RT Article
T1 Working the Edge: The Emotional Experiences of Commissioning and Funding Arrangements for Service Leaders in the Sexual Violence Voluntary Sector
JF Violence against women
VO 30
IS 8
SP 1783
OP 1803
A1 Gunby, Clare
A2 Isham, Louise
A2 Smailes, Harriet
A2 Bradbury-Jones, Caroline
A2 Damery, Sarah
A2 Harlock, Jenny
A2 Maxted, Fay
A2 Smith, Deb
A2 Taylor, Julie
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1887961712
AB The specialist voluntary sector plays a crucial role in supporting survivors of sexual violence. However, in England, short-term funding underpins the sector's financial stability. This article examines sector leaders’ ways of coping, resisting and being affected by funding practices. Using the concept of edgework, we show how funding and commissioning dynamics push individuals to the edge of service sustainability, job satisfaction, and emotional well-being. We examine how these edges are “worked,” for example, by circumventing and remolding the edge. We offer an original way to theorize participants, make visible the emotional toll of service precarity and offer suggestions for support.
K1 specialist voluntary sector
K1 Sexual Violence
K1 Emotion
K1 edgework
K1 Commissioning
DO 10.1177/10778012241239945