Staff
Leader of CVSR
Professor Gareth Morgan
Gareth Morgan is professor of charity studies and is based in the Centre of Individual and Organisational Development. 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. 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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Dr Andy Dearden
Andy Dearden is a reader in e-social action in the Culture, Communication and Computing Research Institute (C3RI). His research explores design and innovation in the use of information and communication technologies in the voluntary sector and other 'social action' organisations.
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Chris Dayson
Chris Dayson is a researcher in the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research. His work is focussed on 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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Dr Rob Furbey
Rob Furbey is a principal lecturer in the Urban and Regional Studies group. He has a special interest in research concerning faith communities, urban regeneration and social capital.
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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.
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Max Moullin
Max Moullin is a principal lecturer and leads the quality and performance research area within the Centre for Individual and Organisational Development. 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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Sarah Pearson
Sarah Pearson is a principal research fellow in the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research. 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. 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.
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Professor Paul Senior
Paul Senior is director of the Hallam Centre for Community Justice. 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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Peter Wells is professor of public policy analysis and evaluation at Sheffield Hallam University, based in the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research. His VCS research interests are in the areas of public policy and the VCS, community economic development and community involvement. He is director of the national evaluation of Futurebuilders - being undertaken for the Office of the Third Sector.
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Dr Richard J White
Richard White is a lecturer in economic geography in the Urban and Regional Studies group. 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.
