Simon Teasdale
Assistant Vice Principal Social Innovation and Professor
Glasgow Caledonian University
Simon’s research focuses on the intersection between public policies and organisational behaviour. He is particularly interested in how social innovation policies are enacted through discourse and financial incentives, and the complex ways in which practitioners seek to negotiate and informally amend such policies. He employs a range of (predominately) qualitative approaches including discourse analysis, qualitative longitudinal studies, and ethnographic methods.
His research has been funded by bodies such as the Economic and Social Research Council, Medical Research Council, European Commission, OECD and by national governments. He has published in journals including Economy and Society, Journal of Social Policy, Organization, Policy and Politics, Public Administration, and Public Management Review. He is currently working on Men’s Sheds project (with Artur Steiner), Mutual Aid responses to COVID-19 (with Michael Roy), and hybrid organisations as a response to Sustainable Development Goals (with Michele Bianchi).
Simon has a BA in Economics and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Manchester. Simon has had visiting fellowships at the Universities of New South Wales and Georgia State. He is Associate Editor of Journal of Social Entrepreneurship and sits on the editorial boards of Social Enterprise Journal and Nonprofit Policy Forum. He is founding member of the organising committee for the International Social Innovation Research Conference. He sits on review panels for the Scottish Government Social Innovation Fund and for Carnegie Trust.
Simon designed the module Global Social Entrepreneurship and teaches on it. Previously he designed GCUs MSc Social Business and Microfinance and has taught on a variety of modules relating to research methods, social policy, and social innovation.
Simon currently supervises six PhD students, three as Director of Studies, in the broad areas of social innovation discourses and policies, co-production, the economics of social enterprise. He particularly welcomes new applications from those interested in exploring community-based responses to global challenges, and the travel of social innovation ideas across different contexts.