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Dr Angela Ellis Paine

Lecturer in Voluntary Sector Management

Bayes Business School , Faculty of Management

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Overview

Angela Ellis Paine is Lecturer in Voluntary Sector Management at Bayes Business School. Prior to joining Bayes, Angela was a Research Fellow in both the Third Sector Research Centre and Health Services Management Centre at University of Birmingham.

Angela has been undertaking research on voluntary sector organisations, volunteering and participation for over 20 years. Her particular area of interest is in the idea of voluntary action as situated practice, and the intersection of individuals, organisations and institutions, and how multi-level contexts interact to shape the spaces of participation. Angela has expertise in qualitative research approaches, including longitudinal methods, and is committed to working collaboratively within research.

Angela has been a co-investigator on two Economic and Social Research Council funded studies. Her research has also been funded by independent foundations, national and local government, private, public and voluntary sector organisations. Recent research has included: a study of the third sector and health and care commissioning relationships (funded by the NIHR); community responses to COVID-19 (funded by Local Trust); a study exploring the dynamics of change in voluntary organisations (ESRC); and of discourses of voluntary action at transformational moments in the welfare state (ESRC). She has been involved in numerous evaluations of international, national and local volunteering initiatives.

Angela is chair of the Editorial Management Board and International Advisory Board for the journal Voluntary Sector Review, and was previously co-chair of the Voluntary Sector Studies Network where she continues as moderator of its discussion list and a member of the annual Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research conference organising committee. Prior to returning to academia, Angela was the Director of the Institute for Volunteering Research, at Volunteering England.

Qualifications

  • PhD, University of Wales Swansea, Wales, 1997 - 2001
  • BSc Geography (first class hons), University of Wales Swansea, Wales, UK, 1994 - 1997

Memberships of professional organisations

  • Voluntary Sector Studies Network

Expertise

Primary topics

  • Voluntary Sector Management

Industries

  • non-profit & voluntary sector

Research students

2ndsupervisor

Publications

Book

  1. Brewis, G., Ellis Paine, A., Hardill, I., Lindsey, R. and Macmillan, R. (2021). Transformational Moments in Social Welfare. Brewis, G., Ellis Paine, A., Hardill, I., Lindsey, R. and Macmillan, R. (Eds.), Bristol, UK: Policy Press. ISBN 9781447357230.

Chapters (3)

  1. Dayson, C., Bimpson, E., Paine, A.E., Chambers, J., Gilbertson, J. and Kara, H. (2022). Voluntary sector organisations, older people and healthy ageing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Covid 19 and the Voluntary and Community Sector in the Uk Responses Impacts and Adaptation (pp. 156-169).
  2. Rochester, C., Paine, A.E. and Hill, M. (2020). Volunteers and hybrid organisations. Handbook on Hybrid Organisations Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781785366109.
  3. Paine, A.E. and Hill, M. (2016). The engagement of volunteers in third sector organisations delivering public services. Third Sector Delivering Public Services Developments Innovations and Challenges (pp. 127-147).

Journal articles (14)

  1. Llewellyn, M., Timbrell, H., Ellis-Paine, A., Stuart, J., Tetlow, S. and Wallace, C. (2026). “Always a capacity thing”: a realist analysis of volunteering in older people’s residential care homes. Quality in Ageing and Older Adults pp. 1-12. doi:10.1108/qaoa-06-2025-0059

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  2. Sheaff, R., Ellis Paine, A., Exworthy, M., Gibson, A., Stuart, J., Jochum, V.... Asthana, S. (2024). Consequences of how third sector organisations are commissioned in the NHS and local authorities in England: a mixed-methods study. Health and Social Care Delivery Research pp. 1-180. doi:10.3310/ntdt7965

    [publisher’s website]

  3. Sheaff, R., Ellis-Paine, A., Exworthy, M., Hardwick, R. and Smith, C.Q. (2024). Commodification and healthcare in the third sector in England: from gift to commodity—and back? Public Money & Management, 44(4), pp. 298-307. doi:10.1080/09540962.2023.2244350

    [publisher’s website]

  4. Brewis, G., Ellis Paine, A., Hardill, I., Lindsey, R. and Macmillan, R. (2023). Co‐curation: Archival interventions and voluntary sector records. Area, 55(3), pp. 332-339. doi:10.1111/area.12768

    [publisher’s website]

  5. Davidson, D., Williams, I., Glasby, J. and Paine, A.E. (2022). ‘Localism and intimacy, and… other rather imponderable reasons of that sort’: A qualitative study of patient experience of community hospitals in England. Health & Social Care in the Community. doi:10.1111/hsc.14083

    [publisher’s website]

  6. Dayson, C., Bimpson, E., Ellis-Paine, A., Gilbertson, J. and Kara, H. (2021). The ‘resilience’ of community organisations during the COVID-19 pandemic: absorptive, adaptive and transformational capacity during a crisis response. Voluntary Sector Review, 12(2), pp. 295-304. doi:10.1332/204080521x16190270778389

    [publisher’s website]

  7. MACMILLAN, R.O.B. and ELLIS PAINE, A. (2021). The third sector in a strategically selective landscape – the case of commissioning public services. Journal of Social Policy, 50(3), pp. 606-626. doi:10.1017/s0047279420000355

    [publisher’s website]

  8. Ellis Paine, A., Allum, C., Beswick, D. and Lough, B.J. (2020). Volunteering and the Sustainable Development Goals: an opportunity to move beyond boundaries. Voluntary Sector Review, 11(2), pp. 251-260. doi:10.1332/204080520x15884252988018

    [publisher’s website]

  9. Ellis Paine, A., Kamerāde, D., Mohan, J. and Davidson, D. (2019). Communities as ‘renewable energy’ for healthcare services? a multimethods study into the form, scale and role of voluntary support for community hospitals in England. BMJ Open, 9(10), pp. e030243-e030243. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030243

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  10. Seamark, D., Davidson, D., Ellis-Paine, A., Glasby, J. and Tucker, H. (2019). Factors affecting the changing role of GP clinicians in community hospitals: a qualitative interview study in England. British Journal of General Practice, 69(682), pp. e329-e335. doi:10.3399/bjgp19x701345

    [publisher’s website]

  11. Davidson, D., Ellis Paine, A., Glasby, J., Williams, I., Tucker, H., Crilly, T.... Marriott, J. (2019). Analysis of the profile, characteristics, patient experience and community value of community hospitals: a multimethod study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 7(1), pp. 1-152. doi:10.3310/hsdr07010

    [publisher’s website]

  12. Dayson, C., Paine, A.E., Macmillan, R. and Dayson, S. (2017). Third sector capacity building: the institutional embeddedness of supply. Voluntary Sector Review, 8(2), pp. 149-168. doi:10.1332/204080517x14896680067107

    [publisher’s website]

  13. Kamerāde, D. and Paine, A.E. (2014). Volunteering and employability: implications for policy and practice. Voluntary Sector Review, 5(2), pp. 259-273. doi:10.1332/204080514x14013593888736

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  14. Paine, A.E., McKay, S. and Moro, D. (2013). Does volunteering improve employability? Insights from the British Household Panel Survey and beyond. Voluntary Sector Review, 4(3), pp. 355-376. doi:10.1332/204080513x13807974909244

    [publisher’s website]