[2] Hood was Gladstone Professor of Government at All Souls College, Oxford, from 2001 to 2014, and director of the ESRC Research Programme Public Services: Quality, Performance and Delivery from 2004 to 2010.

He chaired the Nuffield Council on Bioethics' Working Party on medical profiling and online medicine from 2008 to 2010.

[3] He specialised in the study of executive government, regulation and public-sector reform and wrote on New Public Management.

from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, "for his contribution to the development of the field of Public Administration in general and in the Netherlands in particular".

[11][12] In 2021 he received the John Gaus award from the Public Administration Section of the American Political Science Association.