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 and Society
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).

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Mohan, J 2024, Volunteering in the United Kingdom: The spirit of service. Manchester University Press, Manchester. <https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526145529/>

Article

Haydon, S & Mohan, J 2026, '‘Arithmetic Does not Deal With All the Factors’: How and Why Communities ‘Take Over’ Their NHS Hospital When Faced With Closure', Health and Social Care in the Community, vol. 2026, no. 1, 4940166. https://doi.org/10.1155/hsc/4940166

Abnett, H & Mohan, J 2026, 'Organization by regulation: regulatory reform and the creation of National Health Service (NHS) Charities in England and Wales in the 1980s-1990s', Management & Organizational History. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449359.2025.2595968

McDonnell, D, Mohan, J & Norman, P 2026, 'The Development of Local Voluntary Action: Longitudinal Trends and the Impact of Changing Area Characteristics, 1971–2021', Voluntas. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0957876526000069

Mohan, J & Clifford, D 2024, 'Spatial inequalities in charitable fundraising and income generation for NHS acute trusts in England', Public Money & Management, pp. 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2024.2304541

Rahal, C & Mohan, J 2024, 'The Role of the Third Sector in Public Health Service Provision: Evidence from 25,338 heterogeneous procurement datasets', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society). https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssa/qnae092

Clifford, D, McDonnell, D & Mohan, J 2023, 'Charities’ income during the COVID-19 pandemic: administrative evidence for England and Wales', Journal of Social Policy. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279422001015

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, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 362–384. 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

Davidson, D, Paine, AE, Glasby, J, Williams, I, Tucker, H, Crilly, T, Crilly, J, Mesurier, NL, 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', Health Services and Delivery Research. https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr07010

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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