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Researcher
Isabelle Devos
- Keywords:living standards, inequality, Historical demography, history of health
- Disciplines:Socio-economic history, Regional and urban history, Modern and contemporary history, Early modern history, Mortality and health, Social epidemiology, Sociology of life course, family and health not elsewhere classified, Population trends and policies
Affiliations
- Department of History (Department)
Member
From1 Jan 2010 → Today - Department of Early modern history (Department)
Responsible
From1 Oct 2008 → 31 Dec 2009 - Department of Early modern history (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2008 → 31 Dec 2009 - Department of Early modern history (Department)
Member
From1 Jan 1996 → 31 Dec 2009
Infrastructure
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- Database of Local Statistics in Belgium (1800-1970)
- Spatiotemporal Research Infrastructure for Early Modern Flanders and Brabant (16th - 18th Centuries).
- Database of Historical Mortality Statistics for Belgium (1841-1970)
- Database of Mortality and Causes of Death in the City of Antwerp (1820-1946)
- Database of Land Ownership in Belgium (1834-1961)
- Database on Prostitution in Bruges (1750-1790)
- Life-Course Data on Female Domestic Servants in East Flanders (1830-1930)
- Life-Course Data on Deaf People in East Flanders (1750-1950)
- Life-Course Data on Never-Married Rural Women in the Franc of Bruges (18th - 19th centuries)
- Database of Individual Mortality Data for Brussels, Liège and Schaerbeek (1910)
Projects
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- 170 years of cancer mortality. Who died and where? Social and spatial inequalities in Belgium, 1821-1991From1 Nov 2024 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Artemis. Advanced Research Tools for Environmental studies in an open Mapping Infrastructure for historical maps of the Scheldt valley.From1 May 2024 → TodayFunding: FWO Medium Size Research Infrastructure
- Social and spatial inequalities in mortality in Belgium (17th-20th centuries)From1 Jan 2024 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- S.O.S. Antwerp. Intra-urban Inequalities at Death in the Port City of Antwerp, 1820-1939.From1 Jan 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Cofunding core facility - Quetelet Center for Quantitative Historical ResearchFrom1 Jul 2022 → TodayFunding: BOF - research organisations
- How inequality kills. Two centuries of social and spatial disparities in all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Belgium (1800-2025)From1 Jan 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO EOS
- Historical DemographyFrom1 Jan 2021 → TodayFunding: FWO scientific research network
- EPIBEL: EPidemics and Inequalities in BELgium from the Plague to COVID-19: what can we learn from societal resilienceFrom15 Dec 2020 → TodayFunding: BRAIN-be(Belgian Research Action through Interdisciplinary Networks)
- LOKSTAT +. Database of local statistics in Belgium (1960-1990).From1 Dec 2020 → 30 Nov 2022Funding: BOF - scientific equipment program
- Who died from cancer? A history of victims of malignant tumors in Belgium, 1850-1950From1 Oct 2017 → 30 Sep 2024Funding: BOF - Doctoral projects
Publications
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- The health and demographic impacts of the 'Russian flu' pandemic in Switzerland in 1889/1890 and in the years thereafter(2024)
Authors: Jocelyne Suter, Isabelle Devos, Katarina L. Matthes, Kaspar Staub
- Navigeren door de complexiteit van de coronapandemie : perspectieven vanuit de historische demografie(2024)
Authors: Isabelle Devos, Angélique Janssens, Mayra Murkens, Tim Riswick
Pages: 183 - 193 - Doodsoorzaken in Amsterdam en Antwerpen : hoe burgerwetenschap de stadsgeschiedenis voortstuwt(2023)
Authors: Isabelle Devos, Sarah Heynssens, Angélique Janssens
Pages: 118 - 132 - Beyond narratives of conflict : modern medicine, reproduction and Catholicism in contemporary historiography(2022)
Authors: Kaat Wils, Emmanuel Betta, Isabelle Devos, Tine Van Osselaer, Barbra Mann Wall
Pages: 415 - 438 - The limits and possibilities of cause of death categorisation for understanding late nineteenth century mortality(2022)
Authors: Angélique Janssens, Isabelle Devos
Pages: 1053 - 1063 - The Spanish Flu in Belgium, 1918-1919 : a state of the art = Die Spanische Grippe in Belgien 1918-1919 : ein Stand der Technik(2021)
Authors: Isabelle Devos, Mélanie Bourguignon, Emmanuel Debruyne, Yoann Doignon, Thierry Eggerickx, Hilde Greefs, Jord Hanus, Wouter Ronsijn, Jean-Paul Sanderson, Tim Soens
Pages: 251 - 283 - 1754 : la lutte contre la malaria en Flandre : une heureuse méprise(2020)
Authors: Isabelle Devos, Marnix Beyen, Marc Boone, Bruno De Wever
Pages: 265 - 271 - ‘Zelfde straat, 130 jaar later’ : een educatieve oefening historische demografie in twee Gentse buurten(2020)
Authors: Laura Debyser, Isabelle Devos
Pages: 129 - 141 - Welfare and demography in the time of Malthus : regional and local variations in poor relief and population developments in Flanders, c. 1750-1810(2020)Series: Datini Studies in Economic History
Authors: Isabelle Devos, Thijs Lambrecht, Anne Winter, Giampiero Nigro
Pages: 327 - 350 - Trend en toeval : inleiding tot de kwantitatieve methoden voor historici(2019)
Authors: Bruno Blondé, Isabelle Devos, Jord Hanus, Wouter Ryckbosch
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