Rate My Professor Russell Deacon

Deacon’s research specializations include devolved government across the United Kingdom, Welsh political history with a focus on the Liberal party in Wales and the UK, and the ERASMUS study abroad programme. Key publications comprise The Government and Politics of Wales (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), The Welsh Liberal Tradition: A History of the Welsh Liberal Party 1867–2008 (Welsh Academic Press, 2014), Devolved Great Britain: The New Governance of England, Scotland and Wales, 2nd edition (Edinburgh University Press, 2012), Devolution in Britain Today (Manchester University Press, 2006), and The Welsh Office and the Policy Process (1964-1999) (Welsh Academic Press, 2002). He has contributed chapters to Politics UK (9th edition, Routledge, 2018) and articles to the Journal of Liberal History and Parliamentary Affairs. Deacon chairs the European Movement in Wales, Lloyd George Society, and Welsh Political Studies Lecturers and Teachers Society; he co-founded the Gorwel think tank in 2012 as administrative director and serves on boards of These Islands, the Welsh Political Archives of the National Library of Wales, and the Liberal History Group. He advises the John Smith Institute on devolved government and has consulted for BBC Radio productions including Lloyd George’s War (2015).