Dr Matt Barlow

  • Lecturer in International Political Economy (Political & International Studies)

Biography

I joined Glasgow in 2023 as Lecturer in International Political Economy. My interests are in the political economy of taxation, political economy of development and the global governance of development. My research is situated in two regions of the global South: Latin America and Africa, and explores themes of tax ideologies, sociology of the developing state, political economy of gender and regionalism. I am a Research Fellow at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) part of the Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. I have twice been a visiting researcher at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Before joining the University of Glasgow, I was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of International Development at King’s College London. Before this I was an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of York where I was awarded my PhD. During this time, I also worked as a research associate in the Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre at the University of York where I was part of a team working with academic and civil society partners across a number of funded projects: GCRF-RCUK funded Thanzi la Onse (Health for All), GCRF funded Gender and Health Systems After Covid-19: The Role of Policy and the GCRF funded The natural resources economy in South America: Extraction, Sustainability and Citizenship.

I have been awarded funding from the Economic, Social and Research Council (ESRC).

Research interests

International political economy

Political economy of development

Latin American politics

Political economy of taxation

Political economy of gender

Regionalism

 

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 8.

2024

Barlow, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1014-7917, Grugel, Jean, Saka, Lilian and Murray-Evans, Peg (2024) Failing women and girls during Covid-19: the limits of regional gender norms in Africa. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 26(2), pp. 254-276. (doi: 10.1177/13691481231204311)

Barlow, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1014-7917 and Grugel, Jean (2024) Regional governance, gender and the COVID-19 pandemic in the global south. Globalizations, (doi: 10.1080/14747731.2024.2313808) (Early Online Publication)

2023

Barlow, Matthew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1014-7917 (2023) Export taxes in Argentina: embedded ideas of state interventionism. Economy and Society, 52(4), pp. 602-625. (doi: 10.1080/03085147.2023.2268415)

2022

Barlow, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1014-7917, Grugel, Jean, Lines, Tallulah, Eugenia Giraudo, Maria and Omukuti, Jessica (2022) The Gendered Face of COVID-19 in the Global South: The Development, Gender and Health Nexus. Bristol University Press. ISBN 9781529218831

Barlow, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1014-7917 and Milcíades Peña, Alejandro (2022) The politics of fiscal legitimacy in developmental states: emergency taxes in Argentina under Kirchnerism. New Political Economy, 27(3), pp. 403-425. (doi: 10.1080/13563467.2021.1961215)

2021

Omukuti, Jessica, Barlow, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1014-7917, Eugenia Giraudo, Maria, Lines, Tallulah and Grugel, Jean (2021) Systems thinking in COVID-19 recovery is urgently needed to deliver sustainable development for women and girls. Lancet Planetary Health, 5(12), e921-e928. (doi: 10.1016/s2542-5196(21)00232-1) (PMID:34895499) (PMCID:PMC8654361)

Omukuti, Jessica, Megaw, Alice, Barlow, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1014-7917, Altink, Henrice and White, Piran (2021) The value of secondary use of data generated by non-governmental organisations for disaster risk management research: evidence from the Caribbean. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 56, 102114. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102114)

2020

Masefield, Sarah C., Megaw, Alice, Barlow, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1014-7917, White, Piran C. L., Altink, Henrice and Grugel, Jean (2020) Repurposing NGO data for better research outcomes: a scoping review of the use and secondary analysis of NGO data in health policy and systems research. Health Research Policy and Systems, 18, 63. (doi: 10.1186/s12961-020-00577-x) (PMID:32513183) (PMCID:PMC7278191)

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 10:14:36 2025 BST.
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Number of items: 8.

Articles

Barlow, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1014-7917, Grugel, Jean, Saka, Lilian and Murray-Evans, Peg (2024) Failing women and girls during Covid-19: the limits of regional gender norms in Africa. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 26(2), pp. 254-276. (doi: 10.1177/13691481231204311)

Barlow, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1014-7917 and Grugel, Jean (2024) Regional governance, gender and the COVID-19 pandemic in the global south. Globalizations, (doi: 10.1080/14747731.2024.2313808) (Early Online Publication)

Barlow, Matthew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1014-7917 (2023) Export taxes in Argentina: embedded ideas of state interventionism. Economy and Society, 52(4), pp. 602-625. (doi: 10.1080/03085147.2023.2268415)

Barlow, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1014-7917 and Milcíades Peña, Alejandro (2022) The politics of fiscal legitimacy in developmental states: emergency taxes in Argentina under Kirchnerism. New Political Economy, 27(3), pp. 403-425. (doi: 10.1080/13563467.2021.1961215)

Omukuti, Jessica, Barlow, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1014-7917, Eugenia Giraudo, Maria, Lines, Tallulah and Grugel, Jean (2021) Systems thinking in COVID-19 recovery is urgently needed to deliver sustainable development for women and girls. Lancet Planetary Health, 5(12), e921-e928. (doi: 10.1016/s2542-5196(21)00232-1) (PMID:34895499) (PMCID:PMC8654361)

Omukuti, Jessica, Megaw, Alice, Barlow, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1014-7917, Altink, Henrice and White, Piran (2021) The value of secondary use of data generated by non-governmental organisations for disaster risk management research: evidence from the Caribbean. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 56, 102114. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102114)

Masefield, Sarah C., Megaw, Alice, Barlow, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1014-7917, White, Piran C. L., Altink, Henrice and Grugel, Jean (2020) Repurposing NGO data for better research outcomes: a scoping review of the use and secondary analysis of NGO data in health policy and systems research. Health Research Policy and Systems, 18, 63. (doi: 10.1186/s12961-020-00577-x) (PMID:32513183) (PMCID:PMC7278191)

Books

Barlow, Matt ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1014-7917, Grugel, Jean, Lines, Tallulah, Eugenia Giraudo, Maria and Omukuti, Jessica (2022) The Gendered Face of COVID-19 in the Global South: The Development, Gender and Health Nexus. Bristol University Press. ISBN 9781529218831

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 10:14:36 2025 BST.

Grants

Principal investigator: (ESRC) Taxing for Development: Contested Ideas, the State and Export Taxes

Supervision

Please get in touch if you are interested in doing a PhD that relates to my research interests.

Teaching

I co-convene on the MSc modules:

  • Global Development, Taxation and Finance 
  • Global Development and Human Rights

And on the Honours module:

  • Latin American Politics