Social Enterprise Capacity Building Cluster
funded by ESRC and Office of Civil Society
The Economic and Social Research Council, (ESRC) and Office of Civil Society, (OTS) have awarded a joint social enterprise £1million research grant to Middlesex University, London South Bank University and Durham University to carry out a 5 year research programme on social enterprise. The consortium will use the grant to fund training for researchers on social enterprise issues and to develop links between universities and social enterprises.
Social enterprises are organisations that are trading with a social purpose. They include charities, cooperatives and other organisations that do not distribute profit to shareholders.
The bid will develop four components:
Social enterprises can join the cluster activities through co-funding activities, and join the existing partners from across the sector who have committed to building up the research capacity.
The partners include:
Prof. Fergus Lyon and Prof. Stephen Syrett at Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research (CEEDR), Middlesex University.
Prof. Eleonore Kofman and Dr Mel Evans at Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC), Middlesex University.
Prof. Ash Amin, Prof. Ray Hudson and Dr Sarah Atkinson, Department of Geography, University of Durham.
Prof. Alex Murdock, London South Bank University.
The programme will be directed from the Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research, CEEDR at Middlesex University.
For further information contact f.lyon@mdx.ac.uk.
