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Felicity Matthews Illustrator, Editor & Author

Felicity Matthews is Lecturer in Governance and Public Policy within the Department of Politics at Sheffield University. She has previously been Lecturer in Public Policy at the University of York; held a Leverhulme Fellowship in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield; and was awarded an ESRC-funded Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Exeter. She was awarded her PhD from the University of Sheffield, 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 years. Her doctoral thesis was awarded the Sir Walter Bagehot Prize by the Political Studies Association of the UK.