Hillary Vipond is a postdoc in the Transforming Economies team at the Complexity Science Hub. She graduated from the London School of Economics with a PhD in Economic History, with previous degrees from McGill University and St. Andrews University in Philosophy, and an MSc in Inequalities at LSE. She is a member of the International Inequalities Institute at LSE.

Her research takes a long run view of the labour market impacts of technological change. She is quantifying job creation and job loss inhistorical contexts, and exploring whether previous episodes of technological change tilted access to opportunity, and if so, for whom. She has worked extensively with the full count British census data (1851-1911), generating new, more granular data on occupation, which has made it possible to reveal previously invisible changes in occupational structure, and to quantify the labour displacement and reinstatement which occurred in Britain in the wake of 19th century technological innovations.

Hillary is a Senior Atlantic Fellow, and has a focus on policy relevant research which can contribute to the current debate on the future of work. She is working to better understand the distribution of the uneven gains of technological change. The long run view makes it possible to consider inter-generational impacts, and variance in impacts across cohorts.