Expert Guide: General Election 2024

University of Sheffield academics are available to share their expertise on matters related to the upcoming general election 2024.

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The University of Sheffield has academic experts who can comment on a range of issues related to the general election 2024.

We have compiled an expert guide featuring researchers who are happy to speak to the media. If you are a journalist looking for an expert, please contact the University's Media Team on +44 114 222 1050 or via: mediateam@sheffield.ac.uk.

If you are an academic who would like to be added to this guide, please contact the Media Team via the email address above. 

Our experts

Dr James Weinberg 
Senior Lecturer in Political Science

Expert topics: 

  • Political trust
  • What makes good government
  • How much public trust in politicians affects how they behave and make decisions

Professor Kate Dommett 
Professor of Digital Politics

Expert topics:

  • The relationship between citizens and the state in contemporary democracies, particularly looking at how this is affected by digital technology
  • How digital technology is being used in elections and by democratic organisations
  • The impact of digital technology on elections
  • Private companies and elections
  • The transparency of electoral finances

Professor Matthew Flinders 
Professor of Politics and Founding Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics

Expert topics:

  • Governance and public policy
  • Constitutional reform
  • Territorial and functional decentralisation
  • Political disengagement
  • The future of democracy

Professor Felicity Matthews 
Professor of Politics

Expert topics:

  • British politics
  • Government
  • Parliament
  • Constitutional reform

Dr Daniel Pitt 
Teaching Assistant in the Department of Politics and International Relations

Expert topics:

  • The constitution
  • The Conservative Party
  • Conservatism

Professor Charles Pattie 
Professor of Politics

Expert topics:

  • Election campaigning and electoral systems
  • Voting, political behaviour and public opinion
  • US elections

Dr Max Hayward 
Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Political Philosophy

Expert topics:

  • How optimism and pessimism about political change can become self-fulfilling and how this affects political strategy

Professor Michael Jacobs 
Professor of Political Economy and Professorial Fellow at the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute
Economist and a former special adviser to Prime Minister Gordon Brown

Expert topics: 

  •  Current debates in economic theory and policy

Professor Jesse Matheson 
Professor in Economics

Expert topics:

  • Public, labour and health economics
  • Understanding the influence that economic and social environment have on individual choice
  • The large geographic shift in urban economic activity, or 'zoomshock' - a defining feature of the Covid economic crisis

Professor Christoph Thoenissen
Professor of Economics

Expert topics:

  • Open economy macroeconomics
  • Monetary economics and business cycle fluctuations
  • Financial crises

Professor Jason Heyes
Professor of Employment Relations

Expert topics:

  • Employment relations
  • The labour market
  • Underemployment
  • Unpaid working carers
  • Bogus self-employment

Professor Sarah Brown
Professor of Economics

Expert topics:

  • Low pay
  • Household financial vulnerability

Dr Emily Whitehouse
Lecturer in Economics

Expert topics: 

  • The economic drivers for the general election