Key topics

volunteering

Volunteering is the act of working for an organisation without being paid. Volunteer retention is the ability to hold on to volunteers for future scenarios requiring their assistance.

Date	Item	Type		Key Topics
	Briefing paper: A proposed framework to assess strategies for engaging non-traditional emergency volunteers	Biblio	save (1.29 MB)	communities, non-traditional recruitment, volunteering
	Implications of Volunteered Geographic Information for Disaster Management and GIScience: A More Complex World of Volunteered Geography	Biblio		communication, local knowledge, volunteering
	What's wrong and what needs fixing? Stakeholder perspectives on making the future of emergency volunteering	Biblio	save (1.22 MB)	capability, emergency management, volunteering
	Emergency management perspectives on volunteered geographic information: Opportunities, challenges and change	Biblio		communication, local knowledge, volunteering
	Reducing turnover in volunteer organisations: A leadership intervention based on self-determination theory	Biblio	save (1.77 MB)	emergency management, recruitment, volunteering
	Emergency Services Workforce 2030	Biblio	save (2.1 MB)	non-traditional recruitment, recruitment, volunteering
	Out of uniform: building community resilience through non-traditional emergency volunteering: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (480.75 KB)	communities, non-traditional recruitment, volunteering
	Emergency volunteering 2030: a sector-wide, management perspective	Biblio	save (654.85 KB)	decision making, multi-hazard, volunteering
	Improving volunteer recruitment and retention: Annual project report 2015-2016	Biblio	save (1.46 MB)	emergency management, recruitment, volunteering
	The interaction between firefighting boot design and lower body injury risk at work	Biblio	save (587.38 KB)	emergency management, optimisation, volunteering
	State Emergency Service (SES): Volunteer views on experiences, wellbeing, and motivations – Findings from the Cultural Assessment Tool (CAT) Survey 2019-20	Biblio	save (852.43 KB)	non-traditional recruitment, recruitment, volunteering
	Emergency volunteering 2030: views from local government managers	Biblio	save (985.88 KB)	emergency management, governance, volunteering
	Emergency volunteering in Australia: transforming, not declining	Biblio	save (1017.73 KB)	volunteering
	Volunteering research in Australia: A narrative review	Biblio		diversity and inclusion, emergency management, volunteering
	Informal Volunteerism in Emergencies and Disasters: A Literature Review	Biblio	save (676.37 KB)	non-traditional recruitment, resilience, volunteering
	Out of uniform (building community resilience through non-traditional emergency volunteering): what have we learnt?	Biblio	save (534.45 KB)	non-traditional recruitment, resilience, volunteering
	Extending into community-led preparedness and planning just enough (but not too much?)	Biblio		communities, non-traditional recruitment, volunteering
	The changing landscape of disaster volunteering: opportunities, responses and gaps in Australia	Biblio		non-traditional recruitment, resilience, volunteering
	Navigating authority and legitimacy when ‘outsider’ volunteers co-produce emergency management services	Biblio	save (334.51 KB)	capability, recruitment, volunteering
	Emergency volunteering 2030: Views from emergency response volunteer representatives	Biblio	save (1.18 MB)	non-traditional recruitment, recruitment, volunteering
	Don't just do something, stand there! Mitigating goal seduction in emergency management	Biblio		capability, emergency management, volunteering
	The integration of informal volunteers into animal emergency management: experiences from the 2015 South Australian bushfires - non peer reviewed extended abstract	Biblio	save (184.77 KB)	animals, volunteering
31 Oct 2017	Sharing PhD findings on community decision making	Blog		communities, local knowledge, volunteering
06 Dec 2016	Out of uniform: workshopping about non-traditional volunteers	Blog		non-traditional recruitment, resilience, volunteering
23 Nov 2015	Connecting, informing, and building relationships: notes from the 2015 CRC sustainable volunteering workshop	Blog		volunteering
13 May 2015	On show in Chicago	Blog		communication, emergency management, volunteering
18 Dec 2019	As bushfires intensify, we need to acknowledge the strain on our volunteers	Blog		fire, fire impacts, volunteering
11 Sep 2014	Insights from an end user in Wellington	Blog		volunteering
05 Apr 2016	Utilisation the real challenge	Blog		emergency management, non-traditional recruitment, volunteering
15 Oct 2015	Extending into community-led preparedness and planning just enough (but not too much?)	Blog		communities, non-traditional recruitment, volunteering
14 May 2015	Engaging the masses, how we try and do it	Blog		communication, non-traditional recruitment, volunteering
27 Mar 2020	I’ve spent 14 years on bushfire front lines and seen courage in the face of death	Blog		fire, firefighter, volunteering
16 Apr 2015	Sendai through a different lens	Blog		communities, resilience, volunteering
08 Apr 2016	Data progress on Forcett fire	Blog		communities, recovery, volunteering
18 Mar 2019	Looking to the future with the NSW Country Women's Association	Blog		capability, communities, volunteering
17 Aug 2017	Fatigue management during extreme weather conditions vital for Australia’s volunteers	News		coincident events, severe weather, volunteering
28 Aug 2019	Outstanding achievements awarded at AFAC19	News		fire impacts, remote sensing, volunteering
18 Nov 2021	Mental health survey of young lifesavers in Victoria – extended	News		mental health, resilience, volunteering
22 Mar 2016	Newsletter 5 - Out of uniform	News		non-traditional recruitment, resilience, volunteering
15 Aug 2016	Newsletter 6 - Out of uniform	News		non-traditional recruitment, resilience, volunteering