Cross-cultural comparative research

The overseas working holiday and graduate employment trajectories: A cross-cultural comparison

My PhD dissertation explored how experiences of work and travel overseas were positioned by graduates and employers within two different country contexts, Britain and Japan.

Overseas gap years and working holidays in the UK and Japan: Insights from a comparative approach

This presentation explores the difficulties and rewards associated with the cross-cultural comparative methodology adopted for my PhD research.

Cultural differences in athlete attributions for success and failure: The sports pages revisited

This article, based on my psychology honours dissertation, explored whether self-serving attributional biases would be found in attributions for sporting performance made by elite Olympic athletes from Japan and Australia (as extracted from the sports pages of the newspaper).