2020 UKSCS conference – The politics, policies and practices of co-operative movements
1 to 3 October 2020
The final programme of the conference was designed following the call for papers.
We thank our conference committee who put the event together:
- Rory Ridley-Duff, Sheffield Hallam University
- Jan Myers, Northumbria University
- Elisavet Mantzari, University of Birmingham
- Francesca Gagliardi, University of Hertfordshire
- Cilla Ross, Co-operative College
Thank you to everyone who submitted papers, presented and participated in the conference. Also, to the Heart of England Co-operative Society for their financial support, and Sheffield Hallam University for their technology support.
You’ll find below the recording from each session along with links to presentations and any other information. Alternatively, you can watch the conference as a playlist on YouTube.
Session 1 – Keynote speech
Date: 1 October 2020, 2pm
Chair: Jan Myers
Speaker: John Holdsclaw IV, National Co-operative Bank (Washington, USA)
Downloads: slides and text file from chat.
Session 2 – Accounting for co-operative purpose – what is to be done?
Date: 1 October 2020, 3.15pm
Chair: Elisavet Mantzari
Speakers:
- Maureen McCulloch – Introduction to the co-op SORP Project
- Daphne Rixon – International co-operative alliance survey on co-operative reporting standards
- Ian Adderley – A co-op regulator perspective on the value of a co-operative SORP
- Richard Spencer – Financial system change and the Financial Innovation Lab
Download: Text file from chat.
Links: International Co-operative Alliance Statement of Identity Values and Principles and UK Charities SORP
Session 3 – The policies and politics of co-operatives – 1
Date: 2 October 2020, 2.30pm
Chair: Nick Matthews
Speakers:
- Mike Neary and Cilla Ross – The long 2019: Coronavirus, co-operativism and the future of higher education (12)
- David Davies and James Nyland – Ways of knowing: towards an ecology of learning (6)
- Dietmar Roessl, Martina Pieperhoff and Katie Hyslop – The network level of cooperatives as a space for innovation – the example of BAEKO Austria (11)
Download: text file from chat.
Session 4 – The policies and politics of co-operatives – 2
Date: 2 October 2020, 4.30pm
Chair: Cilla Ross
Speakers
- Lisa Buchter – Studying housing cooperatives to deepen our understanding of cooperative politics (14)
Download:Text file from chat
Session 5 – Debate on self-help mutual enterprises in a post-pandemic world
Date: 2 October 2020, 7pm
Chair: Sarah Alldred
Debaters:
- Edgar Parnell
- Pat Conaty
Questions considered:
- Will enterprises rooted in the mindset of self-help and mutual action will have a significant role in a post-pandemic world?
- What approaches and actions can be deployed to increase their prospects of playing such a role?
- Will advocacy of the idea of a social and solidarity economy be a help or hindrance in the process?
Download: text file from chat.
Session 6 – Open Stream
Date: 3 October 2020, 10am
Chair: Cilla Ross
Speakers:
- Victor Shirma, Members’ perception on co-operative performance: Evidence from agricultural marketing co-operative societies in Rombo District, Tanzania (4)
- Munib Ur Rehman – Co-operatives’ membership and well-being of farmers: an empirical evidence, based on interest-free tractor scheme for Barani, from district Narowal, Pakistan (13)
- Artur Rykalin – Marketing organic farmers’ cooperatives in Russia: cases and policy recommendations (2)
- Janette Hurst – It’s almost like they are individuals
Download: Text from chat
Slides from Artur Rykalin and link to research publication (external site)
Session 7 – Open debate – The future of the UK co-operative movement – a campaign for co-operative democracy
Date: 3 October 2020, 12.15pm
Chair: Ian Hewitt
Session 8 – The policies and politics of co-operatives – 3
Date: 3 October 2020, 1.30pm
Chair: Francesca Gagliardi
Speakers:
- John Courtneige – The aim of the co-operative movement: A global co-operative commonweal (3)
- Freer Spreckley – Social enterprise – a just transition to a regenerative fair future (9)
- Rory Ridley-Duff – New co-operativism as social innovation: Progress or Regress?
Download: Text from chat
Session 9 – Measuring and reporting co-operative impact
Date: 3 October 2020, 3.30pm
Chair: Maureen McCulloch
Speakers:
- Daphne Rixon – Co-operative performance indicators and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Will Barr – SROI reporting on sports and community benefits at Greenwich Leisure Centre
- Richard Spencer – How organisations are motivated to deliver sustainable outcomes: the role of information flows
Download: Text from chat