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Voluntary Sector Studies Network
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VSSN is about promoting understanding of the voluntary sector and voluntary action in the UK and around the world through research, and providing a voice and a meeting place for voluntary sector researchers and practitioners.
📢 Call for Papers – Special Issue of Voluntary Sector Review @brisunipress.bsky.social
Evaluations for better philanthropy

🗓️ Deadline: 17 Jan 2027

🔗 More info: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
November 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
📢 The latest issue of Voluntary Sector Review @brisunipress.bsky.social is out now and it features research on:

🌀 Volunteer motivations
🌀 NGO roles in homelessness
🌀 Leadership & care ethics
🌀 Digital emotions
🌀 Corporate volunteering & more

Read: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 AM
⏳ Two weeks left to apply for the VSSN Small Grants Scheme 2025!

Funding available for UK-based activities, from workshops and seminars to podcasts and creative outputs, that advance voluntary sector research and practice.

Deadline: 21 Nov 🗓️
🔗 www.vssn.org.uk/small-grants/
November 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Join VSSN member Jane Cullingworth & the Disability and Youth Transitions team for an online workshop on 2 Dec!

Explore findings from the 3-year ESRC-funded study, with reflections on:

• Social participation
• Family life
• Social care
• Employment

Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/policy-imp...
Policy Implications of the Disability and Youth Transitions Project
Join us for an online workshop bringing to life the findings from the Disability and Youth Transitions Project
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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FREE online webinar Wed 5th Nov 12-1.30pm. To register (get the link) go to:
events.humanitix.com/november-web...
Four short presentations and questions.
Great speakers: Christian Krekel,Team Kinetic,Laura Shobiye,Janine Partington and colleagues.

@volunteerscotland.bsky.social
@vssn1.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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The VSSN Small Grants Scheme 2025 is now open!
Deadline: 21 Nov 2025 🗓️

We fund UK-based activities like workshops, podcasts, seminars or creative outputs that advance voluntary sector research and practice.

Open to VSSN members – more info & how to apply:
🔗 www.vssn.org.uk/small-grants/
October 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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E. K. Sarter and Elizabeth Cookingham Bailey discuss how #Digitalisation in #PublicServices offers potential benefits but is limited by whether services are bound to physical space, requiring tailored strategies for different activities and tasks.

https://ow.ly/MLfc50XkrqZ
October 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The VSSN Small Grants Scheme 2025 is now open!
Deadline: 21 Nov 2025 🗓️

We fund UK-based activities like workshops, podcasts, seminars or creative outputs that advance voluntary sector research and practice.

Open to VSSN members – more info & how to apply:
🔗 www.vssn.org.uk/small-grants/
October 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM
VSSN friends – can you help us grow the reach of Voluntary Sector Review?

We're keen to connect VSR with wider audiences. LinkedIn is a key space for that.

Support us by:
Following the page
Reacting & commenting
Reposting
Tagging others

www.linkedin.com/company/volu...

@brisunipress.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Are you a new researcher in the voluntary sector? We want your views. Help shape the future of our New Researchers Online Sessions by filling out a short survey.

Your input helps us:

Choose the right topics
Get the format right
Offer the support you need

The survey: tinyurl.com/new-research...
October 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
📖 New open access research from VSR
@brisunipress.bsky.social

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...
October 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
📖 New open access research from Voluntary Sector Review @brisunipress.bsky.social

Ten years evaluating VCS women-centred support for vulnerable women and girls: what works? by Louise Warwick-Booth, Susan Coan & Ruth Cross

Read: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
October 13, 2025 at 8:13 AM
🔍 New open access research from Voluntary Sector Review @brisunipress.bsky.social @bupjournals.bsky.social

Boundary crossing and elite attributes in European civil societies by Malin Arvidson, Jayeon Lee, Roberto Scaramuzzino & Anders Uhlin

Read: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
October 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Are you a new researcher in the voluntary sector? We want your views. Help shape the future of our New Researchers Online Sessions by filling out a short survey.

Your input helps us:

Choose the right topics
Get the format right
Offer the support you need

The survey: tinyurl.com/new-research...
October 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🎥 Watch the Day 2 #VSVR2025 plenary:
"Staying true while gaining traction: Civil society’s contribution to system change from the edge and the centre"

With Vita Terry, Navinder Kaur, Ken Kanu, Dawn Plimmer and John Everson.

📺 Recording here: echo360.org.uk/media/6082e3...
October 8, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Missed the opening plenary at #VSVR2025?

Watch: "Working together: Implications of an ecosystemic approach for the third sector" with Prof Stephen Osborne, Arvinda Gohil (Better Way Network), Fiona Longhurst (RVS), Mike Adamson (St Mungo’s).

Recording now available: echo360.org.uk/media/88207f...
VSVR Conference 2025 Day 1
echo360.org.uk
October 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
🗓️ One week to go until our next New Researchers Online Session!

📚 Join us on Fri 3 Oct, 12:00–13:00 BST for a conversation with VSR editors Lindsay Findlay-King & Oto Potluka on publishing in VSR.

We’ll also reflect on #VSVR2025 and leave time for networking.

🔗 Sign up: tinyurl.com/newresonline
September 26, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Are you a social sciences researcher with something to say?

We’re inviting contributions to the Transforming Society blog. Share your insights, start conversations, and amplify your voice. #AcademicVoices #WriteForUs

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Write for us - Transforming Society
One of the key aims of Transforming Society is to make academic research findings available and useful to the interested general reader, in the hope that this will help make steps towards positive…
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September 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🧑‍💻 Calling all voluntary sector new researchers!

Join us on Fri 3 Oct, 12:00–13:00 BST for our next online session.

Lindsay Findlay-King & Oto Potluka, editors of Voluntary Sector Review, will talk all things publishing 📚

We’ll also reflect on #VSVR2025.

🔗 Sign up: tinyurl.com/newresonline
September 12, 2025 at 8:10 AM
📝 VSSN member Jenny Raschbauer is researching learning and development in social sector organisations and needs your help!

If you work or volunteer in a charity, CIC or VCSE organisation, share your experience in a short survey.

📲 Scan the QR code in the image to take part (10 mins max)!
September 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
That’s a wrap on #VSVR2025!

We’re grateful to our conference partners: the Centre for Charity Effectiveness at @bayesbschool.bsky.social, @ncvo.bsky.social and @volactionislington.bsky.social for making it all possible.
September 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
We’re closing out #VSVR2025 with our final session, a practical workshop on building cross-sector research collaborations to create change together, led by Ellen Bennett, James Rees, and Carol Jacklin-Jarvis.

A fitting end to two days of learning and collaboration here at @bayesbschool.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🎙️ A busy afternoon of parallel sessions is underway at #VSVR2025!

From devolution and place-based work to digital inclusion, advocacy, and third sector-university partnerships.

Great to see such thoughtful research and practice being shared across rooms here at @bayesbschool.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 9:44 AM
🌅 Good morning from Day 2 of #VSVR2025 at @bayesbschool.bsky.social !

We’re kicking off with a powerful plenary:
“Staying true while gaining traction: Civil society’s contribution to system change from the edge and the centre”

🎤 Chaired by Vita Terry (VSSN).

Let’s dive in!
September 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
🏆 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...

@bupjournals.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM