CRESC is core-funded by the ESRC. We are managed by an Executive Committee which is convened by Professor Penny Harvey, and includes the directors of each of our themes (including our cross-cutting themes), representatives of our researchers, and the Centre Administrator, Dr Susan Hogan. The Executive meets around ten times a year.

General CRESC policy and direction is discussed twice a year at the CRESC Advisory Board, which is chaired by Professor Nigel Thrift, and includes distinguished academics and representatives from key organisations.

There is an annual Cross-University Committee, where issues of interest to our two insitutions, Manchester University and the Open University, are explored.

CRESC Executive Committee

• Professor Penny Harvey (Convening Director)
• Professor Karel Williams 
• Dr Niall Cunningham (RF Representative Manchester)
• Professor Marie Gillespie
• Dr Susan Hogan
• Professor John Law
• Dr Andrew Miles
• Dr Andrew Hill (RF Representative Open University)
• Professor Sophie Watson 

CRESC Advisory Board

• Paul Allin, Office of National Statistics
• Catherine Bunting, Arts Council England
• Adam C Cooper, Department for Culture, Media and Sport
• Peter Folkman, Businessman, North of England Ventures Ltd
• Stephen Francis, Chief Financial Officer of Vion Food Group Limited
• Nigel Thrift (Chair), Vice Chancellor, University or Warwick
• Roger Burrows, Department of Sociology, University of York
• Cecila Lury, Goldmiths College, University of London
• Gordon Lynch, Department of Sociology of Religion, Birbeck college, University of London
• Jess Marfarlane, BBC World Services
• Henrietta Moore,Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
• Martin Parker, School of Management, University of Warwick
• Richard Paterson, Head of Knowledge, British Film Institute
• Griselda Pollock, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds
• Gillian Tett, Financial Times
• Frank Trentmann, Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy, Birbeck, University of London