My guest today is Steven Howlett who is a senior lecturer at Roehampton University business school and previously was a senior research fellow at the Institute for Volunteering Research where he was involved in many projects looking at the profile of volunteering, the management of volunteers and polices towards volunteering. He’s the co author of ‘Volunteering and Society in the 21st Century’ and he’s here to talk to us today about volunteering in general, some of the research projects he’s been involved in and how it might relate to the Middle Way.