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Dr Simon Teasdale

Research Fellow, Third Sector Research Centre, University of Birmingham

Within TSRC Simon specialises in research on social enterprise. He is currently undertaking research exploring the relationship between different organisational revenue sources over time (with Steve McKay, Domenico Moro, Janelle Kerlin and Dennis Young), and also investigating the strategic use of social enterprise discourse by organisations as a revenue raising strategy (with Pascal Dey).

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. Since then he has published a wide range of journal articles and working papers.
 

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

  • Dey, P. and Teasdale, S. (2013 forthcoming) Social enterprise and dis/identification: The politics of identity work in the English third sector, Administrative Theory & Praxis
  • Teasdale, S., Kerlin, J., Young, D., and In Soh, J. (2013) Oil and water rarely mix: Exploring the relative stability of Nonprofit revenue mixes over time, Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 4, 1: 69-87
  • Teasdale, S., Lyon, F., and Baldock, R. (2013) Playing with numbers: A methodological critique of the social enterprise growth myth, Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, Published Online 12 March 2013  
  • Scott, D., and Teasdale, S. (2012) Whose failure? Learning from the financial collapse of a social enterprise in Steeltown , Voluntary Sector Review, 3(2): 139-155 
  • Smith, G., and Teasdale, S. (2012) Associative democracy and the social economy: Exploring the regulatory challenge, Economy and Society, 45(2): 151-176,  
  • Teasdale, S. (2012) What’s in a name? Making sense of social enterprise discourses, Public Policy and Administration, 27(2): 99-119
  • Teasdale, S. (2012) Negotiating tensions: How do social enterprises balance social and commercial considerations? Housing Studies, 27(4): 514-532
  • Teasdale, S., Alcock, P. and Smith, G. (2012) Legislating for the Big Society? The case of the Public Services (Social Value) Bill, Public Money and Management, 32(3):201-208
  • Smith, G., &Teasdale, S. (2011) Social economy and associative democracy, Ekonomia Spoleczna, (Autumn 2011)
  • 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. (2010) Explaining the multifaceted nature of social enterprise: Impression management as (social) entrepreneurial behaviour, Voluntary Sector Review, 1(3): 271-292
  • Teasdale, S. (2010) Models of social enterprise in the homelessness field, Social Enterprise Journal, 6(1): 23-34
  • 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
 
Edited special issues
  • Teasdale, S (ed.) (2012) Critical perspectives on social enterprise, Social Enterprise Journal, 8(2)
  • Teasdale, S., Dey, P., Nicholls, A., and Murdock, A. (eds.) (2014 forthcoming) Social innovation and public services in an era of austerity, International Journal of Public Sector Management
Book chapters
  • Teasdale, S (2013 forthcoming) Negotiating tensions: How do social enterprises balance social and commercial considerations? In Mullins, D., Czischke, D and van Bortel, G. (eds.), Social enterprise, hybridity and housing organisations, London: Routledge
  • Young, D., Kerlin, J., Teasdale, S., and Soh, J. (2012) The dynamics and long term stability of social enterprise, in Kickul, J and Bacq, S. (eds.), Patterns in social entrepreneurship research, Cheltenham UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar
 
TSRC Working papers
  • McKay, S., Moro, D., Teasdale, S., and Clifford, D. (2011) Are charities succumbing to market forces? TSRC Working Paper 69
  • Macmillan, R., Arvidson, M., Edwards, S., Soteri-Proctor, A., Taylor, R., and Teasdale, S. (2011) First impressions: introducing the ‘Real Times’ third sector case studies, TSRC Working Paper 67
  • 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 Working 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
  • 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
    Teasdale, S. (2010) What's in a name? The construction of social enterprise, TSRC Working Paper 46 
  • 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., Mckay, S., Phillimore, J., and Teasdale, N. (2010) Women’s leadership, employment and participation in the third sector, TSRC Working Paper 40
  • Teasdale, S. (2010) The contradictory faces of social enterprise, TSRC Working Paper 23
  • 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. (2009) Can social enterprise address social exclusion? Evidence from an inner city community, TSRC Working Paper 3 

Book review

  • Teasdale, S. (2011) ‘Third sector organizations facing turbulent environments’, edited by A. Evers and A. Zimmer. Social Policy and Administration, first published online 22 August 2011. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9515.2011.00805_3.x

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