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Enhancing Volunteerism | Public Documents | Members Documents |

Presentations & Posters

Sean Cowlishaw
Conflicts between emergency services volunteering and family life: A volunteer couple perspective [pdf 117.7 kb]


Adrian Birch
Arresting the decline in volunteer numbers: the new member tracking survey [pdf 71.2 kb]


Jim McLennan
Why do they volunteer? Research into reasons for becoming a volunteer firefighter. [pdf 103.5 kb]


Jim McLennan, Adrian Birch - La Trobe University
Volunteerism: Facing the Challenge [pdf 658.8 kb]


Sean Cowlishaw (BCRC PhD Student)
Exploring the impact of firefighting on the families of volunteers. [pdf 94.2 kb]


Adrian Birch and Jim McLennan
The availability of potential volunteers in communities in regional NSW. [pdf 74.0 kb]


Sean Cowlishaw (BCRC PhD Student), Dr Lynette Evans, Dr Jim McLennan
Exploring the impact of firefighting on the families of volunteers. [pdf 94.2 kb]


Volunteerism Findings
Presentation at Auckland Conference [pdf 107.6 kb]


Enhancing volunteerism - BCRC / AFAC 2005 Poster
This paper reports on findings from preliminary investigations of current concerns about present and future volunteer fire fighter numbers. [pdf 62.4 kb]


Documents & Reports

Impact of volunteering on families
A literature review and research agenda
Sean Cowlishaw and Jim McLennan [pdf 140.3 kb]


Multicultural Bibliography
An annotated bibliography focusing on multicultural issues in Volunteering. Last updated February 2007 [pdf 368.6 kb]


Understanding the volunteer
Update 6 - Researchers are looking into the recruitment and retention of volunteer fire fighters. [pdf 203.0 kb]


Book Chapters

Save that brigade! Recruiting and retaining fire service volunteers to protect your community
McLennan, Birch, Cowlishaw, Suss. In Community Bushfire Safety. Link to publisher's site.