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Prof Irene Hardill

Professor

Department: Social Sciences

Irene joined Northumbria in September 2010 as Professor of Public Policy. Prior to that she was Professor in the Graduate School, Business, Law and Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University.  She has a particular expertise in volunteering and the voluntary and community sector working collaboratively to co-produce knowledge.  Her recent research has been supported by ESRC and includes leading a project on mobilising voluntary action during the COVID-19 pandemic. She has recently completed an evaluation of the impact of COVID-19 on methodological innovation for the ESRC. In addition to managing an extensive list of ESRC-funded projects she has managed projects from other sponsors including the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, Age UK, the Canadian High Commission and the French Government. Over the years she has published on the changing world of work through the many meanings of work, paid and unpaid in the home and in the community. Her two recent Policy Press books (published in 2021 and 2022 are available free via open access).

 

Irene Hardill

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  • Breaking the Overton Window: on the need for adversarial co-production, Johnson, E., Hardill, I., Johnson, M., Nettle, D. 23 Oct 2023, In: Evidence and Policy
  • Co‐curation: Archival interventions and voluntary sector records, Brewis, G., Ellis Paine, A., Hardill, I., Lindsey, R., Macmillan, R. 1 Sep 2023, In: Area
  • How can academics remove barriers for the most excluded? A call for advocacy from lived experience in the UK and Ireland, Efemini, C., Forster, N., Gallagher, M., Hardill, I., Heslop, K., Littlefair, D., Marsden, N., Meller, S., Toyne, A., O’Tuama, S., Johnson, M. 16 Nov 2023, In: Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning
  • Mobilising the Voluntary Sector: Critical reflections From Across the Four UK Nations, Acheson, N., Crawford, L., Grotz, J., Hardill, I., Hayward, D., Hogg, E., Jones, R., Linning, M., Rees, S., Rutherford, A., Speed, E., McGarvey, A., Goodall, C., Stuart, J., Maltman, D. 30 Sep 2022, COVID-19 and the Voluntary and Community Sector in the UK, Bristol, Policy Press
  • Mobilising Voluntary Action in the UK: Learning from the Pandemic, Hardill, I., Grotz, J., Crawford, L. 18 Oct 2022
  • Researching in a Pandemic, Crawford, L., Hardill, I., Grotz, J. 18 Oct 2022, Mobilising Voluntary Action in the UK, Bristol, Policy Press
  • The road(s) to recovery? Discussion and conclusion, Crawford, L., Hardill, I., Grotz, J. 18 Oct 2022, Mobilising Voluntary Action in the UK, Bristol, Policy Press
  • Handbook of Research on Remote Work and Worker Well-Being in the Post-COVID-19 Era, Wheatley, D., Hardill, I., Buglass, S. 1 Apr 2021
  • Transformational Moments in Social Welfare: What Role for Voluntary Action? , Brewis, G., Ellis Paine, A., Hardill, I., Lindsey, R., Macmillan, R. 14 Sep 2021
  • Using a lifecourse approach to research patterns of paid and unpaid work, Hardill, I., Wheatley, D. 2019, Handbook of Research Methods on the Quality of Working Lives, Cambridge, Edward Elgar

  • Edward Hogg Volunteering in Older Age from a Lifecourse Perspective: Situating Older Adults' Volunteering in Holistic and Lifelong Context Start Date: 01/09/2010 End Date: 25/04/2013
  • Matthew Hill An Examination of the Changing Position and Power of Volunteers in Voluntary Organisations That Deliver Public Services Start Date: 04/10/2011 End Date: 14/07/2017
  • Edward Hogg Volunteering in Older Age from a Lifecourse Perspective: Situating Older Adults' Volunteering in Holistic and Lifelong Context Start Date: 01/09/2010 End Date: 25/04/2013
  • Matthew Hill An Examination of the Changing Position and Power of Volunteers in Voluntary Organisations That Deliver Public Services Start Date: 04/10/2011 End Date: 14/07/2017

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