This seminar series was initiated by the UK Society of Co-operative Studies (UKSCS) to support a research project on 'new cooperativism' by Prof Rory Ridley-Duff. In late 2020, UKSCS liaised the EMES International Research Network and the European Research Institute for Co-operative and Social Enterprise to expand the project. They formed a New Cooperativism Editorial Board (NCEB) which jointly issued a Call for Papers for a special issue of the Journal of Co-operative Studies (JCS).
Prof Rory Ridley-Duff worked with NCEB board members to organise a series of seminars between June - November 2021. Each seminar related to a theme in the Call for Papers, linked to a proposed book chapter for a forthcoming book for Palgrave. Each seminar systematically expanded and elaborated an area of new cooperativism that will require study in the future. Nine seminars were hosted by the FairShares Institute for Co-operative Social Entrepreneurship at Sheffield Hallam University, which gave ethical approval for the collection and transcription of recordings.
Over the course of 6 months, over 30 experts in the field (13 seminar facilitators and 20 academic/ practitioner panellists) debated aspects of new cooperativism with over 100 seminar participants.
You can explore each of seminars via the links below, and on our YouTube channel.
The publication of this playlist of videos coincides with the publication of the special issue of the Journal of Co-operative Studies.
