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Nine at 35

With a renewed passion for creative writing, I’m embarking on a personal project to create folios of work – a ...
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/ books, children, Creative Writing, dreams, marriage, motherhood, nostalgia, poems, teaching

Don’t call me Migrant or Asian but who do you say I am?

Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay Despite what feels like a ‘long’ time, I’m really still a newcomer to Aotearoa ...
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/ asian, identity, multicultural, New Zealand, Professional Identity

Belonging, longing to be

If there is a theme for my 2019 work life, it would be transition. And not just moving from one ...
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/ career, connections, direction, identity, Professional Identity

Living and thriving with labels: A journey towards cultural intelligence

5 years ago, I took a leap of faith to start a new life in Aotearoa New Zealand. I had ...
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/ cultural intelligence, international students, labels, migrants, New Zealand, policy, Professional Identity

Language rights, agency, and cross-cultural understanding in international education

This post was originally written for Ipu Kererū Blog of the New Zealand Association for Research in Education on 4 ...
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/ diversity, Higher Education, inclusion, international education, international students, international students, Internationalisation, intled, language rights

The ethical challenges of global connectivity – A response to Fazal Rizvi

A personal response to the opening keynote by Fazal Rizvi - 'Global connectivity and its ethical challenges in education' at ...
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/ globalisation, Higher Education, international education, international education, international students, international students, Internationalisation, internationalisation, Learning

Being a Diasporic Academic – Identities in Flux

Presentation at the ISANA NZ 2018 Symposium - The International Student Experience: Connecting Research and Practice held on 8 November ...
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/ Academic Identity, academics, biography, connections, diaspora, Higher Education, international education, international education, international students, networks

International Education – Global Currency or Global Citizenship

Presentation at the Global Knowledge Economy Seminar organised by the Postgraduate Students’ Association held at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, ...
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/ Education, global citizenship, Higher Education, international education, international education, international students, international students, Internationalisation, New Zealand

The Power of Peer Support

Peer support for doctoral students meets emotional and cultural needs outside power relations imposed by institutional structures and authority figures ...
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/ Higher Education, international student, Internationalisation, mentoring, peer, peer support, Phd, phd, Research, supervision, supervision relationships

Being optimistic through academic networks

I start off this year with several goals, the biggest being completing my PhD. One of the main reasons for ...
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/ Academic Identity, Higher Education, Research