Unintended volunteers: the volunteering pathways of working class young people in community sport

Bradford, Simon; Hills, Laura; Johnston, Craig

doi:10.1080/19406940.2016.1161654

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“…The role of informal volunteers that support 'bridging' activities (such as shop keepers) and every-day interactions (the neighbour who is a nurse that 'pops in') were of central importance to those living with dementia. Bradford et al, (2016) show that informal volunteering captures 'unintended pathways' to volunteering. This informal support played an important role in networks, despite being neither formal volunteering nor informal care.…”

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“…Informal volunteering can also capture 'unintended pathways' and 'informal and interpersonal routes into volunteering if they wish to engage with working class or disadvantaged volunteers' (Bradford et al, 2016). The current government approach to volunteering emphasises formal volunteering, which will privilege certain cultural characteristics (Williams, 2003).…”

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Blurring and Bridging: The Role of Volunteers in Dementia Care within Homes and Communities

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Policy makers across the political spectrum have extolled the virtues of volunteering in achieving social policy aims. Yet little is known about the role that volunteering plays in addressing one of the significant challenges of an ageing population: the provision of care and support to people with dementia. We combine organisational survey data, secondary social survey data, and in-depth interviews with people with dementia, family carers and volunteers in order to better understand the context, role and challenges in which volunteers support people with dementia. Social policies connecting volunteering and dementia care in homes and communities often remain separate and disconnected and our paper draws on the concept of policy ‘assemblages’ to suggest that dementia care is a dynamic mixture of formal and informal volunteering activities that bridge and blur traditional policy boundaries. Linking home and community environments is a key motivation, benefit and outcome for volunteers, carers and those living with dementia. The paper calls to widen the definition and investigation of volunteering in social policy to include and support informal volunteering activity.

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“…Our results did not seem to point to many substantial differences between occupational inequalities in voluntary activities, and association memberships, although these two categories have the potential to reflect different patterns, and might usefully be explored further. Likewise there may also be scope for interesting explorations of the links between informal forms of volunteering and occupations (which might have different features from those involving formal volunteering—e.g., Bradford, Hills, & Johnston, 2016).…”

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Occupational inequalities in volunteering participation: Using detailed data on jobs to explore the influence of habits and circumstances

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Rutherford

2020

British Journal of Sociology

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In this paper we present empirical results that show that detailed occupations have distinctive patterns of association with voluntary participation. We draw upon data from four secondary survey datasets from the UK (coverage 1972–2012). Occupations are shown to link to volunteering in a wide range of scenarios and in individual, household, and longitudinal contexts. We argue that these linkages provide insight into social inequalities in volunteering, and that they can help us to understand the relative influence of “circumstance” and “habits” in enabling or inhibiting voluntary participation.

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“…Within community grass-roots sport, the motivations for involvement in non-playing roles include networking, having a child playing the sport, as well as other extrinsic benefits such as awards and recognition from others [ 14 – 17 ]. Other key drivers to their involvement include a general interest in the sport, and a desire to help others or to give back to a club or community [ 14 , 15 ]. In addition to the benefits of people in non-playing roles to run sports clubs, their participation can positively impact individuals.…”

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“…In addition to the benefits of people in non-playing roles to run sports clubs, their participation can positively impact individuals. For example their involvement can provide a sense of belonging, sense of satisfaction, work-related experience, new relationships and an increased sense of self [ 14 , 18 , 19 ].…”

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Gender inclusive sporting environments: the proportion of women in non-player roles over recent years

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Foley

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BMC Sports Sci Med Rehabil

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Background Throughout the ecosystem of sport, women have been and continue to be underrepresented at all levels compared to men. The capacity of community-level sport is heavily reliant on the many non-player roles including governance, as well as administration, coaching and officiating. Recently there has been increased attention to improving the gender balance in sport. The aim of this study is to investigate the proportions of women engaged in non-playing roles in sport (2016–2018). Methods This study involved secondary analysis of the AusPlay survey, a national population survey, funded by Sport Australia. This study utilised data from people aged 15-years or older about their involvement in non-playing roles in sport, and their demographic data. Survey respondents were asked “During the last 12 months, have you been involved with any sports in a nonplaying role, such as official, coach, referee, administrator, etc?” Analysis of non-player role responses focussed specifically on the top four non-player role categories; coach, official, administrator and manager. Frequency analysis concentrated on the distribution of men and women involvement in a non-player capacity for the three years, with detailed analysis of the most recent year (2018). Results In this study of 61,578 Australians there was a higher proportion of men in non-player roles in sport compared to women, across each of the three years (2018: men 55 %, women 46 %). Involvement of women in coaching increased significantly from 38 % to 2016 to 44 % in 2018 (p < 0.001). The proportion of women involved in administration roles significantly decreased from a peak of 51 % in 2017 to 46 % in 2018 (p < 0.001). Conclusions Aligned with strategic policy and investment strategies, there are gradual increased representation of women in non-playing sport, coaching roles. Women are still underrepresented in terms of coaches, officials and administrators, but are more likely to be managers. It is recommended that there is continued mentoring, identification and emphasising of female role models, and further strategies to increase female presence in non-playing roles. We recommend that future research, in line with appropriate gender and cultural-change theories, investigates and discusses the progress of gender equality throughout playing and non-playing role in sport.

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Unintended volunteers: the volunteering pathways of working class young people in community sport

Cited by 15 publications

References 32 publications

Blurring and Bridging: The Role of Volunteers in Dementia Care within Homes and Communities

Blurring and Bridging: The Role of Volunteers in Dementia Care within Homes and Communities

Occupational inequalities in volunteering participation: Using detailed data on jobs to explore the influence of habits and circumstances

Gender inclusive sporting environments: the proportion of women in non-player roles over recent years

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