Volunteering WA Research Grant Program

16/06/2022

Volunteering WA, with the support of the Volunteering WA Research Committee, has established an annual volunteering grant program for Western Australian researchers.    

The program objectives are to:

• facilitate connections between researchers, VWA and their members;
• enable VWA to find answers to pertinent research questions;
• facilitate students / Early Career Researchers to engage with VWA and VIOs; and
• grow Western Australia’s capacity for volunteering research.

The first two projects to be funded will address the research question of “how has COVID-19 impacted tertiary student volunteering programs in WA?"  

Two funded projects

• Project title: University students’ experiences of volunteering to support older adults in hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative case study
  Lead researcher: Dr Olivia Gallagher, Edith Cowan University
  
  
• Project title: Impact of COVID-19 on University Students’ Volunteering – Emerging Trends and Way Forward
  Lead researcher: Dr Fazlul Rabbanee, Curtin University
  
  

More on both of these projects can be found on our Research page under Current Projects. 

Volunteering WA congratulates the recipients of the 2021-22 Research Grant Program and looks forward to sharing learnings from these projects with members and our community. 

The next round of the program for 2022-23 projects will be released by September 2022.  To register your interest, please join our Volunteer Researcher Network by visiting this link.

Are you a volunteer involving organisation that has an idea for an area of volunteer research?  We’d love to hear from you.  Please send an email to research@volunteeringwa.org.au to get in touch. 

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