The University of Sheffield
Department of Politics

Academic Staff: Katharine Adeney

Dr. Katharine Adeney, B.A. [Hull], MSc., Ph.D.[L.S.E]

Katharine Adeney

Senior Lecturer

Telephone: +44 (0)114 222 1704
Fax: +44 (0)114 222 1717
Room: G.62 Elmfield
Feedback & Consultation hours (during term time): Dr Adeney is on leave until June 2013.

Email : k.adeney@sheffield.ac.uk

Profile

Dr Katharine Adeney joined the Department in 2004 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2007. Previously she was a Junior Research Fellow in Politics at Balliol College, University of Oxford (2001-2004) and Tutorial Fellow in Comparative Politics in the Government Department of the London School of Economics (1999-2001). She is currently working on contemporary events in Pakistan, and has contributed a briefing paper on Bad News Makes Headlines: Security challenges posed by Pakistan for the IPPR's Commission on National Security in the 21st Century. Her principal research interests include: the countries of South Asia, especially India, Pakistan and Afghanistan; ethnic conflict regulation and institutional design; the creation and maintenance of national identities; the politics of federal states, and democratisation in South Asia.

She was Lead Consultant for the Forum of Federations’ program in Pakistan which ran between 2009-2011, funded by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The program was designed to increase the capacity of Pakistani decision-makers, political parties, central and provincial civil servants, civil society leaders and the media, to evaluate and analyze federal options based on international best practices. The program helped build networks and partnerships within Pakistan and between Pakistan and the outside world, and enabled the exchange of experiences and expertise in federal forms of governance.

Teaching

I teach modules relating to questions of ethnic conflict, nationalist movements and institutional design to manage ethnic difference at undergraduate and postgraduate level. These modules are informed by my previous and current research on the countries of South Asia, particularly India and Pakistan, but I also use other case studies in my teaching, and am interested in learning more about the countries of my students as they relate to questions raised on the modules. I am particularly interested in developing students’ appreciation that the institutional structures countries adopt affect the way that different groups interact within the country’s boundaries. I also teach on the undergraduate research methods module, and in 2008 completed a two year £45K ESRC grant to investigate, develop and implement successful and innovative methods of teaching quantitative methods in the undergraduate curricula (with Dr Sean Carey).

I am a committed teacher and have teaching experience from four institutions (Sheffield, Oxford, LSE and SOAS). I have completed a HEA accredited Certificate in Learning and Teaching. I am keen to develop my students' analytical skills and use Problem Based Learning in my undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

POL229 Political Analysis

POL3007 Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict

POL6280 The Politics of Ethnic Conflict

Key Projects/Grants

Project: Forum of Federations’ program in Pakistan
Awarding body: Forum of Federations
People Involved: Dr Katharine Adeney
Duration: 2010-2011
Total award: Lead Consultant to this $3.6million CAD program, funded by the German foreign office

Project: Democracy and Identity Politics in Pakistan
Awarding body: British Association for South Asian Studies
People Involved: Dr Katharine Adeney
Duration: 2009
Total award: £10,000

Project: To investigate, develop and implement successful and innovative methods of teaching quantitative methods in the undergraduate curricula
Awarding body: ESRC
People Involved: Dr Katharine Adeney and Dr Sean Carey
Duration: 2007-2008
Total award: £45,000

Professional activities and recognition

She has been a member of numerous outside bodies, including the Political Studies Association’s Executive Committee and Secretary of the British Association for South Asian Studies. She is a member of the Editorial Boards of Government and Opposition and Ethnopolitics, and was previously Associate Editor of Political Studies.

Current Research

Her current research focuses on the role of identity politics in Pakistan, in particular the relationship between political expressions of identity politics and ‘democratic’ and non-democratic periods in Pakistan. This research was initially funded (in 2009) by the British Association for South Asian Studies.

She is also working on recent developments in the federal system of Pakistan, after the 18th Amendment passed in 2010, informed by her engagement with the Forum of Federations’ program in the country.

She has just started work on a collaborative project on wider understandings of federal developments in South Asia, and remains interested in the functioning and design of the Indian federation, identity politics and the way in which coalition politics operates at the centre.

She would like to expand her research on challenges to democratisation in Pakistan to other countries, potentially in collaboration with others.

Key Publications

Books

Journal Articles

Click here for Dr Adeney's full list of publications.

Also see sheffield.academia.edu/KatharineAdeney

PhD Supervision

She is currently supervising PhD students working on:

Areas of past supervision include:

She is keen to supervise promising research students in a range of areas including: