Dr Jane Cullingworth
- Research Fellow (Urban Studies & Social Policy)
email:
Jane.Cullingworth@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
She/her/hers
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
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,
(Accepted for 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
(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
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
(2022)
“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,
(Early Online Publication)
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]
Articles
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)
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)
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)
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
(2022)
“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,
(Early Online Publication)
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)
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)
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)
Book Sections
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
Research Reports or Papers
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.
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.
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 and Escobar, Oliver
(2019)
Participation and Representation: Strengthening the Third Sector Voice in Local Governance.
Documentation.
What Works Scotland (WWS).
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.
Conference or Workshop Item
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.
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.
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.
Website
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, 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]
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]
Supervision
- Paul, Lisa
Personal assistance for disabled people, changing labour markets and social care reform