New publication alert! Happy to share this paper with Sarah Peck thinking about declining Overseas Development Assistance and its implications for geographical (and other) scholarship. Details ⬇️

The Geographical Journal@thegj.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New commentary in The GJ: 'Infrastructures of (dis)connection: Declining Overseas Development Assistance and the shifting geographies of development' by Sarah Peck & @mattbailliesmith.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky

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

📣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

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.

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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

Global Volunteering Forum@volunteeringforum.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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

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

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

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....

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...

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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

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...

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Space and Polity@spaceandpolity.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Writing in response to the UK Government's White Paper on Immigration, @mattbailliesmith.bsky.social and @sarah-mills.bsky.social raise important questions about points-based citizenship policies and the politics of 'good behaviour' and volunteering: doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2025.2539744

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

Danny Sriskandarajah@dhnnjyn.bsky.social · last yr.

Am super excited to be speaking at the first event in the newly reopened Redhills Durham Miners Hall, home of the Pitman's Parliament. What a place to be talking about people power! Thank you @insightsnortheast.bsky.social and @mattbailliesmith.bsky.social for inviting me.

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

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

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...

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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

Dr Andrew Fleming@andrew007uk.bsky.social · last yr.

An wonderful few hours @northumbriauni.bsky.social in the care of @mattbailliesmith.bsky.social - someone who has visited me multiple times in Kolkata since my appointment there. Today I made the case for a North East to North East connect to those I met & met some excellent research students.

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

Prof. Sarah Mills@sarah-mills.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper out in 'Social and Cultural Geography' - "Reconceptualising volunteering, crisis and precarity: the experiences of refugee youth in Uganda during COVID-19" - with @mattbailliesmith.bsky.social Bianca Fadel @nuglobaldev.bsky.social Moses Okech www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

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…

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

LSE Impact@lseimpactblog.bsky.social · last yr.

👀ICYMI: "In short, intrinsic motivation and intentionality are key." ✍️Armine Ishkanian (@lseinequalities.bsky.social & @afsee-lse.bsky.social) on what makes academic practitioner collaborations work.

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

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

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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

Northumbria University@northumbriauni.bsky.social · last yr.

Researchers from @nuglobaldev.bsky.social and practitioners from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) have signed a new agreement promoting collaborative research and practice on volunteering in humanitarian contexts over the next five years. 🌍Discover more:

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...

💥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

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…

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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 ⬇️

Andy Shepherd@andyshepherd.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are hiring a faculty post in the range Lecturer to Professor ! If you are interested to join us @northumbriauni.bsky.social to work with @cpom-uk.bsky.social on our program of polar observations and modelling please do get in touch😊 Closing date 13 Jan: work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...

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

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...

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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

LSE Impact@lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 2y ago

💥New: Is there any alternative to the gamification of academic metrics? 👨‍💻Dan K Pearson #AcademicSky #Metrics #ResearchImpact

📢 @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...

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...

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@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