Speakers
Loes Diricks
Roundtable session
All university students require specific support to thrive, but international students need even more support to overcome added stress during their time abroad. How can we use the student voice to co-create a way for them to thrive, not just survive? This session will showcase a survey carried out with international students at an institution in Belgium, and an audit of the international student experience at another in the UK, to answer this question.
Topics:
Student mental health support Student exchange and study abroad
Alejandra has been working in international education for 20 years and is currently Head of International Mobility at Northumbria University, where she manages all aspects of international mobility programmes for students and staff, funding and partner relations.
Originally from Chile, she is passionate about internationalising higher education and based her postgraduate research on this topic in a development context. She has a Bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of Chile and a Master’s in international development from Northumbria.
She has been involved with the EAIE since 2014 as a session evaluator, and an EAIE mentor for the last 5 years. Alejandra was elected as Chair of the Expert Community Mobility Advising for the 2022–2024 term