Projects
Dynamics and policy implications of changes in student mobility
Project contributors: Findlay A, Falkingham J, McCollum D, Prazeres L, Malmberg G, Krisjane Z, Sander N,
This Project is part of the following research programme/s:
Overview
Student mobility is not new, but its scale and significance is very different now from in the past. In the UK, arguably, no other form of mobility has been so strongly influenced by recent policy changes (student visas, the introduction of higher HEI fees in England).
This research investigates inward-bound international student mobility (ISM) as an empirical lens to examine the wider issue of how globally-linked lives intersect through mobility (and immobility) in relation to economic, social and cultural processes and constraints. Student mobility (SM) between the four nations of the UK will also be studied to capture the effects of uneven regional policies on student fees.
Key question: 'How is the production of student migration best explained?' Key policy question: 'What future trends in ISM to the UK and SM between the parts of the UK can be expected, given government policy on ISM and university fees?
The primary focus is on ISM to the UK, but comparisons will be sought with a) Austria and Sweden (as two other significant intra-EU destinations of ISM), and b) Ireland and Latvia (locations sending students to the UK for very different reasons).
Publications & Activities
An Assessment of Supply and Demand-side Theorizations of International Student Mobility
International Migration (2011). 49 (2) 162-190
Authors: Findlay A,
An audit of international student mobility to the UK
Southampton, CPC (2017). Series Number: 82.
Authors: Prazeres L, Findlay A,
At home in the city: everyday practices and distinction in international student mobility
Social & Cultural Geography (2017). 19 (7) 914-934
Authors: Prazeres L,
Book Review: The Mobility of Students and the Highly Skilled
Population Studies (2016). 70 (1) 137-138
Authors: Findlay A,
Challenging the comfort zone: self-discovery, everyday practices and international student mobility to the Global South
Mobilities (2017). 12 (6) 908-923
Authors: Prazeres L,
Distinctive and comparative places: Alternative narratives of distinction within international student mobility
Geoforum (2017). 80 114-122
Authors: Prazeres L, Findlay A, McCollum D, Sander N, Musil E, Krisjane Z, Apsite-Berina E,
Does the marketization of higher education shape the gender and class composition of international student mobility to the UK?
IGU Regional Conference 2015 (2015). (Moscow, Russia)
Authors: Findlay A, Packwood H, King R,
Fees, flows and fantasies: cross-border student migration flows between Scotland and England
8th International Conference on Population Geographies (2015). (The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)
Authors: Findlay A, Packwood H, McCollum D,
Fees, flows and imaginaries: exploring the destination choices arising from intra-national student mobility
Globalisation, Societies and Education (2017). 16 (2) 162-175
Authors: Findlay A, McCollum D, Packwood H, Tindal S,
Inside the International Office: marketing mobile lives, managing student expectations and mediating change in Higher Education.
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting 2015 (2015). (Chicago, Illinois)
Authors: Packwood H, Findlay A, McCollum D, Nightingale G,
International study for an international career: A survey of the motivations and aspirations of international students in the UK
CPC (2015). Series Number: 27.
Authors: Packwood H, Findlay A, McCollum D,
It was always the plan': international study as 'learning to migrate'
International Conference on Geographies of Migration and Mobility (2016). (Loughborough, UK)
Authors: Prazeres L, Findlay A,
It was always the plan: international study as 'learning to migrate'
Area (2017). 49 (2) 192-199
Authors: Findlay A, Prazeres L, McCollum D, Packwood H,
Keynote: The Importance of Context in Framing Conceptualisations of Student Mobility
International Workshop on International Student Migration and Mobility: Policy Perspectives (2016). (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland)
Authors: Findlay A,
Leaving the 'comfort zone': international student mobility and the imaginative geographies of the Global South
International Conference on Geographies of Migration and Mobility (2016). (Loughborough, UK)
Authors: Prazeres L,
Marketization, marketing and the production of international student migration
International Migration (2017). 55 (3) 139-155
Authors: Findlay A, McCollum D, Packwood H,
Findlay A, King R, Stam A, (2016) Chapter 2 - Producing International Student Migration: An Exploration of the Role of Marketization in Shaping International Study Opportunities in Rethinking International Skilled Migration
Routledge, 19-35.
Media
International students in Scotland, Brexit and beyond Population Geography website. 2019
