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Alert! - Nautical Institute's Human Element Bulletin
An Important New Survey on Port-based Welfare Work
Your help is requested.
ICMA and the ITF Seafarers’ Trust are in the process of putting together a second report on the improvement and effective delivery of Port-based Welfare Work. The first report, funded by ITF Seafarers Trust and the Seafarers International Research Center (SIRC), published in 2007, was based on information collected from seafarers themselves. (Click here to see the publication, Port Based Welfare Service for Seafarers, 2007).
This new study will be based on information collected from the welfare workers themselves, specifically all those engaged in delivering welfare services to seafarers . These include chaplains, ship visitors, drivers, center-management personnel, basically everyone involved in meeting seafarers’ needs when they come into port.
The author, Professor Erol Kahveci, now works for the Working Lives Research Institute (WLRI) at London Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom. He has prepared three separate questionnaires which he asks that all of us related to NAMMA answer individually. The difference between who responds to each questionnaire depends on your relationship to the organization for which you work.
The first group is for “Pastoral welfare workers directly employed by Christian or faith based maritime ministries in a full or part time capacity - including port chaplains (ordained and lay), deacons, pastors and other lay personnel occupying similar positions.”
Group two is for “Welfare workers employed by secular or faith-based organisations in a full or part time capacity including center managers, duty managers, administrators, centre workers, shop/bar keepers, “non-pastoral” ship visitors, drivers, trainees, and other personnel occupying similar positions.” Note these are all employees whose work is “non-pastoral” in nature.
Group three is intended to be made up of those who are volunteers working part-time or full-time providing welfare services to seafarers. Whether you are doing pastoral care or not, is not the issue. People in Groups 1 and 2 are employees; those in group 3 are volunteers.
In my capacity as an executive Committee member of ICMA, and serving as the North American Regional Coordinator to ICMA, I encourage you to take the time to complete the survey and forward in a timely fashion to Professor Kahveci. The future validity and usefulness of this survey depends on the accuracy of the information provided by those of us involved in the delivery of welfare services to seafarers.
--Chaplain Lloyd Burghart
North American Maritime Ministry Association
Professor Erol Kahveci's Cover Letter
Dear Seafarers Welfare Worker,
The International Christian Maritime Association seeks your cooperation with a study about seafarers welfare workers which aims to provide information and analysis for the improvement and effective delivery of port based welfare work for seafarers.
The project is jointly funded by the ITF Seafarers’ Trust and the Working Lives Research Institute (WLRI). I am the main researcher in the project. My name is Erol Kahveci and I am working at the WLRI in London Metropolitan University as a Professor of Seafarers’ Welfare.
The project includes an online survey questionnaire for seafarer welfare workers. Your participation in this questionnaire is extremely important for the successful completion of the study. There is a section in the questionnaire about your background. Please rest assured that this information is collected for practical reasons. This is a global survey and every port welfare worker around the world has been invited to participate. It is vital for me to know where the questionnaire is coming from so that I can follow up ports where there is no response or a low response rate. Your personal information will only be seen by me and will under no circumstances be passed on to any other organisation or individual. This information will be deleted when the survey ends and will not be included in the data analysis. In the final report it would be impossible for a reader to identify the name, institution or port of the individuals who participated in the study. The study has the full backing of the ICMA Executive Committee and other Seafarers Welfare organisations which are not members of ICMA.
The survey should take around 25 minutes to complete. Please try to answer every question as thoroughly as you can. Please note that this questionnaire is not centre or port based, it is based on individual seafarer welfare workers therefore it is important that everyone falling under this category is invited to participate even though they work in the same port for the same organisation.
Could you please invite other seafarer welfare workers in your port to participate in this project. It would be impossible for me to reach all the seafarer welfare workers described in the three categories listed below. Therefore your help in inviting other people to participate in the survey questionnaires would be highly appreciated.
In order to have access to the right questionnaire for you please read all three categories below and choose the category that most closely describes your position and click on the link to have access to the relevant online survey. If the link page does not work please cut and paste the relevant link (http:// address) to your web browser and then click enter.
Thank you very much for your help.
Three Surveys for Three Different Groups:
Which group or groups of welfare workers do you belong to?
1). Pastoral welfare workers directly employed by Christian or faith based maritime ministries in a full or part time capacity - including port chaplains (ordained and lay), deacons, pastors and other lay personnel occupying similar positions please click on the link below:
www.survey.bris.ac.uk/londonmet/welfare1
2) Welfare workers employed by secular or faith-based organisations in a full or part time capacity including center managers, duty managers, administrators, centre workers, shop/bar keepers, “non-pastoral” ship visitors, drivers, trainees, and other personnel occupying similar positions please click on the link below:
www.survey.bris.ac.uk/londonmet/welfare2
3) Volunteer welfare workers who work part-time or full-time to provide welfare services to seafarers, including those on port welfare committees please click on the link below:
www.survey.bris.ac.uk/londonmet/welfare3
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Professor Erol Kahveci
Working Lives Research Institute
London Metropolitan University
31 Jewry Street, London EC3N 2EY
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7320 1324
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7320 3032
Email: e.kahveci@londonmet.ac.uk
WLRI website: www.workinglives.org
NAMMA seeks to promote and expand maritime ministry locally and nationally by increasing awareness among the stakeholders of the services available to seafarers by NAMMA members. This includes maintaining a database of mariner services, the development of a consultant corps to assist local centers, and creating materials and opportunities.