Social Enterprise
CEEDR has been at the forefront of research on social enterprise for the past 15 years. In addition to a number of influential projects for different government departments, CEEDR is the social enterprise lead in the ESRC’s Third Sector Research Centre and is directing the ESRC Social Enterprise Capacity Building Cluster.
New projects are looking at the measurement of social impact for different organisations (such as Citizens Advice) and a large ESRC investment examining mutuals owned by staff and users spinning out of the public sector.
The CEEDR research on social enterprise has been influential in shaping government policy and has been used to develop practical tools now used by hundreds of social enterprises and charities. This research also feeds into a number of courses including those run by CEEDR and guest lectures in different modules across the Business School. It also supports the growing PhD programme within CEEDR.
Here are a selection of research projects on social enterprise:
- Social Enterprise Capacity Building Cluster
client - ESRC and Office of Civil Society - Third Sector Research Centre
client - Office of the Third sector - The role of mutuals in public service innovation
client - ESRC and NESTA - Social enterprises and the Big Society
client - ESRC and ISBE - Social Enterprise Investment Fund
client - Department for Health - Review of the Social Value measurement
client - Citizens Advice Bureau - Evaluation of the School for Social Entrepreneurs right to request support programme
client - School for Social Entrepreneurs - Supporting scaling up and social franchising
client - London Early Years Foundation - Developing environmental Social Enterprise
client - Social Enterprise East Midlands - Joining the Dots - Social Impact Measurement
client - East of England Development Agency - Evaluation of the Innovation Exchange Brokerage Model
client - Innovation Exchange - Alternative approaches to Capacity Building
client - Capacity Builders
