NCVO/VSSN Researching the Voluntary Sector Conference 2009
NCVO/VSSN Researching the Voluntary Sector Conference 2009
7-8 September 2009, Warwick University
The NCVO/ VSSN Researching the Voluntary Sector conference is the main conference for the UK voluntary sector research community.
Now in its fifteenth year, the two-day conference brought together academics, practitioners and policymakers with a shared interest in the voluntary sector and voluntary action.
Read the programme to find out the topics that were discussed at the Research Conference 2009 (PDF 187KB)
Below are the full papers that were received for this year’s conference.
You can also read the papers from the 2008 conference
Papers
Volunteering: Understanding Participants
Mapping Organisations and Resources
Community Cohesion and Wellbeing
Challenges for Third Sector Managers
Theories and Perspectives on the Changing Sector
Panel Sessions
Ten Years in the policy arena: social enterprise and the need for a more robust evidence base
Environmental volunteering: practice and policy
Benefits and limits of participatory research methods in exploring community and voluntary action
A panel from the Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy
Making a difference? Reviewing government's involvement in volunteering
Papers
Commissioning
• Public Sector Commissioning - The Voluntary and Community Sector Experience in Greater Manchester (PDF 32KB)
Susanne Martikke
• The impact of marketisation on UK voluntary and community sector education provision for adults (PDF 33KB)
Amanda Vickers
Grant Making
• Granting success: lessons from funders and charities (PDF 33KB)
Angela Kail and Padraic Brick
• Making a Big Difference with Small Grants (PDF 25KB)
Marcus Hulme
• The impact of the Recession on Endowment Raising for Grassroots Grants (PDF 98KB)
Helen Sender
Volunteering: Understanding Participants
• How is volunteering interpreted and enacted within different faith groups and what are the ways forward to improve closer working between faith communities and local/regional volunteering infrastructure organisations? (PDF 43KB)
Thilo Boeck and Jennie Fleming
Mapping Organisations and Resources
• The Regional Distribution of Charity Expenditure (PDF 59KB)
David Kane and Jenny Clark
• Under the radar? Researching unregistered and informal third sector activity (PDF 68KB)
Jenny Phillimore, Angus McCabe and Andri Soteri-Proctor
• Tracking flows of charitable expenditures: issues arising from the use of Charity Commission data to map the distribution of charitable resources in England and Wales (PDF 30KB)
John Mohan, Peter Backus and Alexia Katsanidou
• Mapping “below-radar” organisations: lessons from a regional study (PDF 35KB)
John Mohan, Julia Branson, Fiona Owles and David Kane
State-VCS Relationship
• Work in Progress? Developing Public-Voluntary Sector Relationships (PDF 43KB)
Claire Moxham
• Reflecting on state-voluntary sector relationships: agency in interactions in an HE teaching workshop (PDF 82KB)
Linda Milbourne and Ursual Murray
• Europeanisation and organised civil society: Some lessons from the Third Sector European Policy Network (PDF 267KB)
Jeremy Kendall
Community Cohesion and Wellbeing
• Cohesion and empowerment: examples from the evaluations of Connecting Communities Plus, Community Grants and Faith Communities Capacity Building Fund (PDF 67KB)
Stephen Miller
• The Impact of a Mental Health Vocational Service on Community Wellbeing (PDF 45KB)
Sarah Morris
Funding Issues for the Sector
• Rating Government Funders: An Evaluation of the Quality of Funding Information and the Delivery of Government Funding Opportunities for the Voluntary Sector (PDF 99KB)
Anna Adams and Amy Rosser
• Critical Conditions: Investigating the Transparency of Grant Terms and Conditions (PDF 70KB)
Jay Kennedy
Volunteering: General
• A gateway to work? The role of Volunteer Centres in supporting the link between volunteering and employability (PDF 27 KB)
Nick Ockenden and Matthew Hill
Challenges for Third Sector Managers
• The Good Life: Comparing Job Quality Between the Private, Public and Voluntary Sectors (PDF 46KB)
Alasdair Rutherford
• The Framing of Diversity & Equality: Consensus & Tensions (PDF 66KB)
Judith Weisinger
• “Assuming the spirit of the whole”: Small and large organisations engaged in merger (33KB)
Ben Cairns, Romayne Hutchison and Rebecca Moran
Theories and Perspectives on the Changing Sector
• Losing Political Innocence? Finding a place for ideology in understanding the development of recent English third sector policy (PDF 124KB) Jeremy Kendall
Governance
• The Role and Impact of Chairs of Governing Bodies in the UK Voluntary Sector (PDF 53KB)
Chris Cornforth, Yvonne Harrison and Vic Murray
• Board Matters: A review of charity trusteeship in the UK (PDF 44KB)
Belinda Vernon and Eleanor Stringer
Recession
• "When the going gets tough - how Irish charities are responding to the economic downturn" (PDF 101KB)
Geraldine Prizeman and Siobhan McGee
• Tracking the Impact of the Economic Downturn: A View from the Charity Commission (PDF 51KB)
Helen Carr
Philanthropy
• Charitable bequests and wealth at death in Great Britain (PDF 354KB)
A.B. Atkinson, P.G. Backus, and J. Micklewright
• Philanthropy in a Recession: An analysis of UK media representations and implications for charitable giving (PDF 89KB)
Beth Breeze and Gareth G. Morgan
• Appealing to Moral Emotions: Examining Donor Responses to Fundraising Ads Through a Dictator Game Experiment (PDF 66KB)
Sally A. Hibbert and Swee Hoon Chuah
Monitoring and Evaluation
• Monitoring and evaluation in the third sector: meeting accountability and learning needs (PDF 48KB)
Jean Ellis
• How are you getting on? Charities and funders on communicating results (PDF 34KB)
Gustaf Lofgren
Panel Sessions
Panel 1
Ten Years in the policy arena: social enterprise and the need for a more robust evidence base
• Leandro Sepulveda (PDF 69KB)
• Duncan Scott (PDF 219KB)
• Alex Murdock (47KB)
Panel 2
Environmental volunteering: practice and policy
• Miles Sibley (PDF 88KB)
• Christine Reilly (PDF 47 KB)
• Nick Ockenden (PDF 26KB)
Panel 3
Benefits and limits of participatory research methods in exploring community and voluntary action
• Thilo Boeck (PDF 44KB)
Panel 4
A panel from the Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy
• Tom McKenzie (PDF 258KB)
• Cathy Pharoah (PDF 165KB)
• Helen Wadham (PDF 131KB)
• Beth Breeze (PDF 165KB)
Panel 5
Making a difference? Reviewing government's involvement in volunteering
• Colin Rochester (PDF 30KB)
Panel 8
Capacity Building Initiatives
• Rob Macmillan (PDF 188KB)
Panel 9
Social Glue? The contribution of involvement in sport and other community organisations to community wellbeing
• Russell Hoye, Matthew Nicholson and Kevin M. Brown (PDF 79KB)
