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Matt Baillie Smith

@mattbailliesmith.bsky.social

Professor of Global Development & Dean of Research Culture, Northumbria University UK. Research voluntary labour and: humanitarianism; global development; climate action; citizenship. www.mattbailliesmith.com https://uk.linkedin.com/in/matt-baillie-smith

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Matt Baillie Smith@mattbailliesmith.bsky.social · 5d ago

New paper out: "Becoming difficult over time? Women’s voluntary labour in the Indian Sundarbans" - with Janet Clark, Sumana Banerjee, Nandita Jayraman and Melisa Maida @nuglobaldev.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social #NUGlobalvolunteering #IVY2026 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Becoming difficult over time? Women’s voluntary labour in the Indian Sundarbans

We explore how women’s voluntary labour on climate adaptation in the Indian Sundarbans creates long-term pathways to disrupting gender norms. We bring debates around liberal and liberating empowerm...

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Prof. Sarah Mills@sarah-mills.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Military Gap Years: Youth, Security and Futures" - with Peter Kraftl @lborogeog.bsky.social and @mattbailliesmith.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... - latest paper in TESG And response from Kathrin Hörschelmann: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Military Gap Years: Youth, Security and Futures

This paper explores the advent of ‘military gap years’ amidst rising moves in Europe to combat recruitment challenges for armed forces personnel. It situates this debate within the longstanding conne...

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Matt Baillie Smith@mattbailliesmith.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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 · 7mo 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

Screenshot of a commentary abstract in The Geographical Journal by Sarah Peck & Matt Baillie Smith (2026) entitled: 'Infrastructures of (Dis)Connection: Declining Overseas Development Assistance and the Shifting Geographies of Development' with a blue banner at the top. This short commentary hopes to stimulate debate about reductions in Overseas Development Assistance (ODA), particularly by the United States and the United Kingdom in 2025. Drawing on three key areas of geographical scholarship, we consider firstly the intersections between ODA and labour geographies, secondly we engage with relational theorising to consider repercussions for development ecosystems, and finally we explore potential impacts on the wider geographies of aid and development. In doing so, we hope to use these geographically inspired lenses to broaden conversations about declining ODA and ‘Aidland’ and to acknowledge and surface the contradictions presented to development geographers at this critical moment. By articulating the potential of geographically inspired scholarship for thinking about declining ODA, we conclude by opening up further questions about future ‘public’ geographies of development.
Northumbria University@northumbriauni.bsky.social · 12mo ago

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

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 · last yr.

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

Volunteering in development and impact to civil society.
Prof. Sarah Mills@sarah-mills.bsky.social · last yr.

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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Matt Baillie Smith@mattbailliesmith.bsky.social · last yr.

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 · last yr.

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

Matt Baillie Smith@mattbailliesmith.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

Matt Baillie Smith@mattbailliesmith.bsky.social · last yr.

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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Matt Baillie Smith@mattbailliesmith.bsky.social · 2y ago

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 · 2y ago

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.

Matt Baillie Smith@mattbailliesmith.bsky.social · 2y ago

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 · 2y ago

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....

Matt Baillie Smith@mattbailliesmith.bsky.social · 2y ago

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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Matt Baillie Smith@mattbailliesmith.bsky.social · 2y ago

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 · 2y ago

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:

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

💥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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Matt Baillie Smith@mattbailliesmith.bsky.social · 2y ago

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_...

Matt Baillie Smith@mattbailliesmith.bsky.social · 2y ago

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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Philip Lewis@pslewis.bsky.social · 2y ago

@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...

Evidence-informed policymaking grants

This programme gives ODA-eligible early-career to senior researchers the opportunity to work with peers around the world to inform policymaking through quality evidence and research.

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