Visiting academics

Visit dates: 14 February - 08 March 2009

In addition to academic appointments, Diana has been a consultant to various grantmaking foundations in the UK and Australia reviewing their policies and practices. For the last five years Diana has spent various periods in Australia, as The Myer Fellow at QUT and Senior Research Fellow at Deakin University with Philanthropy Australia working on a study of foundation stakeholders, governance and accountability. She has also worked on a world-wide collection of case studies of community foundation support organizations for WINGS-CF.

Diana has published extensively on the voluntary sector, foundations and social policy including her forthcoming book co-authored with Prof Helmut Anheier "Creative Philanthropy: Toward a Philanthropy for the Twenty-First Century" published in 2006 and her most recent book "Just Change: Strategies for Increasing Philanthropic Impact" published 2007.

Dr Kerry O'Halloran (Ireland)

Visit dates: Oct 28 - November 05 2008

Kerry holds a variety of positions including: editorial board member for International Journal of Not for Profit Law (Washington) and founding member and secretary of the Association of Voluntary Action Research in Ireland (AVARI) and consultant (Northern Ireland) to Open University (Milton Keynes) on the law relating to child care and social work. Since 1996 Kerry has also advised the Court Service (Northern Ireland) on their training programme for lay magistrates, compiling and publishing the Guide to Family Proceedings in Northern Ireland.

Kerry has also completed commissioned reports on the present legal framework of not-for-profit activity in Ireland and a review of charity law in Ireland. Kerry is currently completing an evaluation of the Derry well Woman project; a cross-border and multi-disciplinary health policy initiative.

Professor Helmut Anheier (Germany)

Visit dates: September 09 - September 23 2008

Helmut K. Anheier (Ph.D. Yale University, 1986) is Professor of Sociology at Heidelberg University and the academic director of the Heidelberg Centre for Social Investment. He is also Professor and Director of the Center for Civil Society and the Center for Globalization and Policy Research at UCLA's School of Public Affairs and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. In 1998, he founded the Centre for Civil Society at the London School of Economics, and directed it until 2002.

Dr. Anheier's work has focused on civil society, the nonprofit sector, philanthropy, organizational studies, policy analysis and comparative methodology. He was involved in research on a comparative study on the size, scope and role of the private nonprofit sector in thirty developed and developing countries, and was the co-director of the team developing the Handbook on Nonprofit Institutions for the United Nations (2002). He is a founding editor of the Journal of Civil Society, and Voluntas, the international journal of research on nonprofit organizations, founding editor of the Global Civil Society Yearbook (Oxford University Press), the Culture and Globalization Series (Sage) and series editor of an international book series on nonprofit and civil society studies (Springer). He is author of over 250 publications, including over twenty authored and edited books. His articles that have appeared in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Annual Review of Sociology, Contemporary Sociology, Sociological Forum, the British Journal of Sociology, International Sociology, and World Development.

He is currently researching the role of philanthropy internationally, and interested in methodological questions at the intersection of globalization, civil society, and culture.

Professor Rob Atkinson (United States)

Visit dates: July 21 - August 01 2008

Professor Rob Atkinson is the Ruden, McClosky, Smith, Schuster & Russell Professor of Law, Florida State University.  Recognised for his publications addressing the intersection of law and literature, Professor Atkinson is one of the country's leading scholars on legal professionalism, a noted scholar on the law of nonprofit organisations and on the relationship between business ethics and legal ethics. He teaches Property, Professional Responsibility, Legal Ethics, and Law and Literature, and has also taught Taxation of Nonprofit Organizations. Recipient of the 2001 Professionalism Award from the Florida Supreme Court's Commission on Professionalism, Professor Atkinson served as a Visiting Professor at Cornell Law School in Spring 2002. Before entering law teaching, Professor Atkinson was associated with the firm of Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan in Washington, D.C. and clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.