Learning – Dr Sherrie Lee

Professional Development, Professional Identity, and Being Recognised as an Educator Beyond Academia

admin — Wed, 06 May 2026 09:10:22 +0000

A reflective exploration of professional development, career pivots, and educator identity beyond academia. Drawing on my international teaching journey and Advance HE Fellowship, I examine how reflective practice, portfolio careers, and globally recognised frameworks help professional staff and international professionals make sense of evolving careers.

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

admin — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 03:12:46 +0000

In his keynote at the 2018 ISANA Conference, Fazal Rizvi calls for international education practitioners to recognise the competing forces of globalisation and protectionism, and to actively – reflexively – work against unproductive outcomes. Inspired to take up an ethical response to the current state of affairs, I first respond to a nagging and troubling aspect of international education that is seldom discussed.

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Supervision conversations

Sherrie Lee — Wed, 11 May 2016 10:48:45 +0000

I had a supervision meeting today and I came out of it feeling encouraged and refocused. It was not simply a matter of kind words or specific directions. It was the way the conversations among my two supervisors and myself allowed one another to express, respond and reflect. I usually audio record the meeting and listen…

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Being international

Sherrie Lee — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 11:17:33 +0000

The international student experience is a complex one. What factors contribute to making it a meaningful one? Institutional policies and academic support are important, but so are personal attitudes and intercultural perceptions of both students and the host society. My PhD research is on international tertiary students, focusing on students from non-Western backgrounds. In the case…

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Productivity Moment by Moment

Sherrie Lee — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:30:33 +0000

It has become clear to me that pursuing full-time academic or research work revolves around writing. There’s thinking, reading, musing, but writing is the central activity that binds all the activities of scholarship and knowledge finding and creation into a visible, searchable, reflect-able artifact. To be able to understand my writing and reading patterns, and…

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