Colin Thain
Born (1959-01-20) 20 January 1959
Bedlington, Northumberland, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Manchester
Known forwork on the HM Treasury, The Treasury and Whitehall: The Planning and Control of Public Spending (with Maurice Wright)
Scientific career
FieldsPolitical science, Political economy
InstitutionsUniversity of Exeter, University of Ulster, University of Manchester
Doctoral advisorMaurice Wright and Andrew Gamble

Colin Thain (born 20 January 1959) is professor of political science and a former 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. 1 2 "Colin Thain". University of Birmingham. Retrieved 12 October 2009.
  2. ↑ "Colin Thain's Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 8 June 2011.
  3. ↑ "First Lloyd's Tercentenary Foundation Fellowships Awarded". PR Newswire Europe. 10 June 1988.
  4. ↑ Cairncross, Alec (24 May 1996). "The spend, spend, spend enigma". The Times Higher Education Supplement. p. 22. Retrieved 12 October 2009.
  5. ↑ "The Treasury under New Labour: The evolution of a core British institution, 1997–2006". Economic and Social Research Council. Archived from the original on 27 December 2009. Retrieved 12 October 2009.
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