I am an internationally renowned academic and practitioner in the field of social & environmental innovation & entrepreneurship, whose 25 year career experience has been dedicated to helping people, communities,  and organisations make decisions in complex and confusing situations. I am also adept at getting decisions made when I'm not in charge.  I have worked in environmental decision-making, in policy and law and in community development, for governments, major companies and community associations. Now, working at the University of Northampton, my focus is on the nitty-gritty theory and practice of community organising and social innovation. I have taught Entrepreneurship, International Development and Social & Community Development students how to make decisions in and with communities, but also coach and undertake paid and pro-bono consulting work for third-sector organisations, most recently co-founding Intensive Engagement, a social change organisation working on neighbourhood policing.
I am also Changemaker Campus leader at the University of Northampton who have adopted my skill set as a major institutional strategy. I have led on high profile co-curriculum challenges, summer schools and international conferences on social innovation. My PhD thesis "Locally Identified Solutions and Practices: a critical realist investigation into the processes of social innovation in the context of neighbourhood policing" was defended in July 2020 and awarded in July 2021. I was made Associate Professor of Social Innovation in June 2022.

Sociology of social innovation and social entrepreneurship. Systems thinking and organisational analysis. Environmental law. Sustainability in industrial processes. Learning & Teaching, especially low engagement of students and non-submission of assignments. Critical realist evaluations. 

Open to PhD research supervision in the fields of social innovation, social entrepreneurship, critical realist evaluations

Social enterprises. Charities. Police forces. Local authority Public Safety panels. Leather technology industry. 

Foundation Years. Social Innovation. Social Entrepreneurship. Social & Environmental Sustainability. Community Development. Metacognitive Study skills

Founding Director, Intensive Engagement Ltd

St Ragener’s Orthodox Trust and St Anne’s Orthodox Trust, Dean (2022 to date), Trustee and Executive member to Archdiocese of Western Europe Deanery of Great Britain (to Dec 19). Pastoral Committee member to the Assembly of Orthodox Christian Bishops in the UK (to Dec 18). Founder & Parish priest, St Anne’s Orthodox Christian parish, Northampton (to date)