Research

The Department of Economic and Social History proudly houses the largest cluster of economic and social historians in Scotland. Our research strengths are internationally recognised in the fields of economic, social, business, financial, gender and medical history, and in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise the Department was awarded a 5. 

Lilybank House has excellent research facilities for postgraduate research students and visiting researchers.

Our research is supported in the University through the Centre for the History of Medicine and the Centre for Business History in Scotland, which are both attached to the Department, through the Faculty of Law, Business and Social Sciences, which supports inter-disciplinary initiatives, including through the Adam Smith Research Foundation, and the Business School.

Our staff belong to wider national and international research communities also, and are active in national and international learned societies, such as the Economic History Society, the Social History Society, the Society for the Social History of Medicine, the British Society for the History of Science, the Association of Business Historians and the Economic and Social History Society of Scotland.

Information on procedures for ethical approval of research in the department.