Dr Joseph Ward

BA, MA, PhD

Department of Politics and International Relations

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow

joseph.ward@sheffield.ac.uk

Modular Teaching Village

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Dr Joseph Ward
Department of Politics and International Relations
Modular Teaching Village
Northumberland Road
Sheffield
S10 1AJ

Profile: Dr Joseph Ward joined the Department of Politics and International Relations in September 2021 as a Teaching Associate. From 2021-2023, he taught on a range of modules across public policy, political economy and political theory. Prior to this he taught at the University of Birmingham, where he also completed his PhD in July 2022. He is currently working as an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow.

Qualifications

Research interests: My research sits at the interface of governance, public policy and political economy, with a particular focus on the UK constitution. I have published work on the impact of the 2016 EU referendum on UK politics in leading journals, including Political Studies and Parliamentary Affairs. My postdoctoral fellowship seeks to develop my PhD research into the emergence of the referendum as a political tool in the UK in the 1970s, as well other research streams on the place of Northern Ireland within the UK constitution and the politics of legitimacy under neoliberalism.

Publications

Ward JW (2021) Reasserting the Centre: The Brexit Doctrine and the Imperative Mandate in British Politics. Parliamentary Affairs, 74(4), 890-910.
Arthur J, Earl SR, Thompson AP & Ward JW (2021) The value of character-based judgement in the professional domain. Journal of Business Ethics, 169(2), 293-308.
Ward J () 'Taking the border out of politics'? The 1973 Northern Ireland border poll and the political character of (de)politicisation.. British Journal of Politics and International Relations.
Ward J, Ward B & Kerr P () Whither the centre? Tracing centralisation and fragmentation in UK politics.. Political Studies Review.
Ward J & Da Costa Vieira T () Authoritarian Neoliberalism Between Johnson and Jupiter: Declining Legitimacy and the Elevation of Home Affairs in Post-Brexit Britain and Macron's France. Geoforum.
Ward J & Ward B () From Brexit to COVID-19: The Johnson Government, Executive Centralisation and Authoritarian Populism. Political Studies, 003232172110637-003232172110637.

Ward J (2018) Democratic change and ‘the referendum effect’ in the UK, Virtues in the Public Sphere (pp. 234-249). Routledge

Research group

Teaching interests: My approach to teaching is focused on the development of critical, active learners who are able to co-constitute knowledge in the classroom. This is underpinned by the philosophies of democratic education and critical pedagogy, areas in which I am interested both academically and practically. I hold an Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, and am currently in the process of completing Fellowship accreditation.

Teaching activities