Dr Dan Greenwood

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Reader in Politics

Social Sciences

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About me

Dr. Dan Greenwood is Reader in Politics and Joint Coordinator of the PhD programme for School of Social Sciences. He holds a PhD in political theory/ political economy from University of Westminster, an MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems (University of Sussex) and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (University of Oxford). Prior to his academic career, Dr. Greenwood worked for several years as an IT consultant, mainly in London's finance and marketing sectors.

Teaching

Dr Greenwood's teaching focuses on governance and the state; policy-making and political economy; relating to a broad range of policy areas relating to sustainable development.

Currently he teaches on the following modules:

Power and the State (level 5)

Policy and Practice (level 6)

Governance, Policy Practice and Sustainable Development (level 7)

Research

The main focus of Dr Greenwood's research is the evaluation of governance and policy in the face of complex, cross-cutting policy challenges. This includes an interest in problems of coordination, involving inter-relationships between different tiers and spheres of governance, as well as the interface between politics, policy and markets.

A further interest is the implications for democracy of the seemingly increasingly complex nature of governance and policy-making. These issues are explored through a focus on a range of economic, social and environmental areas of governance and policy.

His current and recent projects are:

Recently published monograph proposing and applying an approach to governance and policy evaluation, drawing from heterodox political economy: ‘Effective Governance and the Political Economy of Coordination,’ (Palgrave, 2023).

Governance and policy for enabling active travel in urban areas: an international comparison of cases, including the Old Oak and Park Royal regeneration project in West London. This project is in collaboration with the University of Westminster Active Travel Academy.

Governance and policy for the built environment, with a focus on retrofits of residential buildings in London. This project is in collaboration with the University of Westminster Centre for the Production of the Built Environment (ProBE).

Public health governance.

The 'socialist calculation problem' and the development of novel approaches to economic modelling, particularly relating to the economics of climate change

Dr Greenwood provides doctoral research supervision on projects evaluating governance and policy across a range of sectors, including environmental governance, renewable energy, health, built environment/ urban planning, drawing from approaches in political science, policy analysis, political theory and political economy. He welcomes receipt of doctoral research proposals lying within these areas of research interest.

Publications

For details of all my research outputs, visit my WestminsterResearch profile.