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Following successful visits to BidiBidi and Rwamwanja to consult our youth advisory boards on how best to restart the work, Robert and Moses have been finalising preparations, including procuring additional transport…

Click here to see and download an updated version of the RYVU Postcard including information on the research permissions and Covid-19 precautions…

We are delighted to share that Professor Peter Kanyandago was invited as a key speaker to present at the Global Technical Meeting “Re-imagining Volunteering for the 2030 Agenda” (GTM 2020). The GTM2020 took place virtually on 13-16 July 2020 as a special event during the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in 2020…

The annual conference of the UK Development Studies Association (DSA) took place online in July 2020 on the theme ‘New leadership for global challenges’…

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By Dr. Robert Turyamureeba Click here to read and download the blog post (full text also available below) Work and…

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Professor Matt Baillie Smith spoke about the RYVU project at a webinar entitled ‘Volunteer responses to Covid 19: what can we learn moving forward?’ that took place in 30 Apr. The online event was co-hosted by the Institute for Volunteering Research at the University of East Anglia and the UNESCO Chair in Adult Literacy and Learning for Social Transformation…

Due to the spread of Covid-19, we have temporarily paused fieldwork and all face to face meetings for RYVU in both Uganda and the UK to ensure the safety of both project staff and research participants. However…

Professor Matt Baillie Smith contributed an article in ‘The Conversation’ entitled ‘Coronavirus volunteers aren’t just a source of free labour – don’t take advantage of them’…

Click here to download the first newsletter of the RYVU project with the latest updates from February 2020.

Professor Matt Baillie Smith, from the Northumbria Centre for International Development, will lead a new ESRC/GCRF research project with colleagues from the UK and Uganda over the next two years. Prof. Baillie Smith will be the Principal Investigator on the international project “Skills acquisition and employability through volunteering by displaced youth in Uganda” (total grant value £862,003).

Volunteering seems to be becoming less helpful than it used to be. A few months back I visited Uganda with my colleague Dr Aisling O’Loghlen to meet with our academic and policy and practice partners for Refugee Youth Volunteering Uganda (RYVU), a research project funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Centre/Global Challenges Research Fund…