A number of colleagues from the School of Education attended, chaired and presented at The Society for Research into Higher Education’s 2024 international conference earlier in December.
The theme for this year’s conference was: Higher Education: A Place for Activism and Resistance?
Qiaohui Xue shared work to date on her PhD study looking into the role of gender in the mobility and transnational study experiences of Chinese international students at UK universities.
Charlie Davis, along with a colleague from University of Birmingham, shared outcomes from their work into form and function of education fiction as a form of inquiry.
Dr Rita Hordósy presented work with colleagues from within the school, and beyond, on themes focused on graduates’ research skills in the workplace, Hungarian academics struggles for academic freedom and jointly with Maria Antonieta Vega Castillo, outcomes from an SRHE-funded project on the practices of journal editorial boards.
Dr Manny Madriaga presented on a range of themes related to his work on hope as struggle in anti-racist contexts in HE, temporalities as part of student experiences and the effects of silence in meetings.
Dr Denise Sweeney presented the preliminary findings from research conducted with Dr Rupert Knight on spoken language as oracy.
Professor Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan talked about her co-authored work on activism and resistance through collective poetic inquiry in higher education.
Finally, Dr Sarah Horrod talked about her work exploring the multifaceted identities of international postgraduate students.
Posted on Friday 20th December 2024