Anne’s areas of expertise are welfare reform, labour market policies,  social policy and administration, social security, and governence/immigration. Anne has led several research projects funded by the British Academy, the ESRC and the Fulbright Commission. 

An experienced PhD supervisor, Anne welcomes PhD applications in the field of Human Resource Management, welfare reform and active labour market policies, social security, social rights, decent work and economic growth (Sustainable Development Goal 8). She is particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches that combine public policy analysis with a socio-legal perspective. She is also keen to supervise PhDs that analyse policy reforms in the Global South (especially Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa). 

Dr. Anne Daguerre is Reader in Social Justice at the University of Brighton’s School of Business and Law. She is a political scientist with expertise in welfare reform, labour market policy, social security, and active labour market policies, with comparative work across the UK, US, Europe, and the Global South.

Anne has held previous academic positions at Middlesex University, Royal Holloway London, and the University of Kent, and she has been a visiting fellow at leading U.S. institutions, including George Mason University, the University of Pittsburgh, and George Washington University. She earned her PhD in Political Science from Sciences Po Bordeaux.

She has sucessfully completed the ESRC-funded project “Activating Employers: The Politics of Regulation in the UK, the US and Australia” (£481,309), which analysed the use of public procurement to promote good work in post-pandemic labour markets.

Project Website: Activating Employers

Her work bridges academia and policy practice, with research funded by the ESRC, British Academy, Fulbright Commission, and Woodrow Wilson Center. She has published extensively, including three authored books and peer-reviewed articles in Social Policy and Administration, Work, Employment and Society, and Journal of Social Security Law.

She is a Fellow of the Institute of Employability Professionals (IEP) and a member of the ESRC Peer Review College. Since October 2025, she is an Appointed Member of the ESRC Assessor College. 

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