- Understanding the management of volunteers through a three way psychological contract: Manchester Event Volunteers (Geoff Nichols and Rita Ralston)
- Preventing delayed transfers of care: person-centred voluntary sector services (Fiona Zinovieff, Catherine Robinson and Bryan Collis)
- Changes in income concentration in the charitable sector: considering ‘inequality’, ‘differential growth’ and ‘mobility’ (Peter Backus and David Clifford)
- On the up: changing trends in voluntary sector wages in the UK 1998-2007 (Alasdair Rutherford)
- Managing change in turbulent times (Pauline Munro)
The December 2009 Day Conference was hosted by the Third Sector Research Centre at the University of Birmingham, although the conference itself was held at Network House, a refurbished building now run as a church and conference venue owned by Vineyard Network Church in Birmingham. Forty-three people found their way to the venue from the City Centre to assemble in a large room, facing a stage complete with drum-kit. But rather than take a turn, Pete Alcock, Director of the Third Sector Research Centre, opened the proceedings by welcoming everyone, introduced each of the speakers and chaired the discussions. Five quite different papers were presented, but together they all reported on recent and ongoing empirical work examining aspects of the third sector – volunteering, impact, income inequality, wages and managing change in the third sector.
