Research Projects

Research at the Centre is organized in a number of projectscovering multiple topics, different parts of the world and various time periods. Some of these projects are externally funded and/or the result of cooperation with scholars from outside Utrecht University. Below you can find the lists of current and completed projects. 

Current projects:

• Sustainable and Accessible Health Care in Developing Countries
• HINDI - The Historical Dynamics of Industrialization in Northwestern Europe and China
• The Dynamics of Inclusive Finance in the Netherlands, 1750-1970
• Clariah - Structured Data Hub
• Coordinating for life. Success and failure of Western European societies in coping with rural hazards and disasters, 1300-1800
• Clio infra - Research Infrastructure for the study of Global Inequality
• Agency, Gender, and Economic Development in the World Economy 1850-2000
• Athena - Access Tool for Historical ecology and Environmental Archaeology
• Global Historical Bibliometrics
• The Quantitave History of China ca.960-1949
• The Maddison project 
• Ugandan Marriage Register Research
• The power of corporate networks
• Indonesian Economic History
• Reconstruction National Accounts of Holland 
• Economic Growth in the Cape Colony
• Eastern European Economic History 

Completed Projects:

• "United We Stand". The dynamics and consequences of institutions for collective action in pre-industrial Europe (redirect to partner website)
• Economic Growth and Stagnation in the Pre-Industrial Era: Iraq, Italy and the Low Countries, 600-1700
• Data Infrastructures for the Study of Guilds and other forms of Collective Action (redirect to partner website)
• A History of Royal Dutch Shell