All posts by Meg Wright

VAHS Conference 2025 Registration Now Open

The Voluntary Action History Society’s Conference, ‘New Ways of Doing Voluntary Action?’, will take place at the University of Liverpool from 2-3 July 2025. Full details are available on the website https:/www.vahs.org.uk/events/conferences There are still places in the programme for late-application speakers, and there is a small fund for bursaries for speakers. If you are […]

Thinking of submitting an abstract for the conference, but not sure where to start? 

Call for papers, panel sessions and workshops  The Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research Conference 2025 theme is Creating Change Together: Civil society working beyond sector and organisational boundaries This will take place on 3–4 September 2025 (with New Researchers session on 2 September) at Bayes Business School, City St George’s, University of London, UK Thinking of submitting […]

VSVR conference 2025 Call for Papers – Drop in session on the 6th May

Call for papers, panel sessions and workshops   The Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research Conference 2025 theme is Creating Change Together: Civil society working beyond sector and organisational boundaries This will take place on 3–4 September 2025 (with New Researchers session on 2 September) at Bayes Business School, City St George’s, University of London, UK Thinking of […]

Upcoming Workshops on Digital Inclusion for Disabled Volunteers – London (5 June) & Salford (12 June)

From Daiga Kamerāde, Professor in Work and Well-being ,  School of Health & Society Director of Research Centre for Inclusive Society, University of Salford I’m pleased to invite you to a practical, in-person workshop exploring digital inclusion for disabled volunteers, based on findings from the Digitvol research project. We are running two sessions: London – Wednesday 5 June (12:30–4:00pm, […]

Registration open for Voluntary Action History Society Conference 2-3 July 2025

Voluntary Action History Society’s 8TH International Conference: ‘New Ways of Doing Voluntary Action History?’ University of Liverpool, UK, 2-3 July 2025 Registration now open VAHS is pleased to announce that the registration for its 8th International Conference is now open. This is a ‘boutique’ conference which will take place over two days rather than the […]

Organisational records: An interdisciplinary summer school in July 2025

Researching voluntary and community organisations, charities, NGOs and philanthropy using organisational records: An interdisciplinary summer school for doctoral and early career researchers 15 and 16 July 2025, London We are delighted to announce that we are holding an interdisciplinary summer school for doctoral and early career researchers at University College London on 15 and 16 […]

VSSN New Researchers Online Session – April 2025

Dear New Researchers We trust that you are doing well. Our next online session will be taking place on the 2nd of April (Wednesday) 13:00 – 14:00. During the meeting, we’re excited to be welcoming Rob Macmillan, Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR), Sheffield Hallam, with over 20 years’ experience in researching […]

A hello from the new Co-Chairs of VSSN

Amy Sanders (Aberystwyth University) and Vita Terry (IVAR) We know right now might be an unsettling time for some voluntary sector researchers with the state of flux currently in the world, and because of this, we believe that spaces to come together are ever more important: to pause, reflect, and connect with one another. We thought […]

VAHS Conference 2025. Deadline for Papers.

The Voluntary Action History Society conference will take place at the University of Liverpool from 2-4 July 2025. The deadline for papers is 15 March 2025. Full details on the theme and how to submit an abstract can be found on the website: https://www.vahs.org.uk/events/conferences/