πLast night we celebrated @mchankseliani.bsky.social & @veldaelliott.bsky.social, now Oxford professors.
From doctoral students to leaders in scholarship, their lectures highlighted universitiesβ global impact and the power of teaching.
Catch up on the recording: shorturl.at/6H8Ef
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Global Public Seminar in Comparative and International Education
Universities at a Crossroads: State Power, Academic Freedom, and the Future of Higher Education in Georgia
16 March
3β4pm UK | 7β8pm Tbilisi
This is a virtual event and the teams link is below
Interview with DAAD on international student mobility and its longer-term social and democratic significance, drawing on 700+ interviews across 70 countries. The piece reflects on slow, institutional change and growing political pressures around mobility
www.wissenschaft-weltoffen.de/en/2026/02/0...
Delighted to invite you to my inaugural lecture Seeing Otherwise: International Higher Education and the Possibility of Change as part of Oxfordβs Recognition of Distinction Professorial Lectures. Monday 9 March 2026, 5pm. In person & online. Details & registration β¬οΈ
Health professional mobility debates still focus on numbers. Who leaves. Who returns. How to offset shortages. This paper shows something else: international education reshapes how health professionals judge responsibility and act within constrained systems.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The UK has confirmed it will rejoin Erasmus. This matters enormously because Erasmus lets students experience other societies from the inside, shaping judgement and civic understanding in ways no domestic scheme can. Rejoining it restores openness at the heart of higher education
Our new paper shows how the European Universities Initiative choreographs collaboration. A competitive call pushed alliances into both waltz-like orderly moves and mosh pit collisions as partnerships were formed and reconfigured.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
#EuropeanUniversitiesInitiative
Our new article examines how international study shapes democratic consciousness among returnees in autocracies and anocracies, and how that consciousness is put into practice through five pathways of engagement. Open access.
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My piece on Centralising Power: Georgiaβs Troubling University Reform
published in CHELPS e-journal Universities & Intellectuals
chelps.eduhk.hk/page/detail/...
Some reflections on the UK governmentβs new Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper
Planning your UKFIET 2025 conference: A walk through the programme
All you need to know to plan your sessions & networking for next week's #UKFIETConf!
www.ukfiet.org/2025/plannin...
I'll be joining a panel with fellow Harvard alumni next week to discuss academic freedom. I'll speak about how international study, when it takes place in a context of academic freedom, can influence civic responsibility and institutional change. Register: www.harvardaed.org/calendar
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Intercultural competence beyond international student mobility: insights from a global study
Natalya Hanley & @mchankseliani.bsky.social
Open access β doi.org/10.1177/1028...
#InterculturalCompetence #StudyAbroad #InternationalStudents #StudentMobility #Transnationalism #TransformativeLearning
My work on international student mobility & global knowledge featured in Chinese Social Sciences Today (δΈε½η€ΎδΌη§ε¦ζ₯). I argue that international students shape knowledge and civic life, & that todayβs restrictions risk narrowing our shared horizons
www.cssn.cn/skgz/bwyc/20...
World Development: doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...
IJER: doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
How does international education shape poverty reduction? Returnees adapt, translate, and embed reform through four mechanisms, far beyond skill transfer. Based on interviews in 57 countries, building on our earlier quant study in IJER. Links in comments.
βLetβs put the worst people in the world in charge and see what happens.β
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My opinion piece that will appear in tomorrowβs issue of Nature.
It is about what we lose when international students are treated as risks rather than as contributors - when border controls override civic imagination
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
British Council 90th Anniversary Research Fellowships at the University of Edinburgh
List of eligible countries in the screenshot
www.britishcouncil.org/research-ins...
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A timely and wide-ranging Oxford-Georgia Forum: political turmoil, civic resistance, foreign policy shiftsβand what all this means for the future of Georgian Studies abroad. Grateful to be part of the conversation. π¬πͺπ¬π§ @osgaoxford.bsky.social #GeorgianStudies
That was gratifyingly fast
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Some thoughts on the UK-EU youth mobility scheme thatβs being discussed early next week
#youthmobility
Good morning πΎ
The link to our report has been updated
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4th Annual Oxford-Georgia Forum
Theme: Quo Vadis, Georgia?
Date: 28 May 2025
9:30β18:45
Venue: Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antonyβs College, University of Oxford
Register here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Agenda here: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/971...
π’ New report is public!
What happens when people cross borders to learn & then return home to contribute?
Based on 704 interviews in 70 countries + quant data from 134, our report explores how mobility supports change across economy & society ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...
As the UK and EU prepare to discuss a new youth mobility agreement on 19 May, I reflect on what mobility makes possible, not only for individuals, but for societies.
This blog draws on our global study at Oxford and brings in vivid individual accounts
www.ukfiet.org/2025/learnin...
Does Citizenship Matter in the Republic of Science?
With colleagues from across Asia, Europe, and North America, we revisit Polanyiβs idea through contemporary lenses - academic freedom, governance, inequality, and the societal role of science
chelps.eduhk.hk/page/detail/...
