Professor Patrick Seyd

School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations

Emeritus Professor

Profile

Patrick studied politics at the º£½ÇÉçÇø of Southampton (B.ScEcon and M.Phil) and then came to Sheffield as a PhD student in 1968; his doctoral thesis examined factionalism within the Labour Party.

He joined the school as a lecturer in 1970 and, subsequently, was appointed Senior Lecturer, Reader, and Professor.

Between 1995 and 1998 he was Chairman of the (then) Department of Politics and International Relations. He was a Visiting Professor at the º£½ÇÉçÇø of Pittsburgh in 1988 and Visiting Fellow in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National º£½ÇÉçÇø in 1998 and again in 2003.

Between 1998 and 2000 he was President of the British Politics Group of the American Political Science Association.

He was a member of the ESRC Research Grants Board between 1995 and 1999 and was a member of the ESRC Election Studies Working Party 1997-1998.