Your interview time is at 11.45am on 03 April 2009.
It says that I have to prepare a 10 minute presentation for it, which although unnerving gives me something to prepare.
I also got a reply from an academic associated with tourism
Thank you for your proposal, which looks most interesting - the research will certainly be fascinating to carry out.
I am not particularly up to date with sources on backpacking tourism, but you can find a good many listed on Google Scholar, and it may be worth contacting Kevin Hannam, at Sunderland University, who chairs the Backpacker Research Group for Atlas.
For your methodology section, you will need to be much more rigorous in explaining how you select your backpackers for survey or interview. You also need a much better understanding of what quantitative research is!
Where are you thinking of doing your PhD? It's the sort of thing that the Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change at Leeds Met might be interested in.
I've suddenly realised how wholly ignorant I am of all things backpacking. Its more than just putting a bag on your back. However, I have been mulling it over so hopefully will have something to present next Friday. I am nevertheless, finding ways to put it off. Have started my critical bibliography and am thinking of doing waiting for godot for my performance analysis. Spent the morning helping my flat mate emily with a photobook for her nephew's first birthday. Going to walk to Tescos now, and the weather is absolutely awful!
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cool. I love backpacking and I am a phD, but those two sides of me are never intervened
Part of it as an experiment, to see if one could be conducted whilst backpacking. Its also partly because I am torn between academia and going traveling.
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