News from Pathways Through Participation:
Pathways through Participation is a two and a half year (April 2009 – November 2011) qualitative research project that was funded by the Big Lottery Fund and led by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) in partnership with the Institute for Volunteering Research (IVR) and Involve.
The project aimed to improve our understanding of how and why people participate, how their involvement changes over time, and what pathways, if any, exist between different activities.
Below are the publications and resources produced during the course of the project. If you have any questions or comments, please contact Tim Hughes at tim@involve.org.uk.
Project resources
Final report
This is the final report of the project, presenting findings from 101 in-depth interviews.
Summary report
This report summarises the findings from the project and recommendations for future policy and practice.
Informing and influencing policy
This briefing paper summarises the findings and implications for national policy agendas.
Local engagement in democracy
This briefing paper summarises the findings and implications for local engagement in democracy.
Volunteering as a participation pathway
This briefing paper summarises the findings and implications for volunteer management.
Research, engagement and impact
This briefing paper reviews the project’s approach to research and stakeholder engagement, highlights how the project set about linking research to policy and practice, and critically assesses some of the research methods and tools that were used.
Understanding participation: A literature review
This report is a literature review exploring participation in context (historical and current), in practice (the activities and actors), and in theory (the concepts).
Download the literature review
Reviewing the literature
These briefing papers summarised the findings of the literature review:
What are the drivers of participation?
Project reports
These reports covered the project’s emerging findings and reflections on it’s approach:
Strengthening participation: Learning from participants
Using participatory mapping to explore participation in three communities
Situated practice: Initial reflections on the organisation of participation
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