Bob Deacon (died October 1 2017) 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.

Career

He was Emeritus Professor of International Social Policy at the University of Sheffield. He was the founding editor of the journal Global Social Policy: An international journal of social development and public policy and an elected fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Bob Deacon

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.

Bob Deacon

Selected publications

Deacon, Bob. (1997) Global social policy: International organizations and the future of welfare. Sage. Deacon, B. (2007). Global social policy and governance. Sage.

Bob Deacon

References

20th-century births

2017 deaths

British social scientists

Year of birth missing

Place of birth missing

Academics of the University of Sheffield

Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences