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Teaser, summary, work performed and final results
Periodic Reporting for period 2 - HEIM (Higher Education Internationalisation and Mobility: Inclusion, Equalities and Innovations)
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IntroductionThe Higher Education Internationalisation and Mobility (HEIM) research/innovation project (January 2015 – December 2017) focused on how principles of equity and inclusion can be applied to internationalisation strategies and programmes in higher education, as...
Summary
Introduction
The Higher Education Internationalisation and Mobility (HEIM) research/innovation project (January 2015 – December 2017) focused on how principles of equity and inclusion can be applied to internationalisation strategies and programmes in higher education, as well as on developing research and innovation capacity in this field.
Led by Professor Louise Morley, the partnership was between the University of Sussex (UK), Umeå University (Sweden), the University of Seville (Spain) and the Roma Education Fund (REF) based in Hungary. HEIM interrogated and developed the concept and practices of higher education internationalisation through questions about who is able to participate in and benefit from policy initiatives and strategic interventions, and whether certain social groups are disadvantaged or excluded from mobility opportunities.
Research focused on the Roma community in Europe as a critical example of a marginalised group, as staff and students. The project was organised through 6 Work Packages. Via secondments, staff exchanges, policy reviews and collaborative inquiry, the project investigated policies, interventions and methodologies for including Roma in higher education generally, and in internationalisation initiatives, in particular, in different locations.
Work performed
Project Reports and Outputs
Work Package 1: Internationalisation with Equity and Diversity?
In October and November 2017 Anasztázia Nagy, and Beata Olahova from the Roma Education Fund spent two months in the University of Seville with Dr Mayte Padilla- Carmona and Dr José González Monteagudo researching the University’s internationalisation policies and practices. They interviewed staff and students about their experiences and preparations for internationalisation and are in the process of finalising guidelines for universities on reflexive internationalisation aimed at embedding equity in their employment practices and treatment of international staff.
Work Package 2: Debating and Designing a Module to Encourage Reflexive Accounts of Internationalisation
In September 2016, Professor Louise Morley, Professor Nafsika Alexiadou and Dr José González Monteagudo were seconded to the Roma Education Fund, Budapest, and worked with Dr Marius Taba and Dr Stela Garaz to write a paper Internationalisation and Migrant Academics: The Hidden Narratives of Mobility. This will be published in 2018 in Higher Education and is based on interviews with 14 migrant academics (of whom four were Roma). The research findings suggest that while there are gains from internationalisation, including transcultural learning, enhanced employability and inter-cultural competencies, there are also less romantic aspects to mobility including ‘otherness’, affective considerations such as isolation, and questions about whose knowledge is circulating in the global academy?
A further output was developed and piloted at the University of Sussex with the assistance of Dr Catherine Pope and Dr Charlotte Morris in the form of a Training Module.
Work Package 3: Network of Roma Early Stage Researchers
Professor John Pryor worked with Early Stage Researchers Daniel Leyton and Caterina Mazilli, University of Sussex, Alejandro Soria-Vilchez, University of Seville,
and Dan Pavel Doghi and Erszebet Bader, Roma Education Fund in 2016 and 2017 to develop a Facebook Group to support Roma students in higher education internationally. They also searched useful resources on Higher Education Internationalisation and Roma Education. See Resources pages.
Work Package 4: Supporting Roma Students in Higher Education
Three Experienced Researchers (Alexiadou, Hinton-Smith, Padilla-Carmona) worked with three Early Stage Researchers (Danvers, Norberg, Soria-Vilchez) to research their national policy contexts for including Roma communities in Higher Education. The secondment produced 3 reports and several academic publications. See http://www.sussex.ac.uk/education/cheer/researchprojects/rise/outputs.
Work Package 5: Researching Marginalised Minorities in Higher Education Institutions - Policies and Practice
Early Stage Researchers (Idrizi, Notar, Petre, Tomic) and Experienced Researcher (Garaz) from the Roma Education Fund were seconded to the Universities of Seville, Sussex and Umea to research Widening Participation Policies in Spain, Sweden and the UK. They worked with Experienced Researchers (Alexiadou, Hinton-Smith, Padilla-Carmona) and produced 3 country reports. See See http://www.sussex.ac.uk/education/cheer/researchprojects/rise/outputs.
Work Package 6: Research Methodologies Training for Equality and Diversity
15 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) from the Roma Education Fund (Velicu; Petre; Dumitru; Pallaghy; Kuzmanov; Taho; Tomic; Radoman; Velcheva; Balog, Goracel, Mate (x 2 visits), Lacatus and Bass) attended Sussex for intensive training for research methodologies in June/ July 2015 and June/July 2017. The first visit, organised by Paul Roberts, involved an intensive training programme in qualitative and quantitative research and theoretical work on social inclusion to support them in their policy work in promoting educational opportunities for the Roma community in Europe. The second visit, organised by Dr Emily Danvers, comprised research communication and wr
Final results
Impact and Knowledge Exchange
HEIM has produced a film (Gypsy, Roma and Travellers’ experiences of Higher Education) in English and Spanish that has been shown to NGOs, Policymakers, university managers and researchers in the UK and Spain. It will also be a training resource for teachers in Seville.
A Training Module Internationalisation in Higher Education: Practical Guidance has been produced and piloted with the Department of Human Relations, University of Sussex. It will be translated into Spanish for the University of Seville and introduced to Japanese universities.
HEIM hosted Experts’ Meeting in Sussex and Seville in which colleagues from NGOs, policy and academic organisations exchanged knowledge about how to include GRT communities in higher education in general and in internationalisation opportunities in particular.
Actions identified include providing knowledge and awareness training for colleagues working in widening participation and looking at how international study abroad opportunities could be better promoted to marginalised groups in higher education, including GRT.
HEIM has received media coverage and has disseminated its findings at international conferences, seminars and NGO workshops.
See http://www.sussex.ac.uk/education/cheer/researchprojects/rise/knowledgeexchange.
HEIM has achieved success in capacity building of Early Stage Researchers and will be conducting interviews with them to evaluate how they have been able to apply their secondment experiences to their professional and academic practices.
HEIM is also planning an edited collection on the Roma in Higher Education, with chapters co-authored by colleagues from the Roma Education Fund and the academic partners. For further information and access to the deliverables, please see the HEIM website:
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/education/cheer/researchprojects/rise
Website & more info
More info: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/education/cheer/researchprojects/rise.