Internationalization of the Doctoral Experience Models, Opportunities and Outcomes

Introduction

Foreword: The importance of international and intercultural experiences at doctoral level
Elspeth Jones, Björn Norlin, Carina Rönnqvist and Kirk P. H. Sullivan

1. Internationalisation in doctoral education: diversity, trends and challenges for the future
Hans de Wit, Ariane de Gayardon and Elspeth Jones

Section 1: Models

2. Regional, epistemic, educative, and political-ecological dynamics of an internationalisation at home model
Heila Lotz-Sisitka

3. An Integrated Internationalised Model for PhD Studies: Perspectives from Australia
Shanton Chang, Catherine Gomes, Saman Halgamuge, Meenakshi Arora and Alex Johnson

4. A blended international doctoral study model supported by a community of learning
Fiona Hunter and Elspeth Jones

5. Short-Term International Immersion Model (STIIM): Supporting internationalisation for doctoral students
Per-Olof Erixon, Kari Smith, Carina Rönnqvist and Kirk P. H. Sullivan

6. Internationalisation of doctoral education within the European University Alliance: a multi-partner Co-tutelle model
Minna Söderqvist, Maurizio Pioletti, Bettina Wagner, Andreu Corominas, Justin Chiu, Judith Peters and Miguel C. Brito

Experiencing Different Models

7. Building new identities as researchers with a global scope
Marloes Ambagts, Pouneh Eftekhari, Weiwei Li and Elok Malay

8. Balancing work and doctoral study across countries: reflections on an online international and intercultural learning experience
Ulrik Strodl and Karen P. Nonis

9. Internationalising teacher education through a joint PhD programme: The case of the European Doctorate in Teacher Education
Vasileios Symeonidis and Michael Schratz

10. The Brazilian Sandwich Doctorate Program: French fillings, International tastes and Latin American feelings – a “Sketch for a Self-Analysis” during a year abroad
Mario Luiz Neves de Azevedo

11. From Georgia to Germany and back: An international doctoral journey
Aleksandra Bovt, Nino Pataraia and Esther von Richthofen

Section 2: Opportunities and Challenges

12. International doctoral research and contributions to knowledge: exploring the impact for the academic community
Catherine Montgomery and Francesca Poli

13. Building new opportunities for the internationalization of doctoral education through international partnerships and collaboration
Chris Glass, Gerardo Blanco and Hans de Wit

14. Internationalisation and the doctoral experience: Discipline as lens and driver
Douglas Proctor

15. Understanding systemic, personal and linguistic challenges in the internationalisation of doctoral studies
Carina Rönnqvist, Kirk P. H. Sullivan and Enlli Thomas

16. Methodological Internationalization as Knowledge Hegemony: Why is China’s wholesale borrowing of Western methodology in doctoral training problematic?
Wei Liu

17. Harnessing intercultural learning by creating ‘small cultures’ in doctoral communities
Dely Lazarte Elliot

18. Internationalising the doctoral experience in decolonial ways: insights from a Lao-German cooperation project
Isabel Martin and Rebecca Dengler

19. Systemic impediments to internationalisation at doctoral level: the case of Finland-Africa collaboration
Frank Ojwang

Reflections on Opportunities and Challenges

20. Reimagining the ‘field’: collaborative innovations in international doctoral fieldwork during COVID-19
Elena Williams

21. ‘The Voyage Out’: my international doctoral experience in Denmark
Hatice Nuriler

22. Addressing some challenges of conducting PhD Research in South Africa
Divinia Jithoo and Peter Cunningham

23. Completing a Doctorate program in an Australian university as an international student: Developing resilience and adaptative capacity
Carla Tapia Parada and Angela Baeza Peña

24. In the shell of layered identities: PHD experience in Japan as a Pakistani Muslim woman and mother
Saima Khan

Section 3: Outcomes

25. Exploring and defining international exposure: a qualitative study of doctoral student experiences
Ravichandran Ammigan and Visnja Schampers-Car

26. What’s it worth in the local currency? An approach to research into the home country outcomes of doctorates completed abroad.
Herbert Terry, Başak Bilecen and Robert Coelen

27. Impact of international doctoral studies in Latin-American women's career progression
Luisa F. Echeverría-King, Tania Lafont-Castillo, and Olisney De Luque-Montaño

28. The art of going away and coming back ‘home’: On short form immersion visits as a means of doctoral internationalisation
Inês Felix and Björn Norlin

29. A narrative inquiry of two doctoral student experiences in research dissemination and publication: a voice from the Global North and South
Miriam Colum and Saud Albusaidi

30. Unravelling Doctoral Experiences of International Students in Turkey: Identity Development and Transformative Impact on Personal and Global Mindset
Bahar Yakut-Ozek and Hilal Buyukgoze

31. “Living, studying and researching in a different country is opening your mind to different perspectives”: international doctoral students’ voices on competence development
Susana Pinto

Reflections on Outcomes

32. Self-tailored internationalisation within the Doctor of Arts Research: Techno-voyeurism into the Performing Body
Marija Griniuk

33. Intercultural experiences as a PhD student in Australia
Basil Alzougool

34. The Topsy-Turvy Developments of a Full-Time Academic Studying a Part-Time Thesis on Internationalisation at Home
Louisa Hill

35. Building future-focused attributes from international PhD studies during COVID-19 restrictions
Phuong Quyen Vo

Conclusion

36. Reflections and recommendations on the value of international experiences at doctoral level
Elspeth Jones, Björn Norlin, Carina Rönnqvist and Kirk P. H. Sullivan

Biography

Elspeth Jones is Emerita Professor of the Internationalisation of Higher Education, Leeds Beckett University UK, and editor of the series, Internationalization in Higher Education (Routledge).

Björn Norlin is Associate Professor (Docent) of History and Education, Umeå University, Sweden.

Carina Rönnqvist is Research Coordinator at Umeå School of Education, Umeå University, and visiting lecturer in History at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden.

Kirk P. H. Sullivan is Professor of Linguistics at Umeå University, Sweden, and Director of Umeå University’s Postgraduate School in the Educational Sciences.

"This book makes an important contribution to understanding the relatively understudied phenomenon of internationalizing the doctoral journey. By including chapters from students, graduates, academics and administrators from across six continents and different disciplines, this book offers new insights and research. Highly recommended for higher education policy makers, researchers, faculty members and graduate students who want to deepen their understanding of the different dimensions, models and impacts of internationalizing doctoral education."

Jane Knight, PhD, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada

"This book covers an important 21st century higher education topic. Internationalizing higher education institutions and missions without internationalizing the faculty is likely to produce intellectually vacuous results. Building a cadre of faculty who are capable and experienced in culturally different ways of teaching and learning, research and scholarship, and community engagement begins with doctoral program opportunities that provide relevant international content and experience. As stated by the authors, there is no best model, there are optional models; but not internationalizing the doctoral program experience at all is a serious omission today."

John Hudzik, Professor and Vice President Emeritus, Michigan State University, USA

"Chapters in this volume come from a diverse range of countries and contexts, and represent the voices of a broad range of stakeholders, including students and graduates of PhD programmes. Incorporating internationalisation into doctoral education is vital for those who will stay in academia, but also those who go on to work in business, industry, for NGOs or national and regional government. The book provides a range of models to support this effort and also looks to the future in recommending how its findings and proposals may be taken forward."

Jocelyne Gacel-Avila, PhD, UNESCO Chair on Internationalization of Higher Education and Global Citizenship, University of Guadalajara, Mexico.

"This book effectively addresses a gap in understanding of the significance and importance of international intercultural experiences at doctoral level. Readers will find a good deal of theoretical sophistication as well as invaluable practical advice, building on analyses from a truly international team of authors. The balance between the volume’s comprehensiveness, detail in the presentation of diverse experiences and the coherence of the work is commendable."

Manuel Souto-Otero, Professor in Education Policy and Head of the Education Research Group, Cardiff University, UK.

"This book brings together a set of highly insightful essays in which the authors, drawn from around the world, reflect critically on their own experiences of international doctoral education or of supervising international students. Their personal accounts invariably strengthen the ways in which they engage with the growing body of literature on international doctoral education and describe the research projects many of them have themselves carried out. This synthetic approach has resulted in essays that are both empirically rich and analytically astute, helpful not only in describing the opportunities and challenges associated with international doctoral education but also in developing normative models, pointing to the multiple benefits of internationalization of higher education."

Fazal Rizvi, Emeritus Professor, The University of Melbourne, Australia and The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

"The internationalisation of higher education has long been an important topic on the agenda of researchers, practitioners and policy makers, but there are still issues that are insufficiently addressed in an international comparative perspective. One of these grey areas is dealt with very well in this monograph, which focuses on the "doctoral experience": 70 authors from 35 countries on all continents form an extremely convincing forum that can offer the reading public much food for thought."

Pavel Zgaga, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Education and Education Policy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

"The authors of this book have facilitated a lively and authentic discussion of dimensions related to doctoral students’ experiences and their intersection with internationalisation. Beyond understanding different models, opportunities, challenges, and outcomes related to the doctoral experience, what makes this book special is the inclusion of the voices of doctoral students themselves. With authors hailing from as many as 35 countries across 6 continents, this book centres students’ voices, showcasing valuable perspectives from around the world that are not oft-told."

Tang T. Heng, EdD, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore