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Colin Hay is Co-Director of SPERI and Professor of Political Analysis. He joined the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield in 2007.

PhD Title: The Domestic Politics of Global Consumption.

PhD Title: Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility: Exploring the potential of worker-driven alternatives in supply chains.

PhD Title: Driving towards climate change - the barriers to decarbonising the automobile sector.

The relationship and corresponding underlying psychological mechanisms between inequality and measures of subjective well-being across Latin America

PhD Title: Tamerlane's trip to Shanghai: Sino-Uzbek relations in the 21st century.

PhD Title: Women and Unfree Labour: A Feminist Political Economy Account.

PhD Title: Trump Priming: the anatomy of a Wedge Lie and its impact on democratic health

Gentrification and displacement, cities and crime; wealth, poverty and exclusion; segregation and urban security; 'gated communities' and fortress homes.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) provision in low-income settlements; labour rights; gender and participation; collective action, Community Based Organisations (CBOs) and urban governance

- Ageing, pensions & income in later life
- Gender
- Work & care
- Remembrance & sport
- Pensions
- Reform and the impact of particular governments.

Urban development and politics in the global South.

- Social stratification & inequality
- Labour markets
- Education
- Family & gender
- Migration
-Electoral behaviour
- Advanced multivariate methods

- Labour markets, learning, skills, underemployment & training
- Social quality, health and wellbeing
- Poverty & deprivation
- Advanced multivariate methods
- Machine learning

Matt's research is in the politics of urban air pollution governance with Sheffield Air.