Johanna Waters

Sep 30, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Johanna Waters

1 Introduction [T]he individual has been taken out of a rich community life and now enters instead into a series of mobile, changing, revokable associations, often designed merely for highly specific ends. We end up relating to each other through a series of partial roles (Charles Taylor (1989), in Sources of the Self: The Making of Modern Identity, p. 502). Charting an ‘education exodus’, Abelmann et al. (2015) discuss the ‘South Korean story of education across borders’ (p. 1).

Sep 22, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Johanna Waters |Jihyun Lee

1 INTRODUCTION We found that IS [international students] … experienced the pandemic transnationally. They engaged in a form of transnational sensemaking, organising and comparing information on the pandemic from two or more national contexts to understand cause, effect and sequencing of this unprecedented situation. (Hari et al., 2023, p. 27).

Mar 30, 2024 | universityworldnews.com | Johanna Waters

UNITED KINGDOM The loss of access for United Kingdom university students to the Erasmus+ scheme – a Europe-wide exchange programme that offers students the opportunity and funding to study or work abroad for up to a year – was a widely mourned consequence of Brexit. The UK government announced a replacement, the Turing Scheme, in December 2020. This scheme funds education or training placements outside the UK – in theory, anywhere in the world.

Mar 8, 2024 | tolerance.ca | Johanna Waters

By Johanna L. Waters, Professor of Human Geography, UCL The loss of access for UK university students to the Erasmus+ scheme – a Europe-wide exchange programme that offers students the opportunity and funding to study or work abroad for up to a year – was a widely mourned consequence of Brexit. The UK government announced a replacement, the Turing scheme, in December 2020.

Dec 11, 2023 | tandfonline.com | Johanna Waters

ABSTRACTThis paper is concerned with the nexus between migration governance and higher education. While the intersections between these two societal/policy systems have received attention in existing literature, much has changed as a result of the recent COVID-19 crisis. The global pandemic has introduced spatial and temporal disjuncture that significantly impact how international students navigate these systems.