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Dear all,
We are delighted to confirm that The Third Sector Research Centre and the National Centre for Research Methods at the University of Southampton will be starting an 18 month, longitudinal, mixed-methods, research project, using MOA material from the 1980’s to the present day.
Funded by the ESRC, The ‘Continuity and change in volunteering through times of economic prosperity and adversity’ project will trace the writings of 40 Mass Observers across 14 directives. The study will investigate individuals’ engagement with and trajectories in and out of volunteering, explore their motivations and capacity for engagement, and link these to their views on responsibilities of the State, local communities and the individual in meeting social need. This material will be brought into dialogue with population datasets/surveys (e.g. Understanding Society Survey, and British Household Panel Survey) that have covered these topics over the same time period to provide a mixed-methods analysis.
We believe that this is one of the first projects of this scale to use Mass Observation Archive material as a source for insights about longitudinal trends, and how individual views change or continue over time. We are excited about the challenge that this presents.
One of the final outputs of the project will be a resource that can be accessed at the Mass Observation Archive by other researchers and users of the archive. We look forward to sharing this resource, and our learning from the project, with the Mass Observation community.
Please do not hesitate to contact us about this project:
Rose Lindsey [log in to unmask]
Sarah Bulloch S.L. [log in to unmask]
Kind regards,
Rose and Sarah
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