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A Master Class with Carl Milofsky

Carl is Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. His new book, Smallville: Institutionalizing Community in Small Town America, is in press and should appear in September 2008. In Spring 2008 he and Nick Acheson published “Peace Building and Participation in Northern Ireland: Local Social Movements and the Policy Process since the ‘Good Friday’ Agreement" in Ethnopolitics 7 (1): 63-80.

Birkbeck - IVAR Partnership

The second Birkbeck – IVAR seminar series Community Organisations: Research, Policy and Practice ended on Thursday, 5th June:

Trends in Volunteering

Speakers:
Professor Justin Davis Smith, Acting Chief Executive, Volunteering England

Mike Locke, Reader, School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London, and co-founder of Institute for Volunteering Research

Youth and Citizenship
Speakers:
Dr Linda Milbourne, Lecturer, Youth, Voluntary & Community Studies, Birkbeck, University of London
Professor Ruth Lister, Professor of Social Policy, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University

The Theory and Practice of Collaboration and Partnership in the Voluntary and Community Sector
Speakers:
Dr Siv Vangen, Senior Lecturer in Management, Public Interest & Non-Profit Management Research Unit, Open University
Ben Hughes, Chief Executive, bassac
Max Weaver, Chief Executive, Community Links

Policy & Voice: Challenges of the New Localism
Speakers:
Stephen Thake, Reader in Urban Policy at the Centre for Social and Evaluation Research, London Metropolitan University:
'Policy Landscape for New Localism: Drivers and Consequences'
Dr Mike Aiken, Research Officer, IVAR and Ben Cairns, Director, IVAR:
'The voice of advocacy role: Challenges for community advisors in a changing policy environment'

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Details of the first series' seminars are available below:

Relationships between government and the third sector at the local level
Dr Mike Aiken Ph.D. Visiting Research Fellow, Open University and Research Officer, IVAR: ‘Central Targets or Local Planning?: Changing Dynamics for tatutory and Voluntary Organisations Collaborating at the Local Level’
Ben Cairns, Director, IVAR and the Aston Centre for Voluntary Action Research and Visiting Research Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London: 'Bridge over Troubled Water? Collaboration to Improve Collaboration across the Nonprofit/Government Sectoral Divide'

New perspectives on Citizenship and Neighbourhoods
Professor Marjorie Mayo, Professor in Community Development, Goldsmiths, University of London: 'Active Learning for Active Citizenship'
Professor Marilyn Taylor, Professor of Urban Governance and Regeneration, University of the West of England: 'Changing Neighbourhoods: Learning from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Neighbourhood Programme'

Faith: Connecting or Dividing Communities?
Dr Rob Furbey, Principal Lecturer in Urban Sociology, Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University
Richard Farnell, Professor of Neighbourhood Regeneration, Coventry University

4th Seminar, Thursday 7th June 2007, 6-8.30pm at Birkbeck, University of London, Malet StreetProfessor Jenny Harrow, Cass Business School, City University
'Community organisations and working in clusters: 'The Way to the Stars'?'
Dr Judith Saidel, State University of New York
'Immigrant Organizations and their links into policy processes: US Experience'

Conferences

In June, Margaret Harris took part in the 'Bridging' social capital' seminar series organised by NCVO and the Carnegie UK Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society withe a seminar 'Building bridges'.
This seminar explored how civil society organisations can successfully build bridges between different communities.

Seminar report and presentation are available from NCVO.

We presented two papers at the recent ARNOVA conference in Atlanta:

• Servants of the Community or Agents of Government? The impact and implications of UK public policy on community-based organizations
• Building Bridges at the Grassroots between Diverse Communities of Faith and Ethnicity: Findings from an Exploratory Study

In October 2007, Ben Cairns was one of the keynote speakers at the Local Government Association Conference on 'Building Social Capital with the third sector'.  Ben was talking about 'Building social capital through partnerships'.

Last updated:23 September 2008