The information below outlines the full RIS Online Conference 2025 schedule at a glance. You can find abstracts and full session details on the linked individual day pages. The full conference runs between March 10 – 13 and further details can be found here.
Registration
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Time zones
All times are listed in UK time zone (GMT). Please take a moment to double check all times through a time zone converter:
Monday, March 10
| Time | Speaker(s) | Session title |
| 8:00 – 8:25 am GMT | Jenna Mittelmeier and Sylvie Lomer | Introduction: Finding purpose in research with international students |
| 8:30 – 8:55 am GMT | Vera Spangler | Walking as metaphor: a creative activity for critical reflection in research with international students |
| 9:00 – 9:25 am GMT | Yun Yue | Navigating agency in international student mobility |
| 9:30 – 9:55 am GMT | Heather Cockayne and Zhuomin Huang | Photography as a methodological third-space: Student knowledge about their material and embodied place-making |
| 10:05 – 10:45 am GMT | Social activity | Speed networking |
| 11:00 – 11:25 am GMT | Dangeni | Challenging the ‘old’ and identifying ‘new’ in research with international students |
| 11:30 – 11:55 am GMT | Conor O’Reilly | An unconventional hubris: Considering experiences of doctoral research with international students as an experienced practitioner. |
Tuesday, March 11
| Time | Speaker(s) | Session title |
| 1:00 – 1:25 pm GMT | Alison Leslie, Clare Wright, and Sally Heier | Stepping up, standing out: In conversation with an international PGT student on finding purpose in co-creation research |
| 1:30 – 1:55 pm GMT | Allyson Lindsley and Sehyun Liz Hwang | Helping international education practitioners turn real-world questions and dilemmas into research questions and participatory action initiatives with international students |
| 2:00 – 2:45 pm GMT | Social activity | ECR Network Social Event Led by the RIS ECR Network |
| 3:00 – 3:25 pm GMT | Laura Vaughn and Amanda Corso | Examination of Western-based theories via an international context |
| 3:30 – 3:55 pm GMT | Jason Schneider | Finding purpose by focusing on student agency |
| 4:00 – 4:25 pm GMT | Oğuzhan Tekin and Vijay Ramjattan | Going beyond the campus bubble: Rethinking university support for international students |
| 4:30 – 4:55 pm GMT | Shannon Hutcheson | Implied but uncertain: Capturing international students in gray spaces |
| 5:00 – 5:25 pm GMT | Ezgi Ozyonum and Tanja Tajmel | Decolonial perspectives on internationalization: Unpacking international students’ discourses |
Wednesday, March 12
| Time | Speaker(s) | Session title |
| 4:00 – 4:25 pm GMT | Betül Bulut-Sahin | Gatekeepers of inclusion: Exploring international office professionals’ perspectives on equity for international students |
| 4:30 – 4:55 pm GMT | Shanshan Jiang-Brittan | Navigating fear and freedom: Ethical challenges and safe spaces in researching Chinese students’ activism abroad |
| 5:00 – 5:25 pm GMT | Soumia Bardhan and Sihang Shu | From deficit narratives to empowered voices: Reimagining purpose and equity in research with international students |
| 5:30 – 6:15 pm GMT | Social activity | Led by the Critical Internationalization Studies Network (CISN) |
| 6:30 – 6:55 pm GMT | Sarang Kim and Marisa Lally | Navigating neoliberal forces: Sustaining purpose in equity-oriented work in the field of internationalization of higher education |
| 7:00 – 7:25 pm GMT | Prof-Collins Ifoenu | Negotiating financial precarity, reciprocity and queer identity for international students |
| 7:30 – 7:55 pm GMT | Sana Ghazi and Chi Nguyen | Advancing theoretical insights on first-generation international graduate students |
Thursday, March 13
| Time | Speaker(s) | Session title |
| 10:00 – 10:25 am GMT | Sophia Deterala | Finding meaning in social justice research: The case of international students in the Philippines |
| 10:30 – 10:55 am GMT | Sandra Slotte | Flipping the focus: Investigating employer-ability instead of employability in international graduate employment |
| 11:00 – 11:25 am GMT | Mousumi Mukherjee | Challenges of researching with international students in India |
| 11:35 – 12:15 pm GMT | Social activity | Thematic small group discussions |
| 12:30 – 12:55 pm GMT | Milad Mohebali | Becoming international: A critical autoethnography on researching with other |
| 1:00 – 1:25 pm GMT | Jing Zhang | Decolonizing international education: Finding purpose in research with disadvantaged international students |
| 1:30 – 1:55 pm GMT | Shuang Gao | Language ideologies and institutional whiteness: Chinese international students’ racial experience at a British university |