Johnston Birchall Explained

Johnston Birchall
Discipline:	Co-operative studies
Thesis Title:	Housing Co-operatives: A Study in the Theory and Practice of User-control
Thesis Year:	1985

Johnston Birchall (1951–2021) was a leading British academic in the field of co-operative studies and at the time of his death Professor Emeritus at the Social Science Faculty of the University of Stirling.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Biography

Birchall studied theology at the University of Oxford, before working as a community worker and a housing association manager for five years. He then completed a masters degree in sociology at the University of York, followed by a PhD in 1985 on housing co-operatives, also at York.^{[4] [5]} His doctoral thesis formed the basis for his 1988 book, Building Communities: The Co-operative Way.^[6]

Birchall then worked at South Bank Polytechnic, followed by Brunel University and finally at the University of Stirling until his retirement.^[7] From 1995 to 2000 he was editor of the Journal of Co-operative Studies.

Birchall died in 2021 following a long illness.^[8] In June 2022 a special commemorative edition of the Journal of Co-operative Studies was published exploring Birchall's legacy and reprinting many of his papers.^[9]

Publications

• Book: Birchall, Johnston . Save Our Shop: The Fall and Rise of the Small Co-operative Store . Holyoake Books . 1987 . 0-85195-142-2 . Manchester . 19126199 . 1.
• Book: Birchall, Johnston . Building Communities: The Co-operative Way . Routledge & Kegan Paul . 1988 . 0-7102-1143-0 . London . 16465060 . 1.
• Book: Birchall, Johnston . What Makes People Co-operate? A Strategy For Member Participation in Housing Co-operatives . Headington . 1988 . 0-9514687-0-7 . Oxford . En . 20418136 . 1.
• Book: Birchall, Johnston . The Hidden History of Co-operative Housing in Britain. . Brunel University, Department of Government . 1991 . 1-872166-56-3 . London . En . 59911747 . 1.
• Book: Birchall, Johnston . Council Tenants: Sovereign Consumers or Pawns in the Game? . Brunel University, Department of Government . 1991 . 1-872166-51-2 . London . En . 84931167 . 1.
• Book: Housing Policy in the 1990s . Routledge . 1992 . 0-203-32414-5 . Birchall . Johnston . 1 . London . En . 52280818.
• Book: Birchall, Johnston . Housing Co-operatives in Britain . 1992 . Brunel University, Department of Government . 1-872166-96-2 . London . En . 28010909 . 1.
• Book: Birchall, Johnston . Co-op: The People's Business . Manchester University Press . 1994 . 0-7190-4421-9 . 29520554 . 1.
• Book: Birchall, Johnston . 1997 . Manchester University Press . 0-7190-4823-0 . En . 37373463 . 1.
• Book: Pollitt . Christopher . Decentralising Public Service Management . Birchall . Johnston . Putnam . Keith . Macmillan . 1998 . 0-333-69402-3 . Basingstoke . 40383484 . 1.
• Book: The New Mutualism in Public Policy . Routledge . 2002 . 978-1-134-54946-7 . Birchall . Johnston . 1 . Oxon . en.
• Book: Birchall, Johnston . Rediscovering the Cooperative Advantage: Poverty Reduction Through Self-Help . International Labour Office . 2003 . 92-2-113603-5 . Geneva . 1893/3242 . En . 62700247 . 1.
• Book: Birchall, Johnston . Cooperatives and the Millennium Development Goals . . 2004 . 92-2-116148-X . Geneva . 224463565 . 1.
• Book: Birchall . Johnston . Resilience of the Cooperative Business Model in Times of Crisis . Ketilson . Lou Hammond . . 2009 . 978-92-2-122409-9 . Geneva . En . 406236822 . 1.
• Book: Birchall, Johnston . People-Centred Businesses: Co-operatives, Mutuals and the Idea of Membership . Palgrave Macmillan . 2011 . 978-0-230-21718-8 . Basingstoke . 10.1057/9780230295292 . En . 646112058 . 1.
• Book: Birchall, Johnston . Finance In An Age of Austerity: The Power of Customer-owned Banks . Edward Elgar Publishing . 2013 . 978-1-78195-183-5 . Cheltenham . 828417236 . 1.
• Book: Birchall, Johnston . Resilience in a Downturn: The Power of Financial Cooperatives . International Labour Office . 2013 . 978-92-2-127031-7 . Geneva . 854520704 . 1.
• Book: Birchall, Johnston . The Governance of Large Co-operative Businesses . . 2017 . Manchester . En . 1.

Further reading

• Summer 2022 . Johnston Birchall – An appreciation . . 55 . 1.

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2 June 2021 . Remembering Professor Johnston Birchall . live . 17 April 2022 . . en . 31 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210731192816/https://www.ica.coop/en/newsroom/news/remembering-professor-johnston-birchall .
2. Web site: 2 June 2021 . Remembering Johnston Birchall . live . 17 April 2022 . . en . 4 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220504135200/https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/cooperatives/news/WCMS_797482/lang--en/index.htm .
3. Web site: 3 June 2021 . A tribute to academic and co-op advocate Johnston Birchall . live . 18 April 2022 . . en . 19 June 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210619094237/https://www.uk.coop/news/tribute-academic-and-co-op-advocate-johnston-birchall .
4. Housing Co-operatives: A Study in the Theory and Practice of User-control. . . 1985 . PhD . Johnston R. . Birchall . 18 April 2022 . 26 February 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210226163031/https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.354378 . live.
5. Myers . Jan . Summer 2022 . Editorial: Johnston Birchall — An Appreciation . . 55 . 1 . 3–6.
6. Book: Birchall, Johnston . Building Communities: The Co-operative Way . Routledge & Kegan Paul . Internet Archive . 1988 . 978-0-7102-1143-9 . London . xi . En.
7. Web site: Mayo . Ed . Ed Mayo . 2 June 2021 . 'The most insightful co-op researcher of our day': Ed Mayo remembers Johnston Birchall . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220418013120/https://www.thenews.coop/154893/topic/education/the-most-insightful-co-op-researcher-of-our-day-ed-mayo-remembers-johnston-birchall/ . 18 April 2022 . 18 April 2022 . . en-GB.
8. News: Hadfield . Miles . 2 June 2021 . Obituary: Johnston Birchall, a scholar and champion for the co-op movement . . Manchester . live . 17 April 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220418013125/https://www.thenews.coop/154869/topic/history/obituary-johnston-birchall-a-scholar-and-champion-for-the-co-op-movement/ . 18 April 2022.
9. Web site: 19 March 2022 . Special issue 2022 - Tribute to Johnston Birchall . 17 April 2022 . . 22 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220322010641/https://www.ukscs.coop/articles/special-issue-2022-tribute-to-johnston-birchall . live .