David Gordon

I currently hold the posts of Professor of Social Justice and Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research at the University of Bristol. I have an international reputation for research into issues of poverty and social justice and I have written and edited over a hundred books, papers and reports on these subjects.

I have a background in biology and geology, which I combined with anti-poverty policy, while helping to find safe public water supplies in the South Pacific. I have 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.