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Joseph Day, BSc (Hons), MPhil

PhD Candidate

At present, my research interests focuses on identifying the causes of the heterogeneity of demographic experience observed among proto-industrial populations.

Biography

Career

• 2008-Present: Co-Director, Daydreamer Theatre Company Ltd.
• 2005-Present: Co-Director, Aim Higher Tuition Ltd.
• 2007-2008: Higher Level Teaching Advisor in Mathematics and English, Westfield Community Technology College, Watford

Qualifications

• 2009-Present: PhD Candidate, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
• 2008-2009: MPhil Economic and Social History, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
• 2004-2007: BSc Economic History, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics

Research

At present, my research employs digitised 19^th century census data to investigate patterns of household formation in a range of proto-industrial occupations across England and Wales. By investigating different proto-industrial demographic behaviour across both time and space, I hope to isolate the underlying factors driving demographic patterns in a way that individual case studies have been unable to do. Therefore, rather than simply claiming either a universal proto-industrial demographic pattern, or none at all, it will be possible to determine which features of proto-industry – and proto-industrial context – had which demographic effects.

Publications

Conference and Seminar Papers

• 'Should I Stay or Should I Go? Leaving Home & Family Strategies in Proto-Industrial Hertfordshire, 1851-1881', King's College Graduate Seminar, University of Cambridge, October 2009
• 'Opportunity costs, strategy, and the female age at leaving home in England, 1851-1881', Gender & History Workshop, University of Cambridge, February 2010
• 'A formal analysis of proto-industrial household structure: An investigation of the nineteenth-century census enumerators' books in England and Wales, 1851-1881', Economic and Social History Graduate Workshop, University of Cambridge, March 2010