Professor John Mohan

Professor John Mohan

Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
Professor of Social Policy
Director of the Third Sector Research Centre

Contact details

Address
School of Social Policy
Muirhead Tower
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2RT

John is a Professor of Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology, and is currently Director of the Third Sector Research Centre.

Qualifications

  • PhD 1983
  • BA 1979

Teaching

John currently contributes to the MA in Social Policy (specialist option on the third sector).

Postgraduate supervision

Professor Mohan has recently been involved in supervision of research into the following fields:

Social enterprise approaches to health inequalities
Lifecourse approaches to the study of volunteering
Longitudinal studies of volunteering
Policy towards volunteering, past and present

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Lindsey, R, Mohan, J, Metcalfe, E & Bulloch, S 2018, Continuity and change in voluntary action: patterns, trends and understandings. Third Sector Research Series, Policy Press, Bristol. https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447324836.001.0001

Article

Bowles, J, Clifford, D & Mohan, J 2023, 'The place of charity in a public health service: Inequality and persistence in charitable support for NHS trusts in england', Social Science and Medicine, vol. 322, 115805. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115805

Abnett, H, Bowles, J & Mohan, J 2023, 'The role of charitable funding in the provision of public services: the case of the English and Welsh National Health Service', Policy and politics. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557321X16764537061954

Mcdonnell, D, Mohan, J & Norman, P 2020, 'Charity Density and Social Need: A Longitudinal Perspective', Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 5, pp. 1082-1104. https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764020911199

Newbigging, K, Rees, J, Ince, R, Mohan, J, Joseph, D, Ashman, M, Norden, B, Dare, C, Bourke, S & Costello, B 2020, 'The contribution of the voluntary sector to mental health crisis care in England: a mixed methods study', Health Services and Delivery Research, vol. 8, no. 29, 08290. https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr08290

Ellis Paine, A, Kamerade, D, Mohan, J & Davidson, D 2019, 'Communities as ‘renewable energy’ for health care services? a multi-methods study into the form, scale and role of voluntary support for community hospitals in England', BMJ open, vol. 9, no. 10, e030243. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030243

Mohan, J & Bennett, M 2019, 'Community-level impacts of the third sector: does the local distribution of voluntary organizations influence the likelihood of volunteering?', Environment and Planning A, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 950-979. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X19831703

Kendall, J, Mohan, J, Brookes, N & Yoon, Y 2018, 'The English voluntary sector: How volunteering and policy climate perceptions matter', Journal of Social Policy. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279418000107

Newbigging, K, Mohan, J, Rees, J, Harlock, J & Davis, A 2017, 'Contribution of the voluntary sector to mental health crisis care in England: protocol for a multimethod study', BMJ open, vol. 7, no. 11, e019238. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019238

Mohan, J & McKay, S 2017, 'The prevalence and distribution of high salaries in English and Welsh Charities', Social Policy and Society, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 173-191. https://doi.org/10.1017/S147474641700001X

Mohan, J, Smith, P & Tabassum, F 2016, 'Association of volunteering with mental well-being: a lifecourse analysis of a national population-based longitudinal study in the UK', BMJ open. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011327

Clifford, D & Mohan, J 2016, 'The sources of income of English and Welsh charities: an organisation-level perspective', Voluntas, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 487-508. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-015-9628-5

Commissioned report

Newbigging, K, Rees, J, Ince, R, Mohan, J, Joseph, D, Ashman, M, Norden, B, Dare, C, Bourke, S & Costello, B 2020, Illustrated summary: The contribution of the voluntary sector to mental health crisis care: a mixed-methods study. University of Birmingham, Birmingham. <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/documents/college-social-sciences/social-policy/publications/contribution-of-the-voluntary-sector-to-mental-health-crisis-care.pdf>

Davidson, D, Ellis Paine, A, Glasby, J, Williams, I, Tucker, H, Crilly, T, Crilly, J, Le Mesurier, N, Mohan, J, Kamerade, D, Seamark, D & Marriott, J 2019, Analysis of the profile, characteristics, patient experience and community value of community hospitals: a multimethod study. vol. 7, 1 edn, National Institute for Health Research. https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr07010

Davidson, D, Ellis Paine, A, Glasby, J, Williams, I, Tucker, H, Crilly, T, Crilly, J, Le Mesurier, N, Mohan, J, Kamerade, D, Seamark, D & Marriott, J 2019, Analysis of the profile, characteristics, patient experience and community value of community hospitals: a multi-method study. vol. 7, 1 edn, National Institute for Health Research. <https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hsdr/hsdr07010#/abstract>

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