Professor Deborah Oxley
Professor of Social Science History
All Souls College
Research Interests
- Measuring the biological consequences of European Imperialism
- Height and health in history;
- Body mass - a new frontier in anthropometrics;
- Micro-economics of the household;
- Penal transportation to Australia;
- Coercive labour systems;
- Colonial Australian development;
- Crime and punishment in Great Britain and Ireland
- Weighty Matters: A Somatic History of the Industrial Revolution
- Convict Australia: Coercions and Freedoms in Australian Penal Colonies
In 2013, I presented the Economic History Society Tawney Lecture on Anthropometrics, Gender & Health Inequality in History:
In 2014-17, Deborah was a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow, working on 'Weighty Matters: Anthropometrics, gender and health inequality in Britain's past'.
Deborah was also part of a team working on The Digital Panopticon, an AHRC Digital Transformations Grant, uniting the Old Bailey Online with Australian convict records to examine the long-term impact of penal policy.
Deborah has been appointed Visiting Professor of Economic History at the University of Gothenburg: http://handels.gu.se/english/about-the-School/visiting-professor-programme/current-visiting-professors/deborah-oxley
