Daniel Evans

I am currently lecturing in Criminology, drawing on my extensive professional experience working with offenders and the criminal justice system.

I am an interdisciplinary scholar with a background in politics, international relations, and sociology. My current research focuses broadly on political sociology and sociological theory, with a particular interest in British and Welsh politics (particularly national identity and devolution), the sociology of education, trade unions and the labour process, critical military studies, crime and prisons, and ethnographic methods. The thread which unites these discrete topics is my long standing interest in social class and its influence on identity, political behaviour, and more.

My research has been published in journals including Nations and Nationalism, Capital and Class, and British Politics. In 2021 I edited the book The Welsh Way: Essays on Neoliberalism and Devolution. In January 2023 I published my book A Nation of Shopkeepers, exploring the role of the petty bourgeoisie in the modern class structure and its impact on populist politics. I am working on a monograph based on my PhD- British Wales: Class, Place and Everyday Nationhood- with the University of Wales Press.