Peter Grant is the Chair of VAHS. He is a Lecturer in Voluntary Sector Management at Cass Business School, City University. See Peter’s webpage
Georgina Brewis is the Publicity Secretary of VAHS. She is currently Head of Research at the Instiute for Volunteering Research. She specialises in the contemporary and historical study of volunteering, youth and education. She completed her PhD ‘An imperial ideal of service: Britian and Indi before 1914′ in 2009.
George Campbell Gosling is the Seminar Convenor. He is a research student and teaching associate in Modern British History at Oxford Brookes University. His doctoral thesis is an exploration of charity and change in the hospital system of Bristol between the First World War and the foundation of the NHS in 1948. Beyond academia he is a policy advisor for Lord Roberts of Llandudno, primarily working on problems in the asylum and EU welfare systems.
Jenny Harrow is Professor of Voluntary Sector Management at Cass Business School, City University, and Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Giving and Philanthropy. See Jenny’s webpage
Alison Penn is the Secretary of VAHS. She works for the Open University South East Region as a Staff Tutor in the Faculty of Health and Social Care. She combines this with independent research and training in health, social care and the voluntary sector and works with the University of Brighton, the King’s Fund and the Charities Evaluation Services. Alison received her PhD in Social History from the University of Sussex in 1992 with a thesis on national / local relations in the voluntary sector in the post-war period.
Colin Rochester is Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Roehampton University’s Centre for the Study of Voluntary and Community Activity and Academic Adviser to the Institute for Volunteering Research. Colin is currently working on a history of the London Council of Social Service. He is also editing (with George Gosling, Alison Penn and Meta Zimmeck) a book of essays based on papers presented at the Third VAHS conference which will be published by Sussex Academic Press in 2011 under the title Understanding the Roots of Voluntary Action.
Bill Rushbrooke is a retired Principal Lecturer at Roehampton University and a semi-professional jazz dancer.
Stephen Soanes is the Chair of the VAHS New Researchers. He is a final year PhD student at the University of Warwick.
Brenda Weeden
Meta Zimmeck is the Treasurer of VAHS. She is a Visiting Fellow at Roehampton University’s Centre for the Study of Voluntary and Community Activity and Research Manager for Carol Goldstone Associates.
