Just before the holidays we closed the volunteer engagement survey of 2018. In total, over 2,950 Scouts volunteer responded across seven branches. Thank you all for sharing your opinions about and experiences at Scouts! It was a great privilege to see so many Scouters freely share their time to help […]
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Two weeks ago, the final Scouts volunteer engagement survey began. So far, over 1,300 Scouts volunteers shared their experiences and opinions. In the next weeks we’ll send out reminders. Please, tell us what is good about the volunteer experience at Scouting and what can be improved! All the experiences […]
Starting this week, we will send out invitations for the final Scouts volunteer engagement survey. In the past two years over 6,000 Adults in Scouting shared their experiences and opinions via our surveys. This final survey will tie all previous research together and is therefore the most important part of […]
On Friday September 14, the research team presented some preliminary findings at the Volunteering WA researcher conference. This was a special occasion because many volunteering researchers in WA came together and discussed the projects they were working on. We obviously discussed the research we’re doing with Scouts. We talked about […]
We are proud to present a summary of the summary of the Scouts Volunteer Survey 2017! Over 2.700 Scouts volunteers from all over Australia completed a 30-minute survey that asked questions about their motivation and experiences. Thanks to their responses we gained valuable insights in why some volunteers leave […]
We have closed the Scouts volunteer survey 2017. This year, seven Scouts branches participated (Scouts ACT, NSW, SA, TAS, VIC, WA, & QLD) and over 2.700 volunteers completed the entire survey. We are incredibly excited that so many volunteers shared their motivation and experiences. Thank you very much for helping […]
Motivation is important in life, volunteering and work. Motivation can explain why most people feel best on Friday evenings and worst on Monday mornings. Marylene Gagne studies what motivates people. Click here to read interesting facts and findings about human motivation on her blog .
Gina Chatellier studies how to attract more people to volunteering roles. You can support her research by sharing why you volunteer. Click on this link for more information or to participate.
Do you feel like volunteering for Scouts after watching this video? The UWA research team is helping Scouts Victoria in developing Recruitment materials. We were proud to assist in selecting content for this Scouts Recruitment video. More videos and other materials will become available throughout the year.
Dr Patrick Dunlop presenting our research on recruitment with Scouts Australia in 3 minutes. Why should volunteer organisations not simply recruit “anyone with a pulse”? For more information on our project, please visit our website uwascoutsresearch.com or contact us on [email protected]
We are proud to present a summary of the results from the Scouts Volunteer Survey 2016! Over 3.000 Scouts volunteers from all over Australia completed a 30-minute survey that asked questions about their motivation, needs, fit with Scouts, and much more. The ultimate goal of our research is […]
On Tuesday 13 June Marylene Gagne (our lead investigator) and Barbara de la Hunty (Chief Commissioner Scouts WA) presented the first research results during the Volunteering WA conference. It was an inspiring experience to see so many volunteers and volunteer managers come together and discuss what we can do to […]
The volunteer surveys has now been concluded in six branches. Volunteers from Scouts ACT, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, Southern Australia, and Tasmania were invited to complete this research project’s current volunteer survey. Over 2,700 volunteers shared their views and opinions about Scouts on a wide range of topics, […]
Today I attended a couple of talks at the Social Impact Festival at UWA. One in particular left an impression on me. The talk was called Measuring Social Impact in Challenging Real World Contexts. One of the speakers preluded the talk by stating that they would not be giving […]
We’ve worked hard to create this website and now it is finally live! We intend to maintain this site throughout the next four years and for it to serve as a reliable source of information about the research collaboration between Scouts and UWA. We at UWA are very excited […]