Description
Book SynopsisDespite growing numbers of international academics globally, there is a dearth of works exploring success stories, and the barriers and opportunities of being an international academic. Academic Mobility and International Academics offers personal experiences and guidance from a truly international suite of scholars exploring their academic journeys and addressing intersectional topics on academic mobility including perspectives from early career researchers, university leaders, mentors, LGBTIQ scholars, and more.
Throughout this timely collection, chapter authors offer insight into overall academic employment experiences, including their motivations and challenges in steering their academic career. They offer guidance on how international academics can harness their career aspirations, across both leadership and non-leadership positions and how internationality in academic careers is evolving in these current times.
Essential reading for any scholar or postgraduate student looking to work outside of their home nation, this hopeful and insightful text will provide guidance, inspiration, and real-life examples of how to survive and thrive as an international scholar.
Trade ReviewA must-read volume that captures the academic journey and contribution of international academics to global higher education! All scholars including faculty, students, and administrators will benefit from reading this book. -- Krishna Bista, Morgan State University, Maryland (USA)
This is such an important book for everyone working in Higher Education. The personal reflections of international academics around the globe throughout are both thought provoking and inspiring. Understanding the personal journeys of nternational academics who forms part of our diverse academic community.
-- Hannah-Louise Holmes, Manchester Metropolitan University
Table of ContentsPreface; Raúl Sánchez Urribarrí
Introductory Chapter; Jasvir Kaur Nachatar Singh
Section 1 - Leadership
Chapter 1. Breaking through the glass ceiling: Navigating towards leadership positions as a woman international academic; Ashleigh-Jane Thompson
Chapter 2. Virtuous Like Water --International Academic in a Leadership Position; Yuhang Rong
Section 2 - Experiences of esteemed and young scholars
Chapter 3. Life lessons for aspiring international academics: What my experience suggests about how to thrive; Vijay Mallan
Chapter 4. My academic path as an international academic from MENA to Canada: Good, better, best. Never let it rest; Jinan Issa
Chapter 5. Being an International Academic in a Malaysian University: Challenges, Opportunities and Way forward; Muhammad Muftahu
Chapter 6. Facets of academic life- Perspective of an international visiting scholar; Amrita Kaur
Chapter 7. An international early-career academic journey in Australia; Jasvir Kaur Nachatar Singh
Chapter 8. Moving in and coming home: Insights from early career researchers in Japan; Shannon Mason and Yusuke Sakurai
Section 3 - Personal and family experiences in long and short term mobilities
Chapter 9. International academic experiences in Japan; Ariunaa Enkhtur and Sainbayar Gundsambuu
Chapter 10. Short-term International Mobility among Academics; Jisun Jung
Chapter 11. International academic mobility: Categories of difference and narratives of possibility; James Burford and Mary Eppolite
