Faculty at the Department of Politics at the University of York


Dr Felicity Matthews

Felicity Matthews joined the Department of Politics at the University of York in 2011 as Lecturer in Public Policy. She was previously a member of the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield as a Leverhulme Research Fellow, after completing an ESRC-funded Post Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Exeter. She was awarded her PhD from the University of Sheffield in 2008, which considered the ability of national governments to exercise their strategic capacity and steer the policy process, analysing the extent to which this has declined or been re-shaped in recent decades. Her doctoral thesis was awarded the Sir Walter Bagehot Prize by the Political Studies Association of the UK in 2008. Felicity is currently working on a range of interconnected issues, including: governance and government; governmental capacity; political leadership; policy networks; policy design and implementation; citizen expectations and engagement; and, the delivery of public services.




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