Researching Voluntary Action

1. Introduction - Eddy Hogg and Jon Dean


2. (Un)suitable methods and reflexive considerations: an interview and focus group study of youth volunteering - James Davies


3. Interpretive ethnography: a UK charity shop case study - Triona Fitton


4. Collaborative philanthropy and doing practically relevant, critical research - Angela Eikenberry and Xiaowei Song


5. Peer research: co- producing research within the context of voluntary and community action - Ellen Bennett


6. Charity advertising: visual methods, images and elicitation - Abhishek Bhati and Jon Dean


7. Using archives and objects in voluntary action research - Georgina Brewis


8. Using Mass Observation as a source of qualitative secondary data for interdisciplinary longitudinal research on voluntary action - Rose Lindsey


9. Investigating meanings and messages on volunteering through television media - Kimberly Wiley


10. Annual reporting in voluntary organisations: opportunities for content analysis research - Carolyn Cordery and Danielle McConville


11. Researching risk in the voluntary sector: the challenges and opportunities of regulatory data - Diarmuid McDonnell and Alasdair C. Rutherford


12. Exploring the benefi ts of volunteering: combining survey and administrative data in the Nordic 'laboratory' - Hans-Peter Y. Qvist


13. Spatial approaches to the voluntary sector - James Bowles


14. Restudies, surveys and what counts as volunteering - Jon Dean and Diarmuid Verrier


15. Conclusion - Jon Dean and Eddy Hogg