Bernard W. Deacon is a Cornish multidisciplinary academic, based at the Institute of Cornish StudiesInstitute of Cornish Studies website – Academic staff biographies – Bernard Deacon . of the University of Exeter at the Tremough Campus. He has an Open University doctorate and displays his thesis on the ICS website.The thesis is available online on the ICS website.He should not be confused with Bernard Deacon (anthropologist) (1903–1927), who has an ODNB article by Jeremy MacClancy, 'Deacon, (Arthur) Bernard (1903–1927)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 21 May 2008

Academic career Deacon has worked for the Open University and Exeter University’s Department of Lifelong Learning. In 2001, he joined the Institute of Cornish Studies and is the director of the Institute's master's degree programme in Cornish Studies.ICS Master's degree curriculum His main research interests are: 18th and 19th century Cornish communities The Cornish language and its revitalisation Cornwall's population and how it has changed How peripheral regions are governed Who are the Cornish and how their identity is presented

Deacon is a fluent Cornish language speaker, and represented the Institute of Cornish Studies on the Cornish Language Partnership.See Cornwall County Council website-Cornish Language Partnership and MAGA Kernow = Partnership website Payton, Philip "Introduction" to Cornish Studies No. 14 (2004), p. 2 In 2007, he was re-elected as Chairman of Cussel an Tavaz Kernuak (The Cornish Language Council).Maga News, July 2007.Cussel an Tavaz Kernuak

Publications

In book form

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In Cornish studies Deacon has prolific publications in learned journals.Some earlier publications may be found listed in the Cornwall County Library Catalogue. The following were published in the Institute's journal (published by the University of Exeter Press):

Work in progress Cornish surnames, their origin and spread

References

External links The Cornish Community Programme: Working papers: includes work by Bernard Deacon.