The University of Sheffield

Faculty Member, Politics

Senior Lecturer

About

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.

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.

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