Dr Simon Teasdale

Research Fellow, Third Sector Research Centre, University of Birmingham

Within TSRC Simon specialises in research on social enterprise and works closely with Fergus Lyon at Middlesex University.  He is currently writing papers on social enterprise within the field of homelessness, and on social enterprise as a response to exclusion. 

His other academic interests include volunteering as a form of participation, and in-depth case study research.  He has previously taught modules on Research Design, Fundraising for Social Enterprise and Community Organisations, and Planning and Resourcing for NGOs and Social Enterprises.

Experience
Simon has been involved in the field of social enterprise for 15 years, beginning at the Big Issue in the North in the early 1990s.  He completed his PhD thesis: The potential for social enterprise to combat exclusion, in 2005.  Since then he has been employed as a researcher at the Institute for Volunteering Research and Crisis, while lecturing part time on the University of East London’s BA Social Enterprise.  He moved to Birmingham in 2009 to take up a position as research fellow within TSRC.

Qualifications
PhD (Sociology), University of Manchester
MA (Applied Social Research) University of Manchester
BA (Economics) University of Manchester

Contact details
Tel: 0121 414 2578
Email:  S.Teasdale@tsrc.ac.uk

Third Sector Research Centre
Park House
Edgbaston Park Road
University of Birmingham
Birmingham
B15 2TT