State Emergency Service volunteer views on expectations, experiences and motivations

Hawa Muhammad Farid; Darja Kragt; Patrick Dunlop; Marylene Gagne; Alex Luksyte; Djurre Holtrop

State Emergency Service volunteer views on expectations, experiences and motivations

Hawa Muhammad Farid, Darja Kragt, Patrick Dunlop, Marylene Gagne, Alex Luksyte, Djurre Holtrop

Research output: Book/Report › Other output

Abstract

In 2017, the University of Western Australia (UWA) began a research collaboration project with the Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES), funded by the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), to investigate ways to improve the retention rates of their emergency service volunteers. The State Emergency Service (SES) volunteers are a vital community within Western Australia’s emergency volunteering sector due to their profound work and assistance in times of natural disasters and other emergencies. As such, researchers from UWA (Patrick Dunlop, Marylène Gagné, and Djurre Holtrop have since relocated to Curtin University) have collaborated to develop and administer a Cultural Assessment Tool (CAT) in the form of an online survey. The purpose of this survey was to learn about the SES volunteering experience from the volunteers’ perspectives in order to obtain information on how to improve volunteer recruitment, retention, wellbeing, and diversity within the overall SES volunteering journey.

Original language	English
Publisher	Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre
Number of pages	26
Publication status	Published - 2019

Access to Document

https://www.bnhcrc.com.au/publications/biblio/bnh-6012Licence: CC BY-NC

Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'State Emergency Service volunteer views on expectations, experiences and motivations'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this

@book{61831c745ea04d9eb4b7410b03440de0,

title = "State Emergency Service volunteer views on expectations, experiences and motivations",

abstract = "In 2017, the University of Western Australia (UWA) began a research collaboration project with the Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES), funded by the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), to investigate ways to improve the retention rates of their emergency service volunteers. The State Emergency Service (SES) volunteers are a vital community within Western Australia{\textquoteright}s emergency volunteering sector due to their profound work and assistance in times of natural disasters and other emergencies. As such, researchers from UWA (Patrick Dunlop, Maryl{\`e}ne Gagn{\'e}, and Djurre Holtrop have since relocated to Curtin University) have collaborated to develop and administer a Cultural Assessment Tool (CAT) in the form of an online survey. The purpose of this survey was to learn about the SES volunteering experience from the volunteers{\textquoteright} perspectives in order to obtain information on how to improve volunteer recruitment, retention, wellbeing, and diversity within the overall SES volunteering journey.",

author = "{Muhammad Farid}, Hawa and Darja Kragt and Patrick Dunlop and Marylene Gagne and Alex Luksyte and Djurre Holtrop",

year = "2019",

language = "English",

publisher = "Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre",

}

TY - BOOK

T1 - State Emergency Service volunteer views on expectations, experiences and motivations

AU - Muhammad Farid, Hawa

AU - Kragt, Darja

AU - Dunlop, Patrick

AU - Gagne, Marylene

AU - Luksyte, Alex

AU - Holtrop, Djurre

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - In 2017, the University of Western Australia (UWA) began a research collaboration project with the Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES), funded by the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), to investigate ways to improve the retention rates of their emergency service volunteers. The State Emergency Service (SES) volunteers are a vital community within Western Australia’s emergency volunteering sector due to their profound work and assistance in times of natural disasters and other emergencies. As such, researchers from UWA (Patrick Dunlop, Marylène Gagné, and Djurre Holtrop have since relocated to Curtin University) have collaborated to develop and administer a Cultural Assessment Tool (CAT) in the form of an online survey. The purpose of this survey was to learn about the SES volunteering experience from the volunteers’ perspectives in order to obtain information on how to improve volunteer recruitment, retention, wellbeing, and diversity within the overall SES volunteering journey.

AB - In 2017, the University of Western Australia (UWA) began a research collaboration project with the Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES), funded by the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), to investigate ways to improve the retention rates of their emergency service volunteers. The State Emergency Service (SES) volunteers are a vital community within Western Australia’s emergency volunteering sector due to their profound work and assistance in times of natural disasters and other emergencies. As such, researchers from UWA (Patrick Dunlop, Marylène Gagné, and Djurre Holtrop have since relocated to Curtin University) have collaborated to develop and administer a Cultural Assessment Tool (CAT) in the form of an online survey. The purpose of this survey was to learn about the SES volunteering experience from the volunteers’ perspectives in order to obtain information on how to improve volunteer recruitment, retention, wellbeing, and diversity within the overall SES volunteering journey.

M3 - Other output

BT - State Emergency Service volunteer views on expectations, experiences and motivations

PB - Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre

ER -