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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

Conference Season 2017

The year-end was a bumper crop of conferences, varied and productive but for different reasons. At the beginning of 2017, ...
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/ Academic Identity, conference, Education, Higher Education, Internationalisation, phdchat, Research, research

International Doctoral Students as Diasporic Academics

I first heard the term 'diaspora academics' at Wendy Larner's keynote speech at the 2016 ISANA International Education Association Conference ...
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/ Academic Identity, academics, Higher Education, international, Internationalisation, Phd, Phd Experience

The Never Perfect World of Translation

I'm coming towards the end of my data analysis involving Chinese/Mandarin data. It has been an exhausting process of working ...
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/ analysis, bilingual, Chinese, conversationanalysis, Mandarin, Methodology, Research, research, translation

From PhD to professional: Seeking mentors, finding brokers

Sharing a personal journey of seeking mentors but finding mentors instead ...
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/ academic careers, Academic Identity, brokering, Higher Education, mentorship, New Zealand, Phd

The diasporic academic – a narrative in the making

This post marks the start of a new blog - The Diasporic Academic. Starting a new blog allows me to ...
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/ Academic Identity, academic narrative, brokering, diaspora, diasporic academic, Higher Education, higher education, Internationalisation, internationalisation, Phd, Research, transnational