Professor Gwilym Pryce
School of Economics
Professor of Urban Economics and Social Statistics
Co-Director of the ESRC CDT Data Analytics and Society
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School of Economics
Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS)
219 Portobello
91Ö±²¥
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Gwilym is Professor of Urban Economics and Social Statistics in the School of Economics at 91Ö±²¥. He is currently Director of the ESRC/Nordforsk ‘’ research project, a multidisciplinary initiative spanning the UK, Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands. He is also Co-Director of the , and a co-investigator on the . Gwilym was formerly Associate Director of the , Founding Director of the , Co-Director of the ESRC , Co-Director of the research project, and Founding Director of the 91Ö±²¥ Methods Institute.
Gwilym was born in 1970 in Cardiff, Wales, the son of a steel worker. At age 7, he moved with his family to Goole, in North Humberside and completed his secondary education at Goole Grammar School. He moved to Leeds in 1988 to study Economics and Public Policy at Leeds Business School (LMU), graduating with a First in 1991. After a year studying theology at Covenant College in the Midlands, he completed a MSc in Economics at the University of Warwick. After a short stint at Aberdeen University researching capital charges in the NHS under the supervision of Professor David Heald, he was awarded an ESRC Research Fellowship in the Centre for Housing Research and Urban Studies, University of Glasgow in 1995. He progressed to Lecturer in 1996, Senior Lecturer in 2003 and to Professor of Urban Economics and Social Statistics in 2006. Gwilym moved to the University of 91Ö±²¥ in 2014 to lead the 91Ö±²¥ Methods Institute. Gwilym joined the School of Economics in September 2022.
- Research interests
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Gwilym's core research interests are in the broad field of urban studies. His current research focuses on issues of inequality, discrimination, immigration and residential segregation, and how these issues vary geographically to impact crime, wellbeing, social mobility and the local economy. Gwilym is also interested in the levelling-up implications of these phenomena and works closely with a variety of stakeholders to understand their implications for policy and practice.
Examples of his current research include:
- Pryce, G., Wang, Y. P., Chen, Y., Shan, J., & Wei, H. (2021). (p. 373). Springer Nature (Open Access).
- Fingleton, B., Olner, D., & Pryce, G. (2020). : A dynamic spatial panel model. Urban Studies, 57(13), 2646-2662.
- Dean, N., Dong, G., Piekut, A., & Pryce, G. (2019). . Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 110(3), 271-288.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- . PLOS ONE, 19(8).
- . Urban Studies, 60(1), 166-182.
- . Housing Studies.
- Theorising the Causal Impacts of Social Frontiers: The Social and Psychological Implications of Discontinuities in the Geography of Residential Mix. Urban Studies.
- The Conflicting Geographies of Social Frontiers Exploring the asymmetric impacts of social frontiers on household mobility in Rotterdam. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science.
Chapters
- , The Routledge Handbook of Housing Economics (pp. 69-81). Routledge
- , The Routledge Handbook of Housing Economics (pp. 69-81). Taylor & Francis
- Steel City: Deindustrialisation and Peripheralisation in 91Ö±²¥,
UK [translation of Steel city: deindustrializzazione e periferizzazione a 91Ö±²¥, Regno Unito Clément Barbier, La costruzione della periferia] In Griseri P & Iannello A (Ed.), Periferie: Barriere nelle città FrancoAngeli s.r.l.
Reports
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- Cycles of caring: transitions in and out of unpaid care.
Performances
- Blurring the Edges. Festival of the Mind 2022.
Datasets
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- . PLOS ONE, 19(8).