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Higher Education, international students, policy, critical pedagogy, decolonisation and much leftist ranting She/her (mostly)
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@dangeni.bsky.social shared her research at @risnetwork.bsky.social conference today, explaining what she found out about needs for staff training in working with international students.

@risnetwork.bsky.social at our 2nd Research with International Students Conference today with some wonderful presentations already

Sentences I never thought I'd say as a parent: I need to eat my tea before we finish making this pinata because I'm getting hangry.

CFP! New edited collection on a fascinating strategy for promoting both student learning & fostering our own pedagogical well-being: the use of awe. www.igi-global.com/publish/call...

#ECER2025 bursaries for #EmergingResearchers who have submitted to #ERC2025 & who are nationals of low GDP countries or residents of ECER's host country. Application 5 to 28 Feb. #Edu Sci https://eera-ecer.de/about-eera/promoting-emerging-researchers/ecer-conference-bursaries/

Do you work with international students in higher education in any capacity? Would you have 10 minutes to spare to tell @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social and I about any training (or lack) you received? Here's the link: www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_... Please repost and share, thanks!

Our RIS Online Conference 2025 schedule is now LIVE! 🎉 researchintlstudents.com/schedule-at-... "Finding Purpose in Research with International Students" 10 -13 March 2025 Online via Zoom Free to attend, but registration is required: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We are excited to join Bluesky! Follow along to hear about our new resources and upcoming events. We are a network of hundreds of scholars who take a critical lens towards higher education research related to international students, focusing on research *with* rather than about.

Looking to connect with other struggling scientists, researchers, and PhDs on Blueksy! Need more people to meme about academia with 😅 Please help me reach the people #AcademicSky #PhDSky🙏

New book series, UNIVERSITY REIMAGINED, edited by @sadiahabib.bsky.social and me, with thanks to @manchesterup.bsky.social, & esp. commissioning editor @lauramswift.bsky.social. BOOK PROPOSALS NOW WELCOME - please get in touch if you have an idea. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/unive...

I'm excited to announce I'm joining the University of Huddersfield as a Research Fellow on the Leverhulme Amplification Project (2025-30) led by Prof. Steve Waksman. We have *12* fully funded PhD scholarships available with the deadline approaching soon, please RT and send to your masters students!

Discover the Playful Drawings That Charles Darwin’s Children Left on His Manuscripts

#LoveLD - love the look of this week's important #LTHEchat: lthechat.com/2025/01/13/l... Weds. 8-9 in BlueSky

Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

UK residents: in late December, the UK Gov launched a consultation about AI and copyright -- open until 25 Feb 25. If you are an artist of any kind, or a computer scientists and/or AI researcher, please do take the time to fill out the consultations, there's lots of guidance below. 1/

I have updated the Academic Workload Tracker for 2025. I strongly encourage all academics to track how long you actually work, and at what tasks. It's a crucial way to counter the deliberate wage-theft of obfuscatory university workload models. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

If you are a University who requires referees from other universities to find an 'institutional stamp', I emplore you to PLEASE update the instructions you wrote for PhD applicants in 1992.

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Hello, My name is Vijay Ramjattan, and I work as an assistant teaching professor at the University of Toronto. My research and teaching interests pertain to the intersections of language, race, and work within the context of education. You can learn more about me here: www.vijay-ramjattan.com

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Do you work with students in higher education? Like to share your views on training you've had (or not)? Call for participants for a short survey! (10 mins): www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_... Survey closes January 30. Please share in your networks/re-post!

@janmcarthur.bsky.social asking some truly tough questions about what we're doing in HE research #SRHE2024

Delighted that our special issue on 'International student mobility within Europe: responding to contemporary challenges' has just been published! Pleasure to guest-edit this w/ @sazanajayadeva.bsky.social Daniel Faas, Aline Courtois & Suzanne Beech Our editorial: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#RPVQual Please send me your KEY recommendations for qualitative interview techniques. I am updating my blog post and partial bibliography (available here: www.raulpacheco.org/2022/04/a-pa...)

I'm sure this Science story on how systematic reviews are threatened by paper mills is good, but the illustration by Sara Gironi Carnevale is great saragironicarnevale.com Story: https://www.science.org/content/article/systematic-reviews-aim-extract-broad-conclusions-many-studies-are-peril

Who is coming to #SRHE2024 next week?

Repost if BlueSky is now your primary social media site.

Re-reading this paper doi.org/10.1007/s107... and I'm going to have to do a thread to share my favourite quotes. And by favourite, I obviously mean the ones that fill me with rage.

📣 Announcing: RIS Online Conference 2025! "Finding Purpose in Research with International Students" 10 - 13 March 2025 (online only) Abstracts due 24 January 2025 Details about the theme and call for abstracts are available at: researchintlstudents.com/conference20...