What is the level of voluntary, community and social enterprise resilience at the sector level?

Background

CSY is keen to develop its evidence base in order to better understand how it can best support the growth and resilience of the voluntary, community and social enterprise sectors to foster a strong and healthy civil society.

Next steps

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Source

This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

DCMS areas of research interest GOV UK

Related UKRI funded projects

  • COVID-19 and VCSE organisations response

    According to a recent government report (DCMS 06/05/2020) the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector is "fighting for survival", with increased demand for its services, whilst simultaneously fa...

    Funded by: COVID

    Lead research organisation: Nottingham Trent University

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project directly addresses the resilience of the VCSE sector, particularly in the face of COVID-19, and aims to provide insights to aid long-term resilience.

  • IDEAS Factory - Curative Resilience Scoping Study

    Organisations and communities have a purpose (the organisation's may be more specific than the community's) - that is what defines them; what makes them unique. The way successful ones are structured and organised, how r...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Lead research organisation: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project explores the concept of resilience in organizations and communities, which could be applicable to the VCSE sector, but does not directly address the sector.

  • Change in the making: A dynamic and relational landscape of voluntary action

    'Change in the Making' is an exciting and unique study of change in the third sector over time. To our knowledge, nothing like it has been attempted elsewhere, and the changes and challenges in the operating environment ...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Birmingham

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project investigates change and adaptation in third sector organizations over time, which is related to resilience, but does not directly address the resilience of the VCSE sector.

  • Resilient Civil Society Project (ReCiv)

    CSOs - e.g., NGOs, unions and business associations - play a key role in democracies. By engaging in political activities, e.g., advocacy and lobbying, they offer a voice to economic, professional and societal interests,...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: Queen's University Belfast

  • IMPROVING ACCESS TO AND USE OF ORGANISATION-LEVEL DATA ON THE THIRD SECTOR AND CIVIL SOCIETY

    The voluntary sector is widely acknowledged as containing very large numbers of organisations that make an enormous contribution to well-being and social cohesion in the UK. It encompasses charities, social enterprises, ...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Birmingham

  • Towards A Theory of Resilient Ecosystems: A System Approach to Organisational Resilience

    This Postdoctoral Fellowship will build upon my PhD research which examined antecedents of organisational resilience in twenty-two heterogenous organisations and their business ecosystems. Through a two-staged data colle...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: Durham University

  • Reconstructing Social Enterprise

    The coalition government in the UK has promised SE a major role in the restructuring and future delivery of public services, and legislation has been promised to in order that SEs can better compete against public and pr...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Oxford

  • Humanities For Resilience

    Development and sustainability, if they are to mean anything, must include an understanding of how communities endure, abide, and even flourish in times of adversity. Resilience is at the heart of these activities. The W...

    Funded by: GCRF

    Lead research organisation: University of Birmingham

  • GCRF_NF106 Entrepreneurial resilience & recovery during and after covid-19 crisis: firm- & community-level responses in Wuhan, Malaysia, and Thailand

    Moscarini and Postel-Viney (American Economic Review, 2012) showed that entrepreneurs are central for economic resilience during an economic crisis and for kickstarting recovery as the crisis attenuates. However, we know...

    Funded by: GCRF

    Lead research organisation: Imperial College London

  • Developing methods to Evidence 'Social enterprise as a public health intervention'

    This application is driven by recent thinking about the potential for social enterprise to operate between, and in partnership with, traditional private and state sectors in addressing the societal challenge of persisten...

    Funded by: MRC

    Lead research organisation: Glasgow Caledonian University

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