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Nicholas is the key speaker at the NICVA conference 'Civil society - what is it and what does it do?'
Nicholas Deakin read Modern History at Oxford University and subsequently took a doctorate at the University of Sussex.
He has worked as a civil servant and in local government. He has chaired national and local voluntary bodies.
From 1980-98 he was Professor of Social Policy and Administration at the University of Birmingham and held visiting appointments at the University of Warwick and the Centre for Civil Society, London School of Economics.
In 1995-96 he chaired the Independent Commission on the Future of the Voluntary Sector in England.
Published work
Among his more recent research projects are a study of the UK Treasury (published as 'The Treasury and Social Policy'), a review of inner city policy under the Conservatives ('The Enterprise Culture and the Inner City') and casestudies of voluntary sector - local government relations (published as 'History, Strategy or Lottery') and civil renewal, for the National Council for Voluntary Organisations.
He has also published books entitled 'In Search of Civil Society' (Palgrave, 2001) and a jointly edited collection, 'Welfare and the State' (Routledge, 2003).
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