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I am a Saudi female doctoral student who is a member of a family that has always encouraged learning, and always shown openness to other civilisations and cultures.
I studied the English language and literature (Shakespeare! Dickens! The Brontës!) for my first degree, and in 2008 I was awarded a King Abdullah Scholarship Program (KASP) scholarship to complete a Master’s, then a PhD, in Melbourne, Australia. As part of my Masters degree, I investigated the use of Facebook by five Saudi Female International Students (SFIS) in Melbourne (Binsahl & Chang, 2012) and discovered that SFIS used social media to find information, not just to socialise.
Haifa’s comment on her experience as a student can be read here
Myra Lee is interested in the internationalisation of higher education, and in particular, culturally appropriate support during career transitions. Having studied in three countries, she utilises her lived experiences as a former international student to investigate the impact of transitioning through different cultural contexts on notions of career. Her other research interests include indigenous and postcolonial methodologies, reflective research praxis, and the future of work. Before embarking on research, Myra spent over a decade working in international corporations in roles such as accounting, recruitment, training and delivery design, and organisational development. A common theme underlying her career is the focus on lifelong learning as the basis for developing human potential, which is an ethos that she carries into her research.
Myra’s PhD thesis is entitled Journeying to the West: understanding international career transitions to develop career support for international Chinese doctoral research students in Australia and is available here
Read about Myra’s support tool here.
Sherrie Lee is from Singapore and a PhD candidate at the University of Waikato. She is the past president of the Postgraduate Students’ Association and currently serves as its mentor. She is also on the executive of International Education Association ISANA New Zealand. Her research uses the concept of brokering to investigate the informal learning practices among first year international tertiary students in New Zealand. Prior to doctoral studies, Sherrie was a business communications lecturer at a polytechnic in Singapore. She writes about her research interests on her personal blog The Diasporic Academic.
Adriana Perez-Encinas is our selected researcher for September 2017. She was awarded the EAIE Rising Star award, which honours a person who is a recent member of the EAIE (two to four years) and who has already made a notable contribution to international education.
Adriana is assistant lecturer and researcher in business organisations and the internationalisation of higher education and university management at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) in Spain. She is also a trainer for the EAIE Spring Academies. Adriana has a Bachelor´s degree in translation and interpreting (English and German), a Master’s degree in international relations with Latin America and a MBA. She also holds a PhD in Business Economics. During her six years as head of the International Relations Office in the Faculty of Business and Economics at UAM, she worked with local and international students, university partners and colleagues. Since 2005 she has volunteered for the Erasmus Student Network, serving variously as national representative, president of the UAM chapter, project coordinator and research member. Adriana is also a Steering group member of the EAIE Expert Community Mobility Advising.
See Adriana’s articles relevant to professional practice here
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