Professor Sue Baines
Professor of Social Enterprise
Sue Joined the Centre for Enterprise in June 2012 to lead the research team. She has many years' experience of working in multi-disciplinary environments to deliver applied social research. Her studies for the ESRC and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on micro-businesses and household livelihoods have been reported in leading journals including Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, International Small Business Journal, Gender Work and Organization, New Technology Work and Employment, and Work Employment and Society. More recently, she has researched and published extensively on social enterprise, innovation, collaboration across sectors, and ‘enterprise’ in public and voluntary services. She has led research and evaluation on these topics with funding from government, charities and UK research councils.
Sue was awarded a Personal Chair (Research) as Professor of Social Enterprise in 2014.
Key Research and Knowledge Exchange
Making pub retailing greener: A university & private sector partnership to build and share research ESRC
Innovative Social Investment: Strengthening communities in Europe (InnoSI) European Commission H2020
Information Sharing in Policy and Practice: What needs to be shared (and not shared) when we share information? ESRC Research Seminars Series (2014-17)
Essence: European Sustainable Solutions for Existing and New City Environments Erasmus+
FINCODA: Framework for Innovation Competencies Development and Assessment
Rural Hybrid Energy Enterprise Systems (RHEES) is funded by EPSRC (2012 – 2014) and led by Nottingham University. RHEES aims to develop innovative, low-carbon, sustainable biomass-fuelled hybrid energy systems at a scale suitable for implementation in rural communities. The remit of the MMU team is to identify appropriate business models for renewable energy generation at the community level.
ENGAGE: Stimulating Third Sector Organisations in the Health Sector Supply Chain, funded under ESRC Business Engagement Opportunities (2009-2010). The project supported seminars, placements and impact generation for social organisations that wished to learn more about working with the NHS and local authority.
Re-mixing the economy of welfare: what is emerging beyond the market and the state, ESRC Seminar Series (2009-2010) New roles and responsibilities in public services have profound implications for social organisations, communities and families. Six linked seminars provided a forum for researchers and practitioners to explore rationales for this change, to assess its implications, and to think about visions for the future.
Explorations of forced labour amongst Chinese migrant workers Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Exploring the potential of the Northwest’s small firms to drive forward economic recovery
Engaging Scottish Local Authorities: Process and Impact Review
Doing ones duty: a case study of volunteering in a deprived community, ESRC.
A Creative Business? Towards understanding the livelihoods of visual artists, ESRC.
Enterprising livelihoods in rural households: new and old ways of working, ESRC.
Balancing work and family lives in self-employment, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, (2002-2003).
Framework for Multi-agency Environments (FAME) Learning & Evaluation Department of Communities and Local Government
