International Experiences To Increase Employability for Education Doctoral Students. A Comparative Study

International doctoral students are an indispensable part of the increasingly globalised Higher Education Institutions and play a vital role in continually refreshing the host country’s research base and fostering cross-national research collaborations. Despite their contributions, most international student employability experiences have been centred on undergraduate and master’s students, and fewer studies have been undertaken to explore the employability experiences of those who study for a doctoral degree. The research team conducted two focus groups with Chinese international doctoral students studying social sciences at two British universities. The focus groups examined the students’ perceptions of their employability development within the PhD programs and identified areas for enhancing international doctoral student employability. Results highlight an urgent need for UK universities to develop effective channels to support Chinese doctoral student employability, focusing on supervisors as career mentors, developing graduate skills through fieldwork and teaching opportunities, and co-publications.

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Understanding Intercultural Socialization and Identity Development of International Students Through Duoethnography

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2021

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on International Student Experience in Canadian Higher Education

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This chapter looks at how two international PhD students (re)constructed and (re)negotiated their identities, and intercultural socialization through the sharing their personal stories and experiences. This chapter employed a duoethnography research methodology. Duoethnography is a collaborative research methodology in which two or more researchers engage in a dialogue on their disparate histories in a given phenomenon. The use of duoethnography allowed the researchers to revisit their lives as sites of research to determine how their different experiences and backgrounds informed the (re)construction and (re)negotiation of their identities in the face of multiple and competing identities and their subsequent participation in the new culture. Through this process, the researchers acted as the foil for the Other, challenging the Other to reflect in a deeper, more relational and authentic manner as they sought to achieve a balance between participating in a new way of life and maintaining their cultural and personal identities.

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International Experiences To Increase Employability for Education Doctoral Students. A Comparative Study

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Perceived employability of international doctoral students in the UK: applying Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory

Perceived employability of international doctoral students in the UK: applying Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory

How UK PhD programs have prepared international students for work

Understanding Intercultural Socialization and Identity Development of International Students Through Duoethnography

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