Volunteering Research Papers Initiative Launch Event

Date: Tuesday 27 September 2022
Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm (AEST)
Location: Zoom (online)

Volunteering Research Papers Initiative Launch

Join us for the launch of the Volunteering Research Papers Initiative, part of the development of the National Strategy for Volunteering. An initiative of the National Strategy for Volunteering Research Working Group, the Volunteering Research Papers summarise important research on volunteering and outline key insights for policy and practice. These insights will feed directly into the development of the National Strategy for Volunteering.

The first round of publications from the Volunteering Research Papers Initiative includes eight papers, each of which addresses a key area of research on volunteering.

The launch event will be introduced by the Chair of the National Strategy for Volunteering Research Working Group, Professor Melanie Oppenheimer, and will include a series of brief presentations in which contributing authors will highlight the findings and policy and practice implications of their research.

Volunteering Research Papers – Round 1

The following papers will be published in the first round of Volunteering Research Papers Initiative:

The great (volunteer) resignation: An evidence-based strategy for retaining volunteers by Vivien Forner, Djurre Holtrop, Darja Kragt, and Anya Johnson
Corporate volunteering: implications for policy and practice by Debbie Haski-Leventhal
Without leadership there is no volunteering: The importance of strategic investment in leadership development in Australia by Darja Kragt, Sarah Wilson, Toby Newstead, and Vivien Forner
The free-fall of volunteer leaders in Australian grassroots associations by Christel Mex
Volunteering within ethno-religious community contexts: Empirical insights with a focus on Muslim intra-community engagement in Australia by Mario Peucker
Understanding motivations to volunteer by Arthur Stukas and Sarah Wilson
Emergency volunteering: leading engagement and retention by Amber Tsai, Toby Newstead, and Gemma Lewis
The Decline of Formal Volunteering in Australia (2001–2020): Insights from the HILDA Survey by Rong Zhu

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