Researching Voluntary Action Innovations and Challenges.

With case studies from around the world, this accessible book explores the methodological complexities of research into voluntary action, charitable behaviour and participation in voluntary organisations.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dean, Jon
Otros Autores: Hogg, Eddy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2022.
Colección:Third Sector Research.
Temas:
Voluntarism > Research > Methodology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Philanthropy & Charity.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Researching Voluntary Action: Innovations and Challenges
  • Copyright information
  • Table of contents
  • List of figures, tables and boxes
  • Notes on contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Series editor's foreword
  • 1 Introduction
  • Why is this book needed?
  • A note on terminology
  • Overview of the book
  • Conclusion
  • 2 (Un)suitable methods and reflexive considerations: an interview and focus group study of youth volunteering
  • Introduction
  • The research and I
  • Negotiating access and consent
  • Focus groups and interviews
  • Piloting participatory approaches
  • Focus group composition challenges and 'failed' interviews
  • The insider/outsider researcher
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 3 Interpretive ethnography: a UK charity shop case study
  • Introduction
  • The ethnographic case study
  • Access and location
  • Reflexivity and hidden stories
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 4 Collaborative philanthropy and doing practically relevant, critical research
  • Introduction
  • Doing practically relevant, critical research
  • Overcoming challenges of practically relevant, critical research
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 5 Peer research: co-producing research within the context of voluntary and community action
  • Introduction
  • A note on terminology
  • Researchers within the voluntary sector
  • Peer research: what is it and where does it 'sit'?
  • Core principles of peer research
  • Strengths of peer research
  • Challenges and limitations of the peer research approach
  • Future innovations in voluntary action peer research
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 6 Charity advertising: visual methods, images and elicitation
  • Introduction
  • Using visual methods
  • Exploring fundraising materials and the representation of homelessness
  • Beneficiaries' reflections on international aid appeals
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 7 Using archives and objects in voluntary action research
  • Introduction
  • Identification
  • Access
  • Format
  • Analysis and interpretation
  • Acknowledgements
  • Further reading
  • 8 Using Mass Observation as a source of qualitative secondary data for interdisciplinary longitudinal research on voluntary action
  • Introduction
  • What is Mass Observation writing?
  • Representativeness and the writers' panel
  • Composition of the panel
  • Current sampling tools
  • Context, sampling and the MOP
  • Analytical approaches to the Your Life Line directive
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Further reading
  • 9 Investigating meanings and messages on volunteering through television media
  • Introduction
  • Interpretive analysis of television portrayals of volunteering
  • Building a dataset
  • Data collection
  • Method of analysis
  • Step 1: Locate and document show and volunteer attributes
  • Step 2: Theoretical interpretation: capturing messages and meanings
  • Step 3: Ensuring credibility

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