Biography
- Educated at St Martin’s College, Lancaster, and the Open University. Completed courses in Religious Studies Education, Youth and Community Work, Church and Community Development, and Development Management.
- Sixteen years in various development roles in the voluntary and community sector in East London and the statutory sector in Cumbria.
- Between 1996 and 2003 helped to establish and develop ‘The East London Communities Organisation’ (TELCO), forerunner to ‘London Citizens’, now the largest citizen-based organisation in the United Kingdom campaigning for social justice on a multi-issue agenda.
- Moved into Higher Education in 2007 working at Universities of Cumbria and Glasgow before joining Edge Hill in September 2010.
- External examiner for youth and community development programmes at Bradford College University.
Qualifications
- BEd (Hons) Religious Studies and Youth & Community Work, Lancaster, 1990
- Diploma in Church and Community Development, Roehampton Institute, 1993
- MSc Development Management, Open University, 2008
Teaching
- SPY 2031: Work-based Learning and Employability
- SPY 2038: Youth in Context: Transition, Risk and Culture
- SPY3031: Dissertation
- SPY3036: Critical Youth Studies: Practice, Context and Policy
- SPY3040: Broken Britain: Class, Culture and Crisis in Late Modernity
Research
- The Impact of Neo-liberalism upon the Third Sector.
- Community Organizing in the United Kingdom.
- The Theory of Civil Society.
Publications
Bunyan, P. (2012) Partnership, the Big Society and community organizing: between romanticizing, problematizing and politicizing community, Community Development Journal, first published online April 27, 2012.
Bunyan, P. & Ord, J. (2011) ‘The neo-liberal policy context of youth work management’, chapter in Critical Issues in Youth Work Management, Routledge: London.
Bunyan, P. (2011), Book review of ‘Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing’ by James DeFilippis, Robert Fisher and Eric Shragge, Community Development Journal (2011) 46(4): 587-590.
Broad-based organizing in the UK: reasserting the centrality of political activity in community development Community Development Journal (2010) 45(1): 111-127 first published online October 24, 2008.
Clough, J., Boyd, P., Bunyan, P., Houghton, S. & Waters, A. (2009) Teacher Supply in Cumbria: The Contribution of Teacher Education, Carlisle: University of Cumbria.