New PhD Research Focuses on Gender and Volunteering

The Melbourne Social Equity Institute welcomes Dominica Meade to its cohort of PhD researchers.

Each year the Melbourne Social Equity Institute provides Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarships and other scholarships to students whose interest in social equity issues aligns closely with our research agenda. This month we are delighted to welcome  Dominica Meade to our PhD program through a unique scholarship and research collaboration offered in partnership with Volunteer West.

Volunteer West’s mission is to uplift the profile and practice of volunteering as community building for social and economic wellbeing. Dominica's research will utilise an action-research approach to explore the gendered dynamics in volunteering and the coordination and management of volunteers, and will contribute to both practice and policy insights at a national level.

Dominica will be supervised by Dr Brendan Churchill, Senior Research Fellow in the Social and Political Sciences and by Professor Jo Barraket, Director of the Melbourne Social Equity Institute.

Dominica tell us "I am very grateful for the opportunity to further my interest in gender and community volunteering practices. I am really looking forward to investigating how the practice can be improved to better serve women."