Events

24th September 2025 (Wednesday) 13:00 PM BST - 14:30 PM BST (time zone converter) Online Via Zoom (registration required) This webinar explores research on international students' perceptions of education agents. Education agents, who act as intermediaries between students and educational institutions, play a key role in facilitating international student mobility in the current global landscape.Continue reading "Beyond the Surface: International Students’ Perspectives on Education Agents"

21 October 2025 9.30 - 11:00 am Eastern /1:30 - 3:00 pm GMT Online via Webex Register Here This talk encourages an exploration of international education within an Afrocentric framework of care and a "two stream" water concept. Sonia Martin and Myrtle Sodhi will explore the ways international education interweaves discussions of care, community integration,Continue reading "ECR Event – Global Insights: At the Intersection of Care, Status, & International Education"

November 10 at 12:00 - 1:30 pm GMT (time zone converter) Register here  A panel conversation with Tatiana Mednikova, Zsuzsa Blaskó, Brendan Harrison, and Abdulkadir Gökbalik This lively panel discussion will focus on soft power, political beliefs and change amongst international students, challenging assumptions about what does/should change during international study.

The online writing retreats are intended as a place for those conducting research with international students to find community and solidarity in writing. Anyone is welcome to join, including scholars at all career levels and based in any location. Attendees are welcome to come and go as they need. Online via Zoom: https://liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93889348962?pwd=cFSsn9rTDIFaMgaVs0QDEt7eHi2jKP.1 Meeting ID:Continue reading "RIS Writing Retreat"

15 December 2025 8:00—9.30 am PST/11:00 - 12:30 pm EST/ 16- 17:30 pm UTC Online via Zoom: Join Here This panel shares information about the aims, scope and editorial structure of the new Journal of Global Higher Education, with advice for potential authors about how to submit, what to expect, how to tailor submissions, andContinue reading "Publishing in the Journal of Global Higher Education: Ask the Editors"

20 January, 2026 (Tuesday) 14:00 PM UK Time (time zone converter) Online Via Zoom (registration required) This session is grounded in a doctoral research examining the multiple and multi-dimensional transitions experienced by Pakistani students and their significant others across three temporal arcs: pre-departure, during study in the UK, and post-return. It foregrounds how families and closeContinue reading "The Ones Who Stay Behind: Transitions of Significant Others in International Student Mobility"

The online writing retreats are intended as a place for those conducting research with international students to find community and solidarity in writing. Anyone is welcome to join, including scholars at all career levels and based in any location. Attendees are welcome to come and go as they need. Online via Zoom: https://liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93889348962?pwd=cFSsn9rTDIFaMgaVs0QDEt7eHi2jKP.1 Meeting ID: 938Continue reading "RIS Writing Retreat"

Register here  This panel examines how inequalities shape the material realities for different groups of international students. Through physical bodies, spaces, and material assemblages (technologies, personal items, everyday objects, furniture, etc.), global higher education is mediated and uneven outcomes are created. These material dimensions are often sidelined or overlooked in common explorations of international students’Continue reading "Panel: Materialities and material injustices in international students’ mobilities"

Register here  This panel focuses on the ways that the presence of international students is becoming increasingly politicized in many common host countries, particularly through visa restrictions, media or political discourses, and public backlash. Led by Arif Abu, with speaker contributions by: Lisa Brunner and Dale McCartney Jinke He Ezgi Ozyonym and Tanja Tajmel MoreContinue reading "Panel: Politics of immigration: International students and bordering"

Register here  This webinar focuses on the pressures and limitations faced by international students regarding their free speech, including the extent to which their visa status influences their abilities to speak freely. Led by Jenna Mittelmeier with presentations from: Samantha Nissen Melissa Whatley, Santiago Castiello Gutierrez, Shinji Katsumoto, and Chris Marsciano Alaa Abdelghaffar More detailsContinue reading "Panel: Pressures and limitations on international students’ free speech"

19 March 2026 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM GMT/ 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CST (China)/11:00 – 2:00 PM CET Online via Zoom: Zoom Meeting Link: https://liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93889348962?pwd=cFSsn9rTDIFaMgaVs0QDEt7eHi2jKP.1 Meeting ID: 938 8934 8962 Passcode: T15RV29* The online writing retreats are intended as a place for those conducting research with international students to find community and solidarityContinue reading "RIS Writing Retreat"

Register here  This panel considers the impacts of economic crises (such as inflation and unequal currency exchanges) on international students, including their abilities to identify and secure safe and affordable housing, food, and other necessities for living. Led by Ryan Allen, with presentations by: Edward Zhang Abigail Ehidiamen M Zulqurnain Ul Haq Qazi More detailsContinue reading "Panel: Economic and infrastructural pressures encountered by international students"