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We are currently conducting some research for the British Council on higher education partnerships between Turkey and the UK. As part of this project, we are looking to conduct some online focus groups in January 2021 with the following groups of people:

• Turkish students who have come to the UK to study;
• Turkish citizens who have come to the UK to work in HE; and
• UK-based academics who have been involved in a partnership with Turkish colleagues for either teaching or research.

If you are interested in taking part, please email me (Rachel Brooks – r.brooks@surrey.ac.uk) for further details. Many thanks!

We (Genine Hook, Marie-Pierre Moreau and Rachel Brooks) are putting together  an edited volume on student carers in higher education (provisional title: Student Carers in Higher Education: Navigating, resisting and redefining academic cultures). We have been in touch with Routledge who have expressed an interest in this project. We are now in the process of identifying contributors, before submitting a proposal in July 2020.

If our proposal is successful, the proposed collection will map the experiences of student carers in academic cultures across a broad range of institutional and national contexts. The collection favours an inclusive perspective, including work looking at those caring for children, parents and other family members, as well as pets and friends. We are also interested in approaches which highlight the diverse intersectional ways in which student carers experience their dual status. 

While we anticipate that the volume will be sociologically-informed, we welcome a broad range of methodological approaches, including auto-ethnographically-based case studies, empirical studies and theoretically informed work. We welcome contributions from scholars at various stages of their career and from various parts of the world, particularly, though not only, First Nations communities and the Global South. 

If you are interested, please do send a 250-word abstract, by 30 June, to studentcarers@gmail.com

At this stage, we anticipate that we would need full drafts of chapters by December 2020.  Please also note that the abstracts and the full chapters will be subject to a peer-review process and may or may not be accepted for publication. 

Monday January 8 2018

School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY, UK (Gottman Room)

Kindly sponsored by the Economic Justice and Social Transformation research cluster, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford

9.30 – 10.00am:  Registration

10.00 – 11.00am: Welcome and Keynote 1

‘Spatial imaginaries’ and the transition to university:  an intersectional analysis of class, ethnicity and place (Michael Donnelly, University of Bristol).

11.00 – 1.00pm: Parallel Sessions

1a (Gottman Room)

i.          Mobile preschools, mobilities and materialities (Danielle van der Burgt and Katarina Gustafson, Uppsala University)

ii.          Moving beyond immobility: narratives of undergraduate mobility at the ‘local’ college (Holly Henderson, University of Birmingham)

iii.          We’re going on a journey: materialities and mobilities in the Outward Bound Trust (Jo Hickman Dunne, Loughborough University)

iv.          Building colleges for the future: pedagogical and ideological spaces (Rob Smith, Birmingham City University)

v.          The construction of hypermobile subjectivities in higher education: implications for materialities (Aline Courtois, University College London)

1b (Gilbert Room)

i.                 Materiality and meaning-making: towards creative mapping praxis on ‘post-conflict’ Belfast (Amy Mulvenna, University of Manchester)

ii.                Materiality and the formation of transnational identities among British Ghanaian children schooling in Ghana (Emma Abotsi, University of Oxford)

iii.               The school bus as agentic assemblage (Cathy Gristy, Plymouth University)

iv.               Learning ‘the feel’ in the wooden boat workshop: material perception as understanding (Tom Martin, University of Oxford)

v.                Relational mobilities: global citizenships between international ad local private schools (Sophie Cranston, Loughborough University)

1.00 – 1.45pm: LUNCH (Gottman Room)

1.45 – 2.30pm: Keynote 2

Choreographies of belonging: Reimagining ‘local’ students’ everyday (im)mobiities in Higher Education (Kirsty Finn, Lancaster University)

2.45 – 4.45pm: Parallel Sessions

Session 2a (Gottman Room)

i)                 International study in the global south: linking institutional, staff, student and knowledge mobilities (Parvati Raghuram, Open University)

ii)                Higher education mobilities: a cross-national European comparison (Rachel Brooks, University of Surrey)

iii)               Transnational encounters. Constructions of schools and (post)colonialism across continents 1945 – 1975 (Ning de Conick-Smith, Aarhus University)

iv)               The space in-between: the materiality and sociality of the international branch campus in China (Kris Hyesoo Lee, University of Oxford)

v)                Materialities and (im)mobilities in transnational capacity-building projects in higher education (Hanne Kristine Adriansen, Aarhus University)

Session 2b (Gilbert Room)

i.                 ‘In two places at once: academics with caring responsibilities, conference mobility and the role of communication devices’ (Emily F. Henderson, University of Warwick)

ii.                Data and school spaces – materialisations, circulations and temporalities (Matt Finn, Exeter University)

iii.               The role of technology in shaping student identity during transitions to university: how technology is affecting the way students experience and conceptualise the university as a social, academic and physical space (Harry T. Dyer, University of East Anglia)

iv.               Making space for academic work (Mary Hamilton, Lancaster University)

v.                Between omnipotence and immobility: a comparison of banking, Hollywood and further study as popular pathways amongst graduates from an elite university in New York (John Loewenthal, Oxford Brookes University)

4.45 – 5.30pm: Closing Remarks; Book Launch and Wine (Gottman Room)