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
	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
	First responder mental health: Fire and Rescue New South Wales experience	Biblio	save (515.2 KB)	recruitment, resilience, volunteering
	A review of informal volunteerism in emergencies and disasters: Definition, opportunities and challenges	Biblio	save (384.22 KB)	multi-hazard, volunteering
	Centralised coordination of spontaneous emergency volunteers: the EV CREW model	Biblio	save (327.34 KB)	response, severe weather, volunteering
	Volunteering research in Australia: A narrative review	Biblio		diversity and inclusion, emergency management, volunteering
	Giving voice to our givers: A phenomenological study addressing the perceptions of Rural Fire Service volunteers in Queensland	Project		emergency management, fire, volunteering
	Community-led bushfire preparedness in action: The case of Be Ready Warrandyte	Biblio	save (834.52 KB)	communities, decision making, volunteering
	Enabling sustainable emergency volunteering	Project	save (0 bytes)	non-traditional recruitment, recruitment, volunteering
	Navigating authority and legitimacy when ‘outsider’ volunteers co-produce emergency management services	Biblio	save (334.51 KB)	capability, recruitment, volunteering
	Organisational socialisation of volunteers in an emergency services agency	Biblio	save (564.04 KB)	emergency management, recruitment, volunteering
	Emergency volunteering 2030: Views from emergency response volunteer representatives	Biblio	save (1.18 MB)	non-traditional recruitment, recruitment, volunteering
	Out of uniform - building resilience through non-traditional volunteering: annual report 2016-17	Biblio	save (1.42 MB)	non-traditional recruitment, resilience, volunteering
	The sleep architecture of Australian volunteer firefighters during a multi-day simulated wildfire suppression: Impact of sleep restriction and temperature	Biblio		risk analysis, scenario analysis, volunteering
	Enabling sustainable emergency volunteering: annual project report 2017-18	Biblio	save (1.31 MB)	communities, volunteering
	Exploring Volunteer Turnover Reasons, Intentions, and Behaviour	Biblio		communication, recruitment, volunteering
	The future of 'non-traditional' emergency volunteering: what will it look like and how can it work? - Peer reviewed	Biblio	save (286.33 KB)	volunteering
	Enabling sustainable emergency volunteering - annual report 2019-2020	Biblio	save (1.73 MB)	non-traditional recruitment, recruitment, volunteering
	Opportunities and challenges of citizen-led recovery in post-disaster settings	Biblio	save (183.33 KB)	communities, recovery, volunteering
	Emergency Volunteering 2030: Views from Managers in Volunteerism	Biblio	save (1.89 MB)	emergency management, volunteering
	Improving the Retention and Engagement of Volunteers in Emergency Service Agencies Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (1004.16 KB)	recruitment, volunteering
	Disaster Resilient Communities: Engagement with Spontaneous Volunteer Groups	Biblio	save (1.05 MB)	communities, emergency management, volunteering
	Strategies for non-traditional emergency volunteers: a risk-benefit framework for decision-making	Biblio	save (1.2 MB)	non-traditional recruitment, resilience, volunteering
	Developing leadership to retain volunteers in emergency service organisations	Project		emergency management, volunteering
	The emergency service volunteer framework: guiding good management in brigades, groups and units	Biblio	save (566.47 KB)	communication, volunteering
	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
	Enabling sustainable emergency volunteering – final project report	Biblio	save (3.17 MB)	non-traditional recruitment, recruitment, volunteering
	Emergency Services Workforce 2030: Changing landscape literature review	Biblio	save (2.04 MB)	non-traditional recruitment, recruitment, volunteering
	Emergency management perspectives on volunteered geographic information: Opportunities, challenges and change	Biblio		communication, local knowledge, volunteering
	Emergency volunteering 2030: Views from the community sector	Biblio	save (1.05 MB)	emergency management, 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
27 Mar 2014	Out of uniform	Resource	save (877.64 KB)	capability, non-traditional recruitment, volunteering
07 May 2014	Newsletter - Out of Uniform	News		communities, volunteering
07 Aug 2014	Sharing Responsibility and Non-Traditional Volunteering	Resource	save (1.63 MB)	non-traditional recruitment, volunteering
08 Sep 2014	Building community resilience through informal emergency volunteering	Resource	save (1.12 MB)	non-traditional recruitment, volunteering
11 Sep 2014	Insights from an end user in Wellington	Blog		volunteering
22 Sep 2014	Newsletter 2 - Out of Uniform	News		volunteering
01 Oct 2014	Fire Australia Spring 2014	Resource	save (9.97 MB)	communities, risk management, volunteering
22 Oct 2014	Sustainable volunteering - how can we do it differently?	News		communities, non-traditional recruitment, volunteering