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Tony Chapman is Professorial Fellow at St Chad’s College and Honorary Professor in the Department of Sociology, both at Durham University. Since 2011 he has directed research for the Policy & Practice initiative at St Chad’s, while maintaining an honorary professorial role in Sociology from 2012 to the present. Earlier, he served as Professor of Social Policy at Teesside University (2008-2011) and held various lecturing and senior roles at Teesside and Staffordshire.
Education:
- BA (Hons) Sociology, University of Lancaster, 1981
- PhD (CNAA) ‘Patterns of Occupational Mobility among Men and Women in Scotland, 1930-1970’, Plymouth Polytechnic, 1984
Research interests centre on four interconnected domains: civil society and third-sector trends, home, housing and community life, Japanese society and social enterprise, and young people’s transitions and social mobility. His work explores how voluntary organisations, social enterprises and public agencies interact to address social challenges, how domestic spaces shape identity, and how policy interventions affect youth trajectories. Comparative UK-Japan studies and longitudinal analysis are hallmarks of his approach.
Across more than thirty-five years, Chapman’s publications reveal evolving themes: early work on gendered graduate labour markets and domestic energy use; mid-career focus on urban regeneration, social enterprise and collaborative governance; and recent large-scale longitudinal studies on third-sector resilience, financial behaviour and Covid-19 impacts. Methodologically, he integrates quantitative trend analysis with qualitative governance studies.
Impact and advisory roles:
- Founding director of the Third Sector Trends study (2008-present), funded by Northern Rock Foundation, Power to Change, JRF and others
- Consultant assessor for ESRC Third Sector Research Centre
- Adviser to numerous UK local authorities and to the EU Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency
- Peer reviewer for Theory, Culture and Society, Urban Studies, Voluntary Sector Review and other journals
- Regular keynote speaker at national and international third-sector conferences (Tokyo, Chicago, Barcelona, etc.)
Doctoral supervision & teaching: Between 2015 and 2021 he supervised PhD students in Durham Business School and Newcastle Business School. From 2013–2015 he led final-year undergraduate and Masters Social Policy modules at Durham, and earlier taught across sociology, social policy and research methods at Teesside and Staffordshire.
Laboratory / research groups: Chapman leads the Policy & Practice research centre at St Chad’s College, Durham, which acts as a hub for third-sector studies and comparative international projects, particularly the UK-Japan social enterprise collaboration.
