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Co-ordinators

Sue Baines
Sue is Reader in Social Policy at the Research Institute for Health and Social Change, Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). She has researched and published widely on aspects of work, enterprise and social inclusion. Her studies of marginal self-employment, rural small businesses, and artistic livelihoods have been sponsored by ESRC, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Arts Council England. More recently her research has drawn on these foundations to explore volunteering and the persistence of unpaid work in the production of public services. She has also become increasingly interested in notions of participation, interactivity and co-production in the research process.
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Irene Hardill
Irene is Professor of Economic Geography in the Graduate School, Business, Law and Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University. Over recent years she has been researching and writing about the voluntary and community sector, and the role unpaid voluntary work plays in people’s lives. She works collaboratively with a number of voluntary organisations including Community Concern Erewash and Age Concern England. Together with Age Concern England and the English Regions Network Irene developed the extensively used age proofing toolkit for regional policy.
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Rob Wilson
Rob is a Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University Business School (NUBS), Deputy Director of the Centre for Knowledge Innovation Technology and Enterprise (KITE), and leader of the Public Service Innovation (previously SBI) group. Rob’s research interests are in public service innovation, in particular the role that Information Systems play in organisational change and partnership working. His current research on these themes includes ‘Older Peoples Services at Home’ (European Commission FP6), and ‘Integrating Telecare for Chronic Disease Management in the Community’ (Department of Health).
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