Jack Hayward has taught Politics at the Universities of Sheffield, Keele, Hull and Oxford, retired in 1998 as Director of the Oxford Institute of European Studies and Professorial Fellow of St. Antony's College. Since then he has been a part-time Research Professor of Politics at the University of Hull. He has also been a Visiting Professor to several French Universities, for one year each at Sorbonne Nouvelle and the Paris Institute of Political Studies, as well as for shorter periods at the Universities of Bordeaux, Grenoble and Rennes.