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University of Manchester.
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Colin Thain
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Born in Bedlington, Northumberland, Thain received a Bachelor in Economics (1981) and Doctor of Philosophy in Government (1985) from the University of Manchester. 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.
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. His research interests lie in the area of economic policy making, with a particular focus on Her Majesty 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), 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.
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