Professor Daniel Wincott
Blackwell Professor of Law and Society
- wincottd@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44(0)29 2068 8737
- 21 Park Place, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3DQ
- Available for postgraduate supervision
I am the Blackwell Law and Society Chair at Cardiff University School of Law and Politics, where I work in the School’s Wales Governance Centre. I direct the Economic and Social Research Council’s Governance after Brexit Research Programme and serve as Research Director of the ESRC UK in a Changing Europe initiative, which is based at King’s College, London. In these roles I direct and co-ordinate over 30 individual ESRC research projects.
I am a political scientist and policy analyst by background, and have developed wide-ranging research interests and an enthusiasm for working across disciplines (politics, law, socio-legal studies, social and public policy). I am a Fellow of the Centre on Constituitonal Change at the University of Edinburgh where I have held an Honorary Professorial Fellowship in the School of Social and Political Sciences. I am a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
Becoming Head of Cardiff Law School in 2013, I then led the merger of Law with the University's Department of Politics and International Relations during 2013/14. As Head of the Cardiff University School of Law and Politics, I designed and implemented a transformative expansion of the School's work in the field of International Relations - under his leadership 18 new members of staff at all levels were appointed during 2015.
I am a member of the ESRC's Strategic Advisory Network, having previously served on its Research Committee. I have been a member of the Management group of the Wales ESRC Doctoral Training Centre. I am a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Law and Society. Previously, I have been Editor of the Journal of Common Market Studies.
I moved to Cardiff from a Chair in European and Comparative Politics at the University of Birmingham and earlier held positions in Law and Politics at the Universities of Leicester and Warwick. I completed my PhD on ‘The policy configurations of ‘welfare states’ and women’s role in the workforce in advanced industrial societies’ at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
2018
- Wincott, D. 2018. Brexit and the state of the United Kingdom. In: Diamond, P., Nedergaard, P. and Rosamond, B. eds. The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Brexit. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 15-26.
2017
- Wincott, D. 2017. Brexit dilemmas: new opportunities and tough choices in unsettled times. British Journal of Politics and International Relations 19(4), pp. 680-695. (10.1177/1369148117725316)
- Henderson, A.et al. 2017. How Brexit was made in England. British Journal of Politics & International Relations 19(4), pp. 613-646. (10.1177/1369148117730542)
2016
- Menon, A., Minto, R. and Wincott, D. 2016. Introduction: The UK and the European Union. Political Quarterly 87(2), pp. 174-178. (10.1111/1467-923X.12266)
- Henderson, A.et al. 2016. England, Englishness and Brexit. Political Quarterly 87(2), pp. 187-199. (10.1111/1467-923X.12262)
- Cowan, D. and Wincott, D. eds. 2016. Exploring the 'legal' in socio-legal studies. Palgrave Macmillan Socio-Legal Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Cowan, D. and Wincott, D. 2016. Exploring the 'legal'. In: Cowan, D. and Wincott, D. eds. Exploring the 'Legal' in Sociology-Legal Studies. Palgrave Macmillan Socio-Legal Studies Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-31.
2015
- Priban, J. 2015. The concept of law in global societal constitutionalism. In: Cowan, D. and Wincott, D. eds. Exploring the 'Legal' in Socio-Legal Studies. Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies Palgrave, pp. 57-79.
- Wincott, D. 2015. Original and imitated or elusive and limited? Towards a genealogy of the Welfare State idea in Britain. In: Beland, D. and Peterson, K. eds. Analysing Social Policy Concepts and Language: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives. Policy Press, pp. 127-142.
2014
- Chaney, P. and Wincott, D. 2014. Envisioning the third sector's welfare role: Critical discourse analysis of 'post-devolution' public policy in the UK 1998-2012. Social Policy and Administration 48(7), pp. 757-781. (10.1111/spol.12062)
2013
- Wincott, D. 2013. The (golden) age of the Welfare State: Interrogating a conventional wisdom. Public Administration 91(4), pp. 806-822. (10.1111/j.1467-9299.2012.02067.x)
- Henderson, A., Jeffery, C. and Wincott, D. eds. 2013. Citizenship after the nation state: Regionalism, nationalism and public attitudes in Europe. Comparative Territorial Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Wincott, D. and Wyn Jones, R. 2013. Conclusion: citizenship after the nation state: the 2009 survey and beyond. In: Henderson, A., Jeffery, C. and Wincott, D. eds. Citizenship after the nation state: Regionalism, nationalism and public attitudes in Europe. Comparative Territorial Politics Baskingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 181-205.
- Henderson, A.et al. 2013. Citizenship after devolution in the United Kingdom: public attitudes in Scotland and Wales. In: Henderson, A., Jeffery, C. and Wincott, D. eds. Citizenship after the nation state: Regionalism, nationalism and public attitudes in Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 31-51.
- Wyn Jones, R.et al. 2013. England and its two unions: The anatomy of a nation and its discontents. Project Report. [Online]. London: Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). Available at: http://www.ippr.org/publication/55/11003/england-and-its-two-unions-the-anatomy-of-a-nation-and-its-discontents
- Henderson, A.et al. 2013. Reflections on the 'devolution paradox': a comparative examination of multilevel citizenship. Regional Studies 47(3), pp. 303-322. (10.1080/00343404.2013.768764)
2012
- Hay, C. and Wincott, D. 2012. The Political Economy of European Welfare Capitalism. 21st Century Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Wyn Jones, R.et al. 2012. The dog that finally barked: England as an emerging political community. Project Report. [Online]. London: Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). Available at: http://www.ippr.org/images/media/files/publication/2012/02/dog-that-finally-barked_englishness_Jan2012_8542.pdf
2011
- Wincott, D. 2011. Images of welfare in law and society: the British welfare state in comparative perspective. Journal of Law and Society 38(3), pp. 343-375. (10.1111/j.1467-6478.2011.00548.x)
- Wincott, D. 2011. Ideas, policy change and the welfare state. In: Beland, D. and Cox, R. H. eds. Ideas and Politics in Social Science Research. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 143-166.
2010
- Jeffery, C. and Wincott, D. 2010. The challenge of territorial politics: beyond methodological nationalism. In: Hay, C. ed. New Directions in Political Science: Responding to the Challenges of an Interdependent World. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 167-188.
2009
- Wincott, D. 2009. Citizenship in space and time: observations on T.H. Marshall's Citizenship and Social Class. In: Greer, S. L. ed. Devolution and Social Citizenship in the UK. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 39-56.
My research ranges over such issues as: devolution and territorial governance; Constitutional law and politics; comparative welfare state theory and analysis; European integration, especially in the areas of social policy and law. It often engages with theoretical and methodological issues as well as empirical analysis. My most recent books are The Political Economy of European Welfare Capitalism (Palgrave 2012, co-author with Colin Hay), Citizenship after the Nation State (Palgrave 2013, co-editor with Ailsa Henderson and Charlie Jeffery) and Exploring the 'legal' in socio-legal studies (Palgrave 2015, co-editor with David Cowan).
Currently I am a co-investigator on the ESRC’s WISERD/Civil Society research programme (funded to the tune of some £7 million), working on the place of the Third Sector and Civil Society in welfare policy and provision. I am also is also a co-investigator on the ESRC’s Between two Unions Large Grant, a multi-institutional project co-ordinated from the Centre on Constitutional Change at the University of Edinburgh.