Professor Irene Hardill AcSS

Honorary Membership Secretary

IRENE HARDILL BA, MA, PhD, AcSS is Professor of Economic Geography at Nottingham Trent University, where her interests include the contribution to family and community of formal and informal unpaid work by volunteers. Her recent ESRC-funded projects include – with Dr Sue Baines, of Manchester Metropolitan University – an in-depth case study of work connected with community-building and support in a deprived area of England’s East Midlands; an ESRC Impact grant project which helped inform policy on how to broaden the base of those who volunteer, and a second Impact grant on public service delivery in the mixed economy of welfare. Irene’s projects have been interactive and participatory, from the design of the project proposal, during the data collection stage and data analysis through to the dissemination of results, to elicit the co-production of knowledge.