Higher Education Academy Senior Fellowship: Linking continents and bridging cultures: a reflective account of practice

I’m mega chuffed to learn I have been granted Higher Education Academy Senior Fellowship @HEAcademy, working hard pays off! Due to fear of losing all the files I collated over the summer to evidence I’m worthy of the fancy title, I decided to post it here to make sure it won’t get lost! Thank you…

Higher Education Academy Senior Fellowship – Case Study 2: Coordinating English for Academic Purposes on International Pathway Programmes

 The Final Showcase of my first Pre-sessional EAP course at UCA Epsom, August 2011  The Beginnings Since becoming the IPP EAP Coordinator in 2012, my key responsibility has been developing our courses in order to support international students, internationalising our courses’ curricula to embrace students’ diversity and advancing students’ English language skills (A1, A4, K2,…

Higher Education Academy Senior Fellowship – Case Study 1: Re-imagining the Internationalisation of Higher Education

A slide from my final presentation of my PhD research, June 2016 As H.R.M.A. van der Heijden et al. (2015) claim, it is fundamental to create a supportive environment in which teachers are encouraged to be agentic in order to positively influence or change their education, and to learn and develop themselves both individually and…

Fostering a sense of belonging: enhancing the international student experience

My colleague John Whitehead and I have been invited to run a workshop at this year’s UK NARIC  Conference in London 21-22 November: see the programme here, our workshop 21.2.2 The British education sector has recently become increasingly dependent upon the income generated by overseas fee-paying students. Yet the experiences of these students are sometimes upsetting,…

My final #PhD presentation for the University of Reading Institute of Education

I’ve been asked to present the final findings of my doctoral inquiry at UoR IoE. It felt great to being finally able to uncover all the mysteries I’ve been trying to solve during a rather extended period of 5 years! At the same time, it wasn’t an easy task as I had a relatively large…

Re-make umiędzynarodowienia szkolnictwa wyższego: studium przypadku jednego z brytyjskich uniwersytetów

After my recent trip to Poland, I realised it’s not as easy as I thought to translate literally into Polish what my PhD thesis was about. I actually struggled to reflect the nature of my study as it struck me that academic Polish is completely different to English for Academic Purposes. 10 years away from…

Re-imagining the Internationalisation of Higher Education: a case study of a UK University

So, here is the abstract of my PhD thesis. I’m planning to turn some of it into 1 or 2 international journal articles at some point later this year. I’ll first pass my viva voce exam in May. My thesis seeks to explore how international postgraduate students and university staff dealing with internationalisation take advantage…