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Useful resources for researching Volunteering

  • http://www.ivr.org.uk - Institutive for Volunteering Research
  • http://www.volunteering.org.uk/publications - Volunteering England do a great resource called Volunteering Impact Assessment toolkit. http://www.volunteering.org.uk/publications
  • David and Irene Hall (1996) Practical Social Research, Project Work in the Community, Macmillan
  • Irene and David Hall (2004) Evaluation and social research, Introducing small-scale practice, Palgrave Macmillan
  • Voluntary Action Journal (no longer in print)
  • - Onyx, J. et al. (2003) 'The special position of volunteers in the formation of social capital. in Voluntary Action, vol. 6. No. 1 Winter
  • - Kearney, J. (2003) 'Volunteering: social glue for community cohesion?' in Voluntary Action , same issue.
  • - 'Student volunteering and the active community: issues and opportunities for teaching and learning in sociology', by Pat Green, David Hall, Irene Hall and Andy Cameron, LATISS (Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences), vol 1. number 1. 2004.
  • Landscapes of Voluntarism, New spaces of health, welfare and governance, edited by C. Milligan & D. Conradson, Policy Press, Bristol, 2006
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