Dr Brendan Whitty

Lecturer in Non-Profit Management

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3236

Email

bw205@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

I am an inter-disciplinary social scientist interested in how responses to social needs emerge from and relate to contemporary forms of capitalism. I focus on international development but more broadly public outsourcing  and relations to the private sector. I teach on NGOs and social enterprises.

PhD supervision

• Aparna Bose
• Hannah Geddes

Selected publications

• Have you seen an octopus ceilidh? building a Scottish philanthropy coalition

  Jung, T., Baluch, A., Dougherty, C., Petzinger, J. & Whitty, B., 25 Sept 2025.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Open access

  Blocking the exit: Research ethics and bureaucratic writing practices

  Whitty, B., 1 Jun 2024, In: Social Anthropology. 32, 2, p. 42-56

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Dismantling the anti-politics machine in aid: political mētis and its limits

  Whitty, B., 7 May 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: New Political Economy. Latest Articles, 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Outsourcing the business of development: the rise of for-profit consultancies in the UK aid sector

  Whitty, B., Sklair, J., Gilbert, P., Mawdsley, E., Russon, J.-A. & Taylor, O. G., 31 Jul 2023, In: Development and Change. 54, 4, p. 892-917 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Practising politics: Technical project templates and political practice in a DFID country office

  Whitty, B., 10 Nov 2018, In: Development Policy Review. 37, S2, p. O293-O309 https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12410.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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