Team biographies
Professor John Mohan
John is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Southampton. He has substantive teaching and research interests in human geography and social policy. Current and previous work of particular relevance includes:
- leading with Kent University research on giving and social distribution as part of the national Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy;
- use of large-scale administrative data sets, such as the National Blood Service’s database on the distribution of 4 million blood donors, for a project funded by the Health Development Agency;
- the use of national survey data sets such as the General Household Survey (Mohan et al., 2006a), the British Crime Survey (Mohan and Twigg, under review), the Survey of English Housing (Mohan and Twigg, 2007) and the Home Office Citizenship Survey (forthcoming project with the Institute for Volunteering Research) to explore aspects of social capital, sense of community and social cohesion, voluntarism and participation.
For the Third Sector Trends Study, John will take direct the quantitative research, co-ordinating with partnership members and with the Foundation and its Advisory Group.
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