Researching Voluntary Action

Jon Dean is Associate Professor of Politics and Sociology at Sheffield Hallam University. His research examines inequalities within the charity sector and charity’s role in wider society and culture. Eddy Hogg is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Kent. His research focuses on volunteering, particularly the role of voluntary action in the delivery of public services.

• 1. Introduction - Eddy Hogg and Jon Dean2. (Un)suitable methods and reflexive considerations: an interview and focus group study of youth volunteering - James Davies3. Interpretive ethnography: a UK charity shop case study - Triona Fitton4. Collaborative philanthropy and doing practically relevant, critical research - Angela Eikenberry and Xiaowei Song5. Peer research: co- producing research within the context of voluntary and community action – Ellen Bennett6. Charity advertising: visual methods, images and elicitation - Abhishek Bhati and Jon Dean7. Using archives and objects in voluntary action research - Georgina Brewis8. Using Mass Observation as a source of qualitative secondary data for interdisciplinary longitudinal research on voluntary action - Rose Lindsey9. Investigating meanings and messages on volunteering through television media – Kimberly Wiley10. Annual reporting in voluntary organisations: opportunities for content analysis research - Carolyn Cordery and Danielle McConville11. Researching risk in the voluntary sector: the challenges and opportunities of regulatory data - Diarmuid McDonnell and Alasdair C. Rutherford12. Exploring the benefi ts of volunteering: combining survey and administrative data in the Nordic ‘laboratory’ – Hans-Peter Y. Qvist13. Spatial approaches to the voluntary sector – James Bowles14. Restudies, surveys and what counts as volunteering - Jon Dean and Diarmuid Verrier15. Conclusion - Jon Dean and Eddy Hogg