Senior Teaching Fellow, Keele University
Matthew Wyman is Senior Teaching Fellow in Politics at Keele University, where he specialises in Russian politics, public opinion, electoral politics and political education.
He was the winner of the 2017 Political Studies Association Award for Innovation in Teaching Politics for his work on career development education for Politics and International Relations students.
Little prospect of regime change in Russia short of a popular uprising – and that's unlikely
Aug 21, 2017 13:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Vladimir Putins power in Russia can often look unassailable. However much Western media might champion potential opponents, the president maintains a tight grip, and its easy to see why. Any successor to Putin who was not...
Can we trust the opinion polls in election 2017?
Apr 24, 2017 13:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Political opinion polls have taken a bit of a battering in the past few years. There was wide agreement on the eve of the last UK general election that the outcome would be a hung parliament. Few pollsters saw Donald Trump...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight