Researcher
Isabelle Devos
- Keywords:living standards, inequality, Historical demography, history of health
- Disciplines:Socio-economic history, Sociology of life course, family and health not elsewhere classified, Regional and urban history, Modern and contemporary history , Early modern history, Population trends and policies, Social epidemiology, Mortality and health
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 Jan 1996 → 31 Dec 2009
Projects
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- 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 → TodayFunding: BOF - scientific equipment program
- Who died from cancer? A history of victims of malignant tumors in Belgium, 1850-1950From1 Oct 2017 → 30 Sep 2021Funding: BOF - Doctoral projects
- QUETELET CENTER FOR QUANTITATIVE HISTORICAL RESEARCH (QUETELET-BE)From1 Feb 2017 → TodayFunding: BOF - Doctoral projects
- The Lost Stork? Interpretations and Experiences of Childlessness in 18th- and 19thcentury Belgium.From1 Oct 2015 → 18 Apr 2017Funding: BOF - Other initiatives
- Delivered with care. Maternal Health and Reproduction in Flanders,
1800-1913.From1 Oct 2015 → 30 Sep 2018Funding: FWO fellowships
- HISSTER (STAGE 2). Development of a database of 19th and 20th century Belgian mortality statistics available at the local levelFrom1 Jun 2015 → 31 Dec 2017Funding: BOF - Other initiatives
- a spatiotemporal research infrastructure for early modern Flanders and Brabant.From1 May 2014 → 31 Oct 2020Funding: Hercules - Small and Medium size research infrastructure
Publications
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- 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 - 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 - 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 - U+2018Zelfde straat, 130 jaar laterU+2019 : een educatieve oefening historische demografie in twee Gentse buurten(2020)
Authors: Laura Debyser, Isabelle Devos
Pages: 129 - 141 - Trend en toeval : inleiding tot de kwantitatieve methoden voor historici(2019)Edition: 3
Authors: Bruno Blondé, Isabelle Devos, Jord Hanus, Wouter Ryckbosch
Number of pages: 1 - Alle wegen leiden naarU+2026 een instelling? Institutionaliseringstrajecten van Oost-Vlaamse doven, 1750-1950(2019)
Authors: Sofie De Veirman, Isabelle Devos
Pages: 203 - 230 - Much ado about nothing? Reconsidering the smallpox effect : height in the nineteenth-century town of Thielt, Belgium(2018)
Authors: Ans Vervaeke, Isabelle Devos
Pages: 56 - 83 - Décès de jure, décès de facto : lU+2019impact des présents et des absents non enregistrés sur les taux de mortalité urbaine en Belgique au début du XXe siècle(2018)
Authors: Tina Van Rossem, Patrick Deboosere, Isabelle Devos
Pages: 91 - 117 - STREAM (Spatiotemporal research infrastructure for early modern Brabant and Flanders) : sources, data and methods(2018)
Authors: Isabelle Devos, Torsten Wiedemann, Ruben Demey, Sven Vrielinck, Sofie De Veirman, Philippe De Maeyer, Elien Ranson, Michiel Van den Berghe, Glenn Pletitnck, Anne Winter, et al.
Pages: 102 - 119 - User-centered design of a collaborative, object oriented historical GI-platform(2018)
Authors: Philippe De Maeyer, Elien Ranson, Kristien Ooms, Karen De Coene, Bart De Wit, Michiel Van den Berghe, Sven Vrielinck, Torsten Wiedemann, Anne Winter, Rink Kruk, et al.
Pages: 379 - 390