Dr. Ian Gazeley

Biography

Ian Gazeley is an economic social historian specializing in modern Britain, with particular interests in the labour market, poverty, inequality, food consumption, and nutrition. He has authored the book 'Poverty Britain 1900-65' (2003) in conjunction with Nicholas Crafts and Andy Newell. Gazeley has also edited and contributed to 'Work and Pay in Twentieth Century Britain' (OUP 2007), and has published numerous articles on poverty, food consumption, nutrition, and income inequality in Britain, which span from 1790 to 1960, in leading international journals. He was the Principal Investigator for the £1.2m ESRC funded project 'Global Income Inequality, 1860-1960', which commenced in February 2014 and was jointly coordinated by the History and Economics departments at the University of Sussex. This four-year project aimed to calculate new estimates of world inequality based on household expenditure surveys. Additionally, he was the Principal Investigator for the £1.1m ESRC project 'Living Standards of Working Households in Britain, 1904-1960', which involved data extraction from the original returns of the Ministry of Labour's Household Expenditure Survey. Gazeley has held a Prize Research Fellowship at Nuffield College, Oxford before joining the Sussex History Department in 1985 and was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2016.

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