Australian Volunteers Abroad
Research program: Globalisation and International Development
My research builds upon preliminary research with a small sample of ex-volunteers, conducted in collaboration with PALMS in 2004. My research aims to explore international volunteering, and in doing so aims to test a number of assumptions concerning the nature and practice of volunteering overseas for development purposes. In particular the project aims to question long held assumptions about volunteering as being reliant on altruism and an ethos of charity and that such motivations are recognised and supported universally.
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