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Volunteerism - Science topic
Volunteering is generally considered an altruistic activity, intended to promote good or improve human quality of life, but people also volunteer for their own skill development, to meet others, to make contacts for possible employment, to have fun, and a variety of other reasons that could be considered self-serving. Volunteerism is the act of selflessly giving your life to something you believe free of pay.
Questions related to Volunteerism
Should researchers be paid for peer review of research papers, given that journals charge for publication and access heavily while scientists/ professors volunteer their expertise? Should not a fair remuneration also be part of the review system?
The refugee classroom is likely a multilingual or plurilingual one. In my experience, English language instructors (volunteer and paid alike) are monolingual. Thinking about the concept of translanguaging, or the practice of utilizing an entire set of language skills in the process of learning an additional language, and the tendency for ESL classrooms to hold an English-only pedagogical approach, I wonder how many monolingual instructors could use a new, more inclusive approach to English instruction that includes the use of the adult learners' language repertoire.
Hello everyone,
my Name is Amar, medical student at Freiburg University in Germany. I’m aspiring to be a neurosurgeon, and I would like to pursue a scientific career too. I am really interested in neurosurgery and neurooncology.
So therefor, does anyone here need a co-author or a research volunteer?
I will welcome every message every comment every opportunity!
We are working on a multi-author book in the field of health communication, which we plan to be published by Springer publishing house. Our book, which will be published in English, will include more than 40 chapters. Each chapter is planned to have two or three co-authors. It will be preferred that at least two of the authors are from different countries. Each unit will consist of a maximum of 10 pages. The book is expected to be ready for printing by the end of the year. We are waiting for your submissions.
You can be a partner with your co-author or only as a volunteer for the chapters that we can suggest. You can also indicate the chapter titles you think you can write.
Details will be announced later. For now, we just want to know who would like to join this team, who would like to join with which subject of study.
If you are volunteer, please submit our form: https://forms.gle/dmSymZ4mwCQM7dLf8
I am developing a scale for volunteer motivation with 10 dimensions, where 6 dimensions with low Cronbach's Alpha (0.507, 0.651, 0.681, 0.663, 0.621, 0.654). The other 4 dimensions' are okay (a>0.7). The dimension with 0.507 Cronbach's Alpha will be dropped, but I want to keep other dimensions with low Cronbach's Alpha.
How can do to increase Cronbach's Alpha (>0.7)?
I understand that lowering than 0.7 is difficult to be published:(
Solutions that I thought of but couldn't solve the problem:
1. increase the number of items - I don't want to start all over again, of course, I may have to
2. try other methods to test the reliability - I have tried omega, from which I have similar results compared to Alpha
3. based on the skewness and kurtosis to remove items - I have done this step - all the items: -2<skewness <2, -7<kurtosis <7 , so, I didn't remove any items
4. remove outliers - I used Mahalanobis distance, from which 12 outliers have been removed.
Many thanks!!
Why does it take so much time to review a paper?
From my humble experience as an editor of a top tier journal, i can tell you its the editor’s lack of effort. in general. People should only volunteer if they have and willing to give enough time to find proper reviewers and review.
Hi... Its my pleasure to inform all the scholars that we have create a journal in educational field. we will release this journal on march 2023. I would like to invite you as editor and reviewer in our journal. If you interest with this project you can send me direct message. Thank you
Hello everyone!
Of course, many of us volunteer for the community / society. I have had access to many accounts of people who have turned this activity into an ideal of life, claiming that with this occupation, they became better, charitable, and happy with the results!
How do you see that?
Thank you for all the contributions.
Cheers!
mycelium based bio material is growing its interested among people like me which is a great volunteer in clearing carbon footprint from the planet.
seeking for vast amount of knowledge to gather on this topic to succeed in bringing mycelium based materials to develop in India.
Study using questionaries' to determine the consumer attitude and consumer perception on meat consumption.
Dear Community,
I read that the VFI is considered to be an outdated and incomplete instrument to measure the motivations in volunteerism studies. However, I read a very recent publication using the same to measure motivations. Does anyone know or has come across any other instrument within the functionalist approach which measures motivations in volunteers? Could anyone suggest an alternative instrument (close-ended) to measure motivations of volunteers? I wanted to use it for my thesis..
Thank you
I was once asked to volunteer to teach a philosophy course for U3A. I had to turn down the request because of the excessive time involved in travelling to and from the venue, otherwise I would have been happy to do it. However, I later learned that even volunteer instructors were required to become fee-paying members of their U3A chapter. Since I had no interest in availing myself of their services I thought that policy was a bit much.
I need 1.000 responders for the below questionnaire - if anyone can volunteer or answer it - I really appreciate it ;) thank you M.
For journal editors, and their authors, reliable, timely and instructive reviews are worth their weight in gold. This comes at a time when many journals are inundated with higher numbers of submissions, and reviewers are equally inundated with a greater number of invitations to review.
For the most part, reviewers volunteer their time amidst their already busy schedule and undertake the task without reward or compensation (with the exception of Publons and various journal specific initiatives including best reviewer awards and certificates).
The question I pose, "What factors determine your decision to accept or reject a journal invitation to review for it?" resonates and one that I have generalizations for but keen to understand more fully.
The following are common reasons in my experience to accept or reject invitations:
Reject
- I have zero intention to review for a journal that I have no interest in publishing in
- I have had a bad experience with the journal (often this is related to having submission dealt with poorly, often when they have been though to have been rejected unfairly)
- It is not on the list of journals I am instructed to publish in by my university
- The invitation is too impersonal and the tone of the email invitation is off-putting
- The subject matter is irrelevant to my work
Accept
- I have published in the journal before
- I have reviewed for the journal before and have felt appreciated
- I know the journal editors and members of the editorial board
- The subject matter is relevant to my work
- I like the journal and the work published in it
What other reasons are there for rejecting or accepting invitations to review?
* Disclosure: I am the Co Editor-in-Chief of Tourism Geographies by Taylor & Francis, and run special issue for a number of other journals.
i'm doing an experiment where i'm inducing anger then fear in volunteers, and i need a topic to ask them to write about. so far i considered asking 3 questions about covid with paragraph responses of 160-240 characters. the questions are about wearing masks, taking vaccines, and congregation outrage. is there a better suited topic?
Dear all,
Hope you are doing well.
I'd kindly like to ask if anyone may have any available internships/apprenticeships with regards to the field of research. I am a volunteer with IAESTE Malta and am currently in my second year completing a Bachelors of Science (Honours) with Chemical Technology where I place as one of the highest students in my class. I am looking for a 1-3 month period that focus' on spectroscopic technics or anything mycology and/or chemistry related.
I am asking here since I would like to have an experience outside of my country that would be both educational and enjoyable.
Anyone that may know of any offer and/or is offering one please leave a comment or email me through my student email: shaun.attard.e21254@mcast.edu.mt.
Thank you for your time and considerations.
I'm a student in a master's program of counseling looking for research opportunities but having difficulty finding opportunities, even as a volunteer. Does Research Gate help people such as myself to connect with researchers in need of volunteers? How so?
People in different communities need help and volunteer support but on the other hand, people are very busy and do not have time to participate, so how to reconcile between buy people and volunteer work.
Need Volunteer for Article Reviewer with expertise of Psychological science and have Google Scholar (or Scopus ID) Profile with several collections of the results of writing the articles on it, for our new Journal named “Journal of Psychological Perspective (JOPP)” with url https://ukinstitute.org/journals/jopp. Please fill out the form via http://bit.ly/ReviewersJoPP if there are interested in becoming our reviewer volunteer. After that, we will contact the volunteer that appropriate for our Journal via email.
Thankyou and warm regard,
Need Volunteer for Article Reviewer with Education areas of expertise and have Google Scholar / Scopus ID/ or Orcid ID/ publons ID Profile with several collections of the results of writing the articles on it, for one of the new our Journal named “BORNEO EDUCATIONAL JOURNAL (BORJU)” Please fill out the form via https://forms.gle/mMryJPPs99wHYxmUA if there are interested in becoming our reviewer volunteer. After that, we will contact the volunteer that appropriate for our Journal via email.
Be it resilience, communications, leadership, diversity & inclusion, etc., many of us have been provided soft skills training. Some of which we used and some of which we did not. If you are over 18 years old, have had any type of soft skills training and would be willing to share a few minutes with me to answer a few questions concerning why you used or did not use the soft skills learned, please use the link below to contact me. For anonymity please do not volunteer in the comments area of this post.
Thank You,
Ricky

I have know sequence of mRNA. but i need to amplify the unknown region of 5'end ? to do this that needs GSP1(reverse) and GSP2 primer(forward). my kit protocol states your GSP2 primer is anneals to sequence located 3' (with respect to cDNA not mRNA). here how I design the GSP2 ? is from directedly the mRNA or from its complement ? for more clarity I attached my kit protocol and if there is any volunteer explain page. 4 from the document ? thanks in advance
I am a postgraduate student doing a dissertation research in relationship marketing. I am looking for volunteer expert on media and social network to answer to a quick questionnaire related to how social networking may affect audience behavior.
If you are interested, just send me an email to florian.pouzol@northumbria.ac.uk
Thanks in advance
Best Regards,
Florian
I'm doing a systematic review assisted by a volunteer who is only doing 30% of the papers that needs to be screened. Can I calculate interrater reliability between me (main reviewer) and the volunteer at all? Would the best way is to calculate some kind of percentage? Or is there someway to use Kappa calculator or some equivalent? Thank you
My name is Mustafa and I'm currently in my 3rd year of my Biomedical Science major. I decided not to take any courses this spring and summer because I want to invest my time in studying the MCATs and also to help with research. Are there any scientist that want any help with research related to Cardiology or such related topics. I have an extreme interest and background information in Cardiac Pathophysiology and Cardiac rehabilitation and I'm also very good with excel. If you need any volunteer I am here for you. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
I want to search any of the events as mega event, hallmark event regional event and local event of some countries which article will provide the data of number of audience, budget, volunteer number and many more. can anyone tell me how can i find articles having those information.
I'm a retired applied mathematician seeking a volunteer job using my (math/EE) education and experience in (disc drive/airplane/space) industries. A calculus-level compiler provides a quick way to solve most continuous equations. Know where such a job may be found?
Hi,
I am in Wuhan (the epicenter of Corona Virus), China. My labs are closed and I am restricted to my apartment. My labs arranged some machines for a little duration which are not enough to carry out my research. If anyone can volunteer me online access of 6-20 nodes cluster based on the Linux operating system, I will very thankful to you.
Best Regards!
Is there any international journal or conference that welcome new volunteer reviewer who experiences its first contribution as paper reviewer?
If not, would you please tell me how I can initiate my first international experience?
Hi everyone,
I would like to apply a Likert Scale questionnaire to analyze the process of a volunteer subtitle translation on certain websites. I can not figure out how to analyze the data that I receive. I am also open to any other suggestions regarding quantitative questionnaire models in social sciences.
Many thanks in advance.
Ebru
What kind of bias is introduced from consent in cohort studies.
Congratulations on this wonderful international project. I am a postdoc researcher conducting microanalysis studies of vocal interactions (speech and singing) in premature mother-baby dioids at the Center for Studies of Sociology and Aesthetics at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon and Professor of the Master of Science. Music Therapy in Portugal in addition to performing duties as a volunteer music therapist in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Lisbon-Portugal. I would like to know if Portugal would be viable to apply as a partner of the LongStep Project and what are the conditions or requirements for this application.
I'm a medical student. I love neurosurgery.
I want to involve in neurosurgical researches as a volunteer. I don't need money I'll work for free. I need to obtain knowledge only.
Could you help involve me in neurosurgical or neuroscience researches? (for free as a Volunteer)
this is my mail address
Hi, I am a novice research and currently putting together a proposal for research with refugee children at a centre. I do not know the number of children as I am not able to access this data due to their privacy act until my proposal is accepted. I have had some reviewer feedback asking how I determined the sample size and this is based on my guesstimate while doing volunteer work at the centre. My question is regarding some feedback I received about how I will determine power of the sample. How would I go about doing this? Is it possible when I don't actually know the population number?
Many, many thanks in advance.
Are you considering further training in psychology? A student shares their experience researching the psychology of helping others...
- Interview: https://ideospectus.com/psrs-ii/
- Brief research survey: https://bit.ly/2WGx2eL
Thank you kindly in advance,
Justin and Keirissa
Last time I posted a photo of my community, it has got 18 dumpsites. These are illegal dumpsites by law but not much is being done to control the situation. I volunteer part of my time with a community based youth organization that has been working to raise awareness among the residents of this community. From the year 2017, when this started, not much progress has been registered to curb the behavior. Even understanding of the behavior has been crippled by lack of necessary tools to capture vital information, what kind of waste materials are disposed on daily basis and also what days of the week do people dispose least/maximum amount of waste. While that these questions have left me with a lot to be desired, I want to explore if there have been developments to tap the potential of smartphones to capture this information. Extending my question, are there techniques similar to those that are used in land cover change detection that have been customized for these kinds of problems. Looking forward to learn from others.
As i am a student of third year in Mehran university and looking for collaborative working and i can be a volunteer in your project
some cancer are graded no be non accessible and few times asymptomatic ,the cell be be metastasizing in blood and ,this person may be volunteer donor ,can these cells be incidentally transfuse leading to cancer in others ?
Hi, I am trying to figure out if I can use snowball, convenience and volunteer sampling methods at the same time for a single survey ? For instance, if I send emails, post public posts social media and within both ask my audience to recruit other participants?
I have designed a questionnaire for my final year research project and I am looking for volunteer to test the questionnaire.
Kin regards.
Joseph.
We found a Cantharellus which i keyed out to C. ianthinoxanthus but it's not known in Singapore as yet. I really would like to know what exact species it may be. Are you doing phylogeny on it as well? Do you also need Cratharellus?
Best
SL
Are there enough human research study volunteers today? Why do some volunteer and others do not?
Research has demonstrated that sheltered dogs may form new bonds with a person in a period of time as short as three handling encounters, owing to the lack of social contacts with humans (Márta Gácsi 2001). On the other hand, how long does it takes for a volunteer to form an attachment with a sheltered dog?
Hello, I am interested in everyone thoughts on what motivates a volunteer to participate in a survey of any form.
I am currently undertaking a literature review on citizen science and would like first hand experience reviews on why volunteers participated.
Thanks
Stephanie
Getting people to volunteer for research is always difficult and we cannot offer any inducement to participate.
Most laws in Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and the United States have been interpreted as including a "patients right not to want to be told the risks of the medical treatment recommended by his or her physician. Should there be an "opt out clause" in research informed consent so that the individual can volunteer for a research trial for a new drug or new medical device without being told of the risks by the researcher, research team, or informed consent? Is this "opt out clause" in clinical care vs. research on human subjects a "good idea" of a "bad idea"? Why? On what grounds?
To date, the peer-review process is blind and the reviewers always do as a volunteer.
To improve the peer-review process, should the peer-review process be open, the reviewers be paid for their contribution and take responsibility for their comments to guarantee the fast speed and high quality?
Is it possible or necessary to build up the system?
Hi Guys,
I am looking for volunteer software development opportunity for some project. I carry 5 years of software development experience mostly with Python. Currently I work at a company called Seagate on monitoring of exa scale storage product.
Do I need to have ethical committee approval for collecting 10 ml of peripheral blood for PRP preparation and cytokine profiling or will I be accepted with the Informed consent form alone from the volunteer?
The study plans to recruit participants for FGDs by open advertisement in the selected area.
Do you need participants for your investigations? My daughter has an autistic disorder.
There is an instrument was validated outside Malaysia among nurses, then same instrument was translated to malay language and validated inside Malaysia among volunteer participants (not nurses).
I want use this instrument in Malaysia among nurses, Is it necessary to validate again ??
I am developing items for my data collection instrumnets. I need scholars who have the expertise in research and innovation leadership and management in higher education institutions, and who are volunteer to lend me their hands to validate the items.
I am a student of Masters Disaster management. I am to submit my thesis on the 5th of Dec. I got some comments already from my supervisor which I am currently working on. I would appreciate more comments please. Thank you
I'm conducting a qualitative study with a Delphi design. I want to demonstrate that my data has been properly triangulated. I've shared my data collection with a trusted associate (another researcher). In your experience, does that qualify as triangulation? If not, how have you approached triangulation? Thank-you in advance!
My report is on volunteersim. Plpease send information concerning the behaviors on mandatory volunteering
Please could you help us by sending the interpretation of the MBI-GS sheet. Kindest regards
Hello Hans and Ingo
Good evening from Korea, it's been ages, I hope you doing well.
I retired from previous job and trying to settling down my home country.
We occasionally encountering relatively young manager's trust issue towards his/her sub managers (which relatively experienced) and which leads zero sum or even minus productivity and/or long term strategy for specific unit/department.
How we can tackle this concern? Via leadership mentoring from senior management or bottom to top sharing experience?
I am research student and for this purpose i need to use following tools but i don't know from where i can get permission please help me.
CAn personal observations be a substitute for triangulation?
The response rate is important for a survey for its representativeness. But what is the trade-off for this?
Hello everyone,
currently I am struggling to find enough participants for my research project of my master thesis. I am trying to identify the factors that affect knowledge sharing in higher education and which role social networking sites (SNS) like Facebook play in this process. As I am conducting a cross-cultural comparison to analyze if there are cultural differences, I need more volunteer students.
If anyone of you can spare some little time and help me by filling out my questionnaire or share it with other students and friends, I would be beyond happy! The survey will take around 7-10 minutes.
Furthermore, each participant has a chance to win one of the $5 , $10 and $20 Amazon Gift Cards, if helping isn’t enough of an incentive. ;)
Please click on this link to complete the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/miba2016
Many thanks in advance for your help! I greatly appreciate your support!
Mobilization, Motivation, Intent to return, Festival, Social Exchange, Situationnnal community, Feeling of belonging, etc..
I looking for the best theoretical framework that suit to obtain tourists perception or opinion towards a suggestion of volunteer tourism concept into current tourism activities.
Mediating role of perceived organizational support (POS) linking corporate volunteerism and organizational commitment.
Student volunteerism for internationalization of universities
Does anyone know of person who might be able to assist in developing a database of prisoner re-entry resources that can be developed initially for Pennsylvania and then potentially expanded nationwide? We are interested in a potential volunteer to develop such a program at the start. Perhaps a retired IT specialist looking for volunteer opportunities.
Volunteers are the integral part of any community radio station of the world and they are the working force that ensures the community participation. But who are the volunteers? Are they persons used to spend their times for the community radio or who have a clear aim or objective to serve a community using any media of communication? Or simply a volunteer is an unpaid labour? Can we define volunteer as individual, organizational or in the community as a whole? The purpose of this study is to examine the concept of ‘volunteerism’ in context of community radio of South Asia and to find a sustainable model of volunteerism for the community radio stations.
Your cooperation shall be highly appreciated.
I am doing something like allourideas.org, but for fundraising purposes. I do not need the precision of allourideas algorithm, but I do need to cut costs. I just tried to take a blank tear-off pad and asked 20 people that know me for half a year: "What do you want to do in society ? I got about 50 good ideas with preferences, contacts for 15 people with permission to ask for help, 4 that are offering specific help and two young enthusiasts that volunteer for me.
That seems good to me. Does anyone know about some methodology that is concerned with something similar ?
I am working as philosopher, no need to be strictly scientific. Thank you.
Want to know about how to carry out projects of social interaction ?, a specific method that you could recommend me ?, What steps performed and what indicators use ?, how their results support; What viability parameters used?
Thank You So Much
The only two references that I have is the Scout method and the method of ELOS Institute in Brazil
I am particularly interested in the capacity to promote social entrepreneurship through participation in university volunteer programs. Thank you very much for your contributions and opinions.
Actually i conduct study about the correlation between religiousity and motivations to volunteer. Because many studies talking religiousity on a Christianity concept. So today, I curious how volunteering happening in Islam. Thank you
Do you have any articles from many perspectives.
My review of the volunteerism literature, and especially the empirical studies, leads me to conclude that most studies appear to fall into one of two camps:
- Those that focus on volunteer behavior relative to a single organization, versus
- Those that investigate volunteer behavior in aggregate, e.g., number of hours volunteered overall.
I am interested in investigating how many organizations are supported, how one's volunteer hours are divided among those organizations, and the underlying decision process.
I manage a research participant registry. I have just come on board and the data from participant surveys has been being input by volunteers. I have checked the first 100 surveys for errors and have found around a 60% error rate (around 60% of the surveys have at least one entry error). I plan to double enter all of the current surveys at 100%. However, outside of more extensive volunteer training, I am looking for measures to ensure data integrity for the future surveys.
I recently gave a talk to CVS volunteer centre managers about the results of a survey conducted for Community First New Forest. One volunteer brought up they felt motivations didn't capture reasons why people volunteer. We know there is a difference between reasons and motivations. Which do you think are most relevant to practitioners? Background information on the study can be found at http://blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/2015/02/03/study-increases-understanding-of-motivational-drivers-of-volunteers-and-lessons-learned/#share
My organization is involved in community based inclusive development (previous CBR) and one of the cornerstones is the use of volunteers. We need to strengthen our understanding in what motivates these valuable individuals sharing their time with the most needy in society. Since most of our programs are in Africa, studies from there would be highly relevant.