Giving back
Irene Hardill shares some insights into what makes people volunteer centred on some case study-based research in a deprived community
This article is a summary of a paper: Doing one’s duty: a case study of volunteering in a deprived community, and was undertaken in partnership with Dr Sue Baines, Manchester Metropolitan University (RES 000 22 0592). The research was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) based in an East Midlands community affected by worklessness where we investigated volunteering and found very different ways of thinking about it.
Author: Irene Hardill
Irene Hardill is Professor of economic geography at Nottingham Trent University. She is an Academician of the Academy of the Social Sciences. Her current research interests centre on active citizenship, and valuing older people. She is currently undertaking a process and impact review of ESRC/SFC The Engaging Scottish Local Authorities Scheme, and undertaking research as part of the ‘New Dynamics of Ageing’ funded research programme which is concerned with older people’s sustained IT use, Sus-IT.
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