An interesting article about the impact of consumers drinking less in restaurants - first time I have heard the phrases "damp drinking" for drinking less volume overall or "99% sober" for a mostly dry lifestyle with the occasional exception! www.theguardian.com/food/2025/oc...
Interesting! Finally a way to describe myself these days
📖 New open access research from VSR
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What about the migrants? An exploration of organisational change in an asylum seeker and refugee voluntary sector organisation by Elizabeth Cookingham Bailey and Vita Terry
Read: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
My new book is published Open Access on 20 October! Find out more details here: bookstore.emerald.com/gendered-onl...
Always great to hear directly from the sector leaders about how to structure systematic change. Some key insights include: unlocking the potential of the sector, creating enabling conditions and understanding the history and power dynamics of exist relationships. #vssn2025 #vsvr25
🏆 Congratulations to Toby Blume, Peter John, Dyana Mason @dyanamason.bsky.social, and Marios Petropoulos - winners of this year’s Voluntary Sector Review Best Article Prize!
📖 Read the award-winning article here: doi.org/10.1332/2040...
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Branden Bingle talking a bout the barriers for people engaging in health and social care research. Importance of ‘what’s in it for them’ reflects what we see in our research as well. Need to show the value of participation. #vssn25 #vsvr25
Our first plenary with Stephen Osborne discussing his he challenges and opportunities of voluntary sector organisations delivering public services, a topic that hits home with my own past work #vssn25
☕ Not long now until the main conference begins!
Day 1 of #VSVR2025 kicks off today at @bayesbschool.bsky.social. We’ll be exploring the theme Creating Change Together with a packed programme of keynotes, parallel sessions, and panel discussions.
Watch this space for updates throughout the day!
We’re underway at #VSVR2025!
Angela Ellis Paine (Bayes CCE) and Vita Terry (VSSN Co-Chair) opened the conference this morning with a warm welcome and reflections on the theme Creating Change Together.
Great to see the room filling with energy for the two days ahead!
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Back at @bayesbschool.bsky.social for the wonderful #VSSN25 conference!! So many amazing presentations and organisations here as always with great focus on how we can create change together. Thanks to @vssn1.bsky.social, @ncvo.bsky.social and @voluntaryactionislington
🎥 Missed our latest New Researchers Online Session?
You can now watch Ellen Bennett’s @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social presentation on theory in voluntary sector research. Perfect for anyone revisiting the big ideas that impact our field.
📺 Watch here: www.vssn.org.uk/2025/07/14/v...
New paper out yesterday! From Dr. E. Katharina Sarter and my covid-19 work looking at spatiality of service delivery - doi.org/10.1111/spol...
We were very fortunate to have such great voluntary sector organisations as case studies who have provided us an incredibly rich dataset.
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Amazing Vandals at Work four floor installation on the river Ouse in York. Raising money for the outstanding work of SASH - Safe and Sound Homes here in York with tons of street art talent
@prof-stig.bsky.social asking very important questions of the role of civil society in community cohesion. Right now we need ways to come together so his team is looking at what’s been found from previous study. #pppconf2025
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A presenter stands at the front of a room, in front of an audience seated in rows. On the large screen next to the presenter is a slide from their presentation
A presenter stands in front of a computer desk in front of an audience seated in rows. On the large screen next to the presenter is a slide from the presentation
Third Sector Session #PPPConf2025
Peter Horner, @cresr-shu.bsky.social explored key ideas about meta-organisations
@drlizbailey.bsky.social, @york.ac.uk presented research mapping the Third Sector workforce
James Rees, @wlvuni.bsky.social discussed civil society's role in reducing social divides
Valeria Guarneros-Meza’s work reinforces some of things we are seeing in our own vcse mapping project about lack of understand of work of the sector and importance of the sector. #pppconf2025
Always thought provoking @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social! Important to really think about realities of participatory work. We often see this in the voluntary sector: balancing the demands on the sector, the degree of support needed to join in research and articulating the benefits to them. #pppconf2025
Hearing his lament for the cancelling of sure start is something that really resonates. First project I worked on as a masters student compared that with its us cousin. Such an innovative programme #pppconf2025
@ppp-journal.bsky.social - Lord David Blunkett is echoing the break down in solidarities we highlighted last week at the @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social
His call for us to come together and re-engage in both social and voluntary action gives us hope fo a way through the present moment. #pppconf2025
It was really interesting to both observe and experience the crossing from Greek to Turkish Cyprus!! #scos2025
Some insights from #scos2025 with Anne Theunissen and Grace Lordan getting us to reflect on different gendered aspects of work as well as Agnieska and Igor Postula having us consider the odd liminal spaces of managers. Lots of ideas of work to revisit.
Excellent workshop from @lfb500.bsky.social and Caro Hunter! #scos2025
Experiencing Crossings through Craft - using the new materials approach. Really felt emotional about giving over a creation to others and learning a lot about communication and collaboration!
@uoysbs.bsky.social
Extremely important discussion about queerness and work. Some similar themes to race and work here. Eg inclusion, having to constantly educate, and various forms of conforming to pass at work. Thanks to Anne Theunissen and Grace Lordan #scos2025
York represents at #scos2025
Persistent inequality in accessing the elite professions in the UK. Compounded by social stratification and lack of ‘correct’ cultural capital.
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