Making my Research Accessible
As an evidence-based practitioner, and also a PhD student, I spend a lot of time reading and producing research papers. I recognise that the findings from research studies are not always as accessible as they could be. I am passionate about communicating my research to non-academic audiences, enabling my work to have more impact by reaching the people who may wish to use it.
Current Research
Employer-Supported Volunteering
For my PhD, my research focus is employer-supported volunteering (ESV), which is when paid employees are supported, encouraged or otherwise enabled by their employer to volunteer outside of their organisation, to the benefit of volunteer-receiving organisations in their community.
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I have recently completed a scoping review of the employer-supported volunteering literature to understand how this topic has been researched to date, what is already known about the concept, and where there are gaps where more research is needed. This is currently being written up for publication in a journal, and I will share a link once it has been published.
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I have also produced a short, practitioner-focused summary of my scoping review findings (available to download, below), which may be of interest to individuals who involved in any way in organising ESV.
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If you are interested in finding out more about my research into employer-supported volunteering and how it might help you and your organisation, please get in touch with me.
How to get involved in my research
Request for Research Participants
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I am a PhD student at the University of Winchester, and I am looking for people to take part in my study:
Exploring how different people understand and
perceive volunteering that is supported or enabled by a person’s employer
For this interview-based research I need
participants representing any of the following groups:
Employees in paid employment, who have volunteered at least once over the last 12 months and been supported/enabled to do so by their employer
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CSR managers or volunteering managers/co-ordinators/policy holders at companies that support or enable volunteering by their employees
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Managers/volunteer co-ordinators at charitable, voluntary or
community organisations who receive volunteers that are doing volunteering with the support of their employers
The one-to-one interviews will last 90 minutes, and will be conducted either face-to-face or over Teams, at a time to suit you. To find out more about this study and what is involved, please contact me: Paula Glover (p.glover.23@unimail.winchester.ac.uk)
https://winchesterpsychology.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_23HY7DhVg9FeFy6
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This research has been approved by the University of Winchester’s Ethics Committee. Paula Glover is conducting this research under the supervision of Dr Debra Gray, Dr Kim Bradley-Cole and Dr Jordan Randell.
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My PhD research is being talked about!
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University of Winchester media article - PhD researcher Paula asks: 'Are we getting the most out of volunteering?'
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Hampshire Chronicle - Winchester university PhD student researching volunteering
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