This book draws on an innovative longitudinal study of individual understandings of and attitudes toward volunteering and voluntary organizations, combined with analyses of their group's own reporting of how their volunteers approach their roles and work. The rich data,previously unanalyzed, provide a unique commentary on attitudes to voluntary effort and to the appropriate balance between statutory responsibility and community initiative in the voluntary sector.
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"An important and innovative contribution to understanding how and why people engage in voluntary activity; how important they feel it is in their lives; and the ways in which it contributes to the wider community." Colin Rochester, London School of Economics
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| Foreword |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Notes on authors |
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| Acronyms |
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Two The changing policy environment for voluntary action from 1979 |
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Three Data: sources and definitions |
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Four Trends in volunteering and trends in the voluntary sector |
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Five Content and context of volunteering |
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Six Why people volunteer: contextualising motivation |
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Seven Volunteering trajectories: individual patterns of volunteering over the lifecourse |
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Eight Attitudes to voluntary action |
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| Appendix: Anonymised details of writers |
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| References |
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| Index |
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Dr Rose Lindsey has experience of working both in academia and in the voluntary sector. She is currently a Senior Research Fellow based in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Southampton. She has been the CEO of a domestic abuse charity and a trustee for several charities.
John Mohan is Professor of Social Policy, University of Birmingham, and Director of the Third Sector Research Centre. He has published extensively on contemporary and historical aspects of the third sector, with a particular recent focus on analyses of volunteering and the resources and characteristics of voluntary organisations.
Elizabeth Metcalfe was a research fellow in the Third Sector Research Centre, working on quantitative analyses of survey datasets for this project. She has subsequently moved to data scientist positions in ONS and the private sector.
Sarah Bulloch worked in the Third Sector Research Centre in the early stages of this project; from there she became research manager at Scope. She is currently a Teaching Fellow at the University of Surrey; and an associate of QDAS, specialising in mixed-methods approaches to research and teaching.
