CURRICULUM VITAE: DR KERRY HICKSON
ADDRESS:
Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL
TELEPHONE: 0247 625 4930
FAX:
0247 652 3032
EMAIL:
k.j.hickson@warwick.ac.uk
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
20112010-2011
2009-2010
2007-2009
2007-2009
Teaching Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Warwick
Teaching Fellow, Department of Economic History, LSE
Lecturer in Economic History, Department of Economics, University of York
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge
Bye-Fellow, Downing College, University of Cambridge
EDUCATION
2010-
Birkbeck: MSc Microbiology
2002-2006
Thesis Title:
London School of Economics: PhD Economic History
‘The Contribution of Improved Health to Standards of Living in Twentieth Century England
and Wales’
2003
Harvard School of Public Health: MPH Modules
Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Management in Public Health
2001-2002
London School of Economics: MSc Economic History
Graduated with Distinction
1998-2001
London School of Economics: BSc Economic History and Economics
Graduated with Honours (2.1)
TEACHING
20102009-2010
2006-2009
2007-2009
2007
2003-2005
2003-2005
LSE: EH237: Research Methods in Economic History and EH483: The Development and
Integration of the World Economy in the C19 and C20
University of York: Involved in lecturing, designing and managing undergraduate courses:
Britain’s Prime and Decline; Research Methods; Development Economics; Making Poverty
History. Involved in lecturing courses: undergraduate International Economic Growth;
Financial Panics, Bubbles, and Crashes; and MSc Health Economics. Responsible for
supervision of MSc student dissertations
LSE: EH101: The Internationalisation of Economic Growth, 1870 to Present Day (this also
included marking the end of year exam in 2007, 2008, and 2009)
University of Cambridge, Downing College: British Economic History
Goldsmiths College: Involved in lecturing, designing and marking undergraduate courses:
Introduction to Economics and Economics of Modern Britain
LSE: EH220: The Comparative Industrialisation of Russia, India and Japan 1870 to 1970
Teaching evaluation score: 96% versus LSE average score (including tenured staff): 84%
Rehired for 2004/5 and 2006/7 and 2007/8 and 2008/9
GRANTS
2009
2007
2002
Part of £1 million bid by University of York to the Wellcome Trust
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, 3 years (Cambridge University, Downing College)
ESRC Full PhD Studentship, 3 years (London School of Economics)
PRIZES AND AWARDS
2009
2007
2007
2004
International Economic History Association prize for best PhD thesis on a C20 subject
Selected to participate in the University of Cambridge Rising Stars (outreach training)
LSE Departmental Teaching Award
LSE Departmental Teaching Award
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2006-2009
2004-2005
Appointed Teaching Assistant Manager: LSE (EH101) and rehired 2007/8 and 2008/9
Elected to Staff-Student Liaison Committee as PhD student representative: LSE
PUBLISHING
Published
‘International trade, 1696-1834’ in: Historical Atlas – A Comprehensive History of the World, Millennium
House, Australia, 2008
‘Human movement and population growth in the twenty first century’ in: Historical Atlas – A
Comprehensive History of the World, Millennium House, Australia, 2008
‘The contribution of increased life expectancy to economic development in twentieth century Japan’,
Journal of Asian Economics, September 2009: Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 489-504
‘The value of the elimination and amelioration of tuberculosis in twentieth century England and Wales’,
International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, September 2009: Vol. 13, No. 9, pp. 1061-1067
Pending
‘Quantifying health and welfare gains in twentieth century England and Wales: an initial contribution’
submitted to Historical Methods
‘Trends in healthy life expectancy in England and Wales: a contribution to optimistic theories about future
health’, submitted to British Medical Journal
In progress
‘Twentieth century gains in Quality Adjusted Life Expectancy– A contribution to optimistic theories about
future levels of life expectancy’ to be submitted to Population and Development Review
‘The value of the twentieth century health transition in England and Wales: an initial indication’,
submitted to The Review of Income and Wealth
‘Is technology change (in health care) worth it? Evidence from the UK’, to be submitted to Health Affairs
‘Return on health care investments - identifying the most productive spending as indicated by avoidable
mortality for primary, secondary, and tertiary causes of death’, to be submitted to WHO Bulletin
MONOGRAPH: ‘The life expectancy of the NHS: The history of health and healthcare in the UK and the
need to bring the NHS into the twenty-first century’
PRESS RELEASES
2008
2005
‘Twentieth century improvements in health due to the elimination of tuberculosis are worth in
excess of £16 billion’
http://www.ehs.org.uk/ehs/pressbriefings2008/assets/Hickson-TB.doc
‘Improvements in mortality add 130%+ to twentieth century growth rates for England and Wales’
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/pressAndInformationOffice/newsAndEvents/archives/2005/Eco
nomic_GrowthRates.htm
COMMENTS AND REPLIES
2006
‘Along a more positive vein’: reply to N. Black, J. Browne, J. Cairns ‘Health care productivity’
British Medical Journal editorial 333: 312-313
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/333/7563/312
PRESENTATIONS
2009
2008
2008
2008
2008
2007
World Economic History Congress: ‘The contribution of improved health to standards of living in
twentieth century England and Wales’
Department of Health, Analysts’ Seminar: ‘What can health do for the UK economy? The impact
of health improvement on welfare, earnings, and GDP growth’
Department of Health, Health Care Analysis Advisory Forum: ‘Attaching a monetary value to
improvements in mortality and morbidity’
International Association for Research in Income and Wealth 30th General Conference: ‘Estimating
‘Fisherian’ national income to account for twentieth century economic welfare gains generated by
improved health in England and Wales’
Economic History Society Conference, ‘The untold tuberculosis story: quantitative estimates for
the value of the elimination of tuberculosis in twentieth century England’
International Health Economics Association 6th World Congress: ‘Estimating historical health gains
using WTP for quality adjusted life expectancy’ abstract at:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=992450
RESEARCH INTERESTS
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British economic history
Economic and financial history of innovation (particularly in the pharmaceutical industry)
Inter-disciplinary approaches to measuring health and the performance of healthcare services
Healthcare policy at different levels of development (the affordability of health gains)
The contribution of improved health to economic development