Dr Claire Routley

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Claire Routley

About

Dr Routley is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Philanthropy. She completed her PhD ‘Leaving a charitable legacy: social influence, the self and symbolic immortality’ in 2011 at the University of the West of England.

Alongside her academic studies, she has worked as a charitable fundraiser for almost twenty years for charities large and small, from Age UK to a local hospice. For the last eight years, she has been a consultant specialising in legacy giving. She also spent several years working at the Centre for Sustainable Philanthropy at the University of Plymouth.

She has written extensively about legacy fundraising, authoring a chapter in Legacy Fundraising: The Art of Seeking Bequests and a number of articles for journals such as Social Business, the International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, the Journal of Gift Planning, and the International Journal of Educational Advancement. She has also presented on legacy fundraising at conferences in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Canada and the US.

Dr Routley is a tutor and examiner for the Institute of Fundraising’s certificate and diploma courses. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Fundraising and a full member (Chartered Marketer) of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. She is also a member of Rogare’s international advisory panel, and was named AFP’s emerging scholar 2017.

Teaching

Postgraduate

  • The Art and Science of Fundraising (SO958)
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