Developing Charity: Building understanding between the Social Policy and International Development sectors

发展慈善事业：建立社会政策和国际发展部门之间的理解

• 批准号: ES/X006328/1
• 负责人: Helen Abnett
• 金额: $ 12.4万
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX006328%2F1
• 关键词: Developing; Charity; Building; understanding; between

Charities play a key role in society: they provide basic services, advocate for needs, provide access to the arts, and often engage in high-level policy debate. Questions around charity and philanthropic activity, however, abound. Should charities play a role in the provision of basic services? What does this mean for concerns around equality? How can we balance a wish for pluralism with the need to ensure equitable access to services? Many of these questions are particularly pressing, and particularly complex, for international development charities. Therefore, a substantial body of literature has been written within International Development Studies that considers the role of international development charities. A similar body of knowledge has been developed within Social Policy considering the work, place, and function, of the broader range of voluntary sector organisations. My PhD research drew on the theoretical and practical literature from both these disciplines to consider the role - the functions, activities, character, and identities - of English and Welsh international development charities. This PhD also highlighted the substantial potential for increasing understanding of voluntary sector organisations by integrating theoretical and empirical learning from both Social Policy and Development Studies. As yet, however, these disciplines are often somewhat siloed. INGOs themselves are often conceptualised - within academia, policy, and practitioner circles - as separate to charities within the broader UK voluntary sector. This limits our understanding of both INGOs and the wider group of voluntary sector organisations. The aim of this 12-month fellowship is to develop my academic research profile, through the implementation of a high-impact project designed to build understanding between the Social Policy and International Development sectors. The planned programme of activities includes the publication of three journal articles and three practitioner-focused blog-type posts, as well as presenting at at least two academic conferences and engagement with charity organisations and networks. Additional research will enable me to document the crossover and gaps between the Social Policy and International Development literatures, while a final project event - with a wide audience of 40-50 attendees - aims to bring academics and practitioners from both sectors together to discuss cross-learning, initiate potential research collaborations, and develop new research networks.

慈善机构在社会中发挥着关键作用：它们提供基本服务，倡导需求，提供接触艺术的机会，并经常参与高层政策辩论。然而，关于慈善和慈善活动的问题比比皆是。慈善机构是否应该在提供基本服务方面发挥作用？这对关注平等意味着什么？我们如何才能在多元化的愿望与确保公平获得服务的需要之间取得平衡？对于国际发展慈善机构来说，其中许多问题特别紧迫，也特别复杂。因此，在国际发展研究的范围内，有大量的文献考虑了国际发展慈善机构的作用。考虑到更广泛的志愿部门组织的工作、地点和功能，在社会政策领域也形成了类似的知识体系。我的博士研究借鉴了这两个学科的理论和实践文献，考虑了英国和威尔士国际发展慈善机构的角色——功能、活动、特征和身份。该博士还强调了通过整合社会政策和发展研究的理论和经验学习来增加对志愿部门组织的理解的巨大潜力。然而，到目前为止，这些学科往往有些孤立。在学术界、政策界和实践界，非政府组织本身往往被视为独立于更广泛的英国志愿部门的慈善机构。这限制了我们对国际非政府组织和更广泛的志愿部门组织的理解。这个为期12个月的奖学金的目的是通过实施一个旨在建立社会政策和国际发展部门之间理解的高影响力项目，发展我的学术研究形象。计划的活动计划包括发表三篇期刊文章和三篇以从业者为中心的博客类型的文章，以及在至少两次学术会议上发表演讲，并与慈善组织和网络合作。额外的研究将使我能够记录社会政策和国际发展文献之间的交叉和差距，而最终的项目活动-有40-50名与会者的广泛受众-旨在将两个部门的学者和实践者聚集在一起讨论交叉学习，启动潜在的研究合作，并开发新的研究网络。