🎟️ Registration required (paid)
🤝 Workshop (collaborative)
💡 Internationalisation of the curriculum | Internationalisation at home
Curriculum internationalisation is a complex task often perceived to conflict with academics’ other priorities. In this workshop, we will challenge you to foster a campus ecosystem to engage academics in internationalisation. Inspired by research-backed examples, you will learn to use a curriculum internationalisation inventory, transforming the plan to your context. We will guide you to identify key stakeholders, diagnose challenges and eliminate inefficiencies to build an optimised path forward.
Learning outcomes
- Envision a campus-wide ecosystem for engaging academics in internationalisation;
- Articulate a wider understanding of key stakeholders to involve, as well as research-based strategies to overcome challenges that academics experience in engagement;
- Apply questions to examine and reimagine your institutional practices.
Target audience
This workshop is targeted at those working with curriculum internationalisation at any institutional level, including internationalisation leadership, faculty interested in promoting curriculum internationalisation on their campus, and graduate students seeking to deepen their understanding of strategic planning for internationalisation.
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Melissa Hawkins
University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Melissa Hawkins is the Associate Director for Internationalization in the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.
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Pouneh Eftekhari
Lund University, Sweden
Pouneh Eftekhari’s main responsibilities at Lund University (Sweden) include the strategic planning for sustainable internationalization (including virtual exchange) and coordinating and evaluating bilateral internationalization projects. She also leads a research project exploring the role of educational developers in curriculum internationalization. Alongside this work, Pouneh is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Transformative Education (CTE) at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) where she investigates the implications of disciplinary culture on academic engagement with internationalization. Her recent findings confirm that academic engagement varies across disciplines, suggesting that disciplinary culture may be key to increasing participation.
Pouneh draws on 15 years of experience supporting international students, facilitating mobility, nurturing university relations, leading internationalization projects, and researching higher education internationalization at universities in Europe and the USA. She is certified as an expert in assessing the quality of internationalization by the European Consortium for Accreditation (ECA) and contributes to international organizations and projects as a consultant, trainer/speaker, advisory board member, and researcher.
