Staff
Leader of CVSR
Professor Gareth Morgan
Gareth Morgan is professor of charity studies and is based in the Centre for Individual and Organisational Development in Sheffield Business School. He leads the work of the CVSR and is himself a specialist in issues of charity law, accounting and financial management. He is also course leader of the MSc Charity Resource Management programme, and supervises several PhD students working on topics in the field of charity studies.
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Academic and research staff
Dr Tracey Chadwick-Coule
Tracey Chadwick-Coule is a research fellow in the Centre for Individual and Organisational Development in Sheffield Business School. She plays a major role in CVSR projects particularly in relation to volunteering, mapping of the third sector, and voluntary sector infrastructure. Her doctorate was undertaken with CVSR on issues of sustainability, governance and strategy in the voluntary sector. She has a particular knowledge of
the VCS in South Yorkshire.
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Professor Andy Dearden
Andy Dearden is a professor of interactive systems design in the Culture, Communication and Computing Research Institute (C3RI) in the Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineering and Sciences. His research explores design and innovation in the use of information and communication technologies in the voluntary sector and other 'social action' organisations. He recently led a major project to give farmers in rural India tailored and expert advice about resolving problems with their crops which won the Manthan South Asia Digital Empowerment Award.
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Chris Dayson
Chris Dayson is a researcher in the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research in the Faculty of Development and Society. He was extensively involved in the Futurebuilders Evaluation, although he also has broader interest in the effectiveness of voluntary sector infrastructure organisations, and the long term financial trends in charities. Prior to joining the University he worked extensively in research roles with a major voluntary sector infrastructure organisation and in central government.
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Neil Fletcher
Neil Fletcher is a senior lecturer in the accounting subject group at Sheffield Business School. He is a chartered accountant with a particular interest in charities. Before joining the University he worked for five years as an auditor of many charity clients, and then became finance director of a major charity in the Sheffield area working in the field of urban regeneration. He was co-leader of the CVSR project on Public Benefit Reporting by Charities. He also teaches on the MSc in Charity Resource Management. He maintains current experience in charity accounting and reporting by acting as independent examiner to a number of charities, and by serving as a governor/trustee of a major charitable FE college.
Christine Gilligan
Christine Gilligan is a senior lecturer in the strategy section of the Sheffield Business School. Her primary research interests are in governance of not-for-profit organisations and issues of environmental sustainability and the third sector. She is also actively involved in teaching on the MSc Charity Resource Management and is course leader of the MRes Business.
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Lynn Kenyon
Lynn Kenyon is a lecturer in the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing. She has a background in community nursing and interest in public health. Her current research interests are in community engagement and the role of the volunteer.
Max Moullin
Max Moullin is a principal lecturer and leads the quality and performance research area within the Centre for Individual and Organisational Development in Sheffield Business School. His specialisation is organisational performance with particular reference to both the public sector and the voluntary sector. He has a particular interest in the NHS and the involvement of the third sector in the NHS. He served as a member of the former Home Office Active Community Unit's Advisory Panel on performance improvement in the voluntary sector.
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Beth Patmore
Beth Patmore is a research associate in the Centre for Individual and Organisational Development in Sheffield Business School. She has extensive experience of social research and policy analysis in the area of employment and skills. In her previous role, at the charity Skills for Justice, she studied the current and future skills of the those working within the justice using a mix of quantitative and qualitative research methods. She is has a particular research interest in innovation with a focus on public and third sector innovation and innovation in social enterprises.
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Sarah Pearson
Sarah Pearson is a principal research fellow in the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research in the Faculty of Development and Society. She has interests in voluntary and community sector infrastructure, particularly in relation to neighbourhood based partnerships; community regeneration; and issues relating the role, funding and development of VCS organisations.
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Dr Rory Ridley-Duff
Rory Ridley-Duff is a senior lecturer in human resource management and organisation behaviour, working within the Centre for Individual and Organisational Development in Sheffield Business School. His professional background is in worker co-operatives that design and deliver software for third sector organisations. He has a specialist research interest in social enterprise governance has authored diagnostic tools that help trustees/directors develop their awareness of corporate governance. He is course leader of the MSc in Co-operative and Social Enterprise Management.
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Professor Paul Senior
Paul Senior is director of the Hallam Centre for Community Justice in the Faculty of Development and Society. His professional background is in the Probation Service where he worked in the youth offending field and he has a particular interest in the work of voluntary and community organisations in this field. He recently completed a major piece of scoping work for the National Offender Management Service on this issue.
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Gill Turner
Gill Turner is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Health and Well being. She is currently involved in an NHS CLAHRC project (Collaborative Leadership Applied Health Care Research), which involves volunterers in data collection and provision of care surrounding mealtimes in hospital. She has an MSc in practitioner research and many years of teaching experience.
Peter Wells is professor of public policy analysis and evaluation and director of the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research in the Faculty of Development and Society. His VCS research interests are in the areas of public policy and the VCS, community economic development and community involvement. He was director of the national evaluation of Futurebuilders - undertaken for the Office of the Third Sector (now the Office for Civil Society) in the Cabinet Office.
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Dr Richard J White
Richard White is a lecturer in economic geography in the Urban and Regional Studies group in the Faculty of Development and Society.
He has a particular interest in the geographies of informal volunteering, and the implications that these geographies have for both academic and policy making circles.
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Postgraduate students
Please click here for details of doctoral students working with CVSR.
