British Council UK-SA Project
In collaboration with Walter Sisulu University and Stellenbosch University, this project focuses on enhancing staff doctoral capacity training and expertise for underrepresented groups in South Africa.
Education without Boundaries is researching contextualised and comprehensive internationalised education that enables a local-global perspective on teaching and learning practices, strategies, pedagogies, and policies, importantly including universities’ connected engagement with society (Hudzik, 2011).
We recognise the importance of cultural humility, co-creation, equity, and creativity in partnership work for mutual understanding and promotion of mutual learning which requires reflecting on our practices, positionalities, situatedness and concerns.
Our values include being aspirational, inclusive, and ethical.
Drawing on our research plans, we aim to embed impact throughout our work, that is:
If you wish to find out more about this theme, please get in contact with Professor Katherine Wimpenny.
Our research has three distinct clusters:
Respecting cultures, and identities, creating Third Spaces for dialogue, and forging collaborations between local and global communities, this subtheme will explore how universities use local as well as (virtual) cross-border learning spaces to enable transformative engagement between students, faculty, and communities as part of inter/cross/transdisciplinary educational practices for comprehensive internationalisation.
The use of the concept ‘border’ not only refers to geo-political borders, but also (territorial) borders linked to disciplinary, research and pedagogical knowledge.
Areas of focus include:
Oriented towards justice, solidarity, and human rights, this subtheme will focus on enhancing universities’ responsiveness to local and global societies and the development of new approaches for challenge-led, transdisciplinary education for sustainable development (ESD).
Areas of focus include:
Examining new social imaginaries that shape alternative education policy making processes and possible higher education futures in different contexts (e.g., Ron Barnett’s discussion of “Feasible Utopias”), this subtheme/research cluster will focus on awareness-raising of alternative conditions for knowledge co-creation and critique of competing and complex structures and issues driving contemporary HE practices.
Areas of focus include:
Name | Title | |
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Professor Katherine Wimpenny | Theme Lead | katherine.wimpenny@coventry.ac.uk |
Dr Dimitar Angelov | Assistant Professor | dimitar.angelov@coventry.ac.uk |
Dr Farzana Aslam | Associate | farzana.aslam@coventry.ac.uk |
Dr QueAnh Dang | Assistant Professor | queanh.dang@coventry.ac.uk |
Dr Alun DeWinter | Research Fellow | alun.dewinter@coventry.ac.uk |
Dr Virginia King | Research Fellow | virginia.king@coventry.ac.uk |
Dr Luca Morini | Assistant Professor | luca.morini@coventry.ac.uk |
Professor Marina Orsini | Professor | m.orsini@coventry.ac.uk |
Ken Fero | Assistant Professor | ken.fero@coventry.ac.uk |
The interest of our research goes beyond the influence of the classroom to consider a diversity of learning spaces which interweave to impact on educational opportunities and outcomes.
In collaboration with Walter Sisulu University and Stellenbosch University, this project focuses on enhancing staff doctoral capacity training and expertise for underrepresented groups in South Africa.
Developing a greater understanding of policies, practices, emerging priorities and concepts of higher education internationalisation in the UK and East Asia.
Transforming curricula in South Africa through internationalisation and virtual exchange.
Enhancing staff capacity building for knowledge exchange in engineering education, with Walter Sisulu University and University of Stellenbosch.
Offering virtual innovative teaching and learning opportunities to university students and marginalised groups in Jordan.
Teaching educators how to produce digitally-supported learning experiences, with a focus on fostering collaborative learning and enhanced student engagement.
Exploring intercultural learning through open education practices across the Mediterranean.
Our research team represents colleagues from across diverse disciplines with a united focus on education. Our collective research areas consider issues of the local and the global; digital, face2face, blended formal and informal learning; social justice frameworks; (inter-cross and trans) disciplinarity; cultural diversity; peace education; planetary citizenship; and policies and practical implications for education reform.
We invite self-funded or sponsored applications in the following areas: