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Peter Ambrose was born in London in 1933. He left school at 16 and worked in a City bank for ten years. He did National Service in the RAF and flew operationally with Coastal Command. In 1960 he took A levels and then read for a B.A. in Geography at Kings College London. He is an Associate of the College. He subsequently completed an M.A. at McGill as a Commonwealth Scholar and a D. Phil. at Sussex University. He taught housing courses in the Geography, Urban Studies and Social Policy degrees at Sussex from 1965 until his retirement in 1998.
Following ten years or more of comparative housing research in a number of European countries in the 1980s, and the leadership of a Foreign and Commonwealth Office Housing Advisory Team to the Bulgarian Government in 1992-94, his research has focused on urban regeneration schemes in various London Boroughs, Brighton and Hastings. He has been especially concerned with assessing the health changes associated with these improvements. His most recent research has focused on the multi-facetted relationship between poor housing and poor health and on the general impact of high housing costs on poverty and debt.
Since 1998 he has been Visiting Professor in Housing Studies in the Social Science Policy and Research Centre at Brighton University and is an Associate of the Zacchaeus 2000 Trust. He has published seven books and over 160 other works.
Peter is married, has two grown up children and lives in Lewes. He has been trying to retire for some years now.
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