A rapid review of barriers to volunteering for potentially disadvantaged groups and implications for health inequalities

K Southby, J South, AM Bagnall - VOLUNTAS: International Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Despite volunteering being a feature of community life in the UK, differences as to who
volunteers are evident. Reporting on a rapid review of the evidence on volunteering and …

Small-scale civil society and social policy: the importance of experiential learning, insider knowledge and diverse motivations in shaping community action

J Phillimore, A McCabe - Voluntary Sector Review, 2015 - bristoluniversitypressdigital.com
Interest in the formal voluntary sector and wider civil society organisations (CSOs) has
grown in recent years and now CSOs are viewed as key to delivering government policy …

Ecumenical Social Activism and Transnational Connections Between Brazil and Britain: Practitioner Perspectives on Networks and Power

J Burity, A Orton - International Journal of Latin American Religions, 2024 - Springer
Ecumenical forms of social activism arising from Christian practitioners seeking connections
beyond formal religious differences have played a significant role within action for social …

Socialism by grace: The new visibility of postsecular social work

J Shaw - 2016 - sussex.figshare.com
In conceptualising the new visibility of postsecular social work this thesis develops
alternative perspectives to former secular, liberal and neoliberal hegemonies within the …

Developing Community Health and Cohesion Through Diversity: An Evidence Synthesis for Faith-Based Agencies

G Meads, A Lees - Public Health-Emerging and Re-emerging …, 2018 - books.google.com
Aim: This chapter examines the relationship of increasing sociodemographic and
organisational diversity to community health development. The particular focus is the …

The perceived relation between ICTs and social good

E Walls - 2017 - eprints.soton.ac.uk
ICT4D (information and communication technologies for development) is the idea that ICTs
have some kind of relation to development. This thesis will present an agnostic and …

[PDF][PDF] Why networks matter in faith-related community development work: learning from diverse Christian responses to debt in England

A Orton, D Barclay - Community Development Journal, 2020 - academic.oup.com
This article explores the significant contribution being made by diverse Christian responses
to debt in England, drawing on action research in London and the North East of England …

[PDF][PDF] The Work of Street Patrol Groups and the Police

C Network - researchgate.net
Following on from a similar research project in 2015-16, the question for this research was:"
To what extent do Street Pastors and Street Angels help local police to achieve their …

[PDF][PDF] Small-scale civil society and social policy

A McCabe, J Phillimore - research.birmingham.ac.uk
Interest in the formal voluntary sector and wider civil society organisations (CSOs) has
grown in recent years and now CSOs are viewed as key to delivering government policy …

Public Health Disasters During Earthquakes: A Solidaristic Approach

MO Afolabi, MO Afolabi - Public Health Disasters: A Global Ethical …, 2018 - Springer
Natural and human-made disasters belong to the class of public health disasters largely
because their disaster-related dynamics elicit different types of health consequences at the …