Dave Gordon
- Professorial Research Fellow (BSc, PhD)
- Centre for the Study of Poverty and Social Justice
- Tel: +44 (0)117 954 6761
- Email: Dave.Gordon@bristol.ac.uk
Personal profile
Dave combined his background in biology and geology with anti-poverty policy, while helping to find safe public water supplies in the South Pacific. He has researched and published in the fields of the scientific measurement of poverty, crime and poverty, childhood disability, area-based anti-poverty measures, the causal effects of poverty on ill health, housing policy and rural poverty.
Dave is currently the Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research.
The Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research is dedicated to multi-disciplinary research on poverty in both the industrialised and developing world. The Centre has been established by the University of Bristol in response to the United Nations First International Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006) and in recognition of the work of Professor Peter Townsend. The University sector can support the goal eradicating poverty by providing high quality interdisciplinary research into effective anti-poverty policies.
Research interests
Social and distributional justice, social harm, scientific measurement of poverty, child poverty and human rights, childhood disability, crime and poverty, area-based anti-poverty measures, the causal effects of poverty on ill health, and rural poverty.
Research projects
Current
- Diploma in Public Policy and Child Rights
- Poverty and social exclusion in the UK
- Understanding the social impacts of UK climate change policies
Completed
- Aquatest 2: Delivering a low-cost water test for developing countries (2010)
- Poverty and social exclusion in Taiwan: Renai Shiang pilot study (2010)
- Haiti child poverty analysis (2009)
- Understanding Social Exclusion Across the Life Course: Working Age Adults Without Dependent Children (2009)
- Fuel poverty indicator for Wales (2008)
- Global study on child poverty and disparities (2008)
- Updating the Fuel Poverty Indicator for England (2007)
- Review of the multi-dimensional measurement of social exclusion (2006)
- Understanding the transformation of the prospects of place (2006)
- Rural proofing and best practice in neighbourhood renewal (2005)
- Extension to poverty and social exclusion survey of Britain (2002)
- Guernsey survey of relative poverty (2002)
- Poverty and neighbourhood renewal in West Cornwall (2002)