Professor Patrick Seyd

Patrick studied politics at the University 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 University of Pittsburgh in 1988 and Visiting Fellow in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University 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.