1. Exploring participation: findings from a literature review Ellie Brodie and Eddie Cowling Volunteering Counts 1 st March 2010

2. Overview The Pathways through Participation project: introduction The literature review: aims and key findings Introducing the framework & its components Using the framework & next steps

3. How and why do people get involved and stay involved in different forms of participation over the course of their lives?

4. Formative Years Middle YearsLater Years

5. Aims to increase knowledge of, and improve opportunities for, participation

6. Spring 09Summer 09Autumn 09Winter 09Spring 10Summer 10Autumn 10 – Winter 11 Literature review Selection of areas Activity mapping sessions In-depth interviewing Participatory workshops ANALYSIS Research approach Local area profiling ANALYSIS

7. Bring together different bodies of literature about participation to develop a broad, ‘round-earth view’ of participation o Volunteering o Community development o Public participation o Social movements o Everyday politics o Ethical consumption Aims of the review…

8. The review was to also help us develop a ‘ framework of participation’ that could help to inform and shape (and be shaped by) the project’s subsequent fieldwork.

9. Main findings...................

10. 1. People first

11. 2. Context is all important

12. 3. Relationships matter between different participatory activities between life experiences and activities between people between people and the state

13. 4. Power is pertinent

15. Exploring the components of the framework... o Activities o Places o Life stage o Multiple dimensions o Shaping forces

16. Activity: Public Participation

17. Activity: Campaigning, advocacy & direct action

18. Activity: Service to others & environment

19. Activity: Mutual aid/self-help

20. Activity: Fundraising & giving

21. Activity: Ethical consumerism

22. Activity: Serious leisure

23. Places of participation

24. Self-interest<>altruism Paid<>unpaid Individual<>collective Occasional <> Regular Local <> Global Online <> Offline Member <> Organiser Instrumental <> Transformative Active <> Passive Proactive <> Reactive Multiple dimensions

25. Childhood Youth Early adulthood Late adulthood Old age Life stages

26. Power Relationships Inequality/equality Access Shaping forces

28. What’s next? Local mapping sessions

29. What’s next? In-depth interviews & timeline construction

30. To find out more: www.pathwaysthroughparticipation.org.uk eddie@involve.org.uk ellie.brodie@ncvo-vol.org.uk sarahmiller@volunteeringengland.org.uk