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Mike Woolvin
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- Title and full name (usually known by)
- Dr Mike Woolvin
- Job title or role
- Researcher
- Name of Centre/Department/Institute/Organisation
- Rural Society Research
SAC (Scottish Agricultural College)
- Weblink to Centre/Department/Institute/Organisation
- http://www.sac.ac.uk/info/120259/rural_society
- My contact details are under this Weblink
- http://www.sac.ac.uk/mwoolvin
- My other contact details are
- Rural Society Research
SAC (Scottish Agricultural College)
Peter Wilson Building
King's Buildings
West Mains Road
Edinburgh
EH9 3JG
0131 535 4186
07759 444 151
mike.woolvin@sac.ac.uk
- Research interests & work-in-progress
- Nature and extent of third sector in urban and rural Scotland
Nature and extent of voluntary activity in urban rural Scotland
Rural community resilience
Governance and decision making in rural communities
Divergent policy and governance across the UK
- Other involvement with the voluntary sector
- 2009 - 2011: Special Projects Organiser - Edinburgh University Conservation Volunteers
2008 - 2009: Project Organiser - Edinburgh University Conservation Volunteers
2007 - 2008: Volunteer - Edinburgh University Conservation Volunteers
2006 - 2007: Secretary - Sheffield University Conservation Volunteers
2005 - 2006: Chair - Sheffield University Conservation Volunteers
2004 - 2005: Volunteer - Sheffield University Conservation Volunteers
- Key publications since 2005
- Steinerowski, A., Woolvin, M. (2012) Supporting older people in establishing social enterprises in rural Scotland through action research: reflections on challenges and opportunities. Families, Relationships and Societies 1 (2): 277-286
Woolvin, M., Skerratt, S. (2012) The third sector and civil society in rural Scotland: present and future? in Skerratt, S., Atterton, J., Hall, C., McCracken, D., Renwick, A., Revoredo-Giha, C., Steinerowski, A., Thomson, S., Woolvin, M., Farrington, J., Heesen, F. (2012) Rural Scotland in Focus 2012. Pp56-69. Edinburgh: Rural Policy Centre, Scottish Agricultural College. http://www.sac.ac.uk/download/downloads/id/470/rural_scotland_in_fo...
Hall, C., Woolvin, M. (2012) What are the implications for rural Scotland of a low carbon future? in Skerratt, S., Atterton, J., Hall, C., McCracken, D., Renwick, A., Revoredo-Giha, C., Steinerowski, A., Thomson, S., Woolvin, M., Farrington, J., Heesen, F. (2012) Rural Scotland in Focus 2012. Pp86-101. Edinburgh: Rural Policy Centre, Scottish Agricultural College. http://www.sac.ac.uk/download/downloads/id/470/rural_scotland_in_fo...
Skerratt, S., Atterton, J., Woolvin, M. (2012) Scotland's Rural Parliament: Identifying next steps. A report for the Scottish Government. Edinburgh: SAC Rural Policy Centre. http://www.sac.ac.uk/download/downloads/id/777/2012_rural_parliamen...
Woolvin, M., Atterton, J., Skerratt, S. (2012) Rural Parliaments in Europe. Edinburgh: SAC Rural Policy Centre. http://www.sac.ac.uk/download/downloads/id/469/rural_parliaments_in...
Woolvin, M. (2012) Mapping the third sector in rural Scotland: an initial review of the literature. Edinburgh: Scottish Government. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0038/00386850.pdf
Keller, M., Woolvin, M. (2012) Mapping the distribution of charities in Scotland. SAC Rural Policy Centre Research Briefing RPC RB 2012/07. Edinburgh: SAC Rural Policy Centre. http://www.sac.ac.uk/download/downloads/id/666/2012_mapping_the_dis...
Woolvin, M. (2011) Placing informal volunteering: helping, deprivation and the lifecourse in Scotland. PhD Thesis. Dundee: University of Dundee.
Homer, T., Woolvin, M., Skerratt, S. (2011) Care Farming in Scotland: understanding health and social care commissioning and procurement: Final report. Edinburgh: SAC.
Atterton, J., Woolvin, M., Steinerowski, A., Homer, T. (2011) The benefits and challenges of health and social care coproduction in a rural context. SAC Rural Policy Centre Policy Briefing RPC RB 2011/10. Edinburgh: SAC Rural Policy Centre.
Atterton, J., Woolvin, M., Steirnerowski, A. (2011) On and off-shore renewables: who benefits? SAC Rural Policy Centre Policy Briefing RPC RB 2011/11. Edinburgh: SAC Rural Policy Centre.
Woolvin, M. (2011) Gwirfoddoli ‘o dan y radar’? Gwirfoddoli anffurfiol yn ardaloedd gwledig a threfol yr Alban. E-bost ymchwil Rhwydwaith Ymchwil Trydydd Sector Cymru Hydref 2011. Cardiff: WCVA.
Woolvin, M. (2011) Volunteering ‘below the radar’?: Informal volunteering in urban and rural Scotland. Paper given at the NCVO VSSN Researching the Voluntary Sector Conference: 7th – 8th September. London: UK. http://www.academia.edu/attachments/10849741/download_file
Smith, F.M., Timbrell, H., Woolvin, M., Muirhead, S., Fyfe, N. (2010) Enlivened Geographies of Volunteering: Situated, Embodied and Emotional Practices of Voluntary Action. Scottish Geographical Journal 126 (4): 258 - 274
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