My background is as a sociologist.  After pursuing an early academic career as a Research Associate for the Dept of Environment and Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at Anglia-Ruskin University (1980-86) I changed career to become an Anglican Priest.  During this time I was the author/ editor of 2 collections of rural sociology and UK Editor of Sociologia Ruralis.  My main interest was in deprivation, poverty and labour market restructuring in village England. 

During my time in full-time Anglican ministry I served as Curate and Vicar in three parishes in Essex, Coventry and Warwickshire.  I was appointed Director of Lay Education and Ministry Leadership Team Adviser for Coventry Diocese in the mid-90s and served in these and my parish ministries until 2006.  During this time I was responsible for forming three social enterprises and developing a multi-media TV company (Forward Vision Communications Ltd) in Birmingham.

After leaving parish ministry — on health grounds — I set up my own Business & Media Consulting company.  I was invited to join the staff of the Liverpool Hope University Business School in 2009.  Since then I have taught across a wide range of programmes.  I have published in the field of social enterprise, ethical business and integral economics, on which I am currently engaged in completing my doctorate. 

My main research interests are: the social and political differentiation of green and ethical businesses; the spiritual bases of economic culture; the impact of arts-based community development on local social economies.  I am, also, on the UK Executive of Trust & Integrity in the Global Economy; am a member of Initiatives of Change UK, and a Fellow of the University of Gloucestershire and a Founder of The New Wilberforce Alliance.”