9-10am Registration. Lunch provided. 

This symposium is part of the Students, Volunteering and Social Action: Histories and Policies project convened by Student Hubs and the Institute for Volunteering Research. For more details see 

For more information contact georgina.brewis@ivr.org.uk


PAPERS: 

Student-Community Engagement in Context

Tom Bourner

‘A Place to Train Social Workers’:  the Scottish Settlements, c.1905-1920

Lynn Bruce (University of Glasgow)

Settlement houses, volunteering and learning beyond the university, c.1900-1960

Kate Bradley (University of Kent)

The Student Rag

Carol Dyhouse (University of Sussex)

Student volunteering in Britain between the Wars: Work camps and the unemployed

John Field (University of Stirling)

NUS and campaigning role, Respected, Not Respectable: History of the NUS

Mike Day (NUS Scotland)Students campaigning again nuclear weapons: Colleges and Universities CND in the 1960s

Jodi Burkett (University of Portsmouth)

From service to action: The origins and growth of the Student Community Action movement 

Georgina Brewis (IVR and IoE)

Student housing activism in the 1970s and 1980s: Impacts on career and personal development

Nick Plant (UWE)