Professor of Global Development & Dean of Research Culture, Northumbria University UK. Research voluntary labour and: humanitarianism; global development; climate action; citizenship. www.mattbailliesmith.com https://uk.linkedin.com/in/matt-baillie-smithhttps://bsky.app/profile/mattbailliesmith.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mattbailliesmith.bsky.social/post/3mhvpp3ez222iNew publication alert! Happy to share this paper with Sarah Peck thinking about declining Overseas Development Assistance and its implications for geographical (and other) scholarship. Details ⬇️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Mar 2026 18:27 +0000at://did:plc:ebs7wys2aorgmqh26ebnzw7e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhvpp3ez222ihttps://bsky.app/profile/mattbailliesmith.bsky.social/post/3lz3mtbm6b22aGreat to see Janet Clark of @nuglobaldev.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social sharing findings from her collab PhD with @volunteeringforum.bsky.social at #IVCO2025 in Cambodia. #NUGlobalVolunteering #Volunteeringresearch #Research #globaldev18 Sep 2025 05:33 +0000at://did:plc:ebs7wys2aorgmqh26ebnzw7e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz3mtbm6b22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/mattbailliesmith.bsky.social/post/3lwo77wypa22uNew paper in @spaceandpolity.bsky.social with @sarah-mills.bsky.social on volunteering and points for citizenship following UK Immigration White paper, exploring idea's legacy, workability and consequences. Details ⬇️ @northumbriauni.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social @nuglobaldev.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Aug 2025 10:35 +0000at://did:plc:ebs7wys2aorgmqh26ebnzw7e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwo77wypa22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/mattbailliesmith.bsky.social/post/3lsli5kwhjc2mThanks @dhnnjyn.bsky.social for a great conversation about things that matter in a place that really matters. So important to be finding hopeful possibilities in people power and celebrating the changes that are possible as well as necessary. @nuglobaldev.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Jun 2025 10:56 +0000at://did:plc:ebs7wys2aorgmqh26ebnzw7e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsli5kwhjc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/mattbailliesmith.bsky.social/post/3lpbmz37ghk27Job alert! Research Fellow to work on #voluntary labour in #humanitarian and #development contexts at Northumbria University Centre for Global Development. @nuglobaldev.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social Details ⬇️: work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_... #NUGlobalVolunteering #geosky https://work4.northumbria.ac.uk/#en/sites/CX_1001/job/325816 May 2025 08:41 +0000at://did:plc:ebs7wys2aorgmqh26ebnzw7e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpbmz37ghk27https://bsky.app/profile/mattbailliesmith.bsky.social/post/3lo25ujt27c2lWhy #aid cuts have been made easy by sustained failures to build constituencies for #development - piece with @globaldevinst.bsky.social's Prof Nicola Banks and Dr Helen Underhill in Alliance Magazine: https://www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/building-new-constituencies-amidst-destruction-the-missing-piece-in-shifting-power-agendas/ #geography #geosky @nuglobaldev.bsky.social30 Apr 2025 15:56 +0000at://did:plc:ebs7wys2aorgmqh26ebnzw7e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo25ujt27c2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/mattbailliesmith.bsky.social/post/3llw6crm4v224It was fantastic to see you here at @northumbriauni.bsky.social. Great to be able to return some of the hospitality you have shown me in Kolkata. I am looking forward to seeing what we do can do next! @nuglobaldev.bsky.social #NUGlobalVolunteering [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Apr 2025 15:03 +0000at://did:plc:ebs7wys2aorgmqh26ebnzw7e/app.bsky.feed.post/3llw6crm4v224https://bsky.app/profile/mattbailliesmith.bsky.social/post/3llqlvcvask2pNew open access paper out on the hidden economies of volunteering during the pandemic, and its relationships to precarity for young refugees in Uganda. Details below: #volunteering #geosky #Uganda #refugees #youth @nuglobaldev.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Apr 2025 09:50 +0000at://did:plc:ebs7wys2aorgmqh26ebnzw7e/app.bsky.feed.post/3llqlvcvask2phttps://bsky.app/profile/mattbailliesmith.bsky.social/post/3llolsqkb7k2rExciting #PhD opportunity with @reemtalhouk.bsky.social and me: AI and the future of voluntary labour in humanitarian and development contexts. Deadline 30th April. Details: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7312448366011973632/ Please share! #NUGlobalVolunteering @nuglobaldev.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social31 Mar 2025 14:43 +0000at://did:plc:ebs7wys2aorgmqh26ebnzw7e/app.bsky.feed.post/3llolsqkb7k2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/mattbailliesmith.bsky.social/post/3lkdlr3ac7s2tGreat post here on academic practitioner collaborations - and why we shouldn't make assumptions about them. [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Mar 2025 12:18 +0000at://did:plc:ebs7wys2aorgmqh26ebnzw7e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkdlr3ac7s2thttps://bsky.app/profile/mattbailliesmith.bsky.social/post/3li4vdtepwk2tGreat to have signed this new agreement with @ifrc.org to work together to promote #research, #learning and #practice around #volunteering in #humanitarian contexts. #NUGlobalVolunteering @nuglobaldev.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Feb 2025 09:30 +0000at://did:plc:ebs7wys2aorgmqh26ebnzw7e/app.bsky.feed.post/3li4vdtepwk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/mattbailliesmith.bsky.social/post/3lf5y76krls2hGreat to start 2025 sharing and celebrating a new paper on #volunteering and #disastermanagement in #Tanzania from fab @nuglobaldev.bsky.social collaborator Dr Egidius Kamanyi, at Uni of Dar Es Salaam. https://tjpsd.udsm.ac.tz/index.php/tjpsd/article/view/27507 Jan 2025 15:38 +0000at://did:plc:ebs7wys2aorgmqh26ebnzw7e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf5y76krls2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/mattbailliesmith.bsky.social/post/3lcus6lqkvk2lGreat #geography post - Lecturer to Prof - at @northumbriauni.bsky.social to work with @cpom-uk.bsky.social on polar observations and modelling. Details and deadlines ⬇️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Dec 2024 13:06 +0000at://did:plc:ebs7wys2aorgmqh26ebnzw7e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcus6lqkvk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/mattbailliesmith.bsky.social/post/3lckkb6zap22kInternational Volunteer Day #IVD2025 news!@northumbriauni.bsky.social @nuglobaldev.bsky.social will be working with @unv.org as lead partner for the delivery of the next State of the World's Volunteerism report. https://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/northumbria-university/pressreleases/researchers-selected-to-work-with-united-nations-on-flagship-report-3358582 #NUGlobalVolunteering #GlobalDev #Volunteering05 Dec 2024 11:18 +0000at://did:plc:ebs7wys2aorgmqh26ebnzw7e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lckkb6zap22khttps://bsky.app/profile/mattbailliesmith.bsky.social/post/3lc36xzsqzs2hGood thoughts on things (much much) more important than academic metrics. That we need to argue for focusing on what research achieves rather than its citations etc says something about how we urgently we need to reset what is valued. #researchculture [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Nov 2024 08:46 +0000at://did:plc:ebs7wys2aorgmqh26ebnzw7e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lc36xzsqzs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/mattbailliesmith.bsky.social/post/3lbac6jdw3k2sFirst post and need to start with thanks to @farhanasultana.com for posting great advice and links on how to land here and find some people, things and places! #geosky #geography @northumbriauni.bsky.social18 Nov 2024 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:ebs7wys2aorgmqh26ebnzw7e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbac6jdw3k2s