Inaugural Lecture Professor Daniel Briggs

Professor Daniel Briggs Inaugural

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About the Speaker

Professor Daniel Briggs is an experienced researcher, writer and inter-disciplinary academic who uses ethnographic methods (observation, interviewing) to study social problems. He has dedicated much of the last 20 years to spending time with and studying homeless drug users, terminally-ill patients, refugees, prostitutes, gypsies, gang members, young offenders and deviant young people, political activists and protestors and economic migrants.

One of his recent books, Dead End Lives: Drugs and Violence in the City Shadows (2017, Policy Press), won the Division of International Criminology’s Outstanding Book Award 2018 (selected by the American Society of Criminology). Other monographs include Climate Changed: Refugee Border Stories and the Business of Misery (2020, Routledge) and Hotel Puta: A Hardcore Ethnography of a Luxury Brothel (2022, RJ4All Publications).

Professor Briggs is also the lead co-author of Researching the Covid-19 Pandemic (2021, Bristol University Press) and Lockdown: Social Harm in the Covid-19 Era (2021, Palgrave), and The New Futures of Exclusion (2023, Palgrave). He is currently working on In search of Slava Ukraїni, a project based on his experiences hosting Ukrainian families in Spain.