0845 196 2295
paul.sanderson@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Memberships

• PhD (Management Studies), University of Cambridge
• BA Hons (Politics and Economics), Anglia Ruskin University

• Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music, London
• European Group on Organisation Studies (member)
• Higher Education Academy (fellow)

Courses

• FdSc Management of Social & Affordable Housing (pathway leader)
• Context of Social Housing Provision (module leader)
• Higher Education & the Work Environment (module tutor)
• Major Project (module tutor)
• Work Based Project (module tutor)
• Regulation Strategy (module leader)
• Perspectives on Regulation (module leader)

Outline of career

From 2001: Senior Research Associate/Fellow (part-time), Centre for Housing and Planning Research, and Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge
From 1996: Senior Lecturer (part-time), Anglia Ruskin University.
Previously: Various managerial posts in financial services and other sectors. Originally trained and worked as a musician.

Research Interest

Dr. Sanderson's research areas are regulation and corporate governance.
On regulation he has researched the way senior regulators perceive the public interest, the role of the inspector in regulation, citizen participation in regulation, the efficacy of social housing regulatory data, and the similarities and differences between medical regulatory systems.
His corporate governance research includes a study of the private meetings between the directors of large public companies and their institutional shareholders, and the use made by boards of the principle of comply-or-explain in conforming to codes of corporate governance.
He has received research grants from a number of funders including the Economic and Social Research Council, the General Medical Council, the Local Better Regulation Office and the Tenant Services Authority.

Selected Publications

Refereed Journal articles

Hendry, J., Sanderson, P., Barker, R. G., and Roberts, J. (2007) Responsible ownership, shareholder value and the new shareholder activism. Competition and Change. 11 (3): 223-240.

Hendry, J; Sanderson, P; Barker, R. G., and Roberts, J. (2006) Owners or traders? Conceptualizations of institutional investors and their relationship with corporate managers. Human Relations 59 (8): 1101-1132.

Roberts, J., Sanderson, P., Barker, R. G., and Hendry, J. (2006) 'In the Mirror of the Market: The Disciplinary Effects of Company / Fund Manager Meetings.' Accounting, Organisations and Society 31 (3): 277-294.

Sanderson, P., Hendry, J., Roberts, J., and Barker, R. G. (2005) Regulating the Corporation: The Role of the Institutional Investor. Journal of Corporate Ownership & Control. 3 (1): 127-134.

Reports

Sanderson, P. (2011). 'The Citizen in Regulation.' Birmingham: Local Better Regulation Office.

de Vries, H., Sanderson, P., Janta, B., Rabinovich, L., Archontakis, F., Ismail, S., Klautzer, L., Marjanovic, S., Patruni, B., Puri, S.,& Tiessen, J. (2009) International Comparison of Ten Medical Regulatory Systems: A Technical Report for the General Medical Council. Cambridge: RAND Europe.

Working papers

Sanderson, P., Seidl, D., Roberts, J., & Krieger, B. (2010). 'Flexible or Not? The Comply-or-Explain Principle in UK and German Corporate Governance.' University of Cambridge Centre for Business Research. Working Paper 407.

Seidl, D., Sanderson, P., & Roberts, J. (2009) "Applying 'Comply-or-Explain': Conformance with Codes of Corporate Governance in the UK and Germany." University of Cambridge Centre for Business Research. Working Paper 389.


Conference papers

Sanderson, P., Seidl, D. & Roberts, J. (2010) 'When (and how) does flexible comply-or-explain regulation "work"? Discursive legitimacy, pluralistic compliance & flux.' European Consortium on Political Research Standing Group. Regulatory Governance: "Regulation in the Age of Crisis" UCD, Dublin.

Sanderson, P., Seidl, D. & Roberts, J. (2010) 'Reflexive governance, pluralistic compliance, discursive legitimacy & flux: Applying the 'comply-or-explain' principle in codes of corporate governance.' REFGOV Reflexive Governance in the Public Interest - Democratic Governance and Collective Action. International Conference. Palais des Académies, Brussels