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| December 1998 As often happens, a graduate student called me last
week in the process of doing research. While I always try to be helpful
to anyone attempting to study volunteerism, I am near to saturation
with always hearing some variation on the theme of what motivates
people to volunteer? There is a disproportional number of scholarly
articles on why people volunteer--very few of them offering new insight.
In fact, just last month I was asked to blind review a submission
to a university-based journal that presented the results of a study
and concluded that practitioners would be well advised to consider
volunteer motivations in matching applicants to assignments.
Wow! Why didn't any of us ever think of that?
Having stated what research I don't find useful, you might want to read what I identified as needing study in the Journal of Voluntary Action Research back in 1985. The majority of topics I proposed then remain untouched. So the questions of the month are: What research questions would you like to see studied? If you could communicate with academics, what would you want them to know that would be helpful to you? Have you read any studies that you were able to apply to your work?
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