Professor John Mohan

Deputy Director, Third Sector Research Centre

John is a professor of Social Policy at the University of Southampton. As Deputy Director of the TSRC, John leads on a program of quantitative research.

John has substantive research and teaching interests in Social Policy and Human Geography. He is working on studies of voluntarism (both voluntary organisations and volunteering) and would be keen to supervise research on this.

He is currently working on several projects concerned with the voluntary sector and with charitable giving, including Northern Rock Foundation Third Sector Trends in North east England and Cumbria; ESRC/OTS research centre on Charitable Giving and Philanthropy; and ESRC Understanding Population Trends and Processes

Experience
Much of John’s previous research has focused on health and health care policy, including organisational changes in health care delivery, the public-private mix for health, and the role of non-profit organisations. Other interests include spatial divisions of welfare; urban and regional policy; history of social policy.

John studied geography at Durham University and subsequently held research and/ or teaching posts at Birkbeck College, Plymouth Polytechnic, Queen Mary and Westfield College, and Portsmouth University before moving to Southampton in 2005.

Distinctions, awards
2006 Elected Academician, Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences
2005 Leverhulme Fellowship
2003 Erskine Fellowship, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
2003, 2006 Advisor, House of Commons Health Committee 
1992 Harkness Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania

Contact
Tel: (023) 8059 6681
Email: J.Mohan@tsrc.ac.uk

Third Sector Research Centre
School of Social Sciences
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ