Dr Jane Cullingworth

Research Fellow (Urban Studies & Social Policy)

email: Jane.Cullingworth@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: She/her/hers

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074

Biography

I completed a PhD at the University of Glasgow in June 2020. My thesis, Democratic governance through intermediary bodies: a case study of third sector interfaces in Scotland, explored the relationship between the third sector and the state, looking at the nature of an intermediary body’s participation in governance networks in an urban local authority. My findings suggested that a Third Sector Interface’s independence can be compromised by its close involvement with state actors and its legitimacy with the broader third sector undermined. The research raises a fundamental challenge: how do civil society actors participate in democratic governance while maintaining both autonomy from the state and legitimacy with civil society?

I am currently the lead Research Fellow on a three-year ESRC research project, Exploring the Inequalities and Diversities in Disabled Young Adult Transitions. I have worked on a range of other research projects related to the experiences of disabled people including, Disabled People and COVID-19; and IPS Beyond SMI: Maximising Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Beyond Severe Mental Illness (SMI).

Prior to academia, I was a practitioner in the third sector for over 30 years, primarily in Toronto, Canada. I worked in a range of roles from community worker through to chief executive.

Research interests

Research groups

Social & Urban Policy
Just Cities & Societies

Publications

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Number of items: 27.

2025

Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074 (2025) Strengthening the role of third sector intermediary bodies in democratic governance: developing strategies with state and non-state actors. Evidence and Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, (doi: 10.1332/17442648Y2025D000000062) (Early Online Publication)

Pearson, Charlotte ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5106-6534, Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074, Salmon, Katie, McLaughlin, Janice, Watson, Nick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0364-427X, Shildrick, Tracy and Bailey, Amanda (2025) Policy failure in the lives of young disabled people: in search of good transitions. Social Policy and Administration, (doi: 10.1111/spol.13131) (Early Online Publication)

2024

Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074 and Macmillan, Rob (2024) Third Sector Support Infrastructure: Towards a Comparative Framework. 16th ISTR Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, 16-19 Jul 2024.

Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074 (2024) Strengthening the Role of Third Sector Intermediary Bodies in Democratic Governance: Developing Strategies with State and Non-state Actors. 16th ISTR Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, 16-19 Jul 2024.

Whitworth, Adam, Baxter, Susan, Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074 and Clowes, Mark (2024) Individual Placement and Support (IPS) beyond severe mental health: an overview review and meta-analysis of evidence around vocational outcomes. Preventive Medicine Reports, 43, 102786. (doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2024.102786) (PMID:38975284) (PMCID:PMC11225006)

Baxter, Susan, Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074, Whitworth, Adam, Runswick-Cole, Katherine and Clowes, Mark (2024) Understanding interventions and outcomes in supported employment and individual placement support: A qualitative evidence synthesis. Disability and Health Journal, 17(2), 101579. (doi: 10.1016/j.dhjo.2024.101579) (PMID:38242753)

Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074, Brunner, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1436-7404 and Watson, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0364-427X (2024) Not the usual suspects: creating the conditions for and implementing co-production with marginalised young people in Glasgow. Public Policy and Administration, 39(2), pp. 278-297. (doi: 10.1177/09520767221140439)

Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074, Watson, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0364-427X, Shakespeare, Thomas, Brunner, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1436-7404, Pearson, Charlotte ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5106-6534 and Scherer, Nathaniel (2024) “They have been a saving grace in all this”: the role of the third sector in disabled people’s experiences of COVID-19 and implications for sector–state relations. Voluntary Sector Review, 15(1), pp. 92-109. (doi: 10.1332/204080521X16593450428164)

Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074 (2024) From Knowledge to Action: Strengthening Third Sector–State Relations in Scotland. Other. University of Glasgow and Dr Jane Cullingworth.

2023

Scherer, Nathaniel, Wiseman, Phillippa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0135-1497, Watson, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0364-427X, Brunner, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1436-7404, Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074, Hameed, Shaffa, Pearson, Charlotte ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5106-6534 and Shakespeare, Tom (2023) 'Do they ever think about people like us?': The experiences of people with learning disabilities in England and Scotland during the COVID-19 pandemic. Critical Social Policy, 43(3), pp. 423-447. (doi: 10.1177/02610183221109147) (PMID:37461432) (PMCID:PMC9240722)

2022

Mcbride, Maureen, Feeney, Elaine, Pirie, Claire and Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074 (2022) At the COVID-19 frontlines: voluntary sector support for refugee and migrant families in Glasgow. In: Rees, James, Macmillan, Rob, Dayson, Chris, Damm, Chris and Bynner, Claire (eds.) COVID-19 and the Voluntary and Community Sector in the UK: Responses, Impacts and Adaptation. Policy Press: Bristol. ISBN 9781447365501

Pearson, Charlotte ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5106-6534, Watson, Nick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0364-427X, Brunner, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1436-7404, Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074, Hameed, Shaffa, Scherer, Nathaniel and Shakespeare, Tom (2022) Covid-19 and the crisis in social care: exploring the experiences of disabled people in the pandemic. Social Policy and Society, (doi: 10.1017/S1474746422000112) (Early Online Publication)

Karlsson-Brown, Paula ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3187-6078, Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074 and Lebec, Laura (2022) Reflections from Our Practice on Developing a University-Voluntary Sector Collaboration. TALON Take5 Symposium, Collaboration in Higher Education, 7 April 2022.

Shakespeare, Tom, Watson, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0364-427X, Brunner, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1436-7404, Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074, Hameed, Shaffa, Scherer, Nathaniel, Pearson, Charlotte ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5106-6534 and Reichenberger, Veronika (2022) Disabled people in Britain and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Policy and Administration, 56(1), pp. 103-117. (doi: 10.1111/spol.12758) (PMID:34548712) (PMCID:PMC8446989)

Murphy, Benjamin, Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074, Hoffman, Rebecca, McBride, Maureen, McLean, Jennifer, Bynner, Claire ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1447-2642, Ward, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2155-9482 and Vanatta, Sara (2022) Developing a Capabilities Wellbeing Framework with Children, Young People and Stakeholders in Castlemilk. Project Report. Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland.

2021

Weakley, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0352-7775, Karlsson, Paula S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3187-6078, Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074, Lebec, Laura and Fraser, Katie (2021) Developing a university-voluntary sector collaboration for social impact. Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 18(7), pp. 71-88. (doi: 10.53761/1.18.7.06)

Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074, Karlsson-Brown, Paula ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3187-6078, Weakley, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0352-7775, Lebec, Laura and Fraser, Katie (2021) Can Universities Be Leaders in Civil Society? Developing a University-Third Sector Collaboration from the Ground Up. 2021 Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research Conference, Birmingham, UK, 6-7 Sept 2021.

Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074, Watson, Nick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0364-427X and Shakespeare, Tom (2021) “They Have Been a Saving Grace” - The Role of the Third Sector in Disabled People’s Experiences of COVID-19 and Implications for Third Sector-State Relations. 2021 Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research Conference, Birmingham, UK, 6-7 Sept 2021.

Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074, Karlsson-Brown, Paula ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3187-6078, Weakley, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0352-7775 and Lebec, Laura (2021) Piloting the Collaborative: Building the University of Glasgow’s Relationship with the Local Third Sector. [Website]

Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074, Karlsson-Brown, Paula ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3187-6078 and Weakley, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0352-7775 (2021) The Collaborative: our work in Phase 1 and building on our successes. [Website]

Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074 (2021) Democratic Governance Through Intermediary Bodies: A Case Study of Third Sector Interfaces in Scotland. Other. University of Glasgow and Dr Jane Cullingworth. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.236370).

Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074, Brunner, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1436-7404 and Shakespeare, Tom (2021) Disabled People in Britain and the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic. [Website]

Shakespeare, Tom, Watson, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0364-427X, Brunner, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1436-7404, Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074, Hameed, Shaffa, Pearson, Charlotte ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5106-6534, Scherer, Nathaniel and Reichenberger, Veronika (2021) Disabled people and the impact of COVID-19: four urgent messages for the government. [Website]

2019

Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074 and Escobar, Oliver (2019) Participation and Representation: Strengthening the Third Sector Voice in Local Governance. Documentation. What Works Scotland (WWS).

2018

Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074, Brunner, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1436-7404 and Watson, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0364-427X (2018) The Operation Modulus Approach: Further Lessons for Public Service Reform. Other. What Works Scotland.

2016

Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074 (2016) Participation and representation in Scotland’s third sector interfaces – a new model? [Website]

Cullingworth, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-8074 (2016) What is the future of ‘doing good’ in the UK? [Website]

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