Research
The Department of Politics at York has a large and thriving research community which consists of over 30 academic staff, more than 150 graduate and research students, a number of post-doctoral research fellows, and two internationally renowned research centres: the Morrell Centre for Toleration and the Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit. Research within the department covers the full range of the discipline, but we have special expertise in:
- Political philosophy;
- Public policy;
- International and comparative politics; and
- Conflict and development.
In all these areas we aim to produce research that brings theoretical insight to bear upon urgent practical problems.
Members of staff also participate actively in inter-disciplinary research. Examples include:
- the Centre for Applied Human Rights
- the Centre for Ecology, Law and Politics
- the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
- the School of Politics, Economics and Philosophy
