Future of work in the third sector intro
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This document summarizes research being conducted by the Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC) in the United Kingdom on work in the third sector. The research includes both quantitative and qualitative studies examining how social, economic, and policy changes are shaping the third sector workforce. Two long-term qualitative research projects are exploring careers, work practices, and organizational changes through case studies of organizations and interviews over multiple years. Preliminary findings point to diverse challenges and opportunities faced by different organizations and workers.
Future of work in the third sector intro
- 1. Work futures in the Third Sector: challenges and opportunities Katie Bruce, Susan Halford, Pauline Leonard, and Rebecca Taylor
- 2. Factors shaping the sector and its workforce The third sector Policy objectives Social, economic and cultural change Long term trends The statutory sector The private sector
- 3. The sectors workforce Key questions: Careers and motives… Experiences of organisational change.. Paid and unpaid work… And how do class, gender, space and place shape the answers to these questions?
- 4. TSRC and Work Futures Research Centre Quantitative research Steve Mckay and Dominico Moro - TSRC Birmingham David Clifford, Frida Rajne and John Mohan - TSRC Southampton Qualitative research Real Times project - Rob Macmillan, Rebecca Taylor, Simon Teasdale, Andri Soteri-Proctor, and Malin Arvidson - TSRC Birmingham Working Lives project - Susan Halford, Pauline Leonard and Katie Bruce – TSRC Southampton
- 5. Real Times Broad aims and questions – understanding how third sector activity operates in practice over time Approach – 15 organisational cases, successive waves of interviews over 3 years Diverse cases, diverse workers Emerging findings FIG – navigating restructuring and redundancies SYCAMORE – understanding motives for voluntary work and participation
- 6. Working lives and careers Broad aims and questions- Analysing roles, identities, careers and work practices in third sector organisations Approach- 6 in-depth cases involving observation and interviews Emerging findings- The different opportunities and challenges faced by organisations and their workforces in different geographical locations
- 7. Conclusions Challenges –a complex dynamic sector and a shifting work terrain Opportunities – survival strategies, new ways of working, good practice And today…. opportunities for debate