Meet the Team
Investigators
Professor John Mohan
John Mohan is a Professor of Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology at the University of Birmingham where he is currently Director of the Third Sector Research Centre. Follow him on Twitter here.
Professor Alasdair Rutherford
Alasdair Rutherford is a Professor of Social Statistics at the University of Stirling. His research focus is the analysis of administrative and survey data in the fields of health, social care and the third sector. Find him on Twitter here, and on GitHub here.
Dr David Clifford
David Clifford is an Associate Professor at the University of Southampton where he pursues research interests at the interface of demography and social policy, with a particular focus on the voluntary sector and volunteering. Find him on Twitter here.
Dr Diarmuid McDonnell
Diarmuid McDonnell is a Lecturer in the School of Education and Social Sciences at the University of West Scotland. He publishes research which examines a number of interrelated topics concerning the nonprofit/charity sector: including funding sources and networks, and overseas activities. Find him on Twitter here, and on GitHub here.
Dr Charles Rahal
Charles Rahal is a Computational Social Scientist who analyzes unstructured data with new methodological tools, with interests in but not limited to the Third Sector. He is a Senior Departmental Research Lecturer at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the Univeristy of Oxford. Find him on GitHub here.
Research Fellows
Alan Duggan
Alan is a political scientist with an interest in political campaigns, political advertising, and electoral politics more broadly. He is currently a research fellow on the Open Elections project at the University of Nottingham and has also worked on projects focusing on the financial vulnerability of third sector organisations and healthy ageing in Scotland.
Fiona Couper Kenney
Fiona Couper Kenney has a background in maths and probablistic modelling, with current research interests in equity in education. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Education at the University of Edinburgh.
Project Administration
Viv Close
Viv joined the University of Birmingham as Senior Project Administrator for the Third Sector Research Council (TSRC) in January 2023 bringing experience of managing admin teams, stakeholder engagement and process mapping. More recently, Viv worked for almost 4 years in community development for a CIC in Birmingham.
External Collaborators
David Kane
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