Pathways to Participation Reports available

Pathways to Participation has issued a progress report that may be of interest. The project "explores how and why people get involved and stay involved in different forms of participation over the course of their lives. The research seeks to address a gap in knowledge and understanding of people’s pathways into and through participation, and of the factors that shape their participation over time. The project started in April 2009 and will finish in September 2011."

Learn more about the project and download the progress report.
You can also download a series of briefing papers that summarize key points of the project's popular literature review:

Briefing paper 1: What is participation?
Briefing paper 2: What are the drivers of participation?
Briefing paper 3: Who participates?
Briefing paper 4: Why participate?