Bob Deacon
Bob Deacon (died October 1 2017)[https://www.york.ac.uk/spsw/staff/professor-bob-deacon/ Professor Bob Deacon] was a prominent social policy academic and policy advisor credited by Kaasch and Stubbs with responsibility for the introduction of the term global social policy.{{cite book |editor1-first=A. |editor1-last= Kaasch |editor2-first=P.|editor2-last=Stubbs |title=Transformations in Global and Regional Social Policies |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |date=2014 |page=1 |isbn=9781137287311}}
Career
He was Emeritus Professor of International Social Policy at the University of Sheffield.{{cite web|title=Emeritus Professor Bob Deacon|url=https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/staff/staff-profiles/deacon|publisher=Department of Sociological Studies, the University of Sheffield|accessdate=18 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217130704/https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/staff/staff-profiles/deacon|archive-date=17 December 2014|url-status=dead}} He was the founding editor of the journal Global Social Policy: An international journal of social development and public policy{{cite web|title=Global Social Policy|url=https://www.sagepub.com/journals/Journal200964/title|publisher=Sage|accessdate=18 December 2014}} and an elected fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.{{cite web|title=Professor Bob Deacon|url=http://www.marshallscholarship.org/about/deacon|publisher=Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission|accessdate=18 December 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217122323/http://www.marshallscholarship.org/about/deacon|archivedate=17 December 2014}}
He has been an advisor or consultant on international social policy to the ILO, WHO, UNESCO, UNDP, UNDESA, EC, Council of Europe, and World Bank. From 2007 he was an Associate Research Fellow at the United Nations University (UNU-CRIS) in Bruges.{{cite web|title=Professor Bob Deacon|url=http://www.cris.unu.edu/Dr-Bob-Deacon.58.0.html|publisher=United Nations University, Bruges|accessdate=18 December 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217123838/http://www.cris.unu.edu/Dr-Bob-Deacon.58.0.html|archivedate=17 December 2014}}
Selected publications
- Deacon, Bob. (1997) Global social policy: International organizations and the future of welfare. Sage. {{ISBN|9781446265000}}
- Deacon, B. (2007). Global social policy and governance. Sage. {{ISBN|9781412907620}}
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