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7-8 September 2009, University of Warwick Colin Rochester reflects on this year’s research conference and writes:- The sixth Researching the Voluntary Sector Conference jointly organised by NCVO and VSSN took place at Warwick University on 7 and 8 September. The 2009 event continued to demonstrate the upward momentum in size and quality experienced in recent […]

Voluntary Sector Review, the new journal of VSSN, now has 16 members on its International Editorial Advisory Board. They are: Helmut Anheier – UCLA, USARene Bekkers – VU University Amsterdam, The NetherlandsCarlo Borzaga – University of Trento, Italy Jacques Defourny – University of Liege, BelgiumAlnoor Ebrahim – Harvard Business School, USAWendy Earles – James Cook […]

The new online version of the VSSN Members Research Directory is now available. It gives members direct access to an online profile page which shows information they provide about their organisation, role, events, research interests, etc. The directory is available to the public as a showcase of members’ work, although only paid-up members will be […]

VSSN’s new membership terms for both individual members and organisations are published live on this web site today via the ‘Join’ page in the light of the recent news about the new Journal. At the same time a fresh statement of the benefits of membership has been published, to remind readers of the existing ways […]

VSSN”s aging 20th century web site is moving onwards and upwards into the web 2.0 era (wrote Nick Plant and Véronique Jochum). Our present site is ancient, in technology terms – five years old! On 19 July 2004 we announced “Beta test version of Web site in soft launch”. Things have not stood still since […]

The popular ‘Who”s who’ guide to VSSN”s members online is being phased out. At the same time VSSN”s membership directory, previously paper-based, is being modernised. Coming soon in place of both is VSSN”s new online members directory. This will give you direct access to an online profile page showing your institution, position, research interests etc. […]

Submissions are now invited for the following three sections of the journal: Academic articles (7-8000 words): These may cover research and analysis of any part of the voluntary sector – or the third sector and civil society more generally. Articles may include scholarly inquiry, research findings and applied analysis of relevance to practitioners and decision-makers. […]

VSSN and The Policy Press are delighted to announce the launch of an important new journal in 2010. There will be three issues per annum, in March, July and November. Voluntary Sector Review is the first UK-based, peer-reviewed journal to focus on third sector research, policy and practice. It will be an invaluable cutting-edge resource […]

The VSSN steering group is trying to raise the profile of the network amongst academic journal editors. We hope to increase the pool of people available to referee papers submitted to academic journals on voluntary and community sector/third sector themes. To help with this, we would be interested to hear your suggestions for the main […]

VSSN has been working to develop closer relationships with ‘sister’ academic associations in other countries. In this spirit we would like to let people know about the call for papers for ARNOVA’s forthcoming conference this autumn. See VSSN’s key links. ARNOVA – the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action – is the […]