Volunteering Counts

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This webpage provides all the resources associated with the conference, including abstracts, full papers and presentations.

 

10:30-10:50 Registration and coffee

10:50-11:00 Welcome 
    Angela Ellis Paine (IVR)

11:00-12:00 Understanding Volunteering 
        Chair:    

• Rob Jackson (Volunteering England)     

        Speakers: 

• Colin Rochester (Roehampton University)
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• Duncan Scott (Third Sector Research Centre) 
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12:00-13:30 Paper session one

Panel session one
'Back to basics': What is volunteering, why do we do it and why is it changing? Angela Ellis Paine, Nick Ockenden, Jennifer Russell & Matthew Hill, Institute for Volunteering Research
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Paper session A: Social networks, participation and volunteering
'Does informal volunteering count?  Researching informal voluntary activity in deprived Scottish communities throughout the life course. Mike Woolvin, University of Dundee & Volunteer Development Scotland.
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'Exploring participation - findings from a review of literature. Ellie Brodie & Eddie Cowling, NCVO and Involve.
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'Is the web changing the way we give? Patrick Daniels, YouthNet
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Paper session B: Measuring and valuing student volunteering
'Volunteering for Success: Mentoring as a form of student volunteering. Jane Andrews, Aston University.
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'Measuring and recording the value of student volunteering'. Pat Green & Pauline Anderson, University of Wolverhampton
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'The value and impact of volunteering on Voluntary Community Organisations' Louise Hardwick & Dr Margaret Coffey, University of Liverpool and Hope University Liverpool
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Paper session C: Volunteering from the organisational perspective
'Volunteering within Raleigh International' Brandon Charleston, Raleigh International
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'Talkers and walkers: policy maker and practitioner views of volunteering in Manchester' Martin Duffy, Community Network for Manchester.
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'Preventing delayed transfers of care: person-centred voluntary sector services' Fiona Zinovieff, Bangor University
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13:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:00 Paper session 2

Paper session D: Evaluating impact at the organisational level
'Evaluating impact: The formative evaluation of v' Carol McNaughton Nichols, Naomi Jones, Tiger De'Souza and Nick Ockenden, NatCen, V & IVR
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'Measuring the effects of a corporate community programme', Lucas Meijs & Lonneke Rosa, RSM Erasmus University
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Paper session E: Characteristics and behaviour of volunteers: the sports perspective
'Profiling sports coaches' Fiona Reid, University of Strathclyde
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'Volunteers and members in sports clubs' Geoff Nichols, Sheffield Hallam University
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Paper session F: Defining participation
'Measuring participation at a local level: what you ask for is what you get!' Janet Gilbertson & Ian Wilson, Sheffield Hallam University
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'"Something that others do": applying personal experience to established definitions of volunteering', Christine Reilly, Volunteer Development Scotland
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Paper session G: Volunteer engagement
'The conceptualisation and measurement of volunteer loyalty', Walter Wymer, University of Lethbridge, Canada
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'Volunteering and the recession: what role for the volunteer? Mike Danson, University of the West of Scotland
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16:00-16:30 Break

16:30-17:30 Research Development Workshops

1. Research ethics with Maxine Birch (Open University) Presentation 
2. Commissioning and using research with Meta Zimmeck (independent consultant) Presentation 
3. Knowledge transfer and maximizing the impact of research with Irene Hardill (Nottingham Trent University) and Sue Baines, (Manchester Metropolitan University) Presentation
4. Developing an action research approach with Mike Aitken (Institute for Voluntary Action Research)

9.00-9.30 Conference registration for day delegates and coffee

9:30-10:30 Valuing volunteering 
       Chair:

• Tim Day, (Wales Council for Voluntary Action)

        Speaker: 

•     Eilís Lawlor, (Head of Valuing What Matters, New Economics Foundation)  

10:30-10.45 Break

10:45-12:15 Paper session three

Panel session two
'What can volunteering look like for the older age group in the 21st Century?' Christine Irvine, Helen Connolly & Billy Eagleson, Volunteer Development Agency Northern Ireland
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Paper session H: Counting volunteers: lessons from the environmental sector
'Derbyshire Survey on Volunteering for the Benefit of Wildlife Conservation' Emma Dagless, Volunteer Centres Derbyshire
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'From bean counting to behaviour analysis', Miles Sibley, British Trust for Conservation Volunteers
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Paper session I: Measuring volunteering
'Counting volunteers: evidence from survey datasets in the UK', John Mohan, Third Sector Research Centre
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'Formal volunteering in Wales', Bryan Collis, Wales Council for Voluntary Action
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'The dynamics of volunteering in Great Britain: a longitudinal approach to measuring volunteering', Daiga Kamerade University of Salford
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Paper session J: Understanding motivations and benefits of volunteer
'Volunteering, happiness and the 'motherhood penalty', Christian Kroll, London School of Economics
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'An agenda for researching faith and volunteering', Greg Smith, William Temple Foundation
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'Incapacity benefits: volunteering and employability' Dr John Lee, University of the West of Scotland
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12:15-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:30 Panel: The value of volunteering: A policy and practice perspective 
          Facilitator:

•     Mike Nussbaum (Volunteering England)

           Speakers:

• John Ramsey (Age Concern),
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• George Thomson (Volunteer Development Scotland),
• Wendy Osbourne (Northern Ireland Volunteer Development Agency)

14:30-14:45 Break

14.45-15.45 Roundtable discussion: Future research agendas 
        Facilitator:

• Mike Nussbaum (Volunteering England)

15.45-16:00 Wrap up and close