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| Sheila Page | |
|---|---|
| Name | Sheila Page |
| Birth date | 20th century |
| Birth place | London, England |
| Occupation | Economist, academic, author |
| Alma mater | London School of Economics, University of Cambridge |
| Institutions | School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, World Bank |
| Awards | Distinguished Fellowship |
Sheila Page
Sheila Page was a British economist and academic known for her work on labor markets, public policy, and the socio-economic transformations of South Asia and Europe. She held academic positions at School of Oriental and African Studies and contributed to policy debates through affiliations with institutions such as the World Bank and advisory roles to parliamentary committees. Her career bridged comparative research on industrial relations, social policy, and development studies, engaging with scholars and policymakers across United Kingdom, India, and European Union contexts.
Page was born in London and educated during a period shaped by post‑war reconstruction and debates about welfare states in the United Kingdom and Europe. She read economics and social sciences at the London School of Economics before undertaking postgraduate work at the University of Cambridge where supervisors included leading figures in development and labor economics from institutions like Cambridge University Faculty of Economics and research centres connected to the TUC and Institute of Development Studies. During her early career she participated in collaborative networks with scholars from Oxford, Harvard, and Stanford that focused on comparative industrial relations and social policy across OECD members such as France and Germany.
Page held lectureships and professorships at the School of Oriental and African Studies within the University of London system, and was a visiting fellow at research centres including the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University. She supervised doctoral candidates who later joined faculties at University College London, Manchester University, and King's College London, contributing to scholarly exchange with departments of sociology and politics at University of Edinburgh and University of Glasgow. Her teaching covered modules linked to comparative welfare states, industrial relations in India, and transitions in post‑industrial regions exemplified by case studies in Liverpool and Birmingham.
Page published extensively on labor markets, migration, and industrial restructuring, contributing articles to journals such as Economica, Journal of Development Studies, and Industrial Relations Journal. Her books examined themes like factory work, informal employment, and policy reform in contexts including Mumbai and Chennai as well as British manufacturing towns affected by deindustrialisation in Sheffield and Newcastle upon Tyne. She collaborated on edited volumes with scholars from Princeton University Press and Cambridge University Press, and produced policy reports for bodies including the World Bank, the European Commission, and UK parliamentary inquiry panels associated with the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Her empirical work employed case studies, survey analysis, and comparative historical methods drawing on archives from British Library, labour union records from the Trades Union Congress, and factory studies linked to the International Labour Organization.
Page engaged in public debates through op‑eds in outlets such as The Guardian, The Times, and specialist journals tied to New Statesman readerships, addressing policy audiences in Westminster and practitioner groups at Acas events. She appeared on radio programmes hosted by BBC Radio 4 and took part in panel discussions at venues like the Royal Society and the London School of Economics’s public lecture series, joining other commentators from Policy Exchange and the Institute for Public Policy Research. Page advised development NGOs working with OXFAM and Christian Aid on labour standards and participated in briefing sessions for diplomats at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and delegates to United Nations agencies concerned with employment and social protection.
Her scholarship and advisory work earned recognition from academic and policy bodies, including fellowships at the British Academy and awards from the Economic and Social Research Council. She received a distinguished fellowship from a professional association in industrial relations and was honored by a cross‑national consortium of development economists that included members from World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. Universities such as SOAS and University of London acknowledged her contributions with honorary positions and invited lectureships, and she was cited in policy reviews produced by the Organisation for Economic Co‑operation and Development.
Page balanced academic commitments with civic engagement in Camden and maintained links with community organisations in Mumbai where she conducted fieldwork. Colleagues remember her for mentoring an international cohort of researchers who now occupy posts in institutions including University of Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Australian National University, and University of Toronto. Her legacy endures in curricula on comparative labour studies, in policy frameworks influenced by her fieldwork, and in archival deposits held at SOAS Library and the British Library that document industrial case studies and oral histories used by subsequent scholars.
Category:British economists Category:20th-century births