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Enriching the university experience through volunteering: a pilot project
journal contribution
posted on 2015-06-22, 12:34 authored by Laura L. Garius, Louise NicholasThis article details the first year of a collaborative effort between a campus-based university and its local Victim Support scheme. The key innovative component was that student volunteers were trained to provide support to peers who experienced crime. Not a formal evaluation, this article outlines how the work appeared beneficial to the university, its students and Victim Support. The first two benefited through improved on-campus service to victimized students and to those who were trained and worked as volunteers. Victim Support benefited from increased numbers of volunteers and consequently improved services. Some implementation difficulties are also described. This study provides a platform for further efforts and their more formal evaluation.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
International Review of VictimologyVolume
21Issue
2Pages
233 - 245Citation
GARIUS, L. and GROVE, L.E., 2015. Enriching the university experience through volunteering: a pilot project. International Review of Victimology, 21 (2), pp. 233 - 245Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd / © The Author(s)Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2015Notes
This article was published in the journal, International Review of Victimology [SAGE Publications Ltd / © The Author(s)]. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269758015571474ISSN
0269-7580eISSN
2047-9433Publisher version
Language
- en