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Researcher Education & Development
Adelaide Graduate Centre
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THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE
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RED Research

To give our educational and professional development work a sound theoretical and pedagogical platform, staff of the Researcher Education & Development (RED) unit research international best practice in their fields of expertise, and publish in a broad range of areas concerned with (higher) education, language and culture.

Below find links to this research work, both completed and on-going, which you can access both via topic and author. Please do get in touch with us if you would like to discuss this work further, or to participate in the research (much of which is based on information provided by staff and students) or to collaborate with any of us on future projects.

RED Research Projects

Transcultural Academics in the Global Academy
Cally Guerin & Ian Green
Much research has been undertaken on the problems experienced by international students studying at Australian universities, but there has been comparatively little attention paid to the challenges facing transnational academic staff. In this project we report on interviews with a range of transnational academic staff discussing their experiences of coming to work in the Australian university system ...

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Our work on this topic thus far:

Guerin, C. & Green, I. (2009a) Transcultural supervision: EAL supervisors and their research students. Virtual presentation at the World Universities Forum, Mumbai, India, January.
[ Abstract ]

Guerin, C. & Green, I. (2009b) The transcultural academic: cosmopolitanism and the imagined community of the global academy. Journal of the World Universities Forum 2(3): 17-24.

Guerin, C. and Green, I. (2009c) Culture, community and cosmopolitanism: The international student experience. Poster presentation at the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) Conference on The Student Experience, Darwin, Australia, July.
[ Poster ]

Guerin, C. & Green, I. (2009d) Research supervision and internationalisation: belonging to the global academy’, Society for Research into Higher Education Conference on Challenging Higher Education: knowledge, policy and practice, Newport, UK, December.
[ In-progress paper ]

HERDSA Conference Poster, July 2009