Activities and News

Our Director, Dr Jurgen Grotz, gave a presentation at the British Society of Gerontology annual conference 7 - 9 July 2021. The video recording of this is now available to watch.

Dr Jurgen Grotz, the Director of IVR, wrote this paper for an online workshop on Volunteering in the UK and China, 25th June 2021 organised by the Manchester China Institute

Sharing views and experiences from around the globe, about the difference voluntary action makes during and after COVID-19 pandemic

IVR hosted a webinar exploring volunteering and inequalities; here are the position statements from each of the panellists   Peter Beresford, OBE is Visiting Professor at the...

IVR organised an online event to offer different narratives of volunteering as participation, democracy and citizenship. Here are six pre-recorded position statements from panellists

IVR has created a series of short animations on volunteering for beginners   Volunteering for Beginners in seven and a half minutes   And if you haven’t got seven...

Professor Ting Zhao and Cao Yu from the School of Political Science and Public Administration at the East China University of Political Science and Law and have written an introduction to IVR's...

In this podcast by the Eastern ARC, you can hear what we can learn about voluntary action and Covid-19.

We are pleased to present the  recording of our webinar , organised as a collaboration between the Institute for Volunteering Research at the University of East Anglia and the School of...

In November and December 2020, members of IVR authored two new journal articles contributing to important debates: -  Pandemic policy making: the health and wellbeing effects of the...

On 20 November 2020, IVR hosted a free half day online webinar for the Voluntary Sector Studies Network (VSSN) with fabulous speakers from Newman University, Leeds Beckett...

A new book to explain and promote a new approach to Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in health and social care by drawing on wider principles including volunteering has been...

The Institute for Volunteering Research, in a partnership of six UK universities and representatives from a variety of voluntary organisations, including the four key voluntary sector...

The Institute for Volunteering Research, with the  Spirit of 2012  and the  What Works Centre for Wellbeing   published  new research  on 20 October 2020...

The annual Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research Conference  (VSVR) was held online this year under the theme  Times like these’: Researching civil society responses to and...

    Emma Taylor-Collins and Hannah Durrant from Wales Centre for Public Policy, and WCVA’s Helpforce Cymru Manager Fiona Liddell look for a pattern in recent volunteering in...

Covid-19 volunteering efforts need to be better coordinated - relying on local experience and knowledge, says Dr Jurgen Grotz, Director of the Institute for Voluteering Research. You can read...

Video of volunteer responses to covid-19 pandemic

Duncan Scott died on Monday 18th May, after a severe stroke. A long serving senior academic at Manchester University he was one of the pioneers who developed the new academic field of...

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) has been hosting weekly webinars with both national networks of volunteer involving organisations and...

Volunteers’ Week is an annual celebration of the contribution millions of people make across the four nations of the UK and around the globe, through volunteering as service, as leisure and...

"From shaking tins to climbing Everest: the changing landscape of volunteer fundraising" On 24 January 2020 The Institute for Volunteering Research (IVR) at the University of East Anglia...

"Volunteering in health and social care - the potential, the challenge". Dr Jurgen Grotz, Director of the Institute for Volunteering Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UEA