Claire Annesley is Senior Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Manchester. She holds a BA in German and Politics from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and a PhD from the University of Sheffield. Before joining the University of Manchester she was Research Assistant at the Political Economy Research Centre (PERC) at the University of Sheffield (1998-2000) and tutor on an EU-funded exchange programme between the University of Sheffield and the University of Lodz, Poland (1996-8). Claire has been visiting fellow in the Centre for the Future of the European Social Model at Georg-August-Universität-Göttingen (Sept 2005-Feb 2006) and visiting researcher at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) in 2002.
Recent publications include ‘Lisbon and Social Europe: Towards a European "Adult Worker Model" Welfare System' Journal of European Social Policy, Vol 17, No 4. 2007 and ‘Women's Political Agency and Welfare Reform: Engendering the ‘Adult Worker Model' Welfare State' Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 60, No 4. 2007. She is also the co-editor (with Francesca Gains and Kirstein Rummery) of Women and New Labour: Engendering Politics and Policy? (Bristol: Policy Press, 2007).