Nissa Ramsay

Nissa is a Senior Research Officer at the Institute for Volunteering Research. She joined in January 2012 and is leading on the Volunteering for Stronger Communities research project as well as an action learning evaluation as part of the BT Trouble-Shooters programme and reporting on the findings from the Annual Return Membership Survey from 2011.

Before joining IVR, Nissa worked as a Research Coordinator for UnLtd, delivering internal research, evaluation and impact projects. This focused on programmes encouraging young people’s involvement in community entrepreneurship (training peer-researchers), as well as social entrepreneurship in Higher Education (culminating in a glossy publication and national conference)

Prior to this, Nissa completed a PhD in Human Geography at the University of Sheffield, looking in to the production and consumption of tourist souvenirs and Fair Trade craft in Swaziland, Southern Africa.

Nissa specialises in qualitative research and has experience designing and delivering volunteer-led research, as well as new approaches to action learning.