The project is led by Georgina Brewis and Angela Ellis Paine supported by a Stakeholder Advisory Board.
Professor Georgina Brewis is the project Director. Georgina is Professor of Social History at UCL Institute of Education and a historian of charity, humanitarianism, students and higher education. Georgina’s latest books are open access Transformational Moments in Social Welfare – What Role for Voluntary Action? (Policy Press, 2021) and Humanitarianism in the Modern World: The Moral Economy of Famine Relief (CUP, 2020), as is an article on charity archives in the journal Area. Georgina has advised numerous voluntary organisations on archive issues, overseeing the deposit of the Volunteering England archive at LSE, the NCVYS and Children England archives at UCL, and the UK Youth archive at the University of Birmingham. She is a member of the Charity Archives Development plan steering group.
Dr Angela Ellis Paine is project Co-Investigator. Angela is Lecturer in Voluntary Sector Management at Bayes Business School, City St George’s, University of London. Prior to joining Bayes, Angela was a Research Fellow in both the Third Sector Research Centre and Health Services Management Centre at University of Birmingham. Angela has been undertaking research on voluntary sector organisations, volunteering and participation for over 20 years. Angela has expertise in qualitative research approaches, including longitudinal methods, and is committed to working collaboratively within research. Angela is chair of the Editorial Management Board and International Advisory Board for the journal Voluntary Sector Review. Angela and Georgina collaborated on Transformational Moments in Social Welfare – What Role for Voluntary Action? (Policy Press, 2021) and the article in the journal Area.
Dr Justin Davis Smith is the Chair of the project’s Stakeholder Advisory Board. Justin is a Associate Professor at the Centre for Charity Effectiveness at City St George’s, University of London. He was previously Chief Executive of Volunteering England, Director of the Institute for Volunteering Research and Executive Director of Volunteering at NCVO. He has over 20 years researching and leading in the volunteering movement and has advised the UK Government and the United Nations on the development of volunteering policy. He is the author of NCVO’s centenary history 100 Years of NCVO and Voluntary Action: Idealists and Realists.
Stakeholder Advisory Board
Current Membership is as follows:
- Beth Astridge, University Archivist, Senate House Library
- Dr Paul Beard, Records Manager, The Salvation Army
- Professor Virginia Berridge, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Mark Eccleston, Head of Collections Management, Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham
- Dr Jurgen Grotz, Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Institute for Volunteering Research, University of East Anglia
- Professor Irene Hardill, Professor of Public Policy at Northumbria University.
- Dr Ellie Munro, Sheffield Hallam University
- Kathryn Preston, Charities, Sector Development Team, TNA
- Kirstie Stage, PhD student British Library-University of Cambridge