Institute for Voluntary Action Research

Recent papers from Institute for Voluntary Action Research

1. What about the migrants? An exploration of organisational change in an asylum seeker and refugee voluntary sector organisationVoluntary Sector Review · 2025
2. The role of Black-led community organisations in supporting Black mental health: a Black emancipatory action research projectEthnicity and Health · 2025
3. The Indifference of Transport: Comparative Research of “Infrastructural Ruins” in the Gauteng City-Region and Greater MaputoUrban Planning · 2023
4. A tale of two Youth Expert Groups (YEGs): Learnings from youth activism in research in India and BrazilChildren & Society · 2023
5. The Distinctiveness of Smaller Voluntary Organisations Providing Welfare ServicesJournal of Social Policy · 2022
6. The difference leadership makes? Debating and conceptualising leadership in the UK voluntary sectorVoluntary Sector Review · 2019
7. Participatory filmmaking in voluntary sector research: innovative or problematic?Voluntary Sector Review · 2019
8. Civic Action and Volunteering: The Changing Space for Popular Engagement in EnglandVOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations · 2019
9. Community organising and the Big Society: is Saul Alinsky turning in his grave?Voluntary Sector Review · 2011
10. Working with people who have been there: the meaningful involvement of mental health service users in curriculum design and deliveryThe Journal of Mental Health Training Education and Practice · 2010