Student Volunteering Symposium

28/06/2016

 #studentvolunteer16

Why Student Volunteering Research?
The recent expansion of Irish HEI community engagement initiatives supporting student volunteering raises important questions and the Symposium will be a critical, safe place to build a scholarly layer of enquiry.  
 
Listen, Share, Engage

As a symposium we welcome contributions from you to enhance student volunteering with all our stakeholders: students, higher education, alumni, non-profits, employers and community partners.
 
You are invited to present on your work and in particular you might like to take a focus on the one or more of the following themes:

• build understanding on the scale of student volunteering
• how to begin researching your student volunteering practice and supportive research tips
• recognising the scholarship dimensions of student learning through extra-curricular engagement
• raising awareness of contemporary research into student volunteering at higher education through practice and policy levels

 
Keynote SpeakerClare Holdsworth
Clare Holdsworth (Professor of Social Geography, Keele University , UK) is the most prolific writer in the UK on student volunteering and really pushes the boundaries of our thinking. Her keynote will address the mobilisation of employability skills as an outcome of volunteering, valuing and nurturing voluntary activity as an end in itself and critiquing graduate attributes discourses.

Symposium Website Links

About the Symposium: www.nuigalway.ie/community-engagement/studentvolunteering
 
 
The Symposium event will be of interest to:

• Students
• Staff of Higher Education
• Researchers and Academics
• Practitioners
• Community or Non-profit Organisations
• Social Enterprises
• General Public

 
 
Please feel free to circulate widely to your networks and encourage your colleagues, students and community partners to also present.
 
Look forward to welcoming you to the Institute for Lifecourse and Society!