Patrick Diamond

Patrick was formally Research Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Manchester, and Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He is a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford and an Associate Member of Nuffield College. Patrick is a trustee of the Dartington Service Design Lab and the Prisoners’ Education Trust (PET). He is also on the Board of the Campaign for Social Science.

He is Chair of the think-tank Policy Network, and sits on the Scientific Council of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies. Patrick held a number of senior posts in British central government between 2000 and 2010, and was formally Head of Policy Planning in 10 Downing Street. He was a Local Councillor in the London Borough of Southwark from 2010 to 2014, and he has been a trustee of the Bromley by Bow Centre, a pioneering voluntary organisation led by the local community in East London.

Patrick has contributed op-ed articles to the Financial Times, the Guardian, the Independent, the Daily Telegraph, the Wall Street Journal, the Times Literary Supplement, the Times Educational Supplement, and the New Statesman. He comments regularly on numerous national media outlets, and has given interviews on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, the Westminster Hour, the Moral Maze, Start the Week, Newsnight, Sky News with Adam Boulton, and CNBC news. He contributes to other European newspapers and journals including Die Zeit, Italianieuropei, Berliner Republik, and Berlin Network.

Teaching

• Analysing Public Policy
• British Economic and Social Policy Since 1945
• Theories of the Policy-Making Process
• Evaluation and Delivery of Public Policy

Research Interests:

• UK productivity, regional inequality and the role of institutions
• The comparative study of the core executive and civil service
• Analysis of policy advice systems
• Ideas and paradigm policy change in political economy
• Social democratic ideologies across the EU
• Interdisciplinary study of the British Labour party

Examples of research funding:

• ESRC Productivity Institute, 2022-25, Institutions and Governance in UK Productivity, October 2021 [Awarded], £140,000, co-investigator.
• HEIF Collaboration Fund Award 2019-20 with the Local Government Information Unit on place-shaping in local governance, £9750, January 2020 [Awarded], Co-investigator.
• IHSS Large Grant Seed Corn Fund 2020-21, project on English governance after Brexit, £2950, September 2020 [Awarded], Investigator.
• ESRC Impact Acceleration Award on ‘anti-politics’ jointly with the University of Manchester and the Institute for Government, £12k per annum for 18 months, November 2016 [Awarded], Co-Investigator.
• ESRC Collaborative Doctoral Award with the Local Government Information Unit (LGIU), £25k per annum over three years, June 2015 [Awarded], Co-Investigator.