Research expertise
Third and public sector
This area brings together a range of researchers undertaking investigations into third sector organisations and public sector bodies, and the interaction of these sectors. Within the third sector are key interests are charities and social enterprises - so our focus spans
- charities
- social enterprises
- public sector (local, regional, national and European)
Within these sectors our focus is on three main research dimensions
- ethics and accountability
- governance
- policy
The diagram below illustrates our key interests within this spectrum.
We offer
- doctoral supervision - we have a regular group of PhD students
- research undertaken from external commissions
- grant-funded research
- events
- authoring and publishing
- joint research bids with external organisations
- two taught programmes - MSc Charity Resource Management and MSc Social Enterprise and Business Democracy
Recent projects
Please refer to individual staff pages for full details of projects, but recent examples include
Towards a Volunteering Strategy for Sheffield - for the Sheffield First Partnership (Tracey Chadwick-Coule and Gareth Morgan)
Assessment of the Receipts and Payments Accounting Regime for Accounting in Smaller Charities - for the Association of Charity Independent Examiners (Gareth Morgan)
Futurebuilders Evaluation - Organisational Development and Financial Management (Gareth Morgan, Tracey Chadwick-Coule and Beth Patmore - part of a larger project led by Professor Peter Wells in CRESR)
Key contacts for this area |
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| Professor Gareth Morgan |
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| Dr Rory Ridley-Duff |
| Professor Jim Chandler |
