80. Hilary Lappin-Scott: Inspiring women to learn and lead

85. Irene Yagüe Sancho & Karine Gourlet: Young Professionals in IHE today

There you are, a young professional within the field of international higher education. Perhaps you're just starting out in a new role, or maybe you already have a few years of experience within the sector, with ideas and ambitions for your future career. In these cases, it's always helpful to have someone to guide you or to meet people who find themselves in the same situation. What do you find rewarding about your work? What challenges or struggles are you or your fellow young professional colleagues facing and how are you handling these? What role do physical and mental well-being play in your professional life? What pieces of advice are you seeking or willing to share?

In this episode of the EAIE podcast, host Laura Rumbley talks to two young international education professionals. Irene Yagüe Sancho works as the Associate Director at the IE Center for Health & Well-being in Madrid, Spain, and Karine Gourlet works as the International Mobility Manager at CESI Graduate School of Engineering, France. These two young professional women tell us about their journey into the field, the challenges they encountered along the way, and their advice for other young professionals. Be sure to tune in!

About Irene Yagüe Sancho
Irene Yagüe Sancho is the Associate Director at the IE Center for Health & Well-being, where she passionately spearheads initiatives aimed at fostering holistic growth and well-being among students, staff and faculty. With a trilingual master's degree in international relations with a focus on Culture & Education from the Institut National Universitaire Jean-François Champollion (France), she leverages her expertise in crafting and executing innovative academic programs tailored to the global landscape of higher education.

About Karine Gourlet
Karine Gourlet works as International Mobility Manager at CESI Graduate School of Engineering, France. She obtained her Master’s degree in International Management with a specialisation in European Projects at the University of Picardie Jules Verne, and started working within the international higher education field in 2017. She has been working for the CESI Graduate School of Engineering for several years, starting out as an international relations assistant at the head office in Paris. These days, she organises and manages international students and staff mobilities and coordinates the community of international relations officers of the 25 CESI campuses in France.

Additional Resources
For further insights into the topics touched on in this episode, the following resources may be of interest:
→ IE Center for Health and Well-Being
→ EAIE Young Professional membership
→ Alejandra Vicencio & Frank Ziegele: That first job in international education

84. Jenna Mittelmeier & Asuka Ichikawa: Research with international students

International students and their experiences are a frequent focus of research in the field of international higher education. But to what extent are researchers actively working to include international students in this work? What can research collaboration with international students look like? How should we consider inclusive definitions of international students? And what are some examples of good practices when it comes to research with international students that we can learn from?

In this EAIE podcast episode, we talk with Jenna Mittelmeier and Asuka Ichikawa, who have been closely involved in a 2023 Routledge publication focused precisely on this issue, titled ‘Research with International Students: Critical Conceptual and Methodological Considerations’. These knowledgeable guests provide expert and first-person insights into a range of issues linked to this fascinating subject, which is clearly rooted in research but connects so importantly and directly to practice in international higher education, as well. Be sure to tune in!

About Jenna Mittelmeier
Dr. Jenna Mittelmeier (she/her) is a Senior Lecturer in International Education at the University of Manchester (UK). Her research focuses broadly on the internationalisation of higher education and, more specifically, on the experiences and treatment of international students. She is the co-founder and co-convenor of the Research with International Students Network and the Internationalisation Practitioner Network.

About Asuka Ichikawa
Asuka Ichikawa (she/her) is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Higher Education program at Boston College (US). Her research explores transnational student migration, intercultural mental health, and internationalization of higher education.

Additional Resources
For further insights into the topics touched on in this episode, the following resources may be of interest:
→ Research with International Students: Critical Conceptual and Methodological Considerations

→ Research with International Students network website

→ Research with International Students podcast

→ Hans de Wit & Santiago Castiello Gutierrez: New definitions and directions for internationalisation

83. Alex Usher & Jogvan Klein: Policy whiplash in Australia and Canada

Although the international student mobility sector has always been in flux, it feels as if change and disruption have been more acutely a part of our lives since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. ‘Policy rollercoasters’ have been apparent in a wide range of countries around the world, including the Netherlands, the UK, Canada, and Australia. A ‘whiplash effect’ brought on by changing policies has a huge effect on students, administrators, institutions and the sector as a whole. It also raises lots of questions, but who has the answers?

In this episode of the EAIE podcast, we welcome Alex Usher, President of Higher Education Strategy Associates and a well-known expert on the Canadian IHE sector, and Jogvan Klein, Director, Future Students, at the University of Queensland and Chair of the Australian Universities International Directors Forum (AUIDF). These two experts share some key insights into the how and the why of the shifting policy landscapes for international student mobility specifically in Canada and Australia. How do they understand the policy dynamics we’re witnessing in these major international student destination countries? And what would they do if they were in the policy driver’s seat?

AboutAlex Usher
Alex Usher is the President of Higher Education Strategy Associates. An internationally recognized expert on a range of fields within higher education, including student financial aid, quality measurement, rankings and public financing, he has wide experience in strategic planning at both the institutional and system level. Alex is the lead author of the annual higher education almanac The State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada and the co-author of the premier statistical handbook on global tertiary education: World Higher Education: Institutions, Students and Funding. He authors a free daily intelligence e-mail, One Thought to Start Your Day and regularly engages with fans and critics alike on Twitter (@alexusherhesa). Prior to founding Higher Education Strategy Associates, Alex served as the Director of Educational Policy Institute Canada and Director of Research and Program Development at the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation.

AboutJogvan Klein
Jogvan Klein joined The University of Queensland (UQ) in July 2023 as the Director, Future Students, leading the University’s global student recruitment activities. Prior to joining UQ, Jogvan was the Director, International Recruitment at Swinburne University of Technology (2019-2023) and Director, International at RMIT University Vietnam (2016-2019) and has held previous senior positions at RMIT University and La Trobe University. He is also the current Chair of the Australian Universities International Directors Forum (AUIDF), a national membership-based organisation of Australian international university leaders and immediate past Chair of the Victorian Universities International Forum (VUIF). A native of the Faroe Islands, Jogvan holds an MA and a BA from Aarhus University in Denmark and has completed the Australian Institute of Company Directors course.

Additional Resources
For further insights into the topics touched on in this episode, the following resources may be of interest:
→3 steps to influencing policy development

→Larissa Bezo: Catching up on Canada

→Phil Honeywood: Australia’s post-pandemic path

→One Thought to Start Your Day

→The Koala News

→Future Campus

82. Hans de Wit & Santiago Castiello Gutierrez: New definitions and directions for internationalisation

In January 2023, the EAIE discussed internationalisation's definitions and the need for change with Oxford's Professor Simon Marginson. Following this, Hans de Wit critiqued existing definitions in a Journal of Studies in International Education (JSIE) essay, urging a shift in focus towards guiding the phenomenon's direction rather than defining it.

Which directions should we move in? What emerging views and different voices within the field should we pay more attention to? In this episode of the EAIE podcast, host Laura Rumbley talks to Hans de Wit, Professor Emeritus, Distinguished Fellow, and former director of the Boston College ‘Center for International Higher Education’ (CIHE) and Santiago Castiello Gutierrez, Assistant Professor of higher education at Seton Hall University in the United States How can we begin to shape a new and better definition of ‘internationalisation’ fit for the future? What excites or worries these two internationalisation researchers as they consider the current realities in policy and practice?

About Hans de Wit
Hans de Wit is Professor Emeritus, Distinguished Fellow, and former director of the Boston College ‘Center for International Higher Education’ (CIHE). He is a Senior Fellow of the International Association of Universities (IAU). He was director of the ‘Centre for Higher Education Internationalisation’ (CHEI) in Milan, and Professor of Internationalization of HE Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. He is a Founding member/past president of the European Association for International Education (EAIE), founding Editor of the ‘Journal of Studies in International Education’, and consulting Editor Policy Reviews in Higher Education. He has published many books, articles and blogs on internationalisation of higher education and advised institutions, agencies, governments and international organisations such as the European Commission and Parliament, UNESCO, World Bank and OECD.

About Santiago Castiello Gutierrez
Santiago Castiello Gutierrez, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of higher education at Seton Hall University in the Department of Education Leadership, Management and Policy. He is also current co-chair of the Critical Internationalization Studies Network and Associate Editor for the Critical Internationalization Studies Review. Dr. Castiello-Gutiérrez is a scholar-practitioner whose work is centred on the intersection of organizational theory around higher education institutions, their global interconnectedness, and current global policies and practices of internationalization of higher education. As a practitioner he has 15 years of experience serving as administrator of international programs for institutions in Mexico and the United States. For his work as a scholar-practitioner, Dr. Castiello-Gutiérrez was awarded a 2019 Harold Josephson Award for Professional Promise in International Education by the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA).

Additional Resources
For further insights into the topics touched on in this episode, the following resources may be of interest:
→ ‘Everything That Quacks is Internationalization’ - Critical Reflections on the Evolution of Higher Education Internationalization’
→ Critical Internationalisation Studies Network
→ Research with International Students
→ Global Collective for Study Abroad Researchers and Administrators
→ Simon Marginson: Redefining internationalisation

81. Olha Tolmachova & Violetta Seleznova: Update from Ukraine – Student success stories

Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation in February 2022, the EAIE has engaged in a series of conversations with two Ukrainian higher education institutions, Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) in Lviv and Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU), In observance of the two-year anniversary of the February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation, the EAIE reconnected with these institutions, but this time in conversation with two students: Olha Tolmachova, an undergraduate at UCU, and Violetta Seleznova, a KNU doctoral student.

EAIE podcast host Laura Rumbley chats with Olha and Violetta about how their lives as students have been affected by the longer history of conflict between Ukraine and Russia, as well as the more recent events of the past two years. What have these students experienced during these intensely difficult times, and how do they deal with everything that is thrown their way? We also zoom in on two interesting projects Olha and Violetta have been involved in an English-language course organised at UCU called 'Road to Recovery,' which seeks solutions for Ukraine's renewal, and an internationally award-winning research project at (KNU), focused on mental health issues amongst Ukrainian students.

About Olha Tolmachova
Olha Tolmachova is a fourth-year political science student at Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU). Leading the Model UN Club at UCU, Olha served as the Head Delegate for the Ukrainian delegation at the National Model United Nations conference in New York in April 2022. Earlier in 2023, Olha, together with her peers, received the New World Award from the Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE), recognising their outstanding leadership skills and commitment to global citizenship, fostering intercultural understanding within the NMUN Project. As a Ukrainian Catholic University Ambassador for the CIVICA for Ukraine project, Olha demonstrated dedication to international collaboration, specifically on Ukraine's Recovery and Modernisation topics. Currently, Olha is working on her BA thesis on the European Integration processes, focusing on EU accession negotiations.

About Violetta Seleznova
Violetta Seleznova has a Master of Arts diploma in Economics and is currently a PhD student at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She has been an internally displaced person since 2014, as her hometown continues to be under Russian occupation. She is working on a dissertation thesis about mental predictors of consumer behaviour and participating in a nationwide research project about mental health protection of Ukrainian students during and after the war. Next to her academic life, Violetta has been working as an analyst and marketing specialist for over seven years. She spent five years working at a media consulting agency studying Russian propaganda and for the last two years as a strategic marketing specialist at the Public Broadcaster of Ukraine.

Additional Resources
For further insights into the topics touched on in this episode, the following resources may be of interest:

→ The battle for mental well-being in Ukraine: mental health crisis and economic aspects of mental health services in wartime

→ UCU ‘Road to Recovery’ course

→ EAIE: Ukraine support and resources page