Matt Baillie Smith is a Professor of Global Development and Dean of Research Culture at Northumbria University, UK. He is the co-Director of the Centre for Global Development and his research focuses on civil society, citizenship and development, with particular interests in volunteering in humanitarian and development contexts, and young people and the climate emergency. He has led and co-led a number of large international and interdisciplinary projects funded by government research councils and ministries, NGOs and humanitarian organisations, with recent projects including Refugee Youth Volunteering Uganda (www.ryvu.org), Volunteering, Climate Adaptation and Disasters (https://hosting.northumbria.ac.uk/vocad/) and Volunteering Together (https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/blended-volunteering), with VSO. Matt previously worked for a development NGO and continues to work with a range of humanitarian and development organisations in the UK and globally, with particular interests in participatory and co-designed approaches to research. This includes co-designing and delivering research projects, acting as a critical friend to organisations and work to help build research and data collection and analysis capacity within development organisations and the groups they engage with. At Northumbria, he leads the Volunteering, Humanitarian Crisis and Development research area (https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/VHCD) and as Dean of Research Culture, works across faculties and services to lead the development of a vibrant, diverse, open and inclusive research culture. Matt is one of the co-organisers of IVCO 2024.