Alison's '˜excellent' research project wins UU award
Alison received the award in recognition of her dissertation, which was based on a body of research she carried out for the Lisburn Safe Project.
Alison wanted to highlight the substantial amount of work the Lisburn Safe Project and more than 100 volunteers carry out on a regular basis. However, her work also sought to draw attention to the lack of funding for community safety projects, which desperately need financial support in order to develop and continue to provide support to local communities and volunteers.
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Alison’s project - ‘Handling volunteers, the gauntlet for community safety: exploring the support needs, structures and coping strategies of community safety volunteers’ - won her this year’s £650 first prize.
Congratulating Alison on her award, the co-ordinator of Lisburn Safe, Jonathan McMullan said: “Alison’s project was a brilliant piece of work that highlighted gaps within the service. As a direct result we now have regular meetings with team leaders and have supported new training for the volunteers. Crucially, Alison identified that the 10,000 hours that Lisburn Safe volunteers undertook freed up resources and manpower for the PSNI to devote to other issues.”