Arthur A. Stukas

Art Stukas, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology at La Trobe University.

With his colleagues, Professors Gil Clary and Mark Synder, he has written numerous scholarly articles on volunteering. These articles present research that takes a “functional approach” to study volunteer behaviour, which emphasizes the reasons, purposes, goals and motivations that people have for engaging in service.

Art received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1996 and has been working at La Trobe University since 2000. He is an Associate (Individual) Member of Volunteering Australia and an Affiliate of the Centre for the Study of the Individual and Society at the University of Minnesota.

Art’s recent work has examined the effects of volunteering on social capital and also the ways in which organisational structure may influence the effects of ensuring that volunteers’; motivations are matched with opportunities n the organisation or environment.