Dr Andri Soteri-Proctor

Research Fellow, Third Sector Research Centre, University of Birmingham

Andri is working on several research programmes within TSRC, including its core qualitative longitudinal research project and the Below the radar work stream. Andri will also be developing the research programme for the Black Minority Ethnic work stream.

Andri’s particular interest in Third Sector Organisations (TSOs) is on their engagement with government initiatives and the use of qualitative tools to understand these.

Experience
Prior to working with TSRC, Andri was an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at the University of Manchester, where she recently completed her PhD, ‘Can voluntary organisations successfully sustain engagement with the government employment initiative the New Deal for Young People?’ She has previously held research and teaching positions at the Institute for Political and Economic Governance at the University of Manchester, the Centre for Institutional Studies at the University of East London and the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics. She has carried out various projects on the UK’s voluntary sector.

Andri was awarded the Campbell Adamson Prize for best paper at the VSSN/NCVO Annual Research conference, September 2008.

Qualifications
BSc., MSc., PhD

Additional information:
See Andri’s ESRC web page
Andri is a member of the Voluntary Sector Studies Network (VSSN), an association for all researchers interested in investigating the voluntary and community sector.

Contact:
Tel: 0121 414 3953
Email: a.soteri-proctor@tsrc.ac.uk

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