Research Centres
The three research centres in effect sit above the research groups and enable the focused pursuit of agendas that inevitably cut across these sub-fields. They demonstrate a commitment to working across boundaries both within the discipline of Politics and International Studies itself, as well as in relation to other disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. The centres also provide the most effective means by which to connect to cognate initiatives in other institutions and to non-academic users of our research. In sum, this organisational structure successfully shapes a research culture at Sheffield that draws from all the major sub-fields of the discipline but also consciously seeks to facilitate both intradisciplinary and interdisciplinary interaction in creative, agenda-setting ways.
The research centres reflect a series of initiatives taken by the Department at different times with a view to enabling a more focused pursuit of certain shared intellectual agendas than could be generated through the conventional sub-fields of the discipline. Each is sustained by the energy and commitment of those staff and PGR students whose research interests cohere around the agenda of the centre.
Centre for Political Theory and Ideologies (CPTI)
The Centre for Political Theory and Ideologies (CPTI) is a multidisciplinary researched-based centre providing an arena for innovative scholarship in the broad domain of political theory, political ideologies and the history of political thought.
Centre for Political Theory and Ideologies (CPTI)
Political Economy Research Centre (PERC)
Officially opened by Professor JK Galbraith in January 1994, the Political Economy Research Centre (PERC) brings together researchers in innovative ways in order to engage with research topics that push beyond disciplinary boundaries.
Political Economy Research Centre (PERC)
Centre for International Policy Research (CIPOL)
The Centre for International Policy Research (CIPOL) is a valuable resource for postgraduate students. The centre brings together highly-developed research agendas within the department of Politics, focusing on a series of questions along what can be called the domestic/foreign frontier.
Centre for International Policy Research (CIPOL)
Other Politics lead University initiative
A further politics led initiative is the University's Public services Academy