Mark Goodwin

Mark Goodwin is Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow in Public Policy. He holds a BSocSci in Politics from the University of Manchester and an MA and PhD from the University of Birmingham. Before joining Cambridge, Mark taught at the University of Birmingham and at De Montfort University. Mark was previously Research Associate on the Economic and Social Research Council-funded project "The Treasury under New Labour" and Research Assistant on the Higher Education Academy-funded project "It's Good to Talk: Feedback, Dialogue and Learning". His research on public policy has been published in Public Administration, Political Studies, Parliamentary Affairs and the Political Quarterly. Mark has also published original research on the pedagogy of political science in Politics, Studies in Higher Education and European Political Science. Mark is currently researching the role of the UK Parliament in public policy and the regulation of human reproductive technologies.

Research Interests

British politics and public policy

Regulation of human reproductive technologies

Schools policy

Key Publications

(2013) “Political Science?: Does Scientific Training Predict MPs Voting Behaviour?”, Parliamentary Affairs.

(2013) “Can dialogue help to improve feedback on examinations?”, (with Alasdair Blair, Steven Curtis, Samantha Shields, Alun Wyburn-Powell), Studies in Higher Education

(2013) “From Consumption to Construction: The Significance of Assignment Feedback”, (with Alasdair Blair, Steven Curtis, Samantha Shields), European Political Science

(2013) “What feedback do students want?”, (with Alasdair Blair, Steven Curtis, Samantha Shields), Politics

(2011) “English Education Policy after New Labour”, Political Quarterly

(2011) “Bringing Structures Back In: The ‘governance narrative’, the ‘decentred approach’ and ‘asymmetrical network governance’ in the education and sport policy communities”, (with Jonathan Grix), Public Administration

(2009) “Which Networks Matter in Education Governance: A Reply to Ball’s ‘New Philanthropy, New Networks and New Governance in Education’”, Political Studies

(2009) “Choice in Public Services: Crying ‘wolf’ in the school choice debate”, Political Quarterly