities", 11–13 May 2026, Cluj-Napoca. Deadline 2 Feb 2026. Funding for travel + daily allowance available. All accepted presentations eligible for publication in Open Research Europe.🧵⬇️

Applications are open for the Summer Training School “Micro-Census Insights into Historical Households, Mortality and Fertility” at the University of Cambridge, 6–17 July 2026. Fee €150, 15 places, travel grants available. Deadline 2 Feb 2026. Apply: [email protected] 🧵⬇️

📢 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 — 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐈𝐧𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲: 𝐀 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧 🔍 Date: 4 March 2026 ⏰ Time: 16:00–18:00 CET 🌍 Format: Online 📝 Registration: Open now — don’t miss your spot! 🧵⬇️

📢 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: “𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐏 𝐂𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞” 🗓 Tuesday, 4 November 🕚 11:00 CET 📍 Online (Microsoft Teams)

📢 Summer Training School “Health Inequalities: from Sources to Statistical Models” 🗓 8–19 June 2026 📍Barcelona 🇪🇸 Two weeks of hands-on training in historical demography, data harmonization, and R-based statistical modelling. Apply by 15 January 2026 → [email protected]

✨ GREATLEAP pre-conference workshop in Bologna brought together 80+ scholars to explore sources & databases on causes of death (1800–1950). From parish registers to hospital journals, we uncovered the stories behind historical mortality. Edward Morgan's full reflection: greatleap.eu/news/reflect...

📢 Did you know that all announcements for the Online Lecture Series: 𝐀𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐔𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 can be found on the @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social website? 🧵⬇️

oday, keynote talk is given by Pulitzer Prize winner David Kertzer on Changing Jews into Aryan’s in Fascist Italy #ESHD2025

#ESDH2025 has started! Prof. Guido Barbujani is giving the first keynote on the famous human races.

✨ Today we had the pleasure of opening the @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social pre-conference workshop “𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 (𝟏𝟖𝟎𝟎–𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟎)”

Super evening with our @costprogramme.bsky.social @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social colleagues. Stories were told, legends were made and plans were mapped. This is what #COST is about - optimising opportunties for collaboration - this time in stereo! #Synergy #COST22159 #EAHMH25 #COST22116 #Research

#EAHMH25 was a fab conference with an incredible array of fascinating papers, topics & scholars. Finally met some of my @eurohealthhist.bsky.social @costprogramme.bsky.social colleagues in person. Event better to team up with my other #COST gang @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social #Berlin #Research

📢 Call for Papers! Workshops “Transcribing the Past: Citizen Scientists & Automation in Historical Demography” 🖥️ 29 Jan 2026 (online) 🏛️ 26 Mar 2026 (Ghent) Submit abstracts (≤300 words) by 15 Nov 2025 For more information 👉 greatleap.eu/calls/call-f...

📢 Call for Papers! Workshop Accuracy of Cause-of-Death Registration: Everyday Conditions, Crises & Epidemics 🗓 18–19 Mar 2026 | Barcelona 🇪🇸 Submit 200–300 word abstracts by 10 Dec 2025 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This project has been designed with the wonderful Eric Schneider @ericbschneider.bsky.social, Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social, Monica Alexander @monjalexander.bsky.social, and Maarten van Wijhe. Plus, the workshop is generously funded by @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social + @bspsuk.bsky.social! (3/4)

📢 2nd Call for Project Proposals – Host Institutes! GREATLEAP invites institutes to host visiting scholars (2 weeks–3 months) for Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs). 💶 Up to €2,500 support per project 🗓 Jan–Oct 2026 | Deadline: 1 Jan 2026 Details 👉 [email protected]

📢 Call for Papers! Workshop Socio-Economic Inequalities in Mortality Over Time 🗓 27 Feb 2026 | Akoesticum, Ede 📝Keynote: Prof. Sean Clouston ⏳Deadline for abstracts (≤500 words): 1 Oct 2025 Submit here 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚨 2nd Call for Thematic Workshops (Co-organised with GREATLEAP) 🚨 We invite scholars to propose workshops that advance our COST Action goals: ➡️ Understanding long-term health inequalities ➡️ Studying cause-specific mortality 🧵⬇️

It was a pleasure to teach our @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social cause-of-death coding course at @monashuniversity.bsky.social in Melbourne with colleagues joining from Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand.

The 𝐈𝐂𝐃𝟏𝟎𝐡 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 was held in Cambridge from July 8–10, organized in collaboration with the @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social , the University of Cambridge, and the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.

In Cambridge, as part of the @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social -funded Training Course on Coding Historical Causes of Death, we spent two days—together with @amrcampop.bsky.social , M. Murkens, and E. Garrett—training participants from across Europe in the use of the ICD10h.

In Zurich for the @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social workshop 'Analysing Historical Mortality and Cause of Death Data' – a very fruitful two days with researchers from diverse backgrounds and excellent ideas for future work.

🚨 Call for Applications! 🚨 📅 22–23 July 2025 📍 Monash University, Melbourne 🇦🇺 💀 Historical mortality meets digital innovation! 🔹 ICD10h Training Course (22 Jul) 🔹 Digital History Symposium (23 Jul) Apply by **11 June** ➡️ (docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...)

👩🏻‍⚕️ The health platform Ma Clinique Informations médicales published an article "Comprendre les origines des disparités de santé à travers des données historiques", again highlighting the importance of our research. ma-clinique.fr/comprendre-l...

🌟 Great news from the GREATLEAP COST Action network! The News Medical Life Sciences portal published an article titled "Understanding the Origins of Health Disparities Through Historical Data." 📖 Read the full article here: www.news-medical.net/news/2025040...

What's the difference between writing for scientists and for non-specialists? 🤔 How to transform a scientific article into a press release or newspaper article? 🗒️Great future #COSTaction articles coming up from these Science communication coordinators! @costprogramme.bsky.social

📝 WORKSHOP: Writing Individual Grants on Inequalities in Health 📅 June 25 | ⏰ 14:00 – 15:30 CET | 💻 Online Planning to apply for an individual research grant? Join our interactive workshop focused on crafting strong proposals in the field of health inequalities. 🧵⬇️

CFP ‘𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐈𝐧𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬’ #PhD #ECR working on #HistHealth see this @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social event on Advanced Skills in Data Harmonisation & Visualisation of Historical Sources #Prague #GreatLeap #CA22116 #Skystorian #DeathStudies August 2025

On #WorldHealthDay we introduce you to @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social here to bridge the past & present to reveal how deeply rooted socioeconomic factors have shaped health outcomes across Europe & explore how to design fairer, more effective health policies for the future: bit.ly/3EbMmqD

Many thanks to COST programme for highlighting the importance of health inequality research and our GREATLEAP Cost Action on World Health Day ➡️ www.cost.eu/health-inequ...

Prof Tim Riswick Chair of @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social in full flight #ESSHC #Leiden

(4/4) There are also activities by the GreatLeap project (@thegreatleap22116.bsky.social) to check out. 1️⃣ The online lecture series has started again, the next one on 21 March! 2️⃣ Mentoring and Networking Event at the ESSHC conference 😁 See the newsletter for more events and vacancies!

📢 GREATLEAP Networking Event! At the same time and place, @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social is hosting an informal event to talk to peers and mentors about mortality. With drinks! Want to sign up? ⬇️ 📍 Einstein, Leiden 📆 27 March 18:00-20:00 ℹ️ Info & registration: greatleap.eu/event/mentor...

📢 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 ‘𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐈𝐧𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬’ See the full call: greatleap.eu/calls/call-f...

📢 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬: 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐏 𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 ⬇️🧵

📢 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 ‘𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 (1800-1950). 𝐀 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤-𝐢𝐧-𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧’ ⬇️🧵

Today we are at the #YoungDemographers conference which is held from 5-7 February in Prague, Czech Republic at Faculty of Science - Charles University. #YD2025

𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 👉 About the Training Course: This two-day hands-on course will guide participants through the entire process of coding historical causes of death, including:

🚀 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: 𝐌𝐀 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 ‘𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬’ Are you a master’s or PhD student in economic and social history looking to enhance your skills in working with historical records and data? 🧵⬇️

📢 Call for Conference Grants: European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) - Are you presenting at one of the GREATLEAP-sponsored sessions at ESSHC but lack the funds for travel and accommodation? 🌍 Apply now for a Conference Grant 🧵⬇️

📢 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬: 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐏 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. We are inviting submissions for two dynamic sessions at the upcoming European Society for Historical Demography Conference🧵⬇️

📣 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 & 𝐇𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 - Join us for an in-person workshop and hackathon on “Analysing Historical Mortality and Cause of Death Data” at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, on June 19–20, 2025. 🧵⬇️