An interesting article about the impact of consumers drinking less in restaurants - first time I have heard the phrases "damp drinking" for drinking less volume overall or "99% sober" for a mostly dry lifestyle with the occasional exception! www.theguardian.com/food/2025/oc...

📖 New open access research from VSR @brisunipress.bsky.social What about the migrants? An exploration of organisational change in an asylum seeker and refugee voluntary sector organisation by Elizabeth Cookingham Bailey and Vita Terry Read: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

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My new book is published Open Access on 20 October! Find out more details here: bookstore.emerald.com/gendered-onl...

Always great to hear directly from the sector leaders about how to structure systematic change. Some key insights include: unlocking the potential of the sector, creating enabling conditions and understanding the history and power dynamics of exist relationships. #vssn2025 #vsvr25

🏆 Congratulations to Toby Blume, Peter John, Dyana Mason @dyanamason.bsky.social, and Marios Petropoulos - winners of this year’s Voluntary Sector Review Best Article Prize! 📖 Read the award-winning article here: doi.org/10.1332/2040... @bupjournals.bsky.social

How you engage the VCSE sector in research meaningfully. #vsvr25 #vssn25

Branden Bingle talking a bout the barriers for people engaging in health and social care research. Importance of ‘what’s in it for them’ reflects what we see in our research as well. Need to show the value of participation. #vssn25 #vsvr25

Our first plenary with Stephen Osborne discussing his he challenges and opportunities of voluntary sector organisations delivering public services, a topic that hits home with my own past work #vssn25

☕ Not long now until the main conference begins! Day 1 of #VSVR2025 kicks off today at @bayesbschool.bsky.social. We’ll be exploring the theme Creating Change Together with a packed programme of keynotes, parallel sessions, and panel discussions. Watch this space for updates throughout the day!

We’re underway at #VSVR2025! Angela Ellis Paine (Bayes CCE) and Vita Terry (VSSN Co-Chair) opened the conference this morning with a warm welcome and reflections on the theme Creating Change Together. Great to see the room filling with energy for the two days ahead! 📍 @bayesbschool.bsky.social

Back at @bayesbschool.bsky.social for the wonderful #VSSN25 conference!! So many amazing presentations and organisations here as always with great focus on how we can create change together. Thanks to @vssn1.bsky.social, @ncvo.bsky.social and @voluntaryactionislington

🎥 Missed our latest New Researchers Online Session? You can now watch Ellen Bennett’s @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social presentation on theory in voluntary sector research. Perfect for anyone revisiting the big ideas that impact our field. 📺 Watch here: www.vssn.org.uk/2025/07/14/v...

New paper out yesterday! From Dr. E. Katharina Sarter and my covid-19 work looking at spatiality of service delivery - doi.org/10.1111/spol... We were very fortunate to have such great voluntary sector organisations as case studies who have provided us an incredibly rich dataset.

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Amazing Vandals at Work four floor installation on the river Ouse in York. Raising money for the outstanding work of SASH - Safe and Sound Homes here in York with tons of street art talent

Third Sector Session #PPPConf2025 Peter Horner, @cresr-shu.bsky.social explored key ideas about meta-organisations @drlizbailey.bsky.social, @york.ac.uk presented research mapping the Third Sector workforce James Rees, @wlvuni.bsky.social discussed civil society's role in reducing social divides

Valeria Guarneros-Meza’s work reinforces some of things we are seeing in our own vcse mapping project about lack of understand of work of the sector and importance of the sector. #pppconf2025

Always thought provoking @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social! Important to really think about realities of participatory work. We often see this in the voluntary sector: balancing the demands on the sector, the degree of support needed to join in research and articulating the benefits to them. #pppconf2025

@ppp-journal.bsky.social - Lord David Blunkett is echoing the break down in solidarities we highlighted last week at the @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social His call for us to come together and re-engage in both social and voluntary action gives us hope fo a way through the present moment. #pppconf2025

It was really interesting to both observe and experience the crossing from Greek to Turkish Cyprus!! #scos2025

Some insights from #scos2025 with Anne Theunissen and Grace Lordan getting us to reflect on different gendered aspects of work as well as Agnieska and Igor Postula having us consider the odd liminal spaces of managers. Lots of ideas of work to revisit.

Excellent workshop from @lfb500.bsky.social and Caro Hunter! #scos2025 Experiencing Crossings through Craft - using the new materials approach. Really felt emotional about giving over a creation to others and learning a lot about communication and collaboration! @uoysbs.bsky.social

Extremely important discussion about queerness and work. Some similar themes to race and work here. Eg inclusion, having to constantly educate, and various forms of conforming to pass at work. Thanks to Anne Theunissen and Grace Lordan #scos2025

York represents at #scos2025 Persistent inequality in accessing the elite professions in the UK. Compounded by social stratification and lack of ‘correct’ cultural capital. @uoysbs.bsky.social

Starting with poetry - looking forward to all the interpretations of #crossings at #scos2025

Conference no2 of July - honoured to shift gears to focus on some organisational studies at #SCOS in Cyprus!

Great way to end with a friend who has always inspired me with her insights and work!

Wrapping up the @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social at the @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social exec meeting. A busy but lovely few days of great research, networking, & a lot of important intellectual questions. Well done to York @enricoreuter.bsky.social , Liz Bailey, @johnhudson.bsky.social #York2025

Looking forward to this!!

@easp-spa-2025.bsky.social conference finished!! Get home safe everyone!!

It’s really interesting to see the power inequalities within integrated care systems which will help inform our analysis of our VCSE mapping project. #york2025 @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social @uoysbs.bsky.social

Have you used a causal loop diagram before to help understand complex systems? Really interesting to hear how it is being used to unpack integrated care. #york2025 @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social @uoysbs.bsky.social

Important considerations around how we judge impact and evaluate our services! #nhs #healthcareleadership #york2025 @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social @uoysbs.bsky.social

Is the NHS really over managed? #york2025 @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social @uoysbs.bsky.social

The debate about managers and medicine continues!! #york2025 @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social @uoysbs.bsky.social

Kicking off our unique symposium on healthcare leadership hosted by colleagues @uoysbs.bsky.social as part of @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social! Still space available in SLB118. #york2025

Looks like an amazing pre-conference ECR event - well jealous!!! #spa2025

The team getting ready for tomorrow!! #york2025 @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social

Everyone get excited! Conference joining instructions have dropped this afternoon for #spa2025! @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social for all the info as it comes out! So excited and overwhelmed to have nearly 400 people over three days! Only one week to go!

Vita Terry and I have just been published, early view, in the Voluntary Sector Review - "What about the migrants? An exploration of organisational change in an asylum seeker and refugee voluntary sector organisation". @bupjournals.bsky.social bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Advertising a funded phd at @york.ac.uk in @uoysbs.bsky.social Title: Organisational Forms and Public Service Impact: A Comparison of Non-profits and Hybrid Social Enterprises in Delivering Public Services in the UK Deadline: Friday 4 July 2025, 5pm BST Details: www.york.ac.uk/business-soc...

Next month the University of York hosts the Social Policy Association and East Asian Social Policy Research Network – Joint Annual Conference: Go your own way? Social Policy in an era of fracturing solidarities. Follow this account for updates #York2025 @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social‬