May Seitanidi

Dr M. May Seitanidi (FRSA, SFHEA) is a Reader at Kent Business School, University of Kent. She has served the School and University in a number of positions including, elected Senate member and member of the Academic Freedom Senate sub-committee, director of the PhD Programme at Kent Business School, Pathway Institutional Lead in Business and Management (ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership SeNSS), member of the Postgraduate Development Committee of the Graduate Research College (University of Kent), among others.

As a scholarship student, at the London School of Economics (LSE) and at the International Centre of Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR) at the University of Nottingham (PhD received in 2017), May’s research focused on the social partnership stages between business and non-profit organisations in the UK and their transformational potential for the organisations and for society at large.

May has worked in Cross-Sector Collaborations for over 30 years as a practitioner and academic, published three books, several papers and co-edited four special issues in top journals in the field of Cross-Sector Social Partnerships. She has worked for the public, private and non-profit sectors including for the Department of Health in London; as the Director of a Marketing & PR Consultancy in Greece (MPRC Norther Greece); she was the Founder of the Hellenic Sponsorship Centre and the award-winning magazine Sponsors & Sponsorships. May is the founder of the International Cross-Sector Social Interactions (CSSI) Community and the CSSI Symposia Series organised by leading scholars in top universities around the world; she is the co-founding Editor-in-Chief of the Annual Review of Social Partnerships (ARSP, served for 13 years), an annual international publication in cross-sector collaboration for the social good.

May has consulted in a wide variety of community development programmes and delivered executive education programmes around the world.

Research interests May's research investigates the interactions between societal wellbeing and capitalism exploring the interdependences within and across organisations aiming to advance collaborative systemic solutions through forms of collaborative societal governance.

Her research previously looked at excellence in co-creation of value in complex institutional environments involving public-private-non-profit organisations.

May’s work has provided roadmaps of collaborative implementation for business, voluntary and public sector organisations, increasing the accountability and institutionalisation of collaborative innovation, capturing the dynamics of collective action and understanding the potential of people, organisations and societies pursuing intentionally the elusive social good.