Investigating the challenges affecting rural volunteering in Australia

ARC Linkage project Developing a National Rural Volunteering Roadmap (2025-2035) investigates the challenges structural, geographic, organisational and personal factors affecting rural volunteering in Australia. This four-year project will conduct a national analysis of volunteering demand and supply, and generate new interdisciplinary knowledge of the structural, demographic, organisational and personal factors affecting the sustainability of rural volunteering. Expected outcomes of this project include a world-first index of volunteering vulnerabilities and a spatial map of volunteering unevenness, leading to the development of an evidence-based National Rural Volunteering Roadmap, which will guide the project’s volunteering peak body partners, governments and rural communities to plan for and support rural volunteering over the longer-term.

ARC grant number LP200301043

Research assistants

Dr Annette Maher

Dr Ingo Janowski

Previous outputs leading up to the project

For more information on our previous Linkage project Creating and Sustaining a Strong Future for Volunteering in Australia – (LP: 140100528) please visit this website.

For more project information

Contact

Contact Professor Leonie Lockstone-Binney