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Dr Enrico Reuter

BSc/MSc Social Sciences (Lille/Münster), PGCAP (York), PhD (Münster)

  • Senior Lecturer in Public and Social Policy
  • ​Associate Dean for Teaching & Learning and Student Experience

Areas of expertise

  • Labour markets and employment policies, in particular self-employment
  • Politics of social policy and democratic theory
  • State theory and public policy
  • Public management and public service reform
  • Social exclusion and vulnerability
  • Critical social theory

Academic biography

I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Public and Social Policy, teaching students on the Schools's undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses in social and public policy as well as in public administration and management, with a particular focus on public services and finance, employment, and social protection. Since the academic year 2022/23, I have been an ​Associate Dean for Teaching & Learning and Student Experience in the School for Business and Society.

My research interests in a broader sense evolve around the conflictual nature of social policies and public services, to analyse the political drivers behind the transformations of welfare systems and to assess how these changes impact on social integration and democratic government.

More specifically, I currently work on two research themes: changes in employment conditions and labour market policies, in particular regarding self-employment; and questions of state capacity and legitimacy, notably with respect to public services.

Before my time at York, I worked briefly as Lecturer and Programme Director at Birkbeck College London and as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Münster. My academic background is in Political Science and Sociology, subjects I studied on a bi-national programme at the Institut d'Etudes politiques in Lille (France) and at the University of Münster (Germany).

PhD supervision interests

  • Labour markets and employment policies
  • Politics of social policy and democratic theory
  • State theory and public policy
  • Public service and welfare reform
  • Social exclusion, poverty and vulnerability
  • British, French and German public policy and politics
  • European social policy
  • Comparative social and public policy
  • Qualitative methods

Professional activities

Contact details

Dr Enrico Reuter
Senior Lecturer in Public and Social Policy
​Associate Dean for Teaching & Learning and Student Experience
School for Business and Society
CL/A/117A

Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 1252

@ReuterEnrico