Somewhere over the rainbow ‐ third sector research in and beyond coronavirus. (1st July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Macmillan, Rob
• Is Part Of: Voluntary sector review. Volume 11:Number 2(2020)
• Page Start: 129
• Page End: 136
• Publication Date: 2020-07-01
• Subjects: coronavirus -- Covid-19 -- third sector -- charity; Voluntarism -- Periodicals; Voluntarism -- Research -- Periodicals; Associations, institutions, etc -- Periodicals; 361.3705
• DOI: 10.1332/204080520X15898833964384
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2040-8056

Abstract

Abstract : The coronavirus pandemic has rapidly become a multifaceted global crisis, disrupting economies, livelihoods and ways of life, with significant ramifications for the third sector. This paper seeks to prompt a conversation about third sector research agendas, which might be animated in and beyond coronavirus, focusing primarily on the experience of the sector in the UK but including references globally. After a brief discussion of the acute three-dimensional crisis facing the sector, the paper raises questions for now and later at three interconnected levels: of practice, organisation and society. The paper concludes with a call for critically engaged curiosity about the role and fortunes of the third sector in a time of lockdown and its aftermath.