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This study aims to critically examine the effects of COVID-19 social discourses and policy decisions specifically on older adult volunteers in the UK, comparing the responses and their effects in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, providing perspectives on effects of policy changes designed to reduce risk of infection as a resul...
This chapter describes modern volunteer involvement as a complex and changing activity, explaining how key terms are defined and how they are understood differently by a range of stakeholders. It offers the latest data on where volunteer involvement happens in England, who organises it and who is involved, summarising volunteers’ sociodemographic c...
This chapter explores the strategic reasons for volunteer involvement in universities, considering management issues around planning and evaluation. It first offers examples of how universities’ volunteer involvement activities can align with missions, visions and values. The chapter then examines how volunteer involvement can be located within the...
This chapter offers a systematic approach to understanding the diverse purposes of volunteer involvement in universities. It offers a wide range of examples of actual and potential benefits for different types of volunteers, institutions and communities, addressing the challenge of balancing multiple purposes. The chapter then describes what instit...
This chapter summarises the preceding topics, discussing volunteer involvement in universities with a view to establish how it reflects on institutions’ endeavours to create and sustain successful university-community relationships. It outlines key components universities might seek to evidence when developing university-community relationships. Th...
This chapter introduces practice guidance for volunteer involvement in universities. It outlines the challenges and opportunities of modern volunteer involvement in the various forms undertaken in and with universities, explaining how administrations can balance the benefits for, needs of and risks regarding the involvement of students, staff, alum...
This chapter describes volunteer involvement in UK universities as ubiquitous, outlining its great diversity. Focusing on the activities of volunteers drawn from four different groups—students, staff, alumni and the public—it offers examples of the various forms of volunteer involvement these groups undertake on and off campus and the institutional...
Since March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has had extraordinary effects on the voluntary sector across the four nations of the UK. The advent of the pandemic was preceded by a renegotiation of social policy, and this has played out differently in the four UK nations, which is reflected in variations in relations between the state and the voluntary se...
This chapter sets volunteer involvement in historical context, outlines how it is conceived, offers models of volunteer involvement and considers the plurality of volunteer involvement concepts, including the role of ideology and the state. It encourages the reader to use five ‘Exercises’ to reflect on how volunteering has changed over time, how it...
Chapter Five introduces the concept of reflective volunteer involvement, discussing how volunteers and those who seek to involve them can find and understand each other, how they agree ways to act together and how they can know that they are making a difference. It offers nine ‘Practice Examples’ illustrating the important role of communicating, su...
This chapter focuses on the relationships built through volunteer involvement, including the different contributions volunteers make, the contexts in which they are involved and the pathways volunteering relationships take. It encourages the reader to use six ‘Exercises’ to reflect on their own practice in particular on how they describe the contri...
Chapter Six sums up the previous discussions, considering how awareness of complexity and plurality of thought may affect responses to the changing environment for volunteer involvement. It calls for an open collaborative and respectful conversation about volunteer involvement, including about its negative effects and for reflective volunteer invol...
Chapter Three first explores critical perspectives on volunteer involvement and the effects of misconduct, including ‘transgression’. It then discusses the negative impacts of volunteering and examines consequences of the ‘benefit fallacy’. It encourages the reader to use five ‘Exercises’ to reflect on critical perspectives they have encountered an...
Background
Patient and public involvement (PPI) in health and social care policy, service decision‐making and research are presented as good practice in England. Yet the explicit rationale for PPI and how it is positioned within the literature, policy and practice remain confused, in particular, in relation to Volunteer Involvement (VI). In health...
Purpose
This policy-orientated commentary aims to provide a perspective on the effects of policy changes designed to reduce the risk of infection as a result of COVID-19. The example of the abrupt cessation of volunteering activities is used to consider the policy and practice implications that need to be acknowledged in new public service research...
This chapter will seek to combine the knowledge and insights from the previous chapters into a roadmap for planning a type of patient and public involvement (PPI) involvement, which will work transparently. The chapter introduces a new bespoke conceptual framework: the COHERENCE Model. It is designed to bring together the thinking and actions descr...
This chapter will identify and draw on guidance available for researchers to explain the six key components of patient and public involvement (PPI) in research and how they can be implemented in practice. It will consider in particular:The principles of patient and public involvement in researchWho to involveWhen to involve themHow to involve themT...
This chapter will summarise key sections of the book focusing on the considered rationale for PPI and what best practice looks like. It will highlight well-founded and shared knowledge and understanding of practice, while also helping the reader to recognise and successfully negotiate some of the tensions and challenges inherent in ensuring that re...
This chapter will explore the ethical issues arising from the dynamics of building working relationships between diverse potential partners and stakeholders when considering patient and public involvement (PPI). It will specifically look at:Connecting ethics, everyday actions and research activitiesWhy laws exist to govern ethics in research?What i...
This chapter will explore critical perspectives and potentially long-term negative impacts of PPI in bringing together people with varying access to resources and experiences relevant to the action context. It will be specifically the following questions:Do we need academic freedom in research?What is a service user perspective?What are potentially...
The time before the NHS—when peoples’ access to health often depended on individual resources and variable connections to varying health institutions and health professional organisations.
‘This book is an inspiring reflection on public and patient involvement. The authors have captured the critical considerations for planning involvement in research, relating how meaningful, relevant and beneficial involvement is only possible when we have considered the reasons for doing it and tackled the structures that support unhelpful power im...
This article will consider the current development of an emerging contract culture for the delivery of social services and its impact on disabled people in China. The discussion is based on an original qualitative study in Shanghai. The past 30 years have seen dramatic changes in China, which in parts have led to improvements in the lives of disabl...
Written by over 200 leading experts from over seventy countries, this handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the latest theory and research on volunteering, civic participation and nonprofit membership associations. The first handbook on the subject to be truly multinational and interdisciplinary in its authorship, it repre...
The announcement in November 2012 by the Minister of Justice of plans to recruit volunteering organisations as indispensable to his ‘rehabilitation revolution’ crystallised several favoured policy themes of the coalition government. The speech confirmed the special status that voluntary sector organisations (VSOs) had assumed in governmental thinki...
This chapter reviews prior research and theory on both purposive-activity and analytical-theoretical typologies of associations and volunteering, with some attention to related typologies of nonprofit agencies and of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) generally. After sketching the history of such typologies, Smith presents several improved purposive-a...
This chapter reviews research on the longer-term consequences of volunteering for the volunteer as a participant or member in a voluntary membership association (MA) or in a Volunteer Service Program (VSP; see Handbook Chapter 15). Some consequences are immediate, as positive or negative felt affects/emotions from an activity (see the following Cha...
Written Chinese, due to its specific characteristics, poses extraordinary difficulties for its translation into Braille. To this day, this constitutes a serious handicap for Chinese-speaking blind people in education and employment. Reforming Chinese Braille, therefore, is an absolute necessity. Regrettably, only little research has so far been und...
SUMMARY A central pillar of Volunteering England's "Building on Success" strategy, the "modernisation of volunteer centre Infrastructure" in exchange for sustainable funding has been rejected by government. The ability of volunteer centres to access funds might now depend entirely on their ability to convince local funders of their value to the loc...