Adam Saunders

Personal Info

Dr Adam Saunders is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Department. His research focuses on the comparative political economy of advanced capitalist societies. In particular, his work examines the implications of different national approaches to social policy, labour market policy and economic production for economic growth, business competitiveness and socio-economic inequality. Funded by the Leverhulme Trust and the University of Oxford's John Fell OUP Research Fund, his current research project compares the poliitical and economic implications of developments in healthcare, pensions and unemployment insurance for workforce skills, corporate strategy and economic competitiveness in the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany and Japan since 1945.

Dr Saunders is the Course Convenor and Course Tutor for the 'Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State' M.Sc./M.Phil. option paper, an overview of which can be accessed here. In addition, he is Co-Convenor of the Politics of Social Policy Research Group at the Department. Dr Saunders supervises students interested in the political economy of social policy and labour market policy in advanced and developing economies.