Text Box: Australia and New Zealand Third Sector Research Ninth Biennial Conference   November 24-26 2008                             AUT University City Campus, 55 Wellesley Street, Auckland                     Co-Hosted by ANZTSR, AUT and WMS, in association with   UNITEC and Massey University     Text Box: Online Conference Registration Text Box:   Abstract Submission Text Box:             Provisional agenda Text Box:   Travel Information Text Box:   Accommodation Text Box: DEADLINES   Abstracts Abstracts due: 25 July 2008  Acceptance Notification: 25 September   Full Papers (Refereed) Due: 21 November 2008   All submissions should be sent to:   ANZTSR@mngt.waikato.ac.nz    Abstracts received after 25 July will only be accepted on a space-  available basis. Text Box: DEMONSTRATE!   Talofa lava, Kia orana, Malo e lelei, Faka lofa lahi atu, Ni sa bula vinaka, Taloha ni, Warm Pacific greetings to all. Do researchers in and of the Third Sector make a difference? Do they raise questions, help set agendas, and contribute to change for the many types of organisations and communities the researchers choose to work with?  We have no doubt that we do! Researchers are Knowledge Makers; Knowledge Makers are Reseachers. We see the results of this work in film, art, music, poetry, policies, books and journal papers, and of course, in policies and practices – all of which become fertile ground for more research! Haere Mai! Haere Mai! Come DEMONSTRATE how we do it! We invite all participants to DEMONSTRATE the value of research work, no matter where and how you work – in as many ways as we can fit into the programme, the time and the venue. You may be an academic who needs or wants a presentation forum and a published paper, or you may desire an interactive workshop to further develop your thinking. You may be a practitioner who gathers information and learning as part of your work. You may be an artist, film-maker or musician who, as part of your creativity, researches themes, tones, colours, patterns, and energies of all forms expressed in communities. We invite you all! What is your passion? How does your research DEMONSTRATE this passion? How might you present your work so that others may understand your perspective and engage with it? How does your work make a contribution to the wellbeing of people and planet? Demonstrate your research ideas, your proposals, your processes, your findings, and your influence in whatever way you think will make a splash! PROPOSAL SUBMISSION While we are open to all innovative research presentations, we have a special interest in the themes listed below.  We are particularly interested in explicit cultural perspectives on these themes.  For those papers being submitted for full review, all effort will be made to ensure the referees have the cultural expertise and interest in your topic. Examples of such perspectives may include, Maori, Pacifica, Migrant and Refugee, specific cultural, disciplinary, or sector perspectives. While endeavours to facilitate presentations in other languages are encouraged we do not have the budget capacity to provide interpreters. Your submission must have a reference for a competent interpreter for reviewing processes. Please be clear if you intend not to present in English and outline your plan for interpretation if you have one.                                                                                                                                             Text Box: THEMES 1) Responsibilities and Rights for Wellbeing of People and Planet 2) Organization, Governance, Management in the Third Sector 3) Public Private Partnerships, Corporate Social Responsibilities & Social Enterprise  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Text Box:   THEME ONE: Responsibilities and Rights for Wellbeing of People and Planet This theme calls for DEMONSTRATIONS of people actively working to address issues of responsibilities for the wellbeing of people and planet. We are particularly interested in DEMONTRATIONS of research that attempt to balance our care for both in ways that are sustainable.   THEME TWO Organization, Governance and Management in the Community/Third Sector Stream Coordinators:  Hilary Star Foged and Sandy Thompson, UNITEC   THEME THREE Public Private Partnerships, Corporate Social Responsibilities, and Social Enterprise as Social and Environmental Change Agents Stream Coordinator: Dr Suzanne Grant, Waikato University Responsibilities for wellbeing of people and planet are actively pursued by Third Sector organizations, a sector that has changed in character according to the changing boundaries of responsibilities assumed by governments, community organizations, and market sector endeavours. In our region, the move to neo-liberalism has had a dramatic effect on the organization of the community sector, as did the subsequent recognition of the downsides of this. The Third Way followed and has been received with mixed responses. We are seeing a proliferation of Private/Public Partnerships involving government, local bodies, market and community sector organizations. We are seeing a much greater emphasis in and promotion of Social Enterprise as a way to address social and environmental issues. What examples of these relationships, organizations or achievements can be DEMONSTRATED?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: We would also like to see how your research DEMONSTRATES ·          advocacy in a climate of constraint - keeping the social policy, human rights, environmental and social change responsibilities alive. ·          excellent, empowering governance in Tangata Whenua, Community and Voluntary Sector Organisations: What is so unique, effective and challenging about leading in this context? ·          making visible the invisible and invaluable; understanding, describing and defining the diversity, depth and complexity of our sector. ·          the effects of funding regimes and accountabilities: from Philanthropy to Social Enterprise – the changing funding base of tangata whenua, community and voluntary sector organisations – how can you demonstrate funding impacts, funding needs, vision creep and the like. The building of capacity for strong organisations, effective services, effective cross sectoral collaboration and community development.   CROSS CUTTING THEMES Research modes and manners, Cultural, sectoral and disciplinary diversity Capacity building in theory, practice and modalities. The conference is all about DEMONSTRATING excellent, effective research for wellbeing of people and planet. In this stream we look behind the scenes. We invite people to DEMONSTRATE their processes – be these to do with choosing a topic, setting out your ontological allegiances and epistemological justification, choosing a method, choosing collaborators, finding funding, addressing ethical issues, dissemination and DEMONSTRATION and evaluation issues. This is a stream that ‘looks behind the scenes’, ‘exposes the plumbing and the wiring’ of research, so to speak!     Text Box: But Wait! There is more!  

Text Box: PUBLICATION and DISSEMINATION of our DEMONSTRATION Text Box: There are three important ways in which we will attempt to record and disseminate the presentations of the conference · We will prepare a conference proceedings with the Abstracts and Descriptions of all sessions. · The ‘Clearing House’ will publish all papers submitted to them according to their guidelines. www.communityresearch.org.nz. · The journal Third Sector Review will publish a Special Edition in 2009 which will feature the work of the Conference. All authors will be invited to indicate on their submissions if they would like their paper considered for publication in this Special Edition. Reviewers will be asked to include this in their consideration and to indicate to the authors their whether their paper is rated as suitable for consideration. If so, the author(s) will be asked if they wish to submit the paper directly for consideration for the special conference issue of Third Sector Review rather than have the paper published in the refereed proceedings. If the author(s) agree to this, six or seven of the best papers will be more fully reviewed for the journal, although publication is not guaranteed.  

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