TSRC presentations
Members of the TSRC team have given presentations at a number of conferences across the UK and abroad:
International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR), 9th International Conference, Istanbul, July 2010
Jeremy Kendall presented a paper on 'Constituting a ‘Third Sector’ for public policy in England: Decontestation and contention under New Labour and beyond'. See presentation
Social enterprise: discourses, definitions and (research) dilemmas
3rd Social Entrepreneurship Research Colloquium, University of Oxford, June 2010
Simon Teasdale presented a paper exploring the construct of 'social enterprise'; the discourses that shape how they are defined and the implications of this for researchers. Presentation. Research paper
Social Enterprise: What lies beneath the big tent? TSRC seminar, University of Birmingham, 20th April 2010
In this short seminar, Dr Simon Teasdale explored some of the academic, policy and practitioner discourses shaping the social enterprise agenda. View presentation.
Refugee Action/Refugee Council, Basis Review Session, 10th February 2010
Angus McCabe, who leads TSRC’s below the radar research, gave a presentation on Refugee Community Organisations: from here to 2012 and beyond. Download presentation
Foundation for the Future, Regional Conference on Research on Civil Society Organisations, 26th-28th January 2010, Jordan
The Knowledge Exchange Team was invited to this regional conference on civil society organisations in the MENA region. Razia Shariff gave a presentation on ‘research into reality: overcoming the challenges of knowledge exchange’. Download presentation.
Bridging the Gap: Why consider the voice and engagement of below the radar communities, 19th January 2010
Razia Shariff, Head of TSRC’s Knowledge Exchange Team gave a presentation on ‘Why we need to consider the voice and engagement of below the radar communities’. Download
Social Enterprise and Social and Economic Theory, London, 11 Nov 09
Fergus Lyon, who leads TSRC’s social enterprise research stream, gave a presentation on Social enterprises, public policy and research trajectories. The seminar was held by the Economic and Social Research Council and Social Enterprise Coalition. It was part of a public policy series exploring research surrounding social enterprise and how this can inform policy making. Download presentation. Public policy seminar series
International Sociological Association Conference, 1-4 September 2009, Glasgow
Housing Assets, Housing People
As part of a panel convened by the Housing Studies Association, David Mullins (with Professor Hal Pawson of Heriot-Watt University) gave a presentation on Housing and the Credit Crisis: Impacts and Prospects for the Structure of the UK Social Housing Sector. The presentation covered a number of key issues raised by the credit crisis for third sector housing.
Social Policy Association Conference, 29th June - 1st July, Edinburgh
Policy futures: learning from the past?
Jenny Philimore presented a paper on Approaches to welfare provision in the age of super diversity.
National Third Sector Quality Conference, 25th June, London
Demonstrating quality in challenging times
Pete Alcock was invited as a key note speaker. The event was co-hosted by the Improvement Development agency (IDeA) and the Charities Evaluation Service (CES).
VSSN Spring Day Conference 2009, 15th May, University of Ulster
National Contexts and the development of voluntary action: the Republic of Ireland and the UK after a decade of devolution.
Pete presented a paper on the Third Sector policy environment in England: partnership or takeover? Find his power point and details of the conference here
Social return on investment: the UK experience, March 2009, Georgia
TSRC presented initial thoughts on social accounting and auditing to an audience of 100 private sector and NGO representatives in Tbilisi, Georgia...more
Sixth Annual Skoll World Forum, 25-27th March, Saïd Business School Oxford