Nick is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath.
He was formerly head of the Downing Street Policy Unit and Director of the IPPR think-tank. He is co-author (with Michael Kenny) of Shadows of Empire: the Anglosphere in British Politics (Polity Press, 2018). He is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.