Daniel Briggs is a researcher, writer, and inter-disciplinary academic who studies social problems. Over the last 20 years, he has undertaken a significant amount of mixed-methods and ethnographic research into various social issues. He has also been lecturing undergraduates and postgraduates across Criminology, Law, Sociology, and Social Policy for the last twelve years.
In this time, he has published over 100 books, chapters, and articles and presented at over 50 conferences worldwide. His penultimate book, which was based on two-year photo-ethnographic project, titled Drugs, Crime and Life in the City Shadows (2017, Policy Press) won the Distinguished Book Award from the International Division of Criminology at the American Society of Criminology.
Daniel has recently concluded Climate Changed: Refugee Border Stories and the Business of Misery (2020, Routledge) and Researching the Covid 19 Pandemic: A Critical Blueprint for the Social Sciences (Bristol University Press, 2021).
