Jon Dean is Associate Professor of Politics and Sociology at Sheffield Hallam University. His research examines inequalities within the charity sector and charity's role in wider society and culture.

Eddy Hogg is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Kent. His research focuses on volunteering, particularly the role of voluntary action in the delivery of public services.

1. Introduction - Eddy Hogg and Jon Dean

2. (Un)suitable methods and reflexive considerations: an interview and focus group study of youth volunteering - James Davies

3. Interpretive ethnography: a UK charity shop case study - Triona Fitton

4. Collaborative philanthropy and doing practically relevant, critical research - Angela Eikenberry and Xiaowei Song

5. Peer research: co- producing research within the context of voluntary and community action - Ellen Bennett

6. Charity advertising: visual methods, images and elicitation - Abhishek Bhati and Jon Dean

7. Using archives and objects in voluntary action research - Georgina Brewis

8. Using Mass Observation as a source of qualitative secondary data for interdisciplinary longitudinal research on voluntary action - Rose Lindsey

9. Investigating meanings and messages on volunteering through television media - Kimberly Wiley

10. Annual reporting in voluntary organisations: opportunities for content analysis research - Carolyn Cordery and Danielle McConville

11. Researching risk in the voluntary sector: the challenges and opportunities of regulatory data - Diarmuid McDonnell and Alasdair C. Rutherford

12. Exploring the benefi ts of volunteering: combining survey and administrative data in the Nordic 'laboratory' - Hans-Peter Y. Qvist

13. Spatial approaches to the voluntary sector - James Bowles

14. Restudies, surveys and what counts as volunteering - Jon Dean and Diarmuid Verrier

15. Conclusion - Jon Dean and Eddy Hogg