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 undertaking research on the formation of social ventures, and on the long term sustainability of hybrid forms of social venture.

His other research interests include housing and homelessness, and user participation among excluded groups. He has previously taught modules on Research Design, Fundraising for Social Enterprise and Community Organisations, and Planning and Resourcing for NGOs and Social Enterprises. He is associate editor of Social Enterprise Journal.

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

Publications

Recent Journal Articles

• Teasdale, S. (2010) ‘Explaining the multifaceted nature of social enterprise: Impression management as (social) entrepreneurial behaviour’, Voluntary Sector Review, 1(3): 271-292
• Teasdale, S. (2010). 'How can social enterprise address disadvantage? Evidence from an inner city community', Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing, 22(2): 89-107 
• Teasdale, S. (2010) 'Models of social enterprise in the homelessness field', Social Enterprise Journal, 6(1): 23-34
• Teasdale, S., McKay, S., Phillimore, J., and Teasdale, N. (2011) ‘Exploring gender and social entrepreneurship: Women’s leadership, employment and participation in the third sector and social enterprises’, Voluntary Sector Review, 2(1): 57-76 
• Teasdale, S. (2011) ‘What’s in a name? Making sense of social enterprise discourses’, Public Policy and Administration, published online 25 May 2011
• Smith, G., and Teasdale, S. (2011) ‘Social economy and associative democracy’, Ekonomia Spoleczna, (Autumn 2011)

Articles in press

• Teasdale, S., Alcock, P. and Smith, G. (2012 forthcoming) ‘Legislating for a Big Society? The case of the Public Services (Social Enterprise and Social Value) Bill’, Public Money and Management
• Teasdale, S. (2012 forthcoming) ‘Negotiating tensions: How do social enterprises balance social and commercial considerations?’ Housing Studies
   

TSRC Working papers

• Teasdale, S. (2009) Can social enterprise address social exclusion? Evidence from an inner city community, TSRC Working Paper 3
• Teasdale, S. (2009) Innovation in the homeless field: How does social enterprise respond to the needs of the literal homeless population? TSRC Working Paper 5 
• Teasdale, S. (2010)The contradictory faces of social enterprise, TSRC Working Paper 23 
• Teasdale, S., Mckay, S., Phillimore, J., and Teasdale, N. (2010) Womens' leadership, employment and participation in the third sector, TSRC Working Paper 40
• Lyon, F., Teasdale, S., and Baldock, R. (2010) Approaches to measuring the scale of the social enterprise sector in the UK, TSRC Working Paper 43
• Teasdale, S. (2010) What's in a name? The construction of social enterprise, TSRC Working Paper 46
• Teasdale, S. (2010) A comparative study of changes in earned income among third sector organisations in England and Wales, and the United states, TSRC Working Paper 47
• Mullins, D., Jones, P.A., and Teasdale, S. (2011) Self-help housing – Towards a greater role. Case Study Findings Summary to inform Consultation at St George’s House, Windsor Castle, December 2010 TSRC Briefing Paper 54
• Teasdale, S., Jones, P.A., and Mullins, D. (2011) Connecting the dots: the potential for self-help housing to address homelessness, TSRC Working Paper 53

Work in Progress (Copies of the following papers can be supplied upon request)

• McKay, S., Moro, D., Teasdale, S., and Clifford, D. (under review) ‘Are charities in England and Wales succumbing to market forces?’
• Scott, D., and Teasdale, S. (under review) ‘Whose failure? Learning from the financial collapse of a social enterprise in “Steeltown” ’
• Smith, G., and Teasdale, S. (recently revised) ‘Associative democracy and the social economy: Exploring the regulatory challenge’
• Teasdale, S., Kerlin, J., McKay, S., and Moro, D. (under review) ‘Modelling the interdependence between commercial and donative revenue’,
• Young, D., Kerlin, J., Teasdale, S., and Soh, J. The dynamics and long term stability of social enterprise