Speakers
Poster session
Students are often not fully aware of all the skills they have developed by undertaking a mobility period and are not confident in articulating their experiences to employers. Robert Gordon University has developed an online skills analysis and assessment programme for use by students before, during and after their mobility period to address this gap. This poster demonstrates how this innovative tool can assist students in effectively articulating the benefits.
Topics:
Student exchange and study abroad
Julia Porter is the International Exchanges Manager at Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen, Scotland. With a career in student mobility dating back to 1996, she is responsible for overseeing all aspects of international exchange, including managing institutional agreements, coordinating all non-academic elements of incoming and outgoing student mobility, and administering funding programmes such as the Turing Scheme and the Scottish Education and Exchange Programme (SEEP).
Julia is passionate about international education and considers her selection as the UK Staff Ambassador for the Erasmus Programme’s 25th anniversary one of the highlights of her career.
She is an active member of the Group for Exchange and Mobility Scotland (GEMS), where she served as Chair from 2016 to 2017. Julia has also contributed to several national and international working groups, including the UK Best Practice Expert Group, the Erasmus for All Expert Advisory Group, and the National Mobility Strategy Working Group.
Julia regularly collaborates with colleagues across the UK and beyond and is a frequent contributor to conferences and training events focused on international education and exchange.