Dr Matthew Wood

PhD, FRSA

School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations

Senior Lecturer

m.wood@sheffield.ac.uk

Elmfield Building

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Dr Matthew Wood
School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations
Elmfield Building
Northumberland Road
Sheffield
S10 2TU

Profile: 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.

Research interests: 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

Hervey T, Antova I, Flear ML & Wood M (2023) Not What The Bus Promised Health Governance after Brexit. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Grants: PI, ESRC Future Leaders Fellow, 2015-18; CI, ESRC Health Governance After Brexit: Law, Language and Legitimacy.

Teaching interests: 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: Level 3: Anti-politics and Democratic Crisis; MA: Democratic Governance in the Twenty-first Century.

Professional activities and memberships: Trustee of the UK Political Studies Association, 2017-18.

Supervision Expertise

Current supervisions

Hasrul Hanif 2017-present.