This page provides links to all the available video recordings from the Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research online conference 2020.
Please note that unfortunately a few of the videos start too late or end too early, and one session failed to record. We hope to record more online sessions in the future and so we will be able to learn from experience next time around!
OPENING PLENARY SESSION: FRAMING CIVIL SOCIETY RESPONSES TO COVID 19
Watch on YouTube:
Chair: Véronique Jochum, NCVO
Facilitator: Angela Ellis Paine, VSSN
Re-making state-civil society relationships during the COVID 19 pandemic? An English perspective
Chris Dayson, Sheffield Hallam University
Bringing organization back in: Deliberating organizational means and ends in ‘times like these’
Tracey M. Coule, Sheffield Hallam University
SESSION 1A: PHILANTHROPY, FUNDRAISING, FUNDING AND COVID-19
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pnfmryss0Xk
Chair: Jon Dean, Sheffield Hallam University
Facilitator: Carolyn Cordery, Aston University
Reserves and financial vulnerability of UK voluntary organisations after COVID-19
John Mohan, Third Sector Research Centre, University of Birmingham and David Clifford, University of Southampton
The impact of COVID-19 on the foundation and dissolution of charitable organisations: A cross-national comparison
Diarmuid McDonnell* and Alasdair Rutherford**, *UK Data Service, **University of Stirling
Learning in Lockdown: An exploration of active citizenship education for children and young people in lockdown
Alison Body, University of Kent
Navigating new terrain in an emergency grants programme
Sally Vivyan, Open University
The great fundraising furlough swap? Exploring the development and implications of fundraisers’ “furlonteering” during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Lesley Alborough, University of Kent
SESSION 1B: VOLUNTEER MOBILISATION IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19: INTERNATIONAL, NATIONAL AND LOCAL INSIGHTS
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pZ5hXzSCY04
Chair: Angela Ellis Paine, Third Sector Research Centre, University of Birmingham
Facilitator: Jurgen Grotz, Institute for Volunteering Research, UEA
Community-based volunteering in response to COVID-19: The COV-VOL project
Julie MacInnes*, Kat Frere-Smith**, Bridget Jones***, Sabrena Jaswal*, Tamsyn Eida*, Vanessa Abrahamson*, Rebecca Sharp****, Heather Gage***, and Patricia Wilson*, *University of Kent, **Brighton and Sussex Medical School, ***University of Surrey, ****NIHR Applied Research Collaboration, Kent, Surrey and Sussex
Mobilising volunteers effectively during the COVID-19 pandemic
Harriet Thiery*, Jenny McNeill*, Joanne Cook**, Jon Burchell*, Fiona Walkley**, Erica Ballantyne*, *University of Sheffield ** University of Hull,
Scotland – Lessons learned in managing the supply of formal volunteers during the COVID-19 crisis and recovery period
Alan Stevenson and Debbie Maltman, Volunteer Scotland
Pandemic recovery and volunteering in Wales – challenges, opportunities, and a research agenda
Emma Taylor-Collins*, Fiona Liddell**, and Hannah Durrant*, *Wales Centre for Public Policy, **Wales Council for Voluntary Action
Information and referral service for seniors in British Columbia, Canada: Learning from COVID-19
Karen Lok Yi Wong*,** Andrew Sixsmith** and Leslie Remun*, *411 Seniors Centre, **Science and Technology for Aging Research Institute, Simon Fraser University
**Unfortunately there was a problem with this recording, so a video of the final presentation is not available. The slides, however, are available to download here.**
SESSION 2A: COMMUNITIES AND MUTUAL AID DURING THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC – CONCEPTUAL INSIGHTS
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/MuXe7kUA2f4
Chair: Chris Dayson, Sheffield Hallam University
Facilitator: Véronique Jochum, NCVO
Locally rooted: community organising in times of crisis
Marilyn Taylor, IVAR
Apart but not Alone? A cross-sectional study of neighbour support in a major UK urban area during the COVID-19 lockdown
Michele Biddle*,** and Mat Jones*, *UWE, **National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Collaboration West (NIHR ARC West)
Learning from international emergency responses to inform Scotland’s COVID-19 recovery approach
Cathy Hynds, Volunteer Scotland
From Kropotkin to COVID-19: the role of mutual aid associations in democratic participation
Jurgen Grotz*, Michael Locke and Michael Ashe**, *IVR, **Volunteer Centre Kensington and Chelsea
The Role of Mutual Aid in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Case Studies from Scotland
Jack Rendall, Maeve Curtin, Michael Roy and Simon Teasdale, Glasgow Caledonian University
SESSION 2B: VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS AND COVID-19 – MICRO, MESO AND MACRO PERSPECTIVES
Watch on YouTube: [unfortunately the recording of this session failed!]
Chair: Jane Cullingworth, University of Glasgow
Facilitator: Sophie Wilson, BVSC Centre for Voluntary Action
Delivering community impact through a coordinated VCS response: The Sheffield Hub Network story (slides – presentation 1)
Maddy Desforges (Voluntary Action Sheffield), David Bussue (SACHMA), Michael Ng (Sheffield Alcohol Support Service/Project 6)
Third sector organisations and their essential role in COVID-19 response and recovery – examples from two Scottish local authorities (slides – presentation 2)
Claire Bynner, University of Glasgow
Community businesses and COVID-19 (slides – presentation 3)
Amelia Byrne, Power to Change and Eve Avdoulos and Zoë Wilkins, The Young Foundation
Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 on people experiencing homelessness (slides- presentation 4)
Jo Brown, Groundswell
Voluntary Sector Review: Meet the editors
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5o01dwqzz5M
James Rees, Carl Milofsky, Daiga, Kamerade, Chris Dayson, Ali Body
OPENING PLENARY SESSION: EXPERIENCING CIVIL SOCIETY RESPONSES TO COVID-19
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Chair: Carolyn Cordery, Aston University
Facilitator: Jon Dean, Sheffield Hallam University
Keynote speakers:
Karl Wilding, NCVO
Anna Fowlie, SCVO
Brian Carr, BVSC
Affan Cheema, Islamic Relief Worldwide
SESSION 3A: VOLUNTEERING EXPERIENCES DURING COVID-19: INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANISATIONAL PERSPECTIVES AND IMPLICATIONS
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/j1L_Du-yiSU
Chair: Angela Ellis Paine, University of Birmingham
Facilitator: Véronique Jochum, NCVO
“Just to hear your voice is so lovely”: The health and wellbeing effects of stopping their volunteering as a result of the COVID-19 crisis on older volunteers
Jurgen Grotz, IVR, UEA
The response of volunteers in sport to covid 19
Geoff Nichols*, Lindsay Findlay King** and Fiona Reid***, *University of Sheffield, **University of Northumbria, ***Glasgow Caledonian University
Being neighbours during lockdown: experiences from an outer city estate
Stephanie Denning, Coventry University
Examining the motivations and emotions linked to the formation of a voluntary sewing group formed in response to Covid-19
Beverley Gilbert, University of Worcester
Volunteering and COVID-19: disrupting geographies of voluntary action
Matt Baillie Smith and Bianca Fadel, Northumbria University
SESSION 3B: CIVIL SOCIETY AND COVID: CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/MVh6vO2RgGk
Chair: Carolyn Cordery, Aston University
Facilitator: Jon Dean, Sheffield Hallam University
The role of Local Infrastructure Organisations in the COVID 19 response
Carol Jacklin-Jarvis and Daniel Haslam, Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership, The Open University
Embedding a culture of learning: LDCVS and its sounding Board
Jill Anderson and Sam Riches, Lancaster District Voluntary and Community Solutions
Dancing With Elephants: COVID-19 and the response to diverse community needs in Camden
Julie Christie-Webb, Kevin Nunan and Hilary Barnard, Voluntary Action Camden
Community action in a pandemic
Fay Holland, Groundwork UK
Social surveys are now more important than ever: what can the data tell us?
Patty Doran, UK Data Service
SESSION 4A: VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS AND COVID-19 – MICRO, MESO AND MACRO PERSPECTIVES
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/d1T0CDxbgLo
Chair: Sophie Wilson, BVSC Centre for Voluntary Action
Facilitator: Jane Cullingworth, University of Glasgow
The impact of Covid-19 on the voluntary sector working in criminal justice
Anne Fox, Clinks
Making it stick: The importance of lived experience insight in systems change
Nathan Dick and Andy Williams, Revolving Doors Agency
Voluntary and community organisations moving from crisis to recovery
Vita Terry, Katie Turner, Houda Davies, Annie Caffyn and Sonakshi Anand, IVAR
Third sector responses to Covid-19 and poverty in Scotland
Laura Robertson and Neil Cowan, The Poverty Alliance
SESSION 4B: COMMUNITIES AND MUTUAL AID DURING THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC – INSIGHTS FROM THE FRONTLINE
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/JNqNS3Tdy1g
Chair: Véronique Jochum, NCVO
Facilitator: Chris Dayson, Sheffield Hallam University
The role of community creativity in the time of COVID 19
Amanda Smethurst, Independent researcher
How nonprofit organizations in the City of High Point (North Carolina) responded to COVID-19
Patrick Harman, Hayden-Harman Foundation
Community Responses to COVID-19
Wendy Sugarman*, Richard Usher** and Rob Macmillan***, *WSA Community Consultants, **Just Ideas, ***Sheffield Hallam University
#brumtogether, a study into the impact of the Birmingham and Solihull Local Delivery Pilot on community resilience in the face of Covid-19
Steven Rose, Karen Creavin and Naomi Lynch, The Active Wellbeing Society
A ‘Real Time Evaluation’ of neighbourhood-based projects for older people during COVID 19 pandemic in Leeds
Chris Dayson*, Jan Gilbertson*, Emma Bimpson*, Chris Damm*, Angela Ellis Paine**, Helen Kara*** and Luke Price**** , *Sheffield Hallam University, ** Third Sector Research Centre, University of Birmingham, *** Independent researchers, ****Centre for Ageing Better
BOOK LAUNCH
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/d6pgtIvWo70
Chair: Angela Ellis Paine, TSRC, University of Birmingham
Alison Body: Children’s Charities in Crisis: Early Intervention and the State
Jon Dean: The Good Glow: Charity and the Symbolic Power of Doing Good
