I am a Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies for the new MA in Civil Society, Non-Profit and NGO Studies at the University of Kent’s School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research.

Much of my current research connects with the theoretical and policy streams of Third Sector Research Centre's work programme.

My main current interests include the development of civil society and the third sector policy and practice nationally and internationally, and its relationship to other sectors and forms of socio-economic and political action (the state and the market).

Career
I worked as a researcher at the University of Kent’s Personal Social Services Research Unit and the London School of Economics, and contributed to the MSc in Voluntary Sector Organisation at the Centre for Civil Society, London School of Economics.

During the last 20 years, I’ve accumulated wide ranging inter-disciplinary research experience in relation to the third sector, and social and health care, especially care and support for older people. Much of this research has been international and/or comparative in character.

Education
I completed my BSc in Economics at Hull, MSc inHealth Economics at York and PhD in Social Services at Kent.
 
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