Gwilym Pryce

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 

Publications

• Zhu, J., & Pryce, G. (2025). Measuring the impact of immigration on neighbourhood house prices: evidence from England and Wales. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 1-20.
• Petrillo, M., Valdenegro, D., Rahal, C., Zhang, Y., Pryce, G., & Bennett, M. R. (2024). Estimating the cost of informal care with a novel two-stage approach to individual synthetic control. arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.10314.
• Zhang, M. L., Piekut, A., Rasool, Z., Warden, L., Staples, H., & Pryce, G. (2024). Using residents and experts to evaluate the validity of areal wombling for detecting social boundaries: A small-scale feasibility study. Plos one, 19(8), e0305774.
• Piekut A, Staples H, Pryce G & Rasool Z (2024) Social Frontiers and Community Life in Rotherham West, University of Sheffield
• Iyer, A., & Pryce, G. (2024). Theorising the causal impacts of social frontiers: The social and psychological implications of discontinuities in the geography of residential mix. Urban Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980231194834.
• Olner, D., Pryce, G., van Ham, M., & Janssen, H. (2024). 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, https://journals-sagepub-com.sheffield.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.1177/23998083231173696
• Owen, G., & Pryce, G. (2024). Housing Wealth: Implications for Inequality, Macroeconomics and Policy Reform. In The Routledge Handbook of Housing Economics (pp. 69-81). Routledge.
• Emery, J., Olner, D., and Pryce, G. (2023) Deindustrialisation and Peripheralisation in Sheffield, Book Chapter in Griseri, P. and Iannello, A. (eds.) “Periferi: Barriere nelle citta” https://www.ibs.it/periferie-barriere-nelle-citta-libro-vari/e/9788835148135
• Petrillo, M., Bennett, M. and Pryce, G. (2022) Cycles of caring: transitions in and out of unpaid care, London: Carers UK. https://centreforcare.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CUK-Carers-Rights-Day-Research-Report-2022-Web.pdf 
• Owen, G., Chen, Y., Birabi, T., Pryce, G., Song, H., & Wang, B. (2022). Residential segregation of migrants: Disentangling the intersectional and multiscale segregation of migrants in Shijiazhuang, China. Urban Studies, 00420980221076802. 
• Pryce, G. et al. (2021). Urban Inequality and Segregation in Europe and China: Towards a New Dialogue. Springer Nature.
• Fingleton, B., Olner, D., & Pryce, G. (2020). Estimating the local employment impacts of immigration: A dynamic spatial panel model. Urban Studies, 57(13), 2646-2662.
• Zhang, M. L., & Pryce, G. (2020). The dynamics of poverty, employment and access to amenities in polycentric cities: Measuring the decentralisation of poverty and its impacts in England and Wales. Urban Studies, 57(10), 2015-2030.
• Dong, G., Ma, J., Lee, D., Chen, M., Pryce, G., & Chen, Y. (2020). Developing a locally adaptive spatial multilevel logistic model to analyze ecological effects on health using individual census records. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110(3), 739-757.
• Bakens, J., & Pryce, G. (2019). Homophily horizons and ethnic mover flows among homeowners. Housing Studies, 34(6), 925-945.
• Piekut, A., Pryce, G., & van Gent, W. (2019). Segregation in the twenty first century: Processes, complexities and future directions. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 110(3), 225-234.
• Dean, N., Dong, G., Piekut, A., & Pryce, G. (2019). Frontiers in residential segregation: understanding neighbourhood boundaries and their impacts. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 110(3), 271-288.
• Easton, S., & Pryce, G. (2019). Not so welcome here? Modelling the impact of ethnic in-movers on the length of stay of home-owners in micro-neighbourhoods. Urban Studies, 56(14), 2847-2862.
• Zhu, J., Pryce, G., & Brown, S. (2019). Immigration and house prices under various labour market structures in England and Wales. Urban Studies, 56(9), 1801-1817.
• Dean, N., & Pryce, G. (2017). Is the housing market blind to religion? A perceived substitutability approach to homophily and social integration. Urban Studies, 54(13), 3058-3070.
• Kavanagh, L., Lee, D., & Pryce, G. (2016). Is poverty decentralizing? Quantifying uncertainty in the decentralization of urban poverty. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 106(6), 1286-1298.