Matthew Wood

Dr Matthew Wood is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations. His first book, Hyper-active Governance (Cambridge University Press), explores how political economy can help explain different approaches governments use to using expertise within policy-making.

22 September 2021

Sheffield Council has devolved budgets to seven LACs across the city. But what decision making power they will have, and how they can spend this money, is yet to be defined.

Excitement, deflation and positivity in Sheffield’s new Local Area Committees