Matthew Flinders (academic)
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Matthew V. Flinders (born 1972[1]) is a British academic and political scientist. From July 2014 until April 2017 he was Chair of the Executive Committee of Trustees of the Political Studies Association.[2][3]
Flinders did his undergraduate degree at Loughborough University before completing his PhD in public policy and governance at the University of Sheffield.[1][4] He teaches on the undergraduate politics degree at the University of Sheffield and has written a number of academic books. His main area of expertise is British governance. He obtained a departmental chair in 2009, and is deputy head of the department.[1] He is also Founding Professor of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre.[5]
Flinders's book Delegated Governance and the British State: Walking without Order won the 2009 W. J. M. Mackenzie Prize, awarded by the Political Studies Association for the best book published in 2008.[6] In 2026 he was awarded the Isaiah Berlin Prize of the Political Studies Association for outstanding professional contributions to political studies.
