University of Northampton

Faculty Member, School of Health

Senior Lecturer, Spirituality in Public Practice

About

Tim Curtis is Senior Lecturer in Spirituality in Public Practice at the University of Northampton School of Health with an interest in Social Entrepreneurship and Community Development.

He is an Unltd/HEFCE Ambassador for Social Entrepreneurship in Higher Education, a Public Engagement Ambassador and a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.

He has validated and is delivering a BA in Social Entrepreneurship as well as post graduate courses. Tim is formerly a senior research fellow at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, University of Oxford, and has spent the last five years undertaking detailed research of social enterprises at the boundaries of state intervention. This major research project, undertaken in collaboration with the South East of England Development Agency, Stowarzyszenie Klon/Jawor in Poland and an Italian partner, has just finished and Tim, and his team, are working on academic papers.

Tim is a human geographer by training and holds a masters of laws in Environmental Law. He practised as a management consultant in the environmental field for over ten years before starting his first social enterprise. . He also teaches for the Homes and Communities Agency Academy for Sustainable Communities.

He currently teaches
SWK1003 Volunteering
SWK2003 Community Involvement
SWK3017 Social Change and Communities


Tim has also taught
MKT3026 Innovation, Opportunity and Innovation
IBO3004 Social Reesponsibility in Business
MKT1019 Introducing Social Enterprise MKT2028 Enterprise in Society

Tim has just been apointed to the Editorial Board of the The International Journal of Social Entrepreneurship. He is an external examiner to the Social Enterprise programme at the University of Ulster and is a Governor of Thomas Backet Catholic Secondary school in Northampton

Tim is an Orthodox Christian priest in the Archdiocese of Western Europe, Ecumenical Patriarchate. His pastoral work intersects with his teaching role in developing ways of getting his social and community development students to think about and value the spirituality and belief systems of their clients, and consider the role of their own belief system in the judgements they make in their social work

Contact Information

Homepage:

http://tim.curtis.northampton.googlepages.com/

IM:

skype: curtistim

 
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