Academic Centers
Name of Center
Centre for Voluntary Sector Research
Sheffield Hallam University, UK
www.shu.ac.uk/cvsr
About the Center
The SHU CVSR was founded in 1998 from the outset as an inter-disciplinary research centre, linking a range of research activities at Sheffield Hallam University concerning voluntary organisations and the voluntary sector. Led by Dr Gareth Morgan, it now has 7 core staff split across four academic disciplines: organisation and management, economic and social research, information systems, regeneration, evaluation studies. Major interests include: charity accounting and regulation, voluntary sector infrastructure, the role of the voluntary sector in public service delivery.
Major Education Initiatives:
- Doctoral programme – a range of students working for PhDs related to voluntary sector finance and funding.
- MSc Charity Resource Management
- Various modules on the voluntary sector across a number of undergraudate and postgraduate programmes
Major Research Projects:
- Evaluation of the Community Fund's Grant-Making to Voluntary Sector Infrastructure Organisations
- Policy Issues in Accounting for Smaller Charities
- Evaluation of the UK Government's Futurebuilders programme (we are one of several research centres co-operating on this).