Professor Tony Payne
School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations
Emeritus Professor
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Professor Tony Payne joined the Department of Politics in 1985 and was promoted to Professor in 1993.
He was Chairman of the Department between 1992 and 1995 and again between 1998 and 2001.
He was the Director of the Political Economy Research Centre (PERC) from 1996 to 1999 and Co-Director from 2002 to 2004.
He was Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Social Sciences from June 2008 until August 2012. He then became one of the founding Co-Directors of The Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) and retained that role until July 2017.
Thereafter he was a Professorial Fellow in SPERI until his retirement at the end of July 2020.