Dean, J. (2023). Charity and abuse: fundraising and symbolic power in the case of Jimmy Savile. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 53 (2). http://doi.org/10.1177/08997640231174837

Dean, J. (2023). Handbook on Hybrid Organisations by David Billis and Colin Rochester (eds) (2020) [Book review]. Voluntary Sector Review, 14 (1), 201-202. http://doi.org/10.1332/204080521x16503531651110

Dean, J., & Wiley, K. (2022). Critical theory, qualitative methods and the non-profit and voluntary sector: an introduction to the special issue. Voluntary Sector Review. http://doi.org/10.1332/204080521x16417596703081

Dean, J. (2021). Informal volunteering, inequality, and illegitimacy. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 51 (3), 527-544. http://doi.org/10.1177/08997640211034580

Dean, J. (2021). Reflexivity and Its Limits in the Study of Social Inequalities. Historical Social Research, 46 (2), 178-185. http://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.46.2021.2.178-185

Dean, J. (2020). Student perceptions and experiences of charity on social media: the authenticity of offline networks in online giving. Voluntary Sector Review: an international journal of third sector research, policy and practice. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/search/article?option1=tka&value1=Student+perceptions+and+experiences+of+charity+on+social+media.+the+authenticity+of+offline+networks+in+online+giving&pageSize=10&index=1

Bennett, E., Coule, T., Damm, C., Dayson, C., Dean, J., & Macmillan, R. (2019). Civil society strategy: A policy review. Voluntary sector review, 10 (2), 213-223. http://doi.org/10.1332/204080519X15617330887624

Dean, J., Furness, P., Verrier, D., Lennon, H., Bennett, C., & Spencer, S. (2018). Desert island data: an investigation into researcher positionality. Qualitative Research, 18 (3), 273-289. http://doi.org/10.1177/1468794117714612

Dean, J., & Wood, R. (2017). ‘You can try to press different emotional buttons’: The conflicts and strategies of eliciting emotions for fundraisers. International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, 22 (4), e1603. http://doi.org/10.1002/nvsm.1603

Dean, J. (2015). “Submitting Love?”: a sensory sociology of Southbourne. Qualitative Inquiry, 22 (3), 162-168. http://doi.org/10.1177/1077800415605050

Dean, J. (2015). Class diversity and youth volunteering in the UK : applying Bourdieu's habitus and cultural capital. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 45 (1), 95S-113S. http://doi.org/10.1177/0899764015597781

Dean, J. (2015). Volunteering, the market, and neoliberalism. People, place and policy online, 9 (2), 139-148. http://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.0009.0002.0005

Dean, J. (2015). Drawing what homelessness looks like : using creative visual methods as a tool of critical pedagogy. Sociological research online, 20 (1). http://doi.org/10.5153/sro.3540

Dean, J. (2014). The role of the reflexive self in mailer's protests. Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest, 1 (2), 11-26. http://contentionjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Dean_Vol1Iss2.pdf

Dean, J. (2014). Recruiting young volunteers in an area of selective education : a qualitative case study. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 37 (4), 643-661. http://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2014.973016

Dean, J. (2014). How structural factors promote instrumental motivations within youth volunteering : a qualitative analysis of volunteer brokerage. Voluntary Sector Review, 5 (2), 231-247. http://doi.org/10.1332/204080514X14013591527611

Dean, J. (2013). Manufacturing citizens : the dichotomy between policy and practice in youth volunteering in the UK. Administrative Theory and Praxis, 35 (1), 46-62. http://doi.org/10.2753/ATP1084-1806350104

Dean, J. (2013). The representation and perception of need : the moral choices facing homelessness fundraisers. Homeless in Europe, 2012/3 (Winter), 21-22. http://www.feantsa.org/spip.php?article505&lang=en

Breeze, B., & Dean, J. (2012). Pictures of me : user views on their representation in homelessness fundraising appeals. International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, 17 (2), 132-143. http://doi.org/10.1002/nvsm.1417

Conference papers

Dean, J. (2015). Desert Island Data : an experiment in researcher positionality and interpretivism. In Societies in transition : progression or regression : conference programme and abstract book. British Sociological Association: http://www.britsoc.co.uk/media/84184/Programme%20full.pdf?1429004265641

Dean, J. (2014). The images in our heads : fundraising literature and drawing what homelessness looks like. In Changing society : conference programme and abstarct book. British Sociological Association: http://www.britsoc.co.uk/media/66437/AC2014_Final_Conf_Prog.pdf?1429005319041

Dean, J. (2013). A market to sell experience: how neoliberal volunteering policies trade on the pressures of being young. In 42nd ARNOVA Conference : Recession, renewal, revolution? Nonprofit and coluntary action in an age of turbulence, Hertford, Connecticut, 21 November 2013 - 23 November 2013.

Dean, J. (2012). 'It's just part of what they do': Habitus, social class and youth volunteering policy. In University of Kent Sociology Seminar Series.

Dean, J. (2011). Volunteering and social class : a narrative approach. In ARNOVA Conference 2011, Toronto, Canada, 17 November 2011 - 19 November 2011.

Dean, J. (2011). Challenging narratives : the importance of informal volunteering. In NCVO/VSSN Researching the Voluntary Sector Conference 2011, NCVO, London, 7 September 2011 - 8 September 2011.

Dean, J. (2011). Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys : governmentality, state power and the responsibilization of youth. In Contesting the State Conference, University of Kent, 13 May 2011.

Dean, J. (2010). Youth volunteering policy : the rise of governmentality. In Voluntary Action History Society Conference 2010, University of Kent at Canterbury, 14 July 2010 - 16 July 2010.

Dean, J. (2010). ‘I’ve never met them or spoken to them’: statutory and voluntary sector relationships - a case study approach to understanding youth volunteering. In NCVO/VSSN Researching the Voluntary Sector Conference 2010, 6 September 2010 - 7 September 2010.

Book chapters

Dean, J. (2025). Where the Streets Are Paved with Glod: The Role of Civil Society in Ankh-Morpork Community and Civic Life. In Breton, J. (Ed.) Building a Fantasy Civilization: Power and Society in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series. Bloomsbury: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/power-and-society-in-terry-pratchetts-discworld-9781350465312/

Dean, J. (2024). Critical volunteering studies: perspectives from theory, society, and UK policy. In Handbook of Critical Perspectives on Nonprofit Organizing and Voluntary Action. (pp. 387-400). Edward Elgar Publishing: http://doi.org/10.4337/9781800371811.00032

Dean, J., & Hogg, E. (2022). Introduction. In Researching Voluntary Action: innovations and Challenges. Policy Press

Bhati, A., & Dean, J. (2022). Charity advertising. In Researching Voluntary Action. (pp. 59-69). Policy Press: http://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2bz2mvt.12

Dean, J., & Verrier, D. (2022). Restudies, surveys and what counts as volunteering. In Researching Voluntary Action. (pp. 160-170). Policy Press: http://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2bz2mvt.20

Dean, J., & Hogg, E. (2022). Conclusion. In Researching Voluntary Action. (pp. 171-176). Policy Press: http://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2bz2mvt.21

Hogg, E., & Dean, J. (2022). Introduction. In Researching Voluntary Action. (pp. 1-11). Policy Press: http://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2bz2mvt.7

(2020). Volunteering. In Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, Third Edition. (pp. 1-7). Routledge: http://doi.org/10.1081/e-epap3-120051793

Dean, J., Honeywell, C., & Price, A. (2019). Volunteering: From Social Control to Prefigurative Participation. In Eikenberry, A.M., Mirabella, R.M., & Sandberg, B. (Eds.) Reframing Nonprofit Organizations: Democracy, Inclusion, and Social Change. Melvin & Leigh

Dean, J. (2017). Monkey Island. In The 100 Greatest Video Game Franchises. (1st). Rowman and Littlefield

Books

Dean, J., & Hogg, E. (Eds.). (2022). Researching Voluntary Action. Policy Press. http://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2bz2mvt

Dean, J. (2020). The Good Glow Charity and the Symbolic Power of Doing Good. Policy Press. https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-good-glow

Dean, J. (2017). Doing reflexivity: an introduction. Bristol: Policy Press. https://policypress.co.uk/doing-reflexivity

Reports

Ellis Paine, A., Damm, C., Dean, J., Harris, C., & Macmillan, R. (2021). Volunteering in community business: meaning, practice and management. Sheffield Hallam University, Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research. https://www.shu.ac.uk/centre-regional-economic-social-research/publications/volunteering-in-community-business-meaning-practice-and-management

Breeze, B., & Dean, J. (2012). User views of fundraising. Alliance Publishing Trust. http://www.cgap.org.uk/uploads/reports/USER_VIEWS_OF_FUNDRAISING.pdf

Theses / Dissertations

Squire, R. (2022). Third sector organisations in widening participation policy: networks, expertise and authority. (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Mccaig, C., & Dean, J. http://doi.org/10.7190/shu-thesis-00467

Other publications

Dean, J. (2020). Book Review: Just giving: Why philanthropy is failing democracy and how it can do better by Reich, R. SAGE Publications: http://doi.org/10.1177/0899764020936976

Dean, J. (2019). Book Review: A Cosmopolitan Journey? Difference, Distinction and Identity Work in Gap Year Travel. Helene Snee, . Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. ISBN: 9781409453031. SAGE: http://doi.org/10.1177/1360780418806907

Dean, J. (2019). Book Review: Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy. SAGE Publications: http://doi.org/10.1177/1360780418794971

Dean, J. (2018). What are Community Studies? - Book Review. SAGE Publications: http://doi.org/10.1177/1749975518773930

Dean, J. (2017). Telethons: Spectacle, disability, and the business of charity by Paul K. Longmore. Bristol University Press: http://doi.org/10.1332/204080517x15072790381640

Dean, J. (2014). Book Review: Will Atkinson, Steve Roberts and Mike Savage (eds), Class Inequality in Austerity Britain: Power, Difference and Suffering. SAGE Publications: http://doi.org/10.1177/0038038513518375

Dean, J. (2013). Book Review: What is Qualitative Research? SAGE Publications: http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954x.12088