Outputs (26)

International or international(-ised) students? Insights from continental Europe (2023)
Journal Article

We were very pleased to curate this special issue on constructions of international students across Europe. We called for papers focusing on continental Europe, as whilst there now exists quite a large body of literature on representations of interna... Read More about International or international(-ised) students? Insights from continental Europe.

Epistemological process towards decolonial praxis and epistemic inequality of an international student (2022)
Journal Article

This paper focuses on the epistemic inequality of international students as a “new” inequality that is under-represented in the current debates about decolonisation (albeit shaped by colonial discourses depicting international students as in deficit... Read More about Epistemological process towards decolonial praxis and epistemic inequality of an international student.

International Student Mobility to and from the Middle East: Theorising Public, Institutional, and Self-Constructions of Cross-Border Students (2022)
Book

Possibilities and complexities of decolonising higher education: critical perspectives on praxis (2021)
Journal Article

Academic Capitalism, Conceptualizations of (2020)
Book Chapter

Datafication of epistemic equality: advancing understandings of teaching excellence beyond benchmarked performativity. (2020)
Journal Article

The paper critiques key international teaching excellence and higher education outcomes frameworks for their lack of attention to epistemic equality. It subsequently argues that adequate ‘datafication’ of these frameworks, to demonstrate the extent t... Read More about Datafication of epistemic equality: advancing understandings of teaching excellence beyond benchmarked performativity..

The role of time in policy making: a Bahraini model of higher education competition. (2020)
Journal Article

This paper contributes to discussions about the nature and scope of higher education (HE) business in light of some of the emerging ways in which countries seem to be reframing the impact of globalism. In particular, it develops a discussion about sp... Read More about The role of time in policy making: a Bahraini model of higher education competition..

'We loved it because we felt that we existed there in the classroom!’ International students as epistemic equals vs. double country oppression (2019)
Journal Article

The article compares student narratives of engagement in internationalization in the United Kingdom and Germany. The comparison signals a new area of critical sociology of internationalization which shows signs that internationalization in non-Anglop... Read More about 'We loved it because we felt that we existed there in the classroom!’ International students as epistemic equals vs. double country oppression.

Inclusion, Epistemic Democracy and International Students: The Teaching Excellence Framework and Education Policy (2019)
Book

This book examines the Teaching Excellence Framework, and how this and various other educational policies create conditions for the exclusion of cross-border learners. As universities become increasingly globalised and seek to recruit international s... Read More about Inclusion, Epistemic Democracy and International Students: The Teaching Excellence Framework and Education Policy.

Regional solidarity undermined?: Higher Education Developments in the Arabian Gulf, Economy and Time (2019)
Journal Article

The paper theorises fragility of regional solidarities in light of the emerging ways in which two Arabian Gulf states, Bahrain and Oman, are undertaking their transition to a knowledge economy. The paper shows ways in which regional symbolic solidar... Read More about Regional solidarity undermined?: Higher Education Developments in the Arabian Gulf, Economy and Time.