Jake Wood

Research

Research Title:

Post-Macroprudentialism: The Politics of Financing Industrial Strategies in Emerging Asia. 

Research Overview:

My doctoral research explores the political economy of central banking and financial regulation in emerging markets, with a regional focus on Southeast Asia. My thesis is an MMR design, which uses quantitative methods to test existing typologies of peripheral financial strategies from the heterodox economics literature, and then explains how enhanced tools for bank regulation (“macroprudential regimes”) developed after the 2008 financial crisis have morphed into new systems of window guidance across selected case studies in Asia. I use Marxist state theory, in particular the ideas of Antonio Gramsci and Nicos Poulantzas, to explore the political challenges of co-ordinating macroprudential interventions with industrial policies to move up within global value chains.  

Qualifications/Awards

Qualifications

MA Social Research (Research Methods), University of York (2021- 2022)

MA International Political Economy, University of York (2019-2020)

BA Philosophy, University of Brighton, University of Brighton (2015-2018)

Publications / Presentations

Peer Reviewed Publications:

• Murray-Evans, P., O’Reilly, P. and Wood, J. L. (2026) ‘Minimal norm compliance in global value chains: contesting local vaccine production in Africa’, Review of International Political Economy, pp. 1–31. doi: 10.1080/09692290.2026.2700274.

Conference Papers:

• Jake Wood presented their findings for a project: “Macroprudential Architectures of the Emerging Capitalist Economies: Case Study of Malaysia” at the British International Studies Association’s International Political Economy Working Group conference, 2025.
• Jake Wood presented their findings at the project: “Has China’s Bilateral Lending Reduced Reliance on the IMF? Quantitative Evidence from Survival Analysis” at the Political Studies Association Conference, Birmingham, 2025.
• Jake Wood presented their literature review for a project: ‘Access to Vaccines and Medicines for COVID-19 in Africa: Exploring the Politics of Trade and Production’ at the Political Studies Association Conference, York, 2022.

I also blog about party politics and the UK socialist movement at jakeleroywood on Substack. 

Teaching

Jake is currently teaching on the 1st Year undergraduate module: Political Analysis, and has worked as a GTA across various modules in the departments of Politics and International Relations, Economics and Related Studies, and Environment and Geography.