News

Colin and Meta

  • Major research project in progress: ‘Proud to be a part of this’: PPE and voluntary action in a time of crisis
  • Forthcoming paper: ‘Proud to be part of this’: PPE and voluntary action in a time of crisis – Headline findings, Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research Conference,  Aston University, September 2021.

Colin

  • Forthcoming chapter: ‘Trends in Volunteering’ in Kirsten Holmes et al. (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Volunteering in Events, Leisure, Sport and Tourism.  Routledge, 2021.  
  • Edited (with David Billis) international volume of essays: A Handbook on Hybrid Organisations. Edward Elgar, 2020.
  • Forthcoming keynote address: ‘Animal, vegetable or mineral? Can the voluntary sector survive the challenge of hybridity?’, Voluntary Action History Society’s 7th International Conference, University of Liverpool, July 2022.
  • Forthcoming paper (with Jurgen Grotz): ‘The establishment of a research institution dedicated to volunteering in England: The Institute for Volunteering Research and its context, 1998-2018, Voluntary Action History Society’s 7th International Conference, University of Liverpool, July 2022.
  • Appointment: Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Philanthropy, University of Kent.

Meta

  • Organising: Voluntary Action History Society’s 7th International Conference, University of Liverpool, July 2022.
  • Forthcoming paper: ‘Notes from a “bear garden”: The causes and effects of organisational meltdown in the Association/United Association of Ex-Naval and Military Civil Servants, 1908-14, Voluntary Action History Society’s 7th International Conference, University of Liverpool, July 2022.

Bill

  • Well on the mend following major surgery.