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Gwilym Pryce

Co-Investigator, University of Sheffield

Gwilym Pryce is currently Professor of Economics in the School of Economics at the University of Sheffield. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Glasgow in 1999 whilst working as an ESRC Research Fellow and then as Lecturer in the Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow. He progressed to Senior Lecturer in 2003 and Professor in 2006. In 2013, Gwilym became the Director of the Glasgow ESRC Q-Step Centre, and Associate Director of the ESRC Urban Big Data Centre. He moved to the University of Sheffield in 2014 as founding Director of the Sheffield Methods Institute, home to the ESRC Sheffield Q-Step Centre. Gwilym became the Sheffield Director of the ESRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Analytics and Society (2016-2024), and Co-Director of the ESRC Understanding Inequalities project (2017-2021) helping develop new methods and conceptual frameworks for exploring the changing patterns of spatial inequality in the UK. He extended these new approaches to explore similar issues in China as Principal Investigator for the GCRF project on Health & Environmental Inequalities in Hebei Province (2017-2019) and lead editor of the Open Access book, “Urban Segregation and Inequality in Europe and China.” Gwilym was Director of the ESRC/Nordforsk Life at the Frontier project (2020-2024) researching the impacts of segregation on migrant communities in the UK, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands, and Chair of the ESRC review of UK Longitudinal Studies (Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study, Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study, and Scottish Longitudinal Study). He is currently the founding Chair of the Spatial Analysis Network (300 members across 25 countries).

Gwilym has extensive experience of working with stakeholders at the national and local levels. He was formerly a member of Defra’s Economic Advisor Panel; and of the UK Government’s Expert Panel on Housing and Planning. He was an academic advisor on HM Treasury Barker Review of Housing Supply; the National Statisticians Review of Housing Market Statistics; and the Financial Services Authority Mortgage Market Review. He has recently worked closely with senior government officials in Hebei Province, China, on issues of segregation, and inequality. He continues to work closely with a number of public and private sector organisations including: Sheffield City Region, HM Home Office, West Midlands Police, South Yorkshire Police, Office for National Statistics, and Shelter. 

Gwilym’s main roles in the ESRC Centre for Care will be to oversee the bi-monthly methodology seminars; and to lead the Space and Place research strand  of “Research Group B: Inequalities in care: consequences, planning and place”, exploring issues of life-course and geographical inequalities associated with social care.

Research Interests

  • Urban segregation and inequality
  • Housing wealth inequality
  • Migrant integration and social mobility
  • Geographical and life-course inequalities in social care
  • Economics of care 

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