Dept of Politics
University of Sheffield
Welcome to the Department of Politics, one of the UK's most vibrant and successful centres for teaching and research in politics.
We pride ourselves on the high quality of our teaching, and offer a friendly, cosmopolitan and supportive environment.
The Department has a long and distinguished history of Undergraduate and Postgraduate teaching.
We were awarded a maximum score of 24 in the most recent assessment of teaching quality, and have scored consistently highly in the National Student Survey, confirming high student satisfaction with our degree programmes.
Top-rated for research
The results of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) confirm the Department's status as a world class centre for the study of politics. The detailed assessment of the quality of published outputs and research environment ranked the Department first equal amongst all politics departments in the UK with 75% of research graded in the top 4* (world leading) and 3* (internationally excellent) categories.
We have developed a broad-ranging and dynamic research culture, in which staff, and postgraduate students all play a part. We have experts in all of the main areas of the discipline of Politics, including: Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, International Relations and Comparative Politics.
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