The 2024 Gathering: Feedback from participants
The 2024 Australian SRV Gathering was held in Brisbane on 23-34 February 2024 for the purpose of celebrating and strengthening the Australian SRV Community. This Report provides the background to ‘The 2024 Australian SRV Gathering: SRV in Action’ and a
summary of feedback.
The Report consists of eight sections:
- An explanation of why ASRVA held an SRV face to face Gathering, focussed on the application of SRV
- A description of the Program
- What ASRVA planned to achieve
- What people said about a range of matters, including the event overall and specific presentations. A collaborative activity resulted in lists of individuals willing to continue to progress matters that would support the application of SRV.
- Thoughts about the future
- Thanks to various people and groups who made The Gathering so successful
- A brief description of SRV, for those new to the theory
- About ASRVA Ltd
If you are interested in learning from those who have experience in applying SRV, then please read the ASRVA report into research on this topic: 'SRV really expands my radar': Lessons From People Experienced in Applying SRV
The report provides an overview of the findings and an exploration of the implications of research conducted by ASRVA. The research broadly focused on the application of the theory of Social Role Valorisation in Australia. It was conducted with a view to strengthening the use of SRV in Australia and also with hopes that readers from outside Australia will be interested.
We interviewed twenty-one people in a range of roles; each had between three and thirty year’s experience. We explored:
- in what contexts SRV has been used by them
- the key ideas that the interviewees drew on in their application of SRV
- benefits and outcomes from using SRV
- what experiences the interviewees had in trying to use SRV.