After completing his PhD, Hay worked at the
University of Birmingham, where he was head of the Department of Political Science and International Studies between 2002 and 2005. He moved to
Paris in 2013.[4]
David Marsh; Jim Buller; Colin Hay; Jim Johnston;
Peter Kerr; Stuart McAnulla; Matthew Watson; et al. (1999). Postwar British Politics in Perspective. Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts:
Polity.
ISBN9780745620305.[5]
Hay, Colin; Flinders, Matthew; Gamble, Andrew, eds. (2011). The Oxford Handbook of British Politics. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN9780199604449.
Farrall, Stephen; Hay, Colin, eds. (2014). The Legacy of Thatcherism: Assessing and Exploring Thatcherite Social and Economic Policies. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN9780197265703.
Hay, Colin; Green, Jeremy; Taylor-Gooby, Peter, eds. (2015). The British Growth Crisis: The Search for a New Model. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN9781137441515.
Fawcett, Paul; Flinders, Matthew; Hay, Colin; Wood, Matthew, eds. (2017). Anti-Politics, Depoliticization, and Governance. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN9780198748977.
Hay, Colin; Hunt, Tom, eds. (2017). The Coming Crisis. New York: Springer Publishing.
ISBN9783319638133.
Hay, Colin; Bailey, Daniel, eds. (2019). Diverging Capitalisms: Britain, the City of London and Europe. London: Palgrave.
ISBN9783030034146.