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

这个项目将调查大型彩票资助的志愿读者计划对个人和社区的价值，该计划由屡获殊荣的慈善社会企业读者组织(TRO)开发，作为其开创性推广项目Get Into Reading(GIR)的一部分。TRO的使命是创造一个环境，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模式基于小团体(2-12人)，一起朗读短篇小说、小说和诗歌。GIR与传统的阅读小组的不同之处在于它的共享阅读方法：文学作品在房间里以现场和表演的方式存在；阅读的定期休息鼓励参与者反思正在阅读的内容，并权衡其语言和意义，通常是与他们自己的生活经历隐含或明确的关系，而读者总是控制自己的参与，贡献多少随他们选择。GIR目前在英国各地的健康和社会护理环境(社区中心、图书馆、无家可归者收容所、学校、医院、办公室、医生外科手术、监狱、戒毒所和疗养院)为360多个团体提供服务。相关的志愿读者计划吸引了70名有精神健康困难、孤独或失业风险或遭受精神健康困难、孤立或失业的人，他们在各级志愿服务机构提供各种志愿服务机会。志愿者角色是该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，但他们进一步参与其中：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：阅读朋友，每周阅读，与孤独的老年人一对一；阅读小组协调员，在养老院或与老年人一起举办每周阅读小组。志愿人员得到了志愿人员的充分培训和支持，他们的成绩得到了定期的反馈和认可，并被提供了角色发展的潜力：阅读小组成员可能成为志愿者；志愿者可能成为实习生或学徒；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)与其第三部门伙伴TRO之间的现有合作基础上，以开发创新的、跨学科的文学和社会科学方法，以获取阅读体验的多方面内容。在两个独立但相关和同时进行的研究中，这项研究将寻求(1)确定共享阅读的独特价值，因为它是志愿者作为弱势和贫困个人的代表部分实际经历的，并检查这种内在价值与附带利益的关系。通过GIR小组和建筑环境讨论小组的比较，通过对转录录音的分析，本研究将检验严肃文学具有创造个体意义和强烈互动的小社区的能力的假设；(2)通过比较志愿者作为持续小组成员和发展中小组助手的经历，检验阅读小组成员运动的有效性及其与未来阅读小组促进的相互关系，从而获得更多的掌握。通过访谈、观察和问卷调查，将汇编动态和多样化的志愿者案例研究，并将这些研究与常规审计数据相互参照，以建立内在文学情感与个人心理健康和社区福祉之间的联系。这项研究还将考虑TRO最近收购的国际阅读和福利中心--火山石公园豪宅--如何成为未来默西塞德郡的枢纽，以创建一个更大的志愿者社区，参与读者和其他相关活动。

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.