Colin Thain

Colin Thain
Born	January 20, 1959 (1959-01-20) (age 52) Bedlington, Northumberland, England
Nationality	British
Fields	Political science Political economy
Institutions	University of Exeter University of Ulster University of Manchester
Alma mater	University of Manchester
Doctoral advisor	Maurice Wright and Andrew Gamble
Known for	work on the HM Treasury, The Treasury and Whitehall: The Planning and Control of Public Spending (with Maurice Wright)

Colin Thain (born 20 January, 1959) is Professor of Political Science and Head of the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. Born in Bedlington, Northumberland, Thain received a BA in Economics (1981) and Ph. D. in Government (1985) from the University of Manchester.^[1][2] He was previously based at the University of Ulster. Thain is currently also a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College and Senior Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford.^[1] In 1988, while he was a lecturer at the University of Exeter, Thain was awarded one of the first three Lloyd's Tercentenary Foundation Fellowships.^[3]

His research interests lie in the area of economic policy making, with a particular focus on HM Treasury and the Bank of England. His publications include an influential work in the study of the Treasury, The Treasury and Whitehall: The Planning and Control of Public Spending (co-authored with Maurice Wright, Clarendon Press, 1995),^[4] and he is currently working on a project on the evolution of the Treasury under the New Labour government, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.^[5]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Colin Thain". University of Birmingham. http://www.polsis.bham.ac.uk/about/Staff/Thain.shtml. Retrieved 2009-10-12. 
2. ^ "Colin Thain's Curriculum Vitae". http://colinthain.com/images/uploads/biography.pdf. Retrieved 2011-06-08. 
3. ^ "First Lloyd's Tercentenary Foundation Fellowships Awarded". PR Newswire Europe. 1988-06-10. 
4. ^ Cairncross, Alec (1996-05-24). "The spend, spend, spend enigma". The Times Higher Education Supplement: p. 22. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=163276&sectioncode=8. Retrieved 2009-10-12. 
5. ^ "The Treasury under New Labour: The evolution of a core British institution, 1997–2006". Economic and Social Research Council. http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/ViewAwardPage.aspx?data=z8HSvl3fWwVY2sDo4JNP8iOLJQdQnq85xFaxyg3u19HPhGXqbRQC2BtHU7dAMmDIgJp6zBRaLt8q%2B8iVGsZEjkh1w64%2BCAfWdpJpXJo%2Byuk%3D&xu=0&isAwardHolder=&isProfiled=&AwardHolderID=&Sector=. Retrieved 2009-10-12. 

External links

• University of Birmingham homepage
• Personal homepage
• The Treasury under New Labour since 1997: The evolution of a British Institution
• Works by or about Colin Thain in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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