COVID-19 and the Voluntary and Community Sector in the UK
Responses, Impacts and Adaptation
Curating rigorous academic and policy and practice-based research, this book explores the response and adaptation of the UK voluntary sector to the COIVD-19 pandemic and considers what can be learned to maximise its contribution in the event of future crises.
The voluntary sector was central to the COVID-19 response: fulfilling basic needs, highlighting new and existing inequalities and coordinating action where the state had been slow to respond.
This book curates rigorous academic, policy and practice-based research into the response and adaptation of the UK voluntary sector during the pandemic. Contributions explore the ways the sector responded to new challenges and the longer-term consequences for the sector’s workforce, volunteers and beneficiaries.
Written for researchers and practitioners, this book considers what the voluntary sector can learn from the pandemic to maximise its contribution in the event of future crises.
James Rees is Reader at the Institute for Community Research and Development (ICRD) at the University of Wolverhampton.
Rob Macmillan is Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR), Sheffield Hallam University.
Chris Dayson is Associate Professor at the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR), Sheffield Hallam University.
Christopher Damm is Research Fellow at the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR), Sheffield Hallam University.
Claire Bynner is Research Fellow in Public Policy and Research Team Leader (Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland) at the University of Glasgow.
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