Speaker Schedule

2023 Research with International Students Conference

December 11 – 12, 2023
Hybrid: at the University of Manchester (United Kingdom) and online

Please note: Registration is required to attend the conference

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Conference Day 1 (December 11)

Note: all times are in UK time (time zone converter here)

TimeActivity
9:00-9:30 amRegistration and welcome coffees  
(in person only)
9:45-10:00 amWelcome and introductions from conference organisers:
Setting the scene for the conference
(hybrid – online and in person)
10:00-11:00 amKeynote 1: Kalyani Unkule
Aren’t all students international?
(hybrid – online and in person)
11:00-11:30 amBreak
11:30-1:00 pmBreakout Sessions
(hybrid – online and in person)  

Session 1: Decolonising research with international students
1. Decolonisation of research with international students: Creating spaces for transformative praxis
Hyacinth Udah (James Cook University)  

2. How and to what extent can we apply decolonising research ideas to international students?
Bowen Zhang (University of Manchester) and Bukola Oyinloye (University of York)  

3. Humanising international students’ experiences: A decolonising turn
Riadh Ghemmour (The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London)  

Session 2: Positioning research designs
1. Positioning an international student as a qualitative insider researcher: Negotiating the dual role
Misozi Chiweshe (University of Zimbabwe)  

2. In praise of slow research: Taking the time to take it all in
Jason Schneider (DePaul University)  

3. Confronting ethical dilemmas in qualitative research with international students
Keanen McKinley (William & Mary) and Dangeni (Newcastle University)  

Session 3: Methods for capturing students’ voices
1. Going beyond the “typical” student? Voicing diversity of experience through biographical encounters with migrant students in Portugal
Cosmin Nada (University of Porto)  

2. Reimagining research with international students via photovoice: Toward inclusive and decolonized knowledge production
Liang-Wen Lin-Januszewski (Paderborn University)  

3. Sparking resonance, sympathy and commitment: A reflection on a study of Chinese agent-user students’ overseas university application experiences using interpretative phenomenological analysis
Ying Yang (University of Manchester)  
1:00-2:00 pmLunch break
2:00-3:00 pmKeynote 2: Chrystal A. George Mwangi
Re(Setting) the foundation: An equity-driven lens for research with international students
(hybrid – online and in person)
3:00-3:30 pm Break
3:30-5:00 pmBreakout Sessions (hybrid – online and in person)  

Session 4: Race, racism, and whiteness in research with international students
1. Race is not a non-issue: Inclusions of race and critical thematic analysis in research with international students
Shannon Hutcheson (McGill University)  

2. Reimagining research with international students: Anti-racist perspectives
Sumeya Loonat and Richard Hall (De Montfort University)  

3. Digital storytelling in Augmented Reality (AR): Curating two international students’ lived experiences in higher education
Eunjin Kim and Münire Burçak Gezeroğlu (The Pennsylvania State University)  

Session 5: Innovative methods with international students
1. Co-locating the international student as reified multiple: A poetic trans-position
Sophia Deterala (University of the Philippines Open University)  

2. Using art-based research method and positionality to explore international students experiences
Jasvir Kaur Nachatar Singh (La Trobe University)  

3. Examining community cultural wealth’s role in educational thriving for first-gen and international graduate students: A strength-based autoethnographic analysis
Oumarou Abdoulaye Balarabe (Ohio University)  

Session 6: Reflecting on international students’ agency
1. International students in Irish universities: Understanding the role of student agency when navigating a linguistic imperial higher education system
Conor O’Reilly (University of Glasgow; Ghent University Global Campus)

2. Towards students as agents in research practice: Methodological insights from a Canadian multi-site case study
Saskia Van Viegen (York University), Ed Griffiths (Concordia University), Sandra Zappa-Hollman (University of British Columbia), and Heike Neumann (Concordia University)  

3. Integrating agency and empowerment in research with international students: A phenomenological exploration of critical consciousness and social justice perspectives
Sarang Kim (University of California San Diego)
5:00Evening Social
Beehive Restaurant at Oddfellows Hall  
(in person only)

Conference Day 2 (December 12)

Note: all times are in UK time (time zone converter here)

TimeActivity
9:00-10:00 amKeynote 3: Hanne Adriansen
Reflections over positionality across two decades, three continents, and four positions
(hybrid – online and in person)
10:00-10:30 amBreak 
10:30-11:15 amWorkshop 1: Reflective dialogue on re-conceptualizing international students
Led by Asuka Ichikawa (Boston College)
Summer Bennett (UC San Diego)
Meena Pannirselvam (University of Nevada)
Thornchanok Uerpairojkit (Joyce) (King’s College London)
Yuqi Lin (University of Melbourne)  

(hybrid – in person and online)
11:15-11:30 amBreak
11:30 am-1:00 pmBreakout Sessions (hybrid – online and in person)  

Session 7: Intersectionality in research with international students
1. Interrogating intersectionality in understanding international students
Tang T. Heng (National Institute of Education, Singapore)  

2. From privilege to differentiation: Class reworking within internationalisation
Ana Luisa Muñoz-García (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) and Teya Yu (Independent Researcher)  

3. “Why so quiet?” How feminist approaches might promote the voices of marginalised international students in higher education research
Sitian Chen (University College London)  

Session 8: Framing research with international students
1. Enhancing research with international students: Exploring the prospects and challenges of embracing decolonizing theoretical frameworks
Ezgi Ozyonum and Tanja Tajmel (Concordia University)  

2. Theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches to the study of international students
Simon Ngalomba (University of Dar es Salaam)  

3. International students as co-creators of knowledge: Amplifying voices from the “Global South”
Alina Schartner and Sam Shields (Newcastle University)
 

Session 9: Multilingual research with international students
1. Languaging research: Multidisciplinary policy and practice insights
Richard Fay (University of Manchester), Jane Andrews (University of the West of England), Zhuo Min Huang (University of Manchester), and Ross White (Queen’s University Belfast)  

2. Addressing needs or rights? Reframing the purpose of linguistic research with international students
Vijay Ramjattan (University of Toronto)  

3. Research multilingually with international students: standing on the shoes of participants
Daian Huang (University of Manchester)  
1:00-2:00 pmLunch break
2:00-3:30 pmBreakout Sessions (hybrid – online and in person)  

Session 10: Building sensitivity into research with international students 
1. Knowledge legitimacy and the role of international student mobility in the re/production of global hierarchies
Vera Spangler (University of Surrey)
 
2. Writing autoethnography as a healing methodology for trauma survivors as researchers in international higher education
Asuka Ichikawa (Boston College)
 
3. Researching sensitive topics with international students: Addressing academic integrity
Joel Heng Hartse (Simon Fraser University), Tim Anderson (University of Victoria), Sandra Zappa (University of British Columbia), Mohsen Hosseinpour Moghaddam (Simon Fraser University), Qinghua Chen (Simon Fraser University), Kiyu Itoi (Ritsumeikan University), and Alex Ross (University of British Columbia)

Session 11: Reimagining international students’ transitions
1. Re-framing transitions: An ecosystemic lens on international students’ transition experiences to British higher education
Imene Berrouaine (University of Nottingham)  

2. Conceptualising the development of social relationships of international students as a search for ibasho (a place of belonging and comfort)
Kazuhiro Kudo (Dokkyo University and Murdoch University)  

3. Micro experiences of everyday multiculturalism: Reframing “friendship” as an assumed marker of transition
Jenna Mittelmeier (University of Manchester)  

Session 12: Reframing research designs and methodological choices
1. Research with students labelled international: Insights from critical realism and intercultural studies
Ramzi Merabet (University of Leeds)  

2. Working with what you have: Quantitative analysis of international students in low-dimension data contexts
Melissa Whatley (SIT Graduate Institute ) and Shinji Katsumoto (University of Iowa)  

3. SINTEGRA as an initiative to integrate international students from the Global South at a Brazilian public university
Fernanda Leal, Elisa Freitas Schemes, Elka Lima Hostensky, and Lígia Rocha Cavalcante Feitosa (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)  
3:30-4:00pmCoffee break
4:00 – 5:00 pmWorkshop 2: Next steps for research with international students
Led by conference organisers
(hybrid – online and in person)
5:00 pmConference social
Sandbar
(in person only)