Publications

All TSRC research papers - including briefing papers, working papers and other publications - can be found through the pages on each research stream. They are also listed here by the date that we have published them.

Paper 31: Black boxes in the wreckage? Making sense of failure in a social enterprise, Duncan Scott
Abstract | Briefing paper | Working paper

Paper 30: The personalisation agenda, Helen Dickinson
Abstract | Briefing paper

Paper 29: Below the radar: A summary review of the literature, Angus McCabe, Jenny Phillimore and Lucy Mayblin
Abstract | Briefing Paper

Paper 28: The growing workforce in the voluntary and community sectors, Domenico Moro and Stephen McKay
Abstract | Briefing paper

Paper 27: Impact and evaluation of the third sector, Malin Arvidson
Abstract | Briefing paper | Working paper

Paper 26: Business or the Third Sector, Andrea Westall
Abstract | Briefing paper | Working paper 

Paper 25: Value and the Third Sector, Andrea Westall
Abstract | Briefing paper | Working paper

Paper 24: A strategic unity, Pete Alcock
Abstract | Briefing paper

Article: Third sector organisation and public service. What can research tell us?
By Professor Pete Alcock, Published in ESRC’s annual magazine, Britain in 2010

Paper 23: The contradictory faces of social enterprise, Simon Teasdale
Abstract | Briefing paper | Working paper

Paper 22: Social enterprise and the environment, Ian Vickers
Abstract | Briefing paper 

Paper 19: Housing scoping papers: homelessness advice and support, Ricky Joseph
Abstract | Briefing paper

Paper 18: Housing scoping papers: the tenants' and community movement, Patricia A Jones
Abstract | Briefing paper

Paper 16: Housing scoping paper: housing associations, David Mullins
Abstract | Briefing paper

Paper 15: Outsider, missing link or panacea? The place of social enterprise (with)in and in relation to the Third Sector, Leandro Sepulveda
Abstract | Briefing paper | Working paper

Paper 14: Economic analysis and the third sector, Andrea Westall
Abstract | Briefing Paper | Working paper

Paper 13: Losing political innocence, Jeremy Kendall
Abstract | Briefing paper | Working paper

Paper 12: User and community co-production of public services: fad or fact, nuisance or necessity?, Tony Bovaird
Abstract | Briefing paper

Paper 11: Housing scoping papers: Self-help housing, David Mullins
Abstract | Briefing paper

Paper 10: Housing scoping papers: Overview, David Mullins, Patricia A Jones, Ricky Joseph, Rob Rowlands and Simon Teasdale
Abstract | Briefing paper

The value of volunteering in Europe in the Noughties, Jeremy Kendall
Abstract | Working paper

Paper 8: Exploring below the radar: issues of themes and focus, Angus McCabe and Jenny Phillimore
Abstract | Briefing paper | Working paper

Paper 7: Measuring the value of social and community impact (the role of social enterprises in public services), Fergus Lyon
Abstract | Full paper

Paper 5: Innovation in the homeless field: How does social enterprise respond to the needs of the literal homeless population?, Simon Teasdale
Abstract | Briefing paper | Working paper

Paper 4: Mapping social enterprises: past approaches, challenges and future directions, Fergus Lyon and Dr Leandro Sepulveda
Abstract | Briefing paper

Paper 3: Can social enterprise address social exclusion? Evidence from an inner city community, Simon Teasdale
Abstract | Briefing paper | Working paper

Paper 2: Devolution or Divergence? Third Sector Policy across the UK since 2000, Pete Alcock
Abstact | Briefing paper | Working paper

Paper 1: Research approach and strategy of TSRC, Pete Alcock
Briefing paper

The rural social economy: Surviving the credit crunch, Angus McCabe