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The Effects of Volunteering on the Volunteer
Law and Contemporary Problems, 1999 JOHN WILSON [*] MARC MUSICK [**] I INTRODUCTION To most people, a "volunteer" is someone who contributes time to helping others with no expectation of pay or other material benefit to herself. However, this does not mean that volunteer work is of no consequence for the volunteer.
Wilson, John, Musick, Marc
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Emergent groups and spontaneous volunteers in urban disaster response
, 2017 Spontaneous responses by self-organizing, “emergent” voluntary groups and individuals are a common feature of urban disasters. Their activities include search and rescue, transporting and distributing relief supplies, and providing food and drink to ...
J. Twigg, I. Mosel
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American Journal of Neuroradiology, 2016 BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Normative age-related decline in paravertebral muscle quality is important for reference to disease and risk identification in patients.
Rebecca J. Crawford +9 more
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Temporal Motivations of Volunteers to Participate in Cultural Crowdsourcing Work
Information systems research, 2017 Crowdsourcing CS by cultural and heritage institutions engage volunteers in online projects without monetary compensation. Uncertainty concerning online volunteer motivation has led to a growing body of academic research.
L. Alam, John Campbell
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Botivist: Calling Volunteers to Action using Online Bots [PDF]
Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2015 To help activists call new volunteers to action, we present Botivist: a platform that uses Twitter bots to find potential volunteers and request contributions.
Saiph Savage +2 more
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Methods of Promoting Learning and Data Quality in Citizen and Community Science
Frontiers in Climate, 2021 Citizen science or community science (CS) programmes are engaging volunteers in specific stages of the scientific research, mostly data collection and processing.
Christothea Herodotou +2 more
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Engaging People in Nature Stewardship Through Master Naturalist Programs
Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2018 Master Naturalist programs across the country have reconnected Americans with nature for >20 years. Research suggests that reconnecting humans with nature benefits personal health and wellness, educates stakeholders about the importance of conservation ...
Mark Larese-Casanova, Michelle Prysby
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Insects, 2021 To address the decline in biodiversity, international cooperation in monitoring of threatened species is needed. Citizen science can play a crucial role in achieving this challenging goal, but most citizen science projects have been established at ...
Arno Thomaes +21 more
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The Unexpected Volunteer [PDF]
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Medicine, 2020 In this narrative account, the author, a medical student, describes his encounters with several inpatients at a community hospital. He becomes acquainted with a patient's son, who, initially withdrawn, over the course of his mother's hospitalizations transforms into a compassionate volunteer. This change is made especially evident when the author meets
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Cuadernos de investigación UNED, 2018 The collection of scientific data by people without a science degree is at least as old as Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, but thanks to smartphones it now involves large numbers of volunteers, leading to studies about who the so called “citizen scientists” are,
Julián Monge-Nájera, Carolina Seas
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