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

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，并经常参与高级别的政策辩论。然而，围绕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？这对于人们对平等的担忧意味着什么？我们如何在多元化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》中撰写了大量文献，探讨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、位置和职能，社会政策中也发展了类似的知识体系。我的博士研究借鉴了这两个学科的理论和实践文献，以考虑英格兰和威尔士国际发展慈善机构的作用--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了解的巨大潜力。然而，到目前为止，这些学科往往有些孤立。在学术界、政策界和实践者圈子里，INGO本身往往被概念化，独立于更广泛的英国志愿部门中的慈善机构。这限制了我们对INGO和更广泛的志愿部门组织的理解。这一为期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部门和国际发展部门之间的了解的高影响力项目，来发展我的学术研究概况。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重点的博客文章，以及至少两次学术会议和与慈善组织和网络的接触。更多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，而最后一个项目活动--有40-50人参加--旨在将这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。

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.