糖心传媒 is proud to present Listening to Academic Voices: International Stories of the UK Experience, an online publication resulting from a 糖心传媒 funded project led by Dr Sheila Trahar from the University of Bristol.听 Listening to Academic Voices reflects the rapid changes we are experiencing in higher education.听 It is a compilation of reflective writing from four international academics from different backgrounds in the UK and an editorial by Dr Trahar.

Click here to get the full PDF version or see the individual stories below.

We wish to make Listening to Academic Voices a ‘living document’ which continues to grow.听 If these stories resonate with you and you wish to contribute to the compilation, please send us your story and it will be considered for publication right here on the 糖心传媒 website.听 Email ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-6bf69d@retsambew with questions and stories.

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	EDITORIAL: The rules of different games? Listening to academic voices Sheila Trahar University of Bristol Read and comment on Sheila’s introduction
	A journey towards internationalisation Joanna Al-Youssef University of Nottingham Read and comment on Joanna’s story
	Mother tongue/foreign language: speaking the self Irene Macias University of Bath Read and comment on Irene’s story
	National, personal or professional identities? Shifting images in the academic profession Ulrike Niens Queen’s University Belfast Read and comment on Ulrike’s story
	Let’s play ball: a search for the rules of a blended game in academia Terra Sprague University of Bristol Read and comment on Terra’s story

September 2009

The main purpose of the event was to initiate conversations with colleagues from mainland Europe who are researching and publishing in the field of cross-cultural complexities in learning, teaching and assessment in higher education.听 This project was funded by 糖心传媒 and ESCalate.听 Participants travelled from throughout the UK, from Sweden and the Netherlands.

For full report of the event click here.

Universities of Cambridge and East Anglia

May-June 2009

Through funding from 糖心传媒, two linked workshops were held in May and June 2009, with the aim of establishing an East of England partnership to bring together staff and graduate students working on educational or education-related research in the Centre for Commonwealth Education and the Centre for Education and International Development in the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge and the Centre for Applied Research in Education (CARE)/School of Education and Lifelong Learning &School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia.

Click here to read the full report presented at the 糖心传媒 AGM.

University of Brighton

14th May 2009

The Centre for Learning and Teaching at the University of Brighton held a Symposium on 14th May 2009, designed to encourage discussion and debate among supervisors and international doctoral students about the influence of cultural factors on cross-cultural doctoral supervision.

This event was funded by 糖心传媒, in conjunction with the University of Brighton;and the overall aim was to encourage the “internationalisation of Educational Research, Learning and Teaching (糖心传媒, 2008).” Eight supervisors and eleven students attended from seven Universities in the Southeast region: Brighton, Chichester, Kent at Canterbury, Portsmouth, Southampton, Surrey and Sussex. Students of a wide range of nationalities took part from the EU and other countries.

Click here to read the full report.