Dr Matthew Wood
PhD, FRSA
Department of Politics and International Relations
Senior Lecturer
Full contact details
Department of Politics and International Relations
Modular Teaching Village
Northumberland Road
Sheffield
S10 1AJ
- Profile
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Matthew Wood is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations. His research is focussed on collaborative governance and investigates how collaboration between diverse groups can be facilitated in the face of competing or conflicting political preferences. He is interested in how collaboration can bridge cultural, psychological, ideological and geographical differences to enable healthy and sustainable societies. His research uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to address these challenges.
- Qualifications
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PhD in Politics, University of Sheffield, 2014.
- Research interests
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I study the political conditions for effective collaboration, and the way in which collaboration can improve the quality of governance, especially in health and sustainability policy. I am interested in the way in which deep political divisions and conflicts shape and challenge collaborative human relationships in this process
- Publications
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Books
- Not What The Bus Promised Health Governance after Brexit. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Journal articles
- Perceptions of accountability and trust in the regulatory governance of wood burning stove sustainability: Survey evidence from the post-Brexit UK. Energy Policy, 177. View this article in WRRO
- Enhancing Vulnerable Groups’ Participation in Medicines Risk Regulation: The Case of the European Medicines Agency’s Public Hearing on Quinolone Antibiotics. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 1-19.
- What Do “Left Behind Communities” Want? A Qualitative Study in the United Kingdom using Photo Elicitation. American Political Science Review, 1-15.
- Not What The Bus Promised Health Governance after Brexit. Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Research group
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Governance and Public Policy
- Grants
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PI, ESRC Future Leaders Fellow, 2015-18; CI, ESRC Health Governance After Brexit: Law, Language and Legitimacy.
- Teaching interests
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I am passionate about ensuring that students gain employability skills from their degrees, and therefore integrate research design processes within the modules I teach.
- Teaching activities
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Level 3: Anti-politics and Democratic Crisis; MA: Democratic Governance in the Twenty-first Century.
- Professional activities and memberships
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Trustee of the UK Political Studies Association, 2017-18.
- Supervision Expertise
- Governance and public policy
- Health
- Environment
- Britain and Europe
- Local politics/government
Current supervisions
Hasrul Hanif 2017-present.