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Vera Spangler

@ve-spa.bsky.social
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PhD student, University of Surrey | Higher education, international student mobility, knowledge legitimacy | Co-convenor of the BSA PG Forum | Co-convenor of the RIS ECR network

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Sazana Jayadeva @sazanajayadeva.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Happy to share a new article, just published open access in @socresonline.bsky.social: 'Getting Back on Track: Student Migration From India to Germany as a Route to Desirable Employment'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Getting Back on Track: Student Migration From India to Germany as a Route to Desirable Employment - Sazana Jayadeva, 2025
This article examines the rising postgraduate-level student migration of Indian engineers to Germany, drawing on interviews with 42 Indians who were applying to...
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Reuben Rose-Redwood @reubenroseredwood.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Just published an article in The Conversation on international student activism & the politics of higher ed that follows up on the book we published last year in light of the current targeting of international students in the US theconversation.com/internationa... @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social
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International student activism histories show how education can foster democracy
The very presence of international students on university campuses is a political matter that depends on a measure of good will between the host and home countries.
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Vera Spangler @ve-spa.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Morning run magic. Happy Sunday! 💛
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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Last week on Wonkhe: Developing drawing and creative skills has impacts beyond visual literacies. Zoë Allman and Chris Wright explore how this can be embedded into university life
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Getting students drawing can help belonging and mental health
Developing drawing and creative skills has impacts beyond visual literacies. Zoë Allman and Chris Wright explore how this can be embedded into university life
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Rachel Brooks @rachelbrooks.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
We're currently advertising for a 3+ year post-doc position @education.ox.ac.uk working on the ESRC-funded @studentspolitics.bsky.social project with @rilleraaper.bsky.social, Tom Fryer & me - to start ASAP Deadline: 9 June Please repost- thanks! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Vera Spangler @ve-spa.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
📖📚 Have you registered for our upcoming ECR RIS reading group? 20 May 2025 3.00-4.30pm BST ✒️ register here: lnkd.in/edviAa_E @risnetwork.bsky.social @sazanajayadeva.bsky.social
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Klara Raiber @klararaiber.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Come work with us!
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Nathalie Weidhase @nweidhase.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
'Island of strangers' is scary, dangerous language. Also what rules is he talking about? The 'rules' regulating immigration mean it's already difficult and expensive to come to the UK. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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UK risks becoming ‘island of strangers’ without more immigration curbs, Starmer says
PM unveils policies to ‘significantly’ drive down net migration including English tests and degree requirements
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Breaking: Government plans levy on universities’ overseas fee income. Immigration white paper also proposes cut in duration of graduate visas to 18 months. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
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Government plans levy on universities’ overseas fee income - Research Professional News
Immigration white paper also proposes cut in duration of graduate visas to 18 months
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taz @taz.de · 11/05/2025
Eine Umweltaktivistin verschwindet im Süden Chiles. Die Suche führt zu einem Konflikt um indigenes Land – und einem Unternehmer mit deutschen Wurzeln.
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Verschwundene Aktivistin in Chile: Wo ist Julia Chuñil?
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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 05/05/2025
The ERC welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from @ec.europa.eu for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering larger, longer-term grants, as announced by President Ursula Von der Leyen at the Sorbonne this morning. 👉 europa.eu/!NTYTTV
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Choose Europe for Science: ERC welcomes new budget for 'super grants'
The Scientific Council of the European Research Council welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from the European Commission for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering la...
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Rachel Brooks @rachelbrooks.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
In the run-up to the Uk-EU summit on 19 May, @johannawaters.bsky.social has written a great piece about the value of even a time-limited youth mobility scheme. There’s also brief mention of our forthcoming book! #ISM #Turing #HE #Europe theconversation.com/even-a-cappe...
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Even a capped, time-limited youth visa scheme would be of value to young people in the UK and EU
More than 60 Labour MPs have signed a letter calling on the government to support a youth mobility agreement with the EU.
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Vera Spangler @ve-spa.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Please consider submitting a paper for the upcoming BSA Postgraduate Forum event! It’s a great opportunity to share your work, engage in discussions, and connect with fellow researchers. Find more PG and ECR events here: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/ @britsoci.bsky.social @lunayihanfu.bsky.social
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Vera Spangler @ve-spa.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
📆RIS ECR Reading Group @risnetwork.bsky.social 20 May 2025 3.00-4.30pm BTS | 10.00-11.30 CLT ✒️Register: forms.gle/2nWPwLksPp4S... 📖Sazana Jayadeva (2020), Keep calm and apply to Germany: How online communities mediate transnational student mobility from India to Germany: doi.org/10.1080/1369...
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Keep calm and apply to Germany: how online communities mediate transnational student mobility from India to Germany
This paper draws attention to the increasingly central yet understudied role of social media in facilitating student mobility from India. More specifically, it explores the emergence of online mutu...
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Rachel Brooks @rachelbrooks.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
New piece for @wonkhe.bsky.social on ‘paradoxical parenting practices’ drawing on research with @juliacook.bsky.social & @drdanwoodman.bsky.social @education.ox.ac.uk #parenting #HE
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Rachel Brooks @rachelbrooks.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Do sign up for our webinar asking 'Does Higher Education Politicise Today's Students?' on 3 June, 2-4pm Talks from @ralphscott.bsky.social, @robfordmancs.bsky.social, @janmcarthur.bsky.social & Gritt Nielsen, & launch of @studentspolitics.bsky.social www.researchcghe.org/events/does-...
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Nathalie Weidhase @nweidhase.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Join us and our line-up of fantastic speakers on 21st May for our joint MeCCSA Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial network and Women's network event Paradoxes of Visibility: Negotiating Race and Gender in the UK Political and Media Landscape on Zoom! You can register here: tinyurl.com/4mn29cc4
Registration is now open for the joint network event Paradoxes of Visibility: Negotiating Race and Gender in the UK Political and Media Landscape.



MeCCSA Race, Ethnicity, and Postcolonial Network and MeCCSA Women’s Network present:



Wednesday 21st May 2025 



Please join us for Paradoxes of Visibility: Negotiating Race and Gender in the UK Political and Media Landscape', a half-day symposium exploring key issues of representation in contemporary media.

2pm: Welcome
 
2.15pm to 3.15pm Panel 1: Women of Colour in British Politics

Sophia Kanaouti (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) ‘Bureaucratization of politics: identity without responsibility’
Craig Ryder (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich) ‘Fringe platforms and the prevalence of digital macroaggressions against UK female leaders’
Anna Sanders and Sarah Shair-Rosenfield (University of York) ‘The Glass Cliff in Contemporary British Politics: The non-traditional aspect of contemporary leadership contests and their gendered and intersectional consequences’

3.30pm to 4.15pm Panel 2: The Politics of Visibility

Tina Frederikke Kristensen (University of Sunderland) ‘”#metoo was started by a black woman, @Tarana Burke!!! Give credit where it’s due! <3" (Marqueza, 2017): The discursive strategies used to increase visibility of people of colour in the #MeToo movement on Twitter’
Hannah Yelin (Oxford Brookes University) ‘Trans and nonbinary youth navigating celebrity culture and the risks of visibility’
 
You can register for the event here: https://buytickets.at/universityofsurrey1/1651077.
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Luna Yihan Fu @lunayihanfu.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Hi everyone! 🌞 We warmly welcome you to sign up for our BSA-funded event: ‘Insider-Outsider’: Navigating Challenges and Complexities in Cross-national and Cross-cultural Fieldwork Registration is OPEN, please see more information and register at: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... See you soon💗
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‘Insider-Outsider’: Navigating Challenges and Complexities in Cross-national and Cross-cultural Fieldwork
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Sazana Jayadeva @sazanajayadeva.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Registration is now open for our @srhe.bsky.social webinar on international student mobility from and to India! There will be 3 panels, 9 papers, and lots of Q&A! When: 16 May, 10 am - 1.05 pm (UK time) For more details & registration: srhe.ac.uk/civicrm/?civ... Please repost!
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Society for Research into Higher Education @srhe.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
On 28 April, @rachelbrooks.bsky.social and @professorliwei.bsky.social will examine the role of multilingualism in HE and research, and address the challenges and opportunities that multilingualism presents in contemporary universities. Register and join us: bit.ly/4i8i7z2
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Rachel Brooks @rachelbrooks.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Does HE politicise today's students? Come along to the launch of a new ESRC-funded project on students and politics Online, 3 June, 2-4pm with @robfordmancs.bsky.social @janmcarthur.bsky.social @ralphscott.bsky.social & Gritt Nielsen www.researchcghe.org/events/does-...
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Does higher education politicise today’s students? | Centre for Global Higher Education
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European Educational Research Association - EERA @ecer-eera.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Rather than seeing students as customers and education as a product, Dr Gravett & Dr Winstone argue for creating connections so students feel they matter. @EERA_N22 #EERA_NW27 #BERANews #EduSci blog.eera-ecer.de/making-connection…
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Making Connections in Higher Education - EERA Blog
Rather than seeing students as customers and education as a product, Dr Gravett & Dr Winstone argue for creating connections so students feel they matter.
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Vera Spangler @ve-spa.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
📚 RIS ECR Reading Group @risnetwork.bsky.social 🗓️ Thursday, 27th March ⏰ 3.00-4.30pm (UK time) 🔗 forms.gle/YK935MfnaSgi... We'll discuss Fran Martin’s (2023) article Enterprising Self and Bohemian Nomad: Emerging Subjectivities in Chinese Education Mobilities: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Enterprising self and bohemian nomad: Emerging subjectivities in Chinese education mobilities
This article approaches the question of how experiences of mobility mediate subjectivities through a case study of middle-class Chinese women’s education mobilities. Drawing from longitudinal ethno...
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie e.V. @dgsoziologie.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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DAS! mit Soziologe und Autor Prof. Aladin El-Mafaalani
Kindern in Deutschland geht es immer schlechter, sagt Prof. Aladin El-Mafaalani. Und kaum einer merke, wie gesellschaftliche Krisen sich auf die Jüngsten auswirken. Der Soziologe und Professor für Migrations- und Bildungssoziologie an der TU Dortmund…
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Rachel Brooks @rachelbrooks.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Higher education students as consumers: a cross-country comparative analysis of students’ views New article with @achalagupta.bsky.social & Jessie Abrahams, published in latest issue of Compare www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Vera Spangler @ve-spa.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I’ll be spending the next three months at UC Chile as a visiting PhD student with Ana Luisa Muñoz-Garcia. It still hasn’t quite sunk in that I’m really here. Grateful for the warm welcome today, and looking forward to what’s ahead.
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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
We're hiring a fully funded PhD student in #sociology here in wonderful Copenhagen! Please share! Learn more 👇 employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
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PhD scholarship at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)
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Research with International Students (RIS) @risnetwork.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Happening today at 4:00 pm GMT!
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Research with International Students (RIS) @risnetwork.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
RIS Zine-Making Workshop! Next week on Feb 19 from 4:00 - 6:00 GMT, led by @ve-spa.bsky.social. Come join us in learning about how to make a zine and using zine-making as a research method. Registration: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
zine-making: February 19, 2024, 4:00 to 5:00 GMT
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Nathalie Weidhase @nweidhase.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
✨CfP!✨ The MeCCSA Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Network and MeCCSA Women's Network are inviting abstracts for our joint event Paradoxes of Visibility: Navigating Race, Gender and Power in the UK Political and Media Landscape. Full CfP available here: tinyurl.com/4cp4xfbb
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Vera Spangler @ve-spa.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
🎨RIS zine-making workshop 🤗 researchintlstudents.com/events/ 📝19 February 2025 🌟4:00-6:00 pm UCT, online via Zoom ➡️ zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Vera Spangler @ve-spa.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
🌟Are you a PGR interested in publishing your sociological research? Join us for this free @britsoci.bsky.social PG Forum event: Publishing from your PhD: Crafting Articles and Reviews with Sociological Research Online 📝 Friday, 21 February, 11am - 1pm Register ➡️: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
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Publishing from your PhD: Crafting Articles and Reviews with Sociological Research Online
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 22/01/2025
What can Kilburn High Road & @liverpoolfc1.bsky.social tell us about the relationality of walking? @emmakjackson.bsky.social & Agata Lisiak revisit Doreen Massey’s canonical essay “A Global Sense of Place”. #OnlineFirst buff.ly/3Wvdp6p 🎙️Listen to Emma & Agata #SpatialDelight: buff.ly/3WW0M1I
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Emma Jackson @emmakjackson.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
New article🎉 at @sociologicalreview.bsky.social 'You'll never walk alone: Theorizing Engaged Walking with Doreen Massey by Agata Lisiak and I. ://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/HUPIBYQSFD5T2JEVIIIA/full
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You’ll never walk alone: Theorizing engaged walking with Doreen Massey - Emma Jackson, Agata Lisiak, 2025
An avid supporter of Liverpool Football Club, geographer Doreen Massey was known to sing the club’s anthem, ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’, on her hikes in the Lake ...
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Ruth Unsworth @ruthunsworth.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The Call for Papers for the annual Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference is open. See ethnographyandeducation.org Conference dates: Monday 8th to Wednesday 10th September 2025 #ethnography #education #educationresearch
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Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference
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Vera Spangler @ve-spa.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
📚 RIS ECR Reading Group 🗓️ February 4th, 3:00-4:30pm (UK time) ☕ Please join us, and sign up here: forms.gle/YK935MfnaSgi... We'll be focusing on language and ISM, discussing Zhang, Lütge & Zou (2021): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Investigating international students’ attitudes toward local teachers’ L1 use and learning practices in English-medium instruction in Germany: a Chinese case study
Although there is a body of research on the teacher first language (L1) use in English-medium-instruction (EMI) classrooms, very little research has probed into how international students perceive ...
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Alexander-Kenneth Nagel @aknagel78.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Hier eine Stellenanzeige in der Göttinger Migrationsforschung im Rahmen des Wissenschaftsraums "Zukünfte der Migration" @imisosnabrueck.bsky.social . Gerne teilen. Perspektive bis Ende 2029: www.karriere-suedniedersachsen.de/stellenangeb...
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wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in(w/m/d)
An der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Stiftung Öffentlichen Rechts – Zentrum für Globale Migrationsstudien ist ab dem 01.05.2025 eine Stelle alswissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in(w/m/d)- Entgeltgr...
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Rachel Brooks @rachelbrooks.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Registration now open for the @cghe.bsky.social 2025 conference - at @oxforddeptofed.bsky.social and online on 3-4 April Great programme of international speakers! www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-...
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CGHE 2025 Conference: Global Rupture? Geopolitics, policy repair and the reimagining of higher education | Centre for Global Higher Education
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Vera Spangler @ve-spa.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Interesting new SRHE blog post by @rilleraaper.bsky.social - What does it mean to be political for today’s students? srheblog.com/2025/01/14/w...
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What does it mean to be political for today’s students?
by Rille Raaper When we think about student politics, it is inevitable that the images of student protest and rebellion come to mind. These views of what counts as student politics have been shaped…
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Rachel Brooks @rachelbrooks.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
📢 New article, with @johannawaters.bsky.social: Global Britain and Cosmopolitan Nationalism We explore the use of the term ‘Global Britain’ with respect to education policy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Global Britain and cosmopolitan nationalism
The term ‘Global Britain’ was widely used by the UK government between 2016 and 2021 to signal its ambition to reorient the nation’s foreign policy on departure from the European Union. There was, ...
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Vera Spangler @ve-spa.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Today is the winter solstice, bringing the gradual return of light and brighter days ahead.
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Rachel Brooks @rachelbrooks.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Another reminder that @alinecourtois.bsky.social @sazanajayadeva.bsky.social and I are recruiting a researcher to work on a new project on virtual student mobilities - to be based @uniofbath.bsky.social www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
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CH12254 Research Assistant/Research Associate - Jobs at Bath
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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
56 doctoral theses/dissertations published in 2024 about international students (that I can find so far), compiled here: researchintlstudents.com/doctoral-the... A small thread of trends and thoughts ⬇️
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Doctoral Theses and Dissertations
To spotlight doctoral contributions Many doctoral researchers are conducting research with international students and about the wider internationalisation of higher education. This resource compile…
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Sazana Jayadeva @sazanajayadeva.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
📣 Call for participants: online workshop to bring together people conducting research on international student mobility from and to India. - Organised by SRHE's International Research & Researchers Network. - To participate, pls fill out this short form by 1 Feb 2025: lnkd.in/eqkVXJPx 1/4
Call for participants: workshop on international student mobility from and to India. Submit expression of interest by 1 February.
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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Gemütlich im Mittelbau #einkuscheln?! Ihr wisst: Ich habe #IchBinHanna gestern im Wissenschaftsausschuss des NRW-Landtags vertreten. Was ich da alles gesagt hab? 1 🧵! Da ich vermute, dass Euch das besonders interessiert, fange ich mal mit meiner Reaktion auf das Einkuscheln an. (1/8)
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Rasmus Elling @rasmuselling.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
No less than six (!) PhD scholarships announced at our fantastic department. 2 are open calls for anyone (+1 open call for Danish MA’s) and 1 is reserved for Turkish Studies in our Mid East Section. Please spread the word! employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
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PhD scholarships at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen
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Sazana Jayadeva @sazanajayadeva.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Come work with @alinecourtois.bsky.social @rachelbrooks.bsky.social & myself on a new Open Research Area project, ‘Virtual Mobilities of International Students: towards a new model for the internationalisation of higher education?' www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... Deadline: 5 Jan 2025 Pls repost!
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CH12254 Research Assistant/Research Associate - Jobs at Bath
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Rachel Brooks @rachelbrooks.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Vacancy for a researcher working with @alinecourtois.bsky.social @sazanajayadeva.bsky.social and me on a new project on the 'Virtual Mobilities of International Students'. Based at @uniofbath.bsky.social Deadline for applications: 5 Jan 2025 Please repost - thanks! www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
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Globalization & Education SIG of CIES @gesigcies.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Call for submissions now open for our free online conference taking place on March 4, 2025. Please help us circulate. Submissions due 18 January 2025!
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Rachel Brooks @rachelbrooks.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Delighted that our special issue on 'International student mobility within Europe: responding to contemporary challenges' has just been published! Pleasure to guest-edit this w/ @sazanajayadeva.bsky.social Daniel Faas, Aline Courtois & Suzanne Beech Our editorial: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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International student mobility within Europe: responding to contemporary challenges - Higher Education
In this article, we provide an introduction to the special issue on ‘Challenges to International Student Mobility within Europe’. We first discuss the current context of such mobility and justify our ...
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