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Limerick Youth Service
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- Limerick
25/09/2024
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16th October, 1 - 3pm
Mary Ryan Seminar Room, O'Rahilly Building, University College Cork
Hosted by: UCC Futures – Collective Social Futures and ISS21
Overview
The Seminar will discuss the findings of two recently completed research projects on aspects of volunteering in Ireland. The research was commissioned and funded by the Department of Rural and Community Development as part of the National Volunteering Strategy 2021 – 2025, through the Irish Research Council’s New Foundations Scheme. Cork Volunteer Centre was the civil society partner for the research. Further details on both projects can be found on the ISS21 website at: Youth Volunteering: building capacity for the future | University College Cork (ucc.ie); and Volunteer Recognition: developing questions for the Irish Census
Schedule
1pm Open and Welcome (Professor Fred Powell)
1.10pm Volunteer Strategy Impact (Dr Lorraine Tansey, StudentVolunteer.ie Programme Manager)
1.30 pm Measuring Formal and Informal Volunteering (Dr Shirley Martin)
1.50pm Promoting Youth Volunteering (Dr Eileen Hogan and Dr Margaret Scanlon)
2.15pm Perspectives from Practice (Adam Lacey, Manager, Cork Volunteer Centre and Denis O'Brien, Volunteer Development Manager, Foróige)
2.50pm Q&A and Close.
Register for this event at: https://volunteeringresearch.eventbrite.ie
Research Reports
Scanlon, M., Hogan, E., Martin, S. and Powell, F. (2024) Promoting Youth Volunteering in Ireland: Current Practice and Ways Forward. Report for the Department of Rural and Community Development.
Martin, S., Desmond, E. and Scanlon, M. (2024) Volunteer Recognition: Developing Questions for the Irish Census on Formal and Informal Volunteering Report for the Department of Rural and Community Development.
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