Professor of Public Policy and Head of Department, Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge

Michael Kenny is Head of Department at the Bennett School of Public Policy at the University Cambridge (formerly the Bennett Institute for Public Policy). He is Professor of Public Policy and teaches on the M.Phil in Public Policy.

Before he arrived in Cambridge, Michael held positions at: Queen’s University, Belfast; the University of Sheffield, where he was appointed Head of the Department of Politics; and Queen Mary University of London, where he was the inaugural Director of the Mile End Institute. He served on the Leverhulme Trust’s Advisory Committee (2010-2018), was co-director of the British Academy’s “Governing England” programme (2015-2018) and is currently a visiting Fellow at the UCL Constitution Unit and a member of the advisory board of the Constitution Society. In 2021 he was made a Fellow of the UK’s Academy of the Social Sciences. As well as being a Professor of Public Policy at Cambridge, he is a Professorial Fellow at Fitzwilliam College.

Michael’s research interests are in the fields of public policy; governance and devolution; territorial politics; British politics and political ideas. He is currently involved in research projects exploring various issues relating to infrastructure policy. He is part of a research team funded by The Productivity Institute examining various institutional and governance questions.