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Loose Leaves

Loose Leaves is a collection of poems written between 1994 and 1998, that is, between the ages of 17 and ...
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/ Creative Writing

A long pause

Hyacinth at the English Wikipedia Only just last week, life in Aotearoa New Zealand was about being ultra conscious about staying home ...
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/ General

Journal Notes

Here are more recent poems I've put together as a book - of musical pieces. Mobile-friendly view The poems in ...
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/ Creative Writing

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