Volunteering Research Papers Initiative Launch Event

Date: Tuesday 29 November 2022
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm (AEDT)
Location: Zoom (online)

Volunteering Research Papers Initiative Round 2 Launch

Join us for the second round of releases from 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 new National Strategy for Volunteering.

Following the launch of the Initiative in September, this second round of publications includes seven 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 some of our contributing authors will highlight the findings and policy and practice implications of their research.

Volunteering Research Papers – Round 2

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

Methodological approaches to, and challenges of, determining the size, scale, and contribution of volunteer workforces by Megan Woods and Karen Douglas
The Seven Waves of Volunteering in Australia: a brief history by Melanie Oppenheimer and Sue Regan
Online volunteering: Unlocking untapped potential by Debbie Haski-Leventhal, Irit Alony, Paul Flemons, and Adam Woods
Psychosocial hazard management in regional volunteer involving organisations: A review of the current research landscape by Adam Nebbs
Surviving and Thriving from the Volunteer Involvement in Mega-Sport Events by Tracey Dickson and Simon Darcy
Applying insights from behavioural economics to increase volunteering by Swee-Hoon Chuah
Time to be bold: Australian volunteering research since IYV+10 2011 by Megan Paull
Planning for an uncertain future: future scenarios for emergency volunteering in Australia by Blythe McLennan