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Matt Baillie Smith
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Professor of Global Development & Dean of Research Culture, Northumbria University UK.

Research voluntary labour and: humanitarianism; global development; climate action; citizenship.
www.mattbailliesmith.com
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/matt-baillie-smith
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📣Welcome to Northumbria George Clarke 📣

We are thrilled to announce that renowned architect, author and TV presenter George Clarke has been appointed as the new Chancellor of Northumbria University.

#NewNorthumbriaChancellor #GeorgeClarke
George Clarke appointed new Chancellor of Northumbria University
The renowned architect, author and TV presenter George Clarke has been appointed as the new Chancellor of Northumbria University, Newcastle.
www.northumbria.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Great to see Janet Clark of @nuglobaldev.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social sharing findings from her collab PhD with @volunteeringforum.bsky.social at #IVCO2025 in Cambodia.

#NUGlobalVolunteering
#Volunteeringresearch
#Research
#globaldev
September 18, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Good to see Professor @mattbailliesmith.bsky.social, Co-Director of our @nuglobaldev.bsky.social, in Cambodia at the International Volunteer Cooperation Organisations (IVCO) conference.

It was a privilege to host last year's event at our Newcastle City Campus.

#NUGlobalVolunteering #IVCO2025
volunteeringforum.bsky.social International Forum for Volunteering in Development - Forum @volunteeringforum.bsky.social · Sep 15
Radical optimism for the volunteering vision working in challenging civil societies. Building trust, solidarity and active participation in the field.

A conversation with #CIVICUS @fvolontaires.bsky.social #BanteaySrei @mattbailliesmith.bsky.social

#IVCO2025 #VolunteeringStandards #VolunteerVoice
Volunteering in development and impact to civil society.
September 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Day 3 #IVCO2025 delegates exploring the different ways of approaching volunteer measurement with @mattbailliesmith.bsky.social @nuglobaldev.bsky.social

#volunteerimpact #volunteeringstandards #volunteermeasurement #volunteeringforum
September 17, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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#IVCO2025 has officially commenced with Dr Bianca Fadel from @northumbriauni.bsky.social setting the scene - Respect, Kindness, Hope. Welcome to our speakers, delegates & new Bluesky community.

#ForumStandards #VolunteeringInDevelopment #Volunteering
September 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Radical optimism for the volunteering vision working in challenging civil societies. Building trust, solidarity and active participation in the field.

A conversation with #CIVICUS @fvolontaires.bsky.social #BanteaySrei @mattbailliesmith.bsky.social

#IVCO2025 #VolunteeringStandards #VolunteerVoice
Volunteering in development and impact to civil society.
September 15, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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New paper in @spaceandpolity.bsky.social with
@mattbailliesmith.bsky.social on Immigration and the contested politics of volunteering as 'good behaviour' - open access below @lborouniversity.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social @nuglobaldev.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Immigration and the contested politics of volunteering as ‘good behaviour’
Following the release of the UK Government’s recent White Paper on Immigration (2025), this provocation critically reflects on the role of points-based contributions, voluntary service and ‘good ch...
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August 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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New paper in @spaceandpolity.bsky.social with @sarah-mills.bsky.social on volunteering and points for citizenship following UK Immigration White paper, exploring idea's legacy, workability and consequences. Details ⬇️
@northumbriauni.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social @nuglobaldev.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Thanks @dhnnjyn.bsky.social for a great conversation about things that matter in a place that really matters. So important to be finding hopeful possibilities in people power and celebrating the changes that are possible as well as necessary.
@nuglobaldev.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social
dhnnjyn.bsky.social Danny Sriskandarajah @dhnnjyn.bsky.social · Jun 26
Am super excited to be speaking at the first event in the newly reopened Redhills Durham Miners Hall, home of the Pitman's Parliament. What a place to be talking about people power!

Thank you @insightsnortheast.bsky.social and @mattbailliesmith.bsky.social for inviting me.
June 27, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Job alert! Research Fellow to work on #voluntary labour in #humanitarian and #development contexts at Northumbria University Centre for Global Development. @nuglobaldev.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social Details ⬇️:
work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...
#NUGlobalVolunteering #geosky
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May 16, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Why #aid cuts have been made easy by sustained failures to build constituencies for #development - piece with @globaldevinst.bsky.social's Prof Nicola Banks and Dr Helen Underhill in Alliance Magazine: www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/buildin...

#geography #geosky @nuglobaldev.bsky.social
Building new constituencies amidst destruction: the missing piece in shifting power agendas - Alliance magazine
The progress of the past few years in advancing discussion and understanding of decolonisation, localisation, and locally-led development movement is now threatened by international aid cuts and attac...
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April 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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It was fantastic to see you here at @northumbriauni.bsky.social. Great to be able to return some of the hospitality you have shown me in Kolkata. I am looking forward to seeing what we do can do next! @nuglobaldev.bsky.social #NUGlobalVolunteering
andrew007uk.bsky.social Dr Andrew Fleming @andrew007uk.bsky.social · Apr 2
An wonderful few hours @northumbriauni.bsky.social in the care of @mattbailliesmith.bsky.social - someone who has visited me multiple times in Kolkata since my appointment there. Today I made the case for a North East to North East connect to those I met & met some excellent research students.
April 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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It was a pleasure to welcome Dr Andrew Fleming, British Deputy High Commissioner for East and North East India, to our Newcastle City Campus where he met with our Dean of Research Culture, Professor @mattbailliesmith.bsky.social and @nuglobaldev.bsky.social researchers.

@andrew007uk.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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New open access paper out on the hidden economies of volunteering during the pandemic, and its relationships to precarity for young refugees in Uganda. Details below:

#volunteering #geosky #Uganda #refugees #youth @nuglobaldev.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Exciting #PhD opportunity with @reemtalhouk.bsky.social and me: AI and the future of voluntary labour in humanitarian and development contexts. Deadline 30th April. Details: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Please share!

#NUGlobalVolunteering @nuglobaldev.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social
AI & the Future of Humanitarian and Global Development Volunteer Labour… | Reem Talhouk
Join Matt Baillie Smith and myself to undergo a PhD exploring how AI is going to impact the future of volunteer labour in Humanitarian and Global Development…
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March 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Great post here on academic practitioner collaborations - and why we shouldn't make assumptions about them.
March 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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martindrewry.bsky.social
Tell Keir Starmer to bring in a wealth tax to fund public spending, rather than punish the poorest people in the world

https:// act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4319
Prime Minister: Don’t Cut Aid, Tax Wealth
The prime minister has announced a brutal 40% cut to the UK aid budget, in the wake of Donald Trump’s calls for increased military spending. It's a wrong-headed move that represents a retreat from
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February 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Great to have signed this new agreement with @ifrc.org to work together to promote #research, #learning and #practice around #volunteering in #humanitarian contexts. #NUGlobalVolunteering @nuglobaldev.bsky.social
northumbriauni.bsky.social Northumbria University @northumbriauni.bsky.social · Feb 14
Researchers from @nuglobaldev.bsky.social and practitioners from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) have signed a new agreement promoting collaborative research and practice on volunteering in humanitarian contexts over the next five years.

🌍Discover more:
Northumbria and IFRC strengthen collaboration to advance research on volunteering
Volunteers play critical roles in responding to the multiple humanitarian crises facing the world, including disasters linked to conflict and climate change. But there are often gaps in protection and...
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February 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Great to start 2025 sharing and celebrating a new paper on #volunteering and #disastermanagement in #Tanzania from fab @nuglobaldev.bsky.social collaborator Dr Egidius Kamanyi, at Uni of Dar Es Salaam.
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Volunteering in Disaster Management for Development in Africa: Reflections from Bukoba District, Tanzania | Tanzania Journal for Population studies and Development
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January 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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lseimpactblog.bsky.social
💥New: Considering how the idea of luck is mobilised by different groups and to different effect in academia, Jonatan Nästesjö argues luck can play a positive and negative role in maintaining status hierarchies in academia.

#AcademicSky #AcademicCareers #Luck
Why we should take care when ascribing luck to academic success
Considering how the idea of luck is mobilised by different groups and to different effect in academia, Jonatan Nästesjö argues luck can play a positive and negative role in maintaining status hiera…
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December 12, 2024 at 9:52 AM
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Great #geography post - Lecturer to Prof - at @northumbriauni.bsky.social to work with @cpom-uk.bsky.social on polar observations and modelling. Details and deadlines ⬇️
andyshepherd.bsky.social Andy Shepherd @andyshepherd.bsky.social · Dec 9
We are hiring a faculty post in the range Lecturer to Professor ! If you are interested to join us @northumbriauni.bsky.social to work with @cpom-uk.bsky.social on our program of polar observations and modelling please do get in touch😊

Closing date 13 Jan:

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December 9, 2024 at 1:06 PM
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International Volunteer Day #IVD2025 news!@northumbriauni.bsky.social @nuglobaldev.bsky.social will be working with @unv.org as lead partner for the delivery of the next State of the World's Volunteerism report. www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/northumbr...
#NUGlobalVolunteering #GlobalDev #Volunteering
Researchers selected to work with United Nations on flagship report
Northumbria University has been selected as the lead research partner to work with United Nations Volunteers (UNV) on producing the next State of the World’s...
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December 5, 2024 at 11:18 AM
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Good thoughts on things (much much) more important than academic metrics. That we need to argue for focusing on what research achieves rather than its citations etc says something about how we urgently we need to reset what is valued. #researchculture
November 29, 2024 at 8:46 AM
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📢 @cmi.no are hiring!

They are looking for a research assistant to contribute to research into labour dynamics in and around conservation projects/protected areas in India! 🇮🇳
www.cmi.no/news/3358-re...
Vacancy - Research Assistant/Associate: Conservation labour in India
We are seeking a qualified candidate to contribute to research into the labor dynamics in and around conservation projects/protec...
www.cmi.no
November 25, 2024 at 9:58 AM
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@britishacademy.bsky.social call for international evidence-informed policymaking grants is open!

Deadline for applications is 19 Feb 2025 at 17.00 UK Time

Funding of £150,000 is available for grants of up to 12 months in duration. You can see more 👇

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/evid...
Evidence-informed policymaking grants
This programme gives ODA-eligible early-career to senior researchers the opportunity to work with peers around the world to inform policymaking through quality evidence and research.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
November 19, 2024 at 7:54 AM