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

Political Economy

Political Economy

PhD Title: The Domestic Politics of Global Consumption.

PhD title: Neoliberal ideas in crises: Covid-19 and Inflation

With an academic and working background in urban planning and a deep motivation for environmental stewardship, my research interests include local government action relating to climate change in the UK, as well as municipalism and participation in practice. I joined the University of Sheffield's Urban Studies and Planning Department in October of 2022, following completing an MSc In Environmental Change and International Development from the Department of Geography. During this degree I specialised in urban development in the Global South, and completed my dissertation on Justice in Urban Climate Governance with Dr Linda Westman of the Urban Institute.

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

International Relations | Political Economy

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

PhD title: The Shadows of the Green Transition - Continuity or Change in Everyday Extractive Violence?

Political Economy

PhD Title: How do states shape, and how are they themselves shaped by, global production networks?

Political Economy

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

Governance and Public Policy

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

International Relations

Law

Law

Environmental Politics

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

Law

- 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

Criminology

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