Recent research publications

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Research on the gap year & international volunteering is growing. In an attempt to offer free acess to as much of that work as possible (subject to copy right restrictions) here are a selection of PDF files of papers, abstracts and thesisis on the gap year and international volunteering. There is a mix of peer reviewed and unpublished material here, I would really like to keep adding to what is here- so if you have found this a usefull resource then please think about including your own work and send me a copy of your paper or thesis or even just an abstract- t least then you work might actually get read!!

If you have any papers, abstracts or thesis you would like to include (peer reviewed or otherwise) please email me.

For a fuller bibliography of other work that might be of interest to people researching the feilds of international volunteering and the gap year please see the annotated bibliogrpghy.

Something new...

'Should I stay or should I go? An MA from New Zealand looking at the Overseas Experience (OE)

GO to PDF of MA...

Tubb Katherine (2006) 'Anti-heros v new colonialists: modern volunteers as agents of reciprocal participation in development interventions' MSc Thesis, Faculty of Economics (Development Studies) copyright Katherine Tubb Go to PDF....

Some older things...

Beames, S. (2004). Overseas youth expeditions with Raleigh International: A rite of passage? Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 8(1), 29-36. Abstract (PDF)

Beames, S. (2004). Critical elements of the expedition experience. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 4(2), 145-158. Abstract (PDF)

Duncan T. (2004) 'Livin' the dream: Working & playing in a ski resort'
paper (PDF): go to...

Heath S (2005) 'The pre-university gap year: A research Agenda'
working paper: go to...

Griffin T (2004) 'A Discourse Analysis of UK Sourced Gap year Overseas Projects'
MA thesis: go to...

Jones A (2004) 'The Review of Gap Year provision- a DfES Report' go to report...

Roberts T. (2004) Are Western Volunteers Reproducing and Reconstructing the Legacy of Colonialism in Ghana? An Analysis of the Experiences of Returned Volunteers' MA thesis: go to...

Simpson K (2004) 'Doing Development': The gap year, volunteer-tourists and a popular practice of development' in Journal of International Development, 16 (5) pp.681-692 (2004) Go to abstract...
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jissue/109086580

Simpson K. (2004) 'Broad Horizons? Geographies & pedagogies of the gap year' PhD Thesis go to PDF of PhD

Simpson K. (2005) 'Dropping out or sighing up? The professionalisation of youth travel,
Antipode, (2005) Go to abstract...