ELP Guest Seminar with Dr Jenna Mittelmeier, University of Manchester
Published: 10 February 2025
Dr Jenna Mittelmeier presents 'Re-thinking depictions of international students in research and practice'
Friday 28th February
13:00-14:00
Room 227 (St Andrews Building)
Re-thinking depictions of international students in research and practice
Drawing from our recent book, Research with International Students, this session will consider how international students are frequently depicted in problematic ways in existing research and practice. This includes common narratives where scholars and practitioners often (inadvertently) rely on deficit and homogenised framings to represent international students’ experiences and skills. Using examples from a series of recently published systematic literature reviews, examples will be shown for how these depictions are ubiquitous in higher education research and provide a problematic foundation for imagining more transformative and interculturally inclusive universities otherwise. The session will end with a concrete example of how ‘integration’ discourses might be critiqued in this area of research and practice towards concepts which deconstruct structural inequalities rather than individual deficiencies.
About the speaker:
Jenna Mittelmeier is Senior Lecturer in International Education at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses broadly on the internationalisation of higher education and more specifically on the experiences and treatment of international students. She is the lead co-editor of the recently published book Research with International Students: Critical Conceptual and Methodological Considerations and is the co-founder and lead organiser for the Research with International Students (RIS) network: https://researchintlstudents.com/
First published: 10 February 2025
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