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New Journal Announcement and Call for Papers

Voluntary Sector Review
An international journal of third sector research, policy and practice

ISSNs
2040-8056 (Print)
2040-8064 (Online)

The Policy Press, in association with the Voluntary Sector Studies Network 
(VSSN), is delighted to announce the launch of an important new journal 
Voluntary Sector Review in 2010. There will be three issues in the first 
year (March, July and November) and institutions will be able to trial the 
journal free of charge. To sign up, please go to:
http://www.policypress.co.uk/journals_vsr_trial.asp


Aims and scope

Voluntary Sector Review will publish high-quality, peer-reviewed, 
accessible papers on third sector research, policy and practice. It will be 
an invaluable cutting-edge resource for all those researching or working in 
the fast-growing voluntary, community and wider third sectors.

The journal will cover the full range of issues relevant to voluntary 
sector studies, including: definitional and theoretical debates; management 
and organisational development; financial and human resources; 
philanthropy; volunteering and employment; regulation and charity law; 
service delivery; civic engagement; industry and sub-sector dimensions; 
relations with other sectors; social enterprise; evaluation and impact.

Voluntary Sector Review will cover voluntary sector studies from a variety 
of disciplines, including sociology, social policy, politics, psychology, 
economics, business studies, social anthropology, philosophy and ethics. 
The journal will include work from the UK, Europe and beyond where 
cross-national comparisons are illuminating. With dedicated expert policy 
and practice sections, Voluntary Sector Review will also provide an 
essential forum for the exchange of ideas and new thinking.

Rigorous and stimulating, Voluntary Sector Review will be an indispensable 
tool for everyone who values empirically-grounded, theoretically-informed 
and policy-relevant reviews of the future direction of the voluntary sector.

"The importance attached to the voluntary sector in European welfare states 
has continued to grow. Voluntary Sector Review's wide scope and European 
focus will be most welcome." Jane Lewis, London School of Economics and 
Political Science	

"In a world where it's heads down, deliver the mission, Voluntary Sector 
Review should provide a much-needed space to reflect. The sector, and the 
world around it, is changing: Voluntary Sector Review will help us deal
with that change." Karl Wilding, Head of Research, NCVO

"When the research community is expanding rapidly, the sector's role in 
practice is developing and policy makers are taking an ever closer 
interest, the launch of this journal is excellent news." Nicholas Deakin, 
Emeritus Professor, University of Birmingham


Call for papers

Submissions are now invited for the following sections of the journal:

- Academic articles (7-8000 words). These may cover research and analysis 
of any part of the voluntary sector - or the third sector and civil society 
more generally. Articles may include scholarly inquiry, research findings 
and applied analysis of relevance to practitioners and decision-makers.

- Practice papers (1500-2000 words). Short contributions from practitioners 
commenting on governance, management, fundraising or operational issues, 
including case-studies or examples of change and development within their 
own organisations, lessons learned, and wider practice implications.

- Policy reviews (1500-2000 words). Short commentaries on recent changes or 
new initiatives within the UK policy environment or within other comparable 
national or regional policy contexts, including new policy ideas emanating 
from think tanks and voluntary sector agencies as well as formal proposals 
from government. Articles may include critical reviews of existing 
policies, discussion of new policy initiatives, or the identification of 
areas where new research is needed to inform policy-making.

In all three sections, contributions are welcome from the UK and also from 
Europe and beyond, especially if they include cross-national comparisons 
that bear on the UK experience.

All submissions will be subject to normal peer review processes. The 
Editorial Team aim to provide quick decisions and to ensure that submission 
to publication takes no more than twelve months.

For further information, or to submit a paper, please contact:

Peter Halfpenny,
School of Social Sciences,
Arthur Lewis Building
University of Manchester
Manchester, M13 9PL
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Editorial team

Editor, Peter Halfpenny, University of Manchester, UK
Assistant Editor, Pete Alcock, University of Birmingham, UK
Assistant Editor, Cathy Pharaoh, Cass Business School, City University, 
London, UK
Practice Papers Editor, Colin Rochester, Roehampton University, UK
Policy Review Editors, Chris Cornforth and Julie Charlesworth, Open 
University Business School, UK

An Editorial Management Board  will be appointed to advise on the 
development and direction of the journal.


International Advisory Board

Helmut Anheier, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Rene Bekkers, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Carlo Borzaga, University of Trento, Italy
Jacques Defourny, University of Liege, Belgium
Alnoor Ebrahim, Harvard Business School, USA
Wendy Earles, James Cook University, Australia
Aldabert Evers, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
Ben Gidron, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Michael Hall, Imagine Canada
Ewa Les, Warsaw University, Poland
Kym Madden, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Lucas Meijs, Erasmus University, The Netherlands
Marthes Nyssens, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Steven Rathgeb Smith, University of Washington, USA
Filip Wijkström, The Economic Research Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Annette Zimmer, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) Münster, Germany


Subscription information

Voluntary Sector Review will be available in print and online. It will be 
available online free of charge to institutions in 2010. For details of how 
to sign up please visit:
http://www.policypress.co.uk/journals_vsr_subscribe.asp


The journal is published in association with the Voluntary Sector Studies 
Network (VSSN) and a print copy of the journal will be a membership 
benefit. Membership details for the Society are available from:
http://www.vssn.org.uk/join.


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