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International Education – Global Currency or Global Citizenship
7 November 201810 March 2025

Presentation at the Global Knowledge Economy Seminar organised by the Postgraduate Students’ Association held at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, on 15 October 2018 My topic today was New Zealand’s fourth largest export industry in 2016, then valued at more than $4 billion dollars, and supported more than 30 thousand jobs across the…

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Higher Education | Internationalisation | Phd | Research

The Power of Peer Support
4 October 201810 March 2025

Peer support for doctoral students meets emotional and cultural needs outside power relations imposed by institutional structures and authority figures. I was recently invited to contribute a blog post to the Trust Me! blog, an amazing resource for research supervisor development, helmed by Dr Kay Guccione, Chair of the University of Sheffield Mentoring Network. My post is based on…

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Academic Identity | Higher Education | Research

Being optimistic through academic networks
20 January 201810 March 2025

Do PhD aspirations = cruel optimism? Maybe not.

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Academic Identity | Higher Education | Internationalisation | Research

Conference Season 2017
14 December 201710 March 2025

The year-end was a bumper crop of conferences, varied and productive but for different reasons. At the beginning of 2017, I had only planned on presenting at one conference, but along the way, other opportunities came along that were hard to turn down. Despite working up a hectic schedule of five presentations at four events…

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Academic Identity | Higher Education | Internationalisation | Phd

International Doctoral Students as Diasporic Academics
8 December 201710 March 2025

I first heard the term ‘diaspora academics’ at Wendy Larner’s keynote speech at the 2016 ISANA International Education Association Conference in Wellington. Against the backdrop of the internationalisation of higher education, Larner presented an argument about the increasing importance of diasporic academics, that is, those who have multiple national affiliations. Examples of diasporic academics include…

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Academic Identity | Higher Education | Phd

From PhD to professional: Seeking mentors, finding brokers
11 July 201710 March 2025

Sharing a personal journey of seeking mentors but finding mentors instead. Pursuing a doctoral degree for most is not just about following one’s passion, but is likely to be motivated by a desire for a career in academia or research. However, finding an academic teaching or research position is increasingly difficult, not just in New…

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