Posted on November 12th, 2010 by Ellie Brodie in Archived related news
Tagged as: Big Society, research methods
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Yesterday was the AGM for the Association for Research in the Voluntary and Community Sector (ARVAC). I’ve been a coopted member of the ARVAC board for about a year and a half and yesterday was voted on as a trustee. ARVAC has been surviving for a couple of years now on no state funding and from what I have learnt through my involvement with the group, this seems to be through a combination of hard work of trustees, some timely bits of funding (for example from the Community Development Foundation for ARVAC’s work on Governance Pages) and some excellent partnerships, with Voluntary Action Islington amongst others. Dr Jackie Haq from Newcastle University gave an inspirational keynote speech, recounting her experiences of urban regeneration, community development and direct action in Newcastle in the late 70s - early 90s, and emphasised the importance of challenging power relations in and through communtiy research.

I facilitated a workshop later in the day on ’Ways, means and consequences of community research’ along with Fleur Bragalia from the Salvation Army and Ceri Davies from Brighton Unviersity - download the presentation for more info: ARVAC AGM_111110_final

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