Alex Nunn

Biography

I am Professor of Global Political Economy in the College of Business, Law and Social Sciences. Prior to this I was at Leeds Beckett University in the Politics and International Relations group and was the founding Director of the Centre for Applied Social Research and Director of the Policy Research Institute. My academic research focuses on the role of the logic of competitiveness and crisis in the reshaping of the global political economy, social policy and inequality. I am particularly interested in the embedding of trends in political economy in detailed institutional and social practices. I have also undertaken a large number of applied research and consultancy projects on behalf of central and local government organisations in the UK and for international organisations such as the Council of Europe and European Commission. This work focuses on social and labour market policy and governance.  For instance, I regularly lead large, inter-disciplinary research teams to undertake policy evaluations etc.  I am currently working on a project for the Inter-American Development Bank.

Research Interest

I have two broad areas of research ongoing at the moment. The first relates to the political economy of inequality at all scales from the global through to the local. The second relates to the governance and organisation of labour markets and the provision of labour market services.