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.

James Bostock is a senior lecturer in events management in Sheffield Business School.

He has a particular interest in role of social enterprises in events management and particularly the role of volunteers.

Full profile from the CTHER website

Tracey Coule is a principal lecturer in Sheffield Business School and programme leader of the Sheffield Business School DBA programme.

She supervises a range of doctoral students working on third sector research and 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 interest in research methods. Her papers have appeared in a range of leading journals.

Jon Dean is a lecturer in politics and sociology in the Department of Psychology, Sociology and Politics in the Faculty of Development and Society.

His research focuses on volunteering and young people, using social theory to explore how participation is dependent upon social class. Further, he has published research on the growth of community policies in the UK, and the issue of homelessness.

He has previously worked as an advisor to youth volunteering charities and in local government, developing voluntary sector policy.

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.

Full profile from the C3RI website

Chris Dayson is a researcher in the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) 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.

Full profile from the CRESR website

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 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 further education college.

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.

Dorothea Meyer is a senior lecturer in tourism studies working within the Centre for Tourism, Hospitality and Events Research (CTHER) in Sheffield Business School. She is also director of the Tourism and Poverty Reduction Research Unit within CTHER.

Her research is focussed in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly

• enabling knowledge exchange between academia and the third sector working in less economically developed countries
• creating sustainable linkages between (I)NGOs and the mainstream tourism industry
• the political economy of development and gender empowerment.

Full profile from the CTHER website

Alan Shaw is a research fellow focusing on the Innovation Futures Project and is based in the Sheffield Business School. He has many years experience working with health charities / social enterprises and is also a non-executive director of People Matters (Leeds) CIC.

Alan is currently working with Diabetes UK on his PhD looking at how social marketing can change the health behaviours of individuals living with the condition.

Faisal Sheikh is a senior lecturer in accounting in Sheffield Business School.

Prior to joining the University, he had an extensive professional accountancy career (primarily in audit) working with local and international not-for-profit organisations.

He is currently working towards a DBA examining the relationship between charity accounting and accountability, with a particular focus on charity trading.

Full profile from the accounting, banking and finance website

Peter Taylor is professor of sport economics and co-director of the Sport Industry Research Centre (SIRC) in the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing.

He is editor of Managing Leisure: an international journal, and has recently edited a sixth edition of Torkildsen's Sport and Leisure Management. His interests in the voluntary sector include the nature of both sports volunteers and sports clubs, having led national surveys of both in recent years.

Full profile from the SIRC website

Beth Patmore is a research associate in the Centre for Individual and Organisational Development (CIOD) 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.

Sarah Pearson is a principal research fellow in the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) 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.

Full profile from the CRESR website

Rory Ridley-Duff is a senior lecturer in human resource management and organisation behaviour, working within the Centre for Individual and Organisational Development (CIOD) 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.

Paul Senior is director of the Hallam Centre for Community Justice (HCCJ) 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.

Full profile from the HCCJ website

Gill Turner is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing.

She is currently involved in an NHS Collaborative Leadership Applied Health Care Research (CLAHRC) project, 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 (CRESR) 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.

Full profile from the CRESR website

Richard White is a lecturer in economic geography in the Urban and Regional Studies (URS) 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.

Full profile from the URS website