Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction to event volunteering / Leonie Lockstone-Binney -- pt. I The event volunteer experience -- 2.Peace, love and well-being: volunteering at the Peace & Love Festival in Borlange, Sweden / Anna Klerby -- 3.Securing your future: festival volunteering and graduate employability / Dan Lomax -- 4."We Don't do that back home": international students and volunteering / Olga Junek -- pt. II Managing the event volunteer -- 5.The Spirit of Burgas Music Festival, Bulgaria: the management and experiences of volunteers / Kevin Hannam -- 6.The background in the limelight: volunteering in event management in Hungary / Berta Vajnai -- 7.Volunteers in social enterprise events: Triple Bottom Line benefits / James Bostock -- pt. III The volunteer program at mega-events -- 8.Volunteer experiences in the build-up to the Rugby World Cup 2011 / Leonie Lockstone-Binney --

Contents note continued: 9.Volunteering for an audience of billions: fifteen minutes of fame at an Olympic Games Opening Ceremony / Leanne White -- 10.Emotions and the Olympic Games: the emotional management of volunteers / Sandro Carnicelli-Filho -- 11.The 2012 Ambassadors: second-class Olympic volunteers, or the best potential for developing a volunteer legacy from the Games? / Rita Ralston -- pt. IV Approaches to researching event volunteers -- 12.Event Volunteering Evaluation (EVE) project: challenging the methodological limits of event volunteering research / Karen A. Smith -- 13.An ethnographic approach to researching volunteers in events: a case study of the Northern University Games, Australia / Grant Cairncross -- 14.Concluding thoughts / Karen A. Smith.