Irene Hardill is Professor of Public Policy at Northumbria University.Jurgen Grotz is Director of the Institute for Volunteering Research at the University of East Anglia.Laura Crawford is Teaching Fellow at the University of Birmingham.

• 1. Researching in a pandemic - Laura Crawford, Irene Hardill and Jurgen Grotz2. Voluntary action and the pandemic across the UK - Ewen Speed, Laura Crawford and Alasdair Rutherford3. England - Eddy Hogg, Joanna Stuart, Amy McGarvey and Catherine Goodall4. Northern Ireland - Denise Hayward, Nick Acheson, Andrew Hanna and Martina McKnight5. Scotland - Matthew Linning and Debbie Maltman6. Wales - James Lundie, Sally Rees and Rhys Dafydd Jones7. The road(s) to recovery? Discussion and conclusion - Laura Crawford, Irene Hardill and Jurgen Grotz

"The book transcends the prevailing Angiocentric bias in British social policy, showing the ideological and institutional differences between the four nations of the UK that shaped how the voluntary sector responded to the pandemic...The book then impressively charts the different pathways taken by the four nations." Social Policy & Administration