Dr Jurgen Grotz is the Director of the Institute for Volunteering Research (IVR) at the University of East Anglia (UEA). He has over 30 years’ experience of applied research across the academic, public, private and voluntary sectors. His largely interdisciplinary work about volunteer involvement has a strong focus on participative approaches and public engagement. He has co-edited the prestigious ‘Palgrave Handbook of Volunteering, Civic Participation, and Nonprofit Associations’ (2016), which has over 170,000 chapter downloads. More recently he co-authored the ground breaking ‘Patient and Public Involvement in Health and Social Care Research’ (2020) and ‘Volunteer Involvement: An Introduction to Theory and Practice’ (2022). Collaborating with colleagues in the field to drive advances in Volunteer Involvement research, he also co-edited ‘Volunteering, research and the test of experience’ (2022) and ‘Mobilising Voluntary Action’ (2022). His latest book ‘Volunteer Involvement in UK Universities’ is now available.