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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.

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..

'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.

“Liberating the ‘oppressed’ and the ‘oppressor’: A model for a new TEF metric, internationalisation and democracy” (2018)
Journal Article

The paper proposes a statistical model for a TEF metric that could liberate the “oppressed” (international students) and the “oppressors” (home students) from the influence of public policies which, through constructions of international students as... Read More about “Liberating the ‘oppressed’ and the ‘oppressor’: A model for a new TEF metric, internationalisation and democracy”.

Tacit rejection of policy and teacher ambivalence – insights into English language teaching in Bahrain through actors’ perceptions (2018)
Journal Article

This article develops Phillips and Ochs's (2003) framework for policy borrowing, particularly their theorisations about indigenisation of international programmes. It uses the example of communicative language teaching (CLT) in Bahrain, exploring tea... Read More about Tacit rejection of policy and teacher ambivalence – insights into English language teaching in Bahrain through actors’ perceptions.

The Teaching Excellence Framework in the UK: an opportunity to include international students as ‘equals’? (2017)
Journal Article

Research on international students in British higher education points to marginalization of their unique perspectives in university classrooms. The aim of the article is to consider how the most recent policy changes, particularly the teaching excell... Read More about The Teaching Excellence Framework in the UK: an opportunity to include international students as ‘equals’?.

Transnational academic capitalism in the Arab Gulf:balancing global and local, public and private, capitals (2015)
Journal Article

This article contributes to the emerging theoretical construct of what has been called ‘transnational academic capitalism’, characterised by the blurring of traditional boundaries between public, private, local, regional and international, and betwee... Read More about Transnational academic capitalism in the Arab Gulf:balancing global and local, public and private, capitals.

The Role of Cultural Contexts in Research Design Decisions: Reflections on the Conflicting Study Results in the Bahraini Context (2015)
Journal Article

Self-reporting surveys in social science are commonly criticized for generating results that are often found not to reflect the actual behavior of participants. This article discusses the limitations of such surveys specifically in exploring the Arab... Read More about The Role of Cultural Contexts in Research Design Decisions: Reflections on the Conflicting Study Results in the Bahraini Context.