Project Reports and Outputs
Work Package 1: Internationalisation with Equity and Diversity?
In October and November 2017 Anasztázia Nagy, and Beata Olahova from the Roma Education Fund spent two months in the University of Seville with Dr Mayte Padilla- Carmona and Dr José González Monteagudo researching the University’s internationalisation policies and practices. They interviewed staff and students about their experiences and preparations for internationalisation and are in the process of finalising guidelines for universities on reflexive internationalisation aimed at embedding equity in their employment practices and treatment of international staff.
Work Package 2: Debating and Designing a Module to Encourage Reflexive Accounts of Internationalisation
In September 2016, Professor Louise Morley, Professor Nafsika Alexiadou and Dr José González Monteagudo were seconded to the Roma Education Fund, Budapest, and worked with Dr Marius Taba and Dr Stela Garaz to write a paper Internationalisation and Migrant Academics: The Hidden Narratives of Mobility. This will be published in 2018 in Higher Education and is based on interviews with 14 migrant academics (of whom four were Roma). The research findings suggest that while there are gains from internationalisation, including transcultural learning, enhanced employability and inter-cultural competencies, there are also less romantic aspects to mobility including ‘otherness’, affective considerations such as isolation, and questions about whose knowledge is circulating in the global academy?
A further output was developed and piloted at the University of Sussex with the assistance of Dr Catherine Pope and Dr Charlotte Morris in the form of a Training Module.
Work Package 3: Network of Roma Early Stage Researchers
Professor John Pryor worked with Early Stage Researchers Daniel Leyton and Caterina Mazilli, University of Sussex, Alejandro Soria-Vilchez, University of Seville,
and Dan Pavel Doghi and Erszebet Bader, Roma Education Fund in 2016 and 2017 to develop a Facebook Group to support Roma students in higher education internationally. They also searched useful resources on Higher Education Internationalisation and Roma Education. See Resources pages.
Work Package 4: Supporting Roma Students in Higher Education
Three Experienced Researchers (Alexiadou, Hinton-Smith, Padilla-Carmona) worked with three Early Stage Researchers (Danvers, Norberg, Soria-Vilchez) to research their national policy contexts for including Roma communities in Higher Education. The secondment produced 3 reports and several academic publications. See
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/education/cheer/researchprojects/rise/outputs(opens in new window).
Work Package 5: Researching Marginalised Minorities in Higher Education Institutions - Policies and Practice
Early Stage Researchers (Idrizi, Notar, Petre, Tomic) and Experienced Researcher (Garaz) from the Roma Education Fund were seconded to the Universities of Seville, Sussex and Umea to research Widening Participation Policies in Spain, Sweden and the UK. They worked with Experienced Researchers (Alexiadou, Hinton-Smith, Padilla-Carmona) and produced 3 country reports. See See
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/education/cheer/researchprojects/rise/outputs(opens in new window).
Work Package 6: Research Methodologies Training for Equality and Diversity
15 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) from the Roma Education Fund (Velicu; Petre; Dumitru; Pallaghy; Kuzmanov; Taho; Tomic; Radoman; Velcheva; Balog, Goracel, Mate (x 2 visits), Lacatus and Bass) attended Sussex for intensive training for research methodologies in June/ July 2015 and June/July 2017. The first visit, organised by Paul Roberts, involved an intensive training programme in qualitative and quantitative research and theoretical work on social inclusion to support them in their policy work in promoting educational opportunities for the Roma community in Europe. The second visit, organised by Dr Emily Danvers, comprised research communication and writing workshops, taught sessions and academic seminars, social and networking events, participation in the HEIM Expert Meeting and presenting papers at the CHEER seminar ‘Disrupting Internationalisation Discourses: Discussing Equity and Inclusion'.
