Introduction

Dr Sue Baines currently working with Dr Julia Rouse on a number of research proposals related to the entrepreneurial life-course and to work on enterprise and disadvantaged groups.

Background

Sue joined Manchester Metropolitan University  in summer 2007.    Sue is Reader in Social Policy in the Research Institute for Health and Social Change at MMU.     Before that she was a principal research associate in the Institute for Policy and Practice at Newcastle University. She has many years experience of working in multi disciplinary research environments to deliver applied social research. She has managed projects from sponsors including the ESRC, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Department of Communities and Local Government, and Arts Council England. Sue has published widely on aspects of small enterprise, social inclusion, livelihoods, and unpaid work. 

Sue came to academia as a doctoral student in CURDS (Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies) at Newcastle University under the auspices of PICT (Programme on Information and Communication Technologies). She completed an ESRC post-doctoral fellowship in 1999 which examined the experiences of employees who turned to self-employment during the restructuring of the UK print and broadcast media. Since then she has undertaken studies of marginal self-employment, creative livelihoods and, more recently, volunteering. She joined the Social and Business Informatics (SBI) team at Newcastle University Business School in 2003 to take on the role of managing the evaluation component of a national e-government project known as FAME (Framework for Multi-Agency Environments). She has an ongoing interest in public services and their continued reliance on unpaid work (within and beyond the household). Her particular interest within this domain is in the increasingly prominent role of the third sector in public policy and service delivery. The ESRC has recently awarded her (in collaboration with Professor Hardill of Nottingham Trent University) two ‘Impact Grants’ designed to ensure the translation of academic research on the third sector into practice.

Research

• Delivering public services in the mixed economy of welfare: Putting research into practice ESRC IMPACT GRANT (September 2007 – March 2008); Project website http://www.socialwelfareservicedelivery.org.uk/
• Broadening the base of the volunteer workforce, ESRC IMPACT GRANT;
• Doing ones duty: a case study of volunteering in a deprived community, ESRC;
• A Creative Business? Towards understanding the livelihoods of visual artists, ESRC;
• Enterprising livelihoods in rural households: new and old ways of working, ESRC;
• Management of growth or non growth for self-employed women and men, ESRC post-doctoral fellowship;
• Payments and fees for visual artists, Arts Council England;
• Balancing work and family lives in self employment, Joseph Rowntree Foundation;
Weblink to Findings www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/socialpolicy/d43.asp
• Framework for Multi-Agency Environments project (FAME) Learning & Evaluation (ODPM/DCLG). Final Report 
http://www.fame-uk.org/archive/FAME_L&E_FinalReport.pdf  
•Measuring and Understanding Systems Integration Challenges JISC
Weblink to Final Report http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/musicreport.aspx 

Publications

Selected Publications:
Baines, S and Hardill, I, (2008 in press) ‘At least I can do something: the work of volunteering in a community beset by worklessness’ Social Policy and Society 7(3)

Lie M. and Baines S. (2007). Making Sense or Organisational Change: The Voices of Older Volunteers Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 18 (3):.225-240

Wilson, R, Baines S, Cornford J. and Martin M. ‘Trying to do a jigsaw without the picture on the box’: understanding the challenges of care integration in the context of single assessment for older people in England. (2007) International Journal of Integrated Care, v.7. On-line http://www.ijic.org/publish/articles/000288/article.pdf 

Hardill, I, Baines, S. and 6, P. (2007) Volunteering for all? Explaining patterns of volunteering and identifying strategies to promote it. Policy and Politics 2007, 35(3), 395-412’

Gannon-Leary, P., Baines, S. and Wilson, R. (2006) Collaboration and partnership: A review and reflections on a national project to join up local services in England. Journal of Interprofessional Care 2006, 20(6), 665-674.

Walsh, S., Baines, S. and Cornford, J. (2006) E-enabled Active Welfare: Creating the Context for Work-Life Balance? In: Perrons, D., McDowell, L., Fagan, C., Ray, K. and Ward, K., eds. Gender Divisions and Working Time in the New Economy: Public Policy and Changing Patterns of Work in Europe and North America. Edward Elgar.

Baines, S. and Wheelock, J. (2003) Creative livelihoods: The economic survival of visual artists in the North of England. Northern Economic Review 33/34, 118 – 133.
Baines, S. and Gelder U. (2003) ‘What is family friendly about the workplace in the home? The case of self-employed parents and their children’ New Technology, Work and Employment, 18 (3): 223 – 234.

Baines, S., Wheelock, J. and Gelder, U. (2003) Riding the Rollercoaster: Family Life and Self-employment. Bristol: The Policy Press.

Wheelock J, Oughton E and Baines S. (2003) Getting by with a little help from your family: towards a policy relevant model of the working household. Feminist Economics 9 (1):19-45

Baines, S. (2002) ‘New technologies and old ways of working in the home of the self-employed teleworker’, New Technology, Work and Employment, 17( 2): 89 – 101.

Baines, S. and Robson, L. (2001) Being Self Employed or Being Enterprising? The case of creative work for the media industries. Journal of small Business and Enterprise Development, 8(4), 349 - 362.

Chell, E. and Baines, S. (2000) Networking, entrepreneurship and microbusiness behaviour. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development 12(3), 195 – 215.

Baines, S. and J. Wheelock. (2000) ‘Work and employment in small businesses: Perpetuating and challenging gender traditions.’ Gender, Work and Organization 7: 45 - 55

Baines S. (1999) Servicing the Media: Freelancing, Teleworking and ‘Enterprising’ Careers. New Technology, Work and Employment, 14(1) 18-31.