Ian Stuart Gazeley,[1] FAcSS, is an economic historian specialising in poverty and nutrition in Britain.
He completed an undergraduate degree in Economics and Economic History at the University of Warwick and then a doctorate (DPhil, 1984) in Modern History at St Antony's College, Oxford, with a thesis entitled The standard of living of the working classes, 1881–1912: The cost of living and the analysis of family budgets.
He then held a Prize Research Fellowship at Nuffield College, Oxford, before joining the University of Sussex in 1985; until 2018, he was Professor of Economic History there, and has since been an emeritus professor in the History Faculty.
In 2016, he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
[3] Gazeley's published works include:[4] Poverty in Britain, 1900–65 Work and Pay in Twentieth-Century Britain