Matt Baillie Smith

Excited to announce our hybrid event on 5 Dec: Transformational & Impactful Volunteering – A Vision for IVY 2026.

📍14:00–15:30 ET at Idealist.org NYC + online

Register to join in person - forms.office.com/e/MjgBeDWw9b

Or via Zoom - us06web.zoom.us/.../register...

#IVY2026 #Volunteering #SDGs

George Clarke appointed new Chancellor of Northumbria University The renowned architect, author and TV presenter George Clarke has been appointed as the new Chancellor of Northumbria University, Newcastle.

📣Welcome to Northumbria George Clarke 📣

We are thrilled to announce that renowned architect, author and TV presenter George Clarke has been appointed as the new Chancellor of Northumbria University.

#NewNorthumbriaChancellor #GeorgeClarke

Disconnections and exclusions: professionalization, cosmopolitanism and (global?) civil society In this article, we address the ways in which theories and practices of cosmopolitanism and professionalization intersect in the sphere of global civil society. We emphasize the experiences of grassr...

Good point! Resourcing broader participation is key but also, some event formats are skewed to only recognising some people as 'experts'. It's a bit old, but we have explored this a bit in relation to Indian NGO activists' participation in global civic spaces: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Great to see Janet Clark of @nuglobaldev.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social sharing findings from her collab PhD with @volunteeringforum.bsky.social at #IVCO2025 in Cambodia.

#NUGlobalVolunteering
#Volunteeringresearch
#Research
#globaldev

Good to see Professor @mattbailliesmith.bsky.social, Co-Director of our @nuglobaldev.bsky.social, in Cambodia at the International Volunteer Cooperation Organisations (IVCO) conference.

It was a privilege to host last year's event at our Newcastle City Campus.

#NUGlobalVolunteering #IVCO2025

Day 3 #IVCO2025 delegates exploring the different ways of approaching volunteer measurement with @mattbailliesmith.bsky.social @nuglobaldev.bsky.social

#volunteerimpact #volunteeringstandards #volunteermeasurement #volunteeringforum

#IVCO2025 has officially commenced with Dr Bianca Fadel from @northumbriauni.bsky.social setting the scene - Respect, Kindness, Hope. Welcome to our speakers, delegates & new Bluesky community.

#ForumStandards #VolunteeringInDevelopment #Volunteering

Volunteering in development and impact to civil society.

Radical optimism for the volunteering vision working in challenging civil societies. Building trust, solidarity and active participation in the field.

A conversation with #CIVICUS @fvolontaires.bsky.social #BanteaySrei @mattbailliesmith.bsky.social

#IVCO2025 #VolunteeringStandards #VolunteerVoice

Immigration and the contested politics of volunteering as ‘good behaviour’ Following the release of the UK Government’s recent White Paper on Immigration (2025), this provocation critically reflects on the role of points-based contributions, voluntary service and ‘good ch...

New paper in @spaceandpolity.bsky.social with
@mattbailliesmith.bsky.social on Immigration and the contested politics of volunteering as 'good behaviour' - open access below @lborouniversity.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social @nuglobaldev.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New paper in @spaceandpolity.bsky.social with @sarah-mills.bsky.social on volunteering and points for citizenship following UK Immigration White paper, exploring idea's legacy, workability and consequences. Details ⬇️
@northumbriauni.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social @nuglobaldev.bsky.social

Thanks @dhnnjyn.bsky.social for a great conversation about things that matter in a place that really matters. So important to be finding hopeful possibilities in people power and celebrating the changes that are possible as well as necessary.
@nuglobaldev.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social

Job alert! Research Fellow to work on #voluntary labour in #humanitarian and #development contexts at Northumbria University Centre for Global Development. @nuglobaldev.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social Details ⬇️:
work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...
#NUGlobalVolunteering #geosky

Building new constituencies amidst destruction: the missing piece in shifting power agendas - Alliance magazine The progress of the past few years in advancing discussion and understanding of decolonisation, localisation, and locally-led development movement is now threatened by international aid cuts and attac...

Why #aid cuts have been made easy by sustained failures to build constituencies for #development - piece with @globaldevinst.bsky.social's Prof Nicola Banks and Dr Helen Underhill in Alliance Magazine: www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/buildin...

#geography #geosky @nuglobaldev.bsky.social

It was fantastic to see you here at @northumbriauni.bsky.social. Great to be able to return some of the hospitality you have shown me in Kolkata. I am looking forward to seeing what we do can do next! @nuglobaldev.bsky.social #NUGlobalVolunteering

It was a pleasure to welcome Dr Andrew Fleming, British Deputy High Commissioner for East and North East India, to our Newcastle City Campus where he met with our Dean of Research Culture, Professor @mattbailliesmith.bsky.social and @nuglobaldev.bsky.social researchers.

@andrew007uk.bsky.social

New open access paper out on the hidden economies of volunteering during the pandemic, and its relationships to precarity for young refugees in Uganda. Details below:

#volunteering #geosky #Uganda #refugees #youth @nuglobaldev.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social

AI & the Future of Humanitarian and Global Development Volunteer Labour… | Reem Talhouk Join Matt Baillie Smith and myself to undergo a PhD exploring how AI is going to impact the future of volunteer labour in Humanitarian and Global Development…

Exciting #PhD opportunity with @reemtalhouk.bsky.social and me: AI and the future of voluntary labour in humanitarian and development contexts. Deadline 30th April. Details: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Please share!

#NUGlobalVolunteering @nuglobaldev.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social

Great post here on academic practitioner collaborations - and why we shouldn't make assumptions about them.

Prime Minister: Don’t Cut Aid, Tax Wealth The prime minister has announced a brutal 40% cut to the UK aid budget, in the wake of Donald Trump’s calls for increased military spending. It's a wrong-headed move that represents a retreat from

Tell Keir Starmer to bring in a wealth tax to fund public spending, rather than punish the poorest people in the world

https:// act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4319

Great to have signed this new agreement with @ifrc.org to work together to promote #research, #learning and #practice around #volunteering in #humanitarian contexts. #NUGlobalVolunteering @nuglobaldev.bsky.social

Great to start 2025 sharing and celebrating a new paper on #volunteering and #disastermanagement in #Tanzania from fab @nuglobaldev.bsky.social collaborator Dr Egidius Kamanyi, at Uni of Dar Es Salaam.
tjpsd.udsm.ac.tz/index.php/tj...

Why we should take care when ascribing luck to academic success Considering how the idea of luck is mobilised by different groups and to different effect in academia, Jonatan Nästesjö argues luck can play a positive and negative role in maintaining status hiera…

💥New: Considering how the idea of luck is mobilised by different groups and to different effect in academia, Jonatan Nästesjö argues luck can play a positive and negative role in maintaining status hierarchies in academia.

#AcademicSky #AcademicCareers #Luck

Great #geography post - Lecturer to Prof - at @northumbriauni.bsky.social to work with @cpom-uk.bsky.social on polar observations and modelling. Details and deadlines ⬇️

Researchers selected to work with United Nations on flagship report Northumbria University has been selected as the lead research partner to work with United Nations Volunteers (UNV) on producing the next State of the World’s...

International Volunteer Day #IVD2025 news!@northumbriauni.bsky.social @nuglobaldev.bsky.social will be working with @unv.org as lead partner for the delivery of the next State of the World's Volunteerism report. www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/northumbr...
#NUGlobalVolunteering #GlobalDev #Volunteering

Good thoughts on things (much much) more important than academic metrics. That we need to argue for focusing on what research achieves rather than its citations etc says something about how we urgently we need to reset what is valued. #researchculture

Vacancy - Research Assistant/Associate: Conservation labour in India We are seeking a qualified candidate to contribute to research into the labor dynamics in and around conservation projects/protec...

📢 @cmi.no are hiring!

They are looking for a research assistant to contribute to research into labour dynamics in and around conservation projects/protected areas in India! 🇮🇳
www.cmi.no/news/3358-re...

@britishacademy.bsky.social call for international evidence-informed policymaking grants is open!

Deadline for applications is 19 Feb 2025 at 17.00 UK Time

Funding of £150,000 is available for grants of up to 12 months in duration. You can see more 👇

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/evid...

First post and need to start with thanks to @farhanasultana.com for posting great advice and links on how to land here and find some people, things and places! #geosky #geography @northumbriauni.bsky.social