Programme Manager – 3rd Sector Futures
I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
Andy Brady is a senior lecturer in the Lord Ashcroft International Business School at Anglia Ruskin University. Prior to joining the university he worked in both public and private sectors, but most extensively in the voluntary sector in London, where he was co-ordinator at a refugee community centre.
In 2008 Andy set up the university’s 3rd Sector Futures initiative, which delivers a range of learning, research and consultancy services to charities and social enterprises. Since 2011, Andy has been the course leader for the university’s two year part-time Cert HE in Charity & Social Enterprise Management, which has recruited over a hundred students from across the UK. This work has been recognised with a Vice Chancellor’s Award for services to Anglia Ruskin University in the Community.
Andy has been a director of Social Enterprise East of England (SEEE) since the company was founded in 2005, and is also on the board of Voluntary Sector Training, a social enterprise based in Essex. He is an external examiner at the University of Ulster, and was the Business Plan Mentor Co-ordinator for the Ariane de Rothschild Fellowship Programme in Cambridge in 2011.
Andy completed a Masters in Community Enterprise at the Judge Business School in 2007, and holds a first degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Salford. Andy is a visiting lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the RSA. He is undertaking research as part of a PhD in the study of social enterprise networks, a topic on which he has delivered conference papers and published articles. He has written book chapters for The Big Society Challenge, published early in 2011, and Social Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise: Context and Theories, which is currently in press.
