Researchers in the Townsend Centre have been at the forefront of efforts to develop scientific definitions and measures of poverty that are meaningful and effective in both the industrialised and ...

The Centre was established 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 ...

[Peter] co-founded the Child Poverty Action Group and the Disability Alliance. Peter Townsend was an academic sociologist, researcher and prominent social policy campaigner. He wrote extensively on ...