Blog

With fields up and down the UK increasingly looking like lakes, this month we link to a blog from Karen Potter that considers the implications of floodwater management for voluntary organisations through the case of Toddbrook Reservoir.

This month, we introduce you to the journey through which PhD students arrive at The Open University and go on to develop insights into leadership and collaboration in voluntary organisations and social movements. In these videos, you can find out more about the experiences of former PhD student Daniel Haslam and Akash Puranik.

This blog is written by Daniel Haslam, a Lecturer in Management. Here, he shares key findings in relation to the role of the voluntary sector within the Wellbeing Erewash project, an initiative set up in Derbyshire as part of NHS England’s New Care Models programme in 2014.

Dr Carol Jacklin-Jarvis, Director of the Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership, marks ten years of working at The Open University. In this blog, she highlights some of the key changes she has seen since spending 20 years working as a practitioner in the voluntary and public sectors.

"For me, leadership is about unlocking people’s creative potential to become better by challenging our thinking and our actions". In this blog, Helen Britton, Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership, reflects on the definition of leadership and the importance of creativity.

Dr Fidèle Mutwarasibo, Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership, looks at what he calls 'Collaborative Leadership in Action'. He draws from a practical example of Citizens:MK’s Fight Against Hate Campaign which ran in Milton Keynes.

We invite you to find out more about PhD student, Lindsay Wilson-Jones. Lindsay is researching power sharing in the boardroom, exploring the ways that individuals within and external to the board construct leadership and enact governance.

The Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership held its annual conference on 9 July 2019. In this blog, Dr James Rees, the former Director for the Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership, discusses some of the key conversations that took place and outlined two significant outcomes.

This blog is written by Chris Cornforth, Emeritus Professor of Organisational Governance and Management and board member of the Association of Chairs. This blog highlights the extent to which the chief executive and the board collaborate and work together defines the success of the top leadership team.

In this blog, former PhD student, Daniel Haslam, now a Lecturer in the Department for Public Leadership and Social Enterprise, talks about how he analysed his data for his PhD, 'Voluntary sector leadership in the context of cross-sector collaborations: researching an NHS multispecialty community provider'.