Two decades of research into how children in East Africa come to harm, and what actually prevents it.
Peer-reviewed
Published in academic journals following peer review.
McAlpine, K., Henley, R., Mueller, M. & Vetter, S. (2010) A survey of street children in Northern Tanzania: how abuse or support factors may influence migration to the street Community Mental Health Journal, 46(1), 26–32
A survey of 1,923 young people in the Arusha and Kilimanjaro regions. Children living full time on the street reported significantly more abuse than those who were there part time, or not at all.
View publication →Henley, R., McAlpine, K., Mueller, M. & Vetter, S. (2010) Does school attendance reduce the risk of youth homelessness in Tanzania? International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 4:28
Based on interviews with 1,098 young people. Children who had stopped attending school faced close to eight times the odds of living permanently on the street compared with those attending daily.
View publication →Doctoral and field research
Thesis, commissioned studies and practitioner research. This is the work most often read by the organisations Kate advises.
McAlpine, K. (2015) Doing the Right Thing to Protect Children in Tanzania: an explanatory theory of the basic psychological process of doing the right thing, and a practical theory of change Doctoral thesis, Fielding Graduate University
The theory of responsible citizenship that underpins the whole of Kate’s practice.
McAlpine, K. (2007) Census 2006: the rhetoric and reality of Tanzania’s street children Mkombozi, Moshi
McAlpine, K. (2006) Participatory action research: local causation of primary school drop-outs and exclusions in the Kilimanjaro region Mkombozi, Moshi
McAlpine, K. Responding to real world ethical challenges when conducting research with young children in Tanzania Ethical Research Involving Children, case study
On the gap between an ethical research design and what actually happens in the field, and why the ethics of a study begin at the moment of contracting with the commissioner.
View publication →Elsewhere
Further reports and datasets are collected in the Citizens 4 Change research library.
