Dr Christopher Dougherty

Honorary Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Email

cnd9@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

After a 14 year career in the Canadian nonprofit sector, I started studying charities to understand the relationships between charities and the groups that shape them through regulation, funding, and rhetoric. These groups include individual and institutional donors, groups of other charities (including self-regulation schemes), and governments. In particular, I am interested in how these groups use charities to say something about themselves and what is important to them.

Selected publications

• Open access

  Scotland's foundations: wealth, grantmaking, and the public good

  Dougherty, C. N. & Jung, T., 13 Mar 2026, St Andrews, UK: The Centre for the Study of Philanthropy & Public Good, University of St Andrews. 44 p. (Public Good Report Series; no. 1)

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

• Open access

  Together for good: a Scottish philanthropy conversation

  Dougherty, C. N. & Jung, T., 31 Aug 2026, St Andrews, UK: The Centre for the Study of Philanthropy & Public Good, University of St Andrews. 75 p. (Public good report series; no. 2)

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

• Open access

  United Kingdom

  Dougherty, C. N., 3 Mar 2026, Philanthropy in Europe: mapping research and data on donations by households, bequests, foundations, corporations and charity lotteries. Hoolwerf, B. & Vamstad, J. (eds.). Amsterdam: European Research Network on Philanthropy, p. 345-358

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Book review: Richmond, T., & Shields, J. The Canadian Non-profit Sector: Neoliberalism and the Assault on Community.

  Dougherty, C. N., 25 Dec 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. OnlineFirst, 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• Changes in government funding for charities following elections 2000-2020: Canada and the UK

  Dougherty, C. N., 3 Sept 2025.

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

• 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

• Political ties of private family foundation trustees and the influence on granting

  Dougherty, C., 26 Sept 2025.

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

• Scottish foundations: who are they and what do they do?

  Dougherty, C. & Jung, T., 26 Sept 2025.

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

• Donor responses to out-group beneficiary profiles in direct mail fundraising: a Canadian case study

  Dougherty, C. N., Schmidt, K. & Mahon, C., 14 Mar 2024, In: Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing. 36, 2, p. 123-144 22 p.

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

• Open access

  Finding a stronger voice? Charity coalition formation in response to COVID-19

  Dougherty, C. N. & Phillips, S. D., 17 Jul 2024.

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

 

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