IVAR feels its age and gets busier than ever in 2010 - 12th January 2010
IVAR feels its age and gets busier than ever in 2010
IVAR is delighted to announce its plans to celebrate 10 years of working with the voluntary sector.
IVAR – and, before that, ACVAR – has been carrying out research with the voluntary sector since 2000. Over that time, IVAR has completed over 70 projects with voluntary and public sector clients and partners, locally, regionally and nationally. A recurring theme throughout the 10 years has been collaboration and working together. To recognise this and develop its work further, IVAR has a series of events and publications planned for 2010. The culmination of this tenth anniversary project will be a report that will encapsulate our thinking and reflections on collaborative working in terms of where we have moved to and where we might go.
The project will begin with a meta-analysis of all the work carried out over the last 10 years. Each report or publication we have produced will be re-analysed through the lens of collaborative working. A summary of this analysis will be made available at the end of May for discussion and further analysis at an Open Space[1],event to be held at the end of June.
This event will be attended by organisations and individuals who have had a relationship with IVAR over the past ten years. It will also provide IVAR with the opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate the contribution of its current and former clients and partners.
In the autumn of 2010 IVAR will hold a series of external stakeholder meetings with academics, policy makers, infrastructure bodies and charitable foundations to present its findings from the meta analysis and the open space event and encourage broader discussion on collaborative working and the potential for future research in this area.
To round off this year of reflection and celebration, IVAR will produce a final report on collaborative working in the voluntary sector. It is hoped that one legacy of this exercise will be the funding of a brand new piece of research from IVAR’s Research Development Fund.
Key events in 2010
Summary findings of meta-analysis made available
May 2010
Open Space event
June 2010
Stakeholder meetings
Sept 2010
Final report available
Dec 2010
[1] Open space events bring together a range of people, to discuss issues around a central theme. The events are based around workshops that participants create and manage themselves.