Day Conference 23 May 2012

The state-voluntary sector relationship in public service delivery in the UK: the case of social care for older people

by Jenny Harlock, Department of Social and Policy Science, University of Bath, UK AbstractOver recent decades, adult social care…

‘Getting in’ and ‘getting ahead’: Routes into the Voluntary Sector

by Katie Bruce, Susan Halford and Pauline Leonard, TSRC, University of Southampton This paper considers various paid and unpaid routes…

“It’s all up for grabs!” – charities managing change in times of crisis

by Malin Arvidson (1) and Rebecca Taylor (2), Research fellows, Third Sector Research Centre, (1)University of Southampton (2) Birmingham University…

The ‘big society’ and volunteering: Janus-faced social policy

by Louise Hardwick and Lynn Hancock, Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Liverpool Abstract This paper…

Volunteering, Religiosity and Religious Context: A Multilevel Study of England and Wales

by Matthew Bennett, University of Oxford This paper uses multilevel modeling techniques to test individual-level, contextual-level and cross-level hypotheses…