BIO
Bernard Harris is Professor of Social Policy and Head of the School of Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Strathclyde. He trained as a historian and has published on a wide range of topics covering different aspects of anthropometric and demographic history, as well as the history of social policy and welfare provision. His books include The health of the schoolchild: A history of the school medical service in England and Wales (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1995); The origins of the British welfare wtate: State, society and social welfare in England and Wales, 1800 1945 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004); and (with Roderick Floud, Robert Fogel and Sok Chul Hong) The changing body: Health, nutrition and human development in the Western World since 1700 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011). Much of his recent work has focused on the history of mutual aid and the development of the welfare state and on the impact of sanitary reform on mortality during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.