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Assessing the intrinsic value, and health and well-being benefits, for individual and community, of The Reader Organisation's Volunteer Reader Scheme.

评估读者组织志愿者读者计划对个人和社区的内在价值以及健康和福祉益处。

基本信息

批准号：
AH/L004674/1
负责人：
Philip Maurice Davis
金额：
$ 5.7万
依托单位：
University of Liverpool
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2013 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FL004674%2F1
关键词：
Assessing intrinsic value health well

项目摘要

This project will investigate the value to individual and community of the BIG Lottery-funded Volunteer Reader Scheme, which has been developed by award-winning charitable social enterprise, The Reader Organisation (TRO), as part of its pioneering outreach project, Get into Reading (GIR). TRO's mission is to create environments where personal responses to books are freely shared in reading communities in every area of life. The GIR model is based on small groups (2-12 people), reading aloud together short stories, novels and poetry. GIR is distinguished from conventional reading groups by its shared-reading method: the literature exists live and performatively in the room; regular breaks in the reading encourage participants to reflect on what is being read, and weigh its language and meaning, often in implicit or explicit relation to their own life-experience, while readers always control their own involvement, contributing as much or as little as they choose. GIR currently delivers over 360 groups, in health and social care settings (community centres, libraries, homeless shelters, schools, hospitals, offices, doctors' surgeries, prisons, drug rehab units and care homes) across the UK. The related Volunteer Reader Scheme engages 70 people at risk of, or suffering from, mental health difficulties, isolation or unemployment in a range of volunteering opportunities at all levels of TRO. Volunteer roles operate at the heart of organisation's reading mission and whilst often still being members of reading groups, volunteers are further involved as: Office Assistants, preparing reading resources for reading groups; Reading Group Assistants, working alongside reading group facilitators: Reading Friends, reading weekly, one-to-one, with isolated older people; Reading Group Facilitators, running weekly reading groups in Residential Care Homes or with the elderly. Volunteers are fully trained and supported by TRO staff, receiving regular feedback and recognition of their achievements and are offered potential for role development: reading-group members may become volunteers; volunteers may become interns or apprentices; apprentices may become employees. This study will build on the existing collaboration between The Centre for Research into Reading, Information and Linguistic Systems (CRILS) at the University of Liverpool, and its third sector partner, TRO, to develop innovative, interdisciplinary literary and social scientific methodologies for capturing multi-dimensional components of the reading experience. In two separate yet related and concurrent studies, the research will seek (1) to identify the unique value of shared reading as it is actually experienced by the volunteers, as a representative section of vulnerable and needy individuals, as well as examining the relationship of this intrinsic value to collateral benefits. Through comparison of a GIR group with a built environment discussion group, via analysis of transcribed audio-recordings, this study will test the hypothesis that serious literature has power to create both individual meaningfulness and a strongly interactive small community; (2) to test the efficacy of the movement from, and inter-relation between, reading group-membership and future facilitation of reading groups, by comparing the experience of volunteers as continuing group-members and as developing group-helpers, gaining increased master. Dynamic and diverse volunteer case studies will be compiled, via interviews, observations, questionnaires, and these will be cross-referenced with routine audit data, to establish the connection between intrinsic literary affect and individual mental health and community well-being. This study will also consider how TRO's recent acquisition of an International Reading and Wellbeing centre, Calderstones Park Mansion House, may serve as a future Merseyside hub to create a larger community of volunteers engaged in reader and other-related activities.

该项目将调查BIG彩票资助的志愿者阅读计划对个人和社区的价值，该计划是由屡获殊荣的慈善社会企业读者组织（TRO）开发的，作为其开创性外展项目“进入阅读”（GIR）的一部分。TRO的使命是创造一种环境，让个人对书籍的反应在生活的各个领域的阅读社区中自由分享。GIR模式是基于小组（2-12人），一起大声朗读短篇故事、小说和诗歌。GIR与传统阅读小组的不同之处在于它的共享阅读方式：文学作品在房间里活生生地存在着；阅读中有规律的休息时间鼓励参与者反思所读的内容，并权衡其语言和意义，通常与他们自己的生活经历或隐或显地相关，而读者总是控制自己的参与，根据自己的选择贡献或多或少。GIR目前在英国各地的卫生和社会护理机构（社区中心、图书馆、无家可归者收容所、学校、医院、办公室、医生诊所、监狱、戒毒中心和养老院）为360多个小组提供服务。相关的志愿读书人计划让70名有心理健康困难、孤独或失业风险或遭受心理健康困难的人参加了TRO各级的一系列志愿服务机会。志愿者的角色是组织阅读任务的核心，虽然志愿者通常仍然是阅读小组的成员，但他们进一步参与：办公室助理，为阅读小组准备阅读资源；阅读小组助理，与阅读小组协调员一起工作：阅读之友，每周一次，一对一，与孤立的老年人一起阅读；阅读小组促进者，每周在安老院或与老人一起举办阅读小组。志愿人员得到TRO工作人员的充分培训和支持，他们的成就得到定期的反馈和认可，并为他们提供了角色发展的潜力：阅读小组成员可以成为志愿人员；志愿者可以成为实习生或学徒；学徒可能成为雇员。这项研究将建立在利物浦大学阅读、信息和语言系统研究中心（CRILS）与其第三部门合作伙伴TRO之间的现有合作基础上，开发创新的、跨学科的文学和社会科学方法，以捕捉阅读体验的多维组成部分。在两个独立但相关且同时进行的研究中，本研究将寻求(1)确定共享阅读的独特价值，因为志愿者作为弱势和有需要的个体的代表部分实际经历了共享阅读，并检查这种内在价值与附带利益的关系。通过GIR小组与建筑环境讨论小组的比较，通过对录音记录的分析，本研究将检验严肃文学有能力创造个人意义和强烈互动的小社区的假设；(2)通过比较志愿者作为持续小组成员和作为发展小组帮助者的经验，来检验阅读小组成员的运动和阅读小组未来促进的效果，以及它们之间的相互关系。将通过访谈、观察、问卷等方式汇编动态和多样化的志愿者案例研究，并将这些案例与日常审计数据交叉引用，以建立内在文学影响与个人心理健康和社区福祉之间的联系。本研究还将考虑TRO最近收购的国际阅读和健康中心，Calderstones Park Mansion House，如何作为默西塞德郡未来的中心，创建一个更大的志愿者社区，从事阅读和其他相关活动。