Matt Day

Dr Matthew (Matt) Day is an Honorary Research Associate in the School of History, Law and Social Sciences at Bangor University. His research focuses on modern Welsh political history, with particular expertise in Welsh Conservatism, nationalism, and the political development of North Wales. His doctoral research examined the political career and influence of Wyn Roberts, exploring the relationship between Conservatism and Welsh identity from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Dr Day has a particular interest in political biography as a means of exploring wider historical and political development. His research examines how the lives and careers of individual politicians can illuminate broader questions of governance, ideology, constitutional change and national identity. 

Dr Day is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He also previously worked as a Sessional Lecturer in History at Wrexham University, where he taught undergraduate modules in modern British and Welsh history and politics. His research and teaching interests centre on the political, constituional and cultural history of modern Wales and the wider United Kingdom.

Dr Day was a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Bangor University and has previously taught on Politics and History modules.

• HPS-1002 Power, Freedom and the State
• HXW-1010 Wales in the Modern World

Dr Day has also taught on a number of history modules as a Sessional Lecturer in History at Wrexham University, levels 4-6.

Dr Day's research focuses on modern Welsh and British polittical history, with particular interests in Welsh Conservatism, nationalism, devolution, constituional change, and the evolution of political identity in twentieth and twenty-first-century Wales. His work explores the relationship between politics, governance, and national identity, with particular emphasis on North Wales and the development of Welsh political institutuions. He also has broader interests in British political parties, electoral politics, and the history of the Union, examining how political movements and constitutional developments have shaped contemporary Wales and the United Kingdom.