Thailand International migration can play a role in limiting the extent of technology transfer, as well as enhancing it. The direction of the relationship depends on the duties and position of workers entering the country. Where foreign workers are used to train host country workers, technology transfer is facilitated. This project involves the providing of an overview of skilled migration patterns into Thailand over the last two decades, the studying technology transfer patterns and factors affecting technology transfer from Japanese skilled labour to Thais. My research examines the geography of children, the emphasis being children's relationship with their local environment.
Childhood is recognised as being a cultural construction which is temporally and spatially defined.
The interplay between the cultural construction of childhood and children's active role in the construction of their own identity is focused upon. The constraints on childhood are investigated, the boundaries that are constructed which delineate the child's realm, and their influence on children's environmental experiences. Particular emphasis is placed upon the negotiations between children and parents over access to the local environment. The influence of supraglacial debris on glacier mass balance at Miage Glacier, Italy . Environmental Science and Geography, University of Dundee, Scotland, 1997.