Category: Progress

Transformational Moments in Social Welfare

September 29, 2021

September 2021 sees the publication of the major output of the Discourses in Voluntary Action project, our open access book with Policy Press Transformational Moments for Social Welfare: What Role for Voluntary Action? Written during COVID-19 pandemic, publication came just days after the announcement of a new Health and Social Care Levy confirming that what we described as … More Transformational Moments in Social Welfare

Charity and the welfare state: A new directive from the Mass Observation Project

May 30, 2018

Seventy-five years ago, in the middle of the Second World War, William Beveridge published a report which set out the foundations for the British welfare state. It identified ‘the five giant evils’ of British society: squalor, want, ignorance, idleness and disease. Beveridge proposed a range of measures to address these evils. These included: the introduction … More Charity and the welfare state: A new directive from the Mass Observation Project

Welcome

June 6, 2017

Welcome to the website of the new ESRC-funded Discourses of Voluntary Action project. We’re really excited to have this website up and running and to be able to share the progress of the research as it develops. It’s been a busy few months, starting with an early presentation in July at Mass Observation’s 80th Anniversary Conference at the University of Sussex by Irene Hardill, … More Welcome