In this video Laura Hammersley talks of her Honours work "Knowing development to 'do' development. Volunteer tourism: sending 'unskilled' international volunteers as development alternative", and her decision to continue her study and become an early career academic.
or above :-) my names Saul greenland and I'm the only Saul greenland on facebook so find me it would be good to share ideas, cheers
sauliooo 3 months ago
hay, a message for Laura I'm doing a similar masters dissertation investigating the volunteer tourism phenomenon. I'm looking into wether volunteer tourism actually benefits the host population or wether commercialisation has caused it to become more of an opportunity for people to boost their CVS. I have found its as important to research the context of the volunteer providing country in relation to social structures to look at how vollunteer tourism is evolving. To contact me look bellow
sauliooo 3 months ago