Gwilym Pryce
Gwilym is Professor of Urban Economics and Social Statistics in the Department of Economics at The University of Sheffield. He is currently Director of the ESRC/Nordforsk ‘Life at the Frontier’ research project, a multidisciplinary initiative spanning the UK, Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands. He is also Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Analytics and Society, and a co-investigator on the ESRC Centre for Care. Gwilym was formerly Associate Director of the ESRC Urban Big Data Centre, Founding Director of the Glasgow Q-Step Centre, Co-Director of the ESRC AQMEN Research Centre, Co-Director of the ESRC Understanding Inequalities research project, and Founding Director of the Sheffield 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 moved to 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 Sheffield in 2014 to lead the Sheffield Methods Institute, and joined the Department of Economics in September 2022.
Address: Department of Economics,
University of Sheffield,
9 Mappin St,
Sheffield UK
S1 4DT
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 moved to 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 Sheffield in 2014 to lead the Sheffield Methods Institute, and joined the Department of Economics in September 2022.
Address: Department of Economics,
University of Sheffield,
9 Mappin St,
Sheffield UK
S1 4DT
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