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Exploring participation: findings from a literature review
Ellie Brodie and Eddie Cowling
Volunteering Counts 1st March 2010
Overview
• The Pathways through Participation project: introduction
• The literature review: aims and key findings
• Introducing the framework & its components
• Using the framework & next steps
How and why do people get
involved and stay involved in different forms of
participation over the
course of their lives?
Formative Years Middle Years Later Years
Aims to increase
knowledge of, and
improve opportunities for, participation
Spring 09 Summer 09 Autumn 09 Winter 09 Spring 10 Summer 10 Autumn 10 – Winter 11
Literature review
Selection of areas
Activity mappingsessions
In-depth interviewing
Participatory workshops
ANALYSIS
Research approach
Local area profiling
ANALYSIS
Bring together different bodies of literature about participation to
develop a broad, ‘round-earth view’ of participation
oVolunteeringoCommunity developmentoPublic participationoSocial movementsoEveryday politicsoEthical consumption
Aims of the review…
The review was to also help us develop a
‘framework of participation’ that could help to inform and shape (and be shaped by) the project’s subsequent
fieldwork.
Main findings...................
1. People first
2. Context is all important
3. Relationships matter
• between different participatory activities
• between life experiences and activities
• between people
• between people and the state
4. Power is pertinent
Exploring the components of the framework...
o Activitieso Placeso Life stageo Multiple dimensionso Shaping forces
Activity: Public Participation
Activity: Campaigning, advocacy & direct action
Activity: Service to others & environment
Activity: Mutual aid/self-help
Activity: Fundraising & giving
Activity: Ethical consumerism
Activity: Serious leisure
Places of participation
Self-interest<>altruism
Paid<>unpaidIndividual<>collective
Occasional <> RegularLocal <> Global
Online <> Offline
Member <> Organiser
Instrumental <> Transformative
Active <> Passive Proactive <>
Reactive
Multiple dimensions
•Childhood•Youth•Early adulthood•Late adulthood•Old age
Life stages
• Power
• Relationships
• Inequality/equality
• Access
Shaping forces
What’s next?
Local mapping sessions
What’s next?
In-depth interviews & timeline construction
To find out more: www.pathwaysthroughparticipation.org.uk