Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development

Helen Louise Ackers holds a Chair in Global Social Justice at the University of Salford, UK.  She has been actively involved in high impact social research for many years with a focus on the mobilities of the highly skilled and knowledge mobilisation processes. For the past eight years, she has been actively applying this expertise to the specific context of professional voluntarism and its impact on maternal and newborn health in Uganda.James Ackers-Johnson holds a project management role at the University of Salford, UK. His background is in Business, Economics and Management. He has been involved in managing Global Health related projects in Uganda and India for the past seven years, focusing primarily on professional volunteer deployment, staff exchanges, capacity building, infrastructure development and the management of UK student elective placements.

• 1. Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development 'Aid' .- 2. 'First Do No Harm': Professional Volunteers as Knowledge Intermediaries .- 3. Fetishizing and Commodifying 'Training'? .- 4. Can (Imported) Knowledge Change Systems? Understanding the Dynamics of Behaviour Change .- 5. Iterative Learning: 'Knowledge for Change'?.