Research

Cass is a leading centre for research across all areas of business and finance. Cass CCE extends this reputation with valuable research into the voluntary and community sectors.

Professor Jenny Harrow, Professor of Voluntary Sector Management, has extensive academic and practitioner experience in the voluntary sector. Her research is focused on voluntary/public sector partnerships, sectoral management development, programme evaluation, and trusteeship. She is a collaborative researcher, with research clients including Communities Scotland, the Community Fund, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the NCVO. She has a strong track record in doctoral supervision and leads the Centre's grantmaking programme initiative. She is an active trustee in the fields of disability and community action. More information about Jenny including a detailed list of her previous publications can be found here.

Cathy Pharoah is Professor of Charity Funding at Cass Business School, and is also a Co-Director of the Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy with Professor Jenny Harrow. Cathy has been a leading source of quantitative data on trends in private giving to UK charities for several years, and recently published the Charity Market Monitor 2008 with CaritasData. Cathy is also collaborating on a study of international giving funded by ESRC as part of its Non-Governmental Public Action research programme, led by Professor John Micklewright at Southampton University. Cathy's research interests include giving and philanthropy by individuals, foundations and companies, charitable tax reliefs, trends in the resourcing of the third sector, social enterprise, relationships between the third, private and public sector funding. More information about Cathy, including a detailed list of her previous publications, can be found here

Dr Tobias Jung is Principal Research Fellow at Cass Business School and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh Business School. As a member of the Research Unit for Research Utilisation (RURU) Tobias has a keen interest in effective knowledge-exchanges across academic, practice and policy contexts relating to the third sector. Having both practice and research experience of the sector, Tobias works closely with a variety of organisations on the co-production of knowledge and is currently involved in projects with Arts & Business Scotland and the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO). Tobias is in charge of the research publications programme drawn from fieldwork in CCE and further information on his work can be found here.

Detailed information on Research projects affiliated with the Cass CCE can be found within the Research section of our website.