Jon Griffith is a part-time principal lecturer in the School of Law and Social Sciences; a member of the Centre for Institutional Studies; and leader of the postgraduate programmes in Voluntary Sector Studies, and Social Enterprise:Development and Management. Since 1982, he has worked as an independent consultant, facilitator, trainer and researcher with not-for-profit organisations (while also teaching and researching on short-term contracts with UeL and its predecessor institutions) before taking up a permanent (0.5) post with the University in 2002. He has a fashionably short list of publications, and has not yet been invited to give a keynote speech anywhere. He has on the other hand delivered the usual tentative papers on incomplete ideas in places as far afield as Geneva, Vienna, Toronto, Los Angeles and Milton Keynes; given invited lectures at the Judge Business School, Cambridge University; and taught a postgraduate course on Organisations, Learning and Change at City University. He has peer-reviewed for Philosophy of Management, the Social Enterprise Journal, and Learning for Democracy.

Shortform CV

Qualifications

• BA(hons), Oxon, 1977
• Certificate of qualification in part-time youth work, Oxfordshire County Council, 1979

Previous posts held

• Clerical officer/departmental administrator, Oxfam, Oxford, 1978-81
• Youth worker, West Oxford Community Association, 1978-79
• Field officer, London Union of Youth Clubs, 1981-83
• Tutor, Oval House Employment Preparation Project, 1981-83
• Associate lecturer/researcher, North East London Polytechnic/Polytechnic of East London/University of East London, 1982-2002
• Independent management consultant, facilitator, trainer and researcher, 1982-
• Development consultant, National Institute for Social Work, 1992-95
• Associate lecturer, City University, 2001-2004

Formulation, implementation and evaluation of social policies; development of not-for-profit organisations; philosophy of management.

Postgraduate programmes in Public and Community Service, Social Enterprise:Development and Management, and Voluntary Sector Studies

Jon has developed and led the following modules:

• Institutional development for Voluntary Organisations
• Volunteering, voluntarism and voluntary action
• Management development by action learning
• Appropriate management for third sector organisations
• Social enterprise core module
• Planning, resourcing and developing social enterprises
• Sustaining and managing social enterprise

and has also taught on modules in

• Managing policy
• Approaches to public and community service
• Governance

PHD Supervision

• Currently supervising two students, Gabriel Anan and Bev Meldrum.

Publications and conference papers post 2001:

• 2002: "Why Change Management Fails"Journal of Change Management, 2 (4)
• 2002: "Evaluation: developing a Popperian approach"; with Alice Sampson, Popper Congress, Vienna
• 2004: "Social capital, capacity building and quality assurance: where did we go wrong, and how can we stop?", Practising Philosophy of Management, Oxford
• 2004: "Managing in a turbulent real world", International Society for Third Sector Research, Toronto
• 2004: "From Voluntary Sector Studies to Social Enterprise Development and Management: where are we going and why are we going there?", Association of Researchers into Non-profit Organisations and Voluntary Action, Los Angeles
• 2005: "Alternative routes": A Handbook of Reflective and Experiential Learning,Higher Education Review, 37 (3)
• 2005: "The Myths of Social Enterprise: A Critique of Assumptions", with Kristen Reid, Research on Social Enterprise: Models and Practices, Issues and Challenges, Open University, Milton Keynes
• 2005: "Improving not-for-profit organisations: (the theory and practice of) theory and practice", Practising Philosophy of Management, Oxford
• 2005: "Short, practical and to the point: getting feedback from users who have better things to do", with Nick Boston and Paul Robson, National Council for Voluntary Organisations and Voluntary Sector Studies Network, Warwick
• 2006: "Power beyond technique": The Action Learning Handbook,Higher Education Review, 38 (2)
• 2006: "Social enterprise mythology: critiquing some assumptions" with Kristen Reid,Social Enterprise Journal, I (2)

Award

• Exhibition to Lincoln College, Oxford, 1974-77 (all downhill since then...)