Publications

1. The interim results from the student female voices are now published: Collaborative Online International Learning in a Postdigital Connected, Embodied, Relational & (Socio) Material Third Space: Female Voices.

The article is open access and available here:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07294360.2024.2429438

Full citation (APA 7):

Orsini-Jones, M. Jacobs, L., Finardi, K. and Wimpenny, K. (2025) Collaborative Online International Learning in a Postdigital Connected, Embodied, Relational & (Socio) Material Third Space: Female Voices. In S. Elkington & S. Dickinson (Eds.) Special Issue on “Reimagining Higher Education Learning Spaces: Assembling Theory, Methods, and Practice’”. Higher Education Research & Development 44(1), 237–252. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2024.2429438

2. The toolkit containing advice and insights from academic staff female voices is published on this website, tab ‘FEMALE ACADEMIC STAFF VOICES COIL/VE TOOLKIT’ and can be downloaded from this site too (open access).

PAST DISSEMINATION EVENTS AND EVENT REPORTS

1. First Project Dissemination Conference Programme and Report (March 2024)

2. Second Project Dissemination Webinar 27/11/2024

Details:

Collaborative Online International Learning as a Postdigital Connected, Embodied, Relational (Socio) Material Third Space: Female Voices

Wednesday 27th November 13:00-14:00pmOnline – Teams Event Details: This event will discuss Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) as a transformational Third Space with a focus on female voicesSpeakers: Professor Marina Orsini-Jones (Professor of Global Higher Education Practice), Professor Katherine Wimpenny (Professor of Research), Dr Lynette Jacobs (University of the Free State in South Africa) and Dr Kyria Finardi (Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Brazil)Biographies: Dr Marina Orsini-Jones is Professor of Global Higher Education Practice (Applied Linguistics) in the Research Centre for Global Learning at Coventry University (UK). She has contributed to over 100 conferences (including as invited key-note speaker) and has published work in her areas of expertise that include blended learning and Collaborative Online International Learning/Virtual Exchange/Telecollaboration. She is associate editor for the International Journal of Computer Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IGI) and for the International Journal of Virtual Exchange (University of Groningen Press). She is an expert in the internationalisation of the curriculum and she is Co-Lead Investigator with Lynette Jacobs and Kyria Finardi on the ‘Female Voices in the Third Space’ British Academy/Leverhulme-funded project. Dr Katherine Wimpenny, is Professor of Research in Global Education in the Research Centre for Global Learning, Coventry University, UK. She is Theme Lead for Global Learning: Education without Boundaries, and has 24 years of experience in higher education research and practice.Professor Wimpenny’s research examines contextualised and comprehensive internationalisation. Her studies focus on local-global teaching and learning pedagogies, practices, and strategies, in a diverse range of learning spaces. She uses interdisciplinary, participatory, and hybridised approaches including appreciative and post qualitative inquiry and has published extensively on these. Professor Wimpenny is a member of the ‘Female Voices in the Third Space’ British Academy/Leverhulme-funded project team. Dr Lynette Jacobs is Acting Director and Research Portfolio Lead in the Office for International Affairs at the University of the Free State in South Africa. She a Comparative and International Education scholar, specifically focusing on external barriers to inclusive education opportunities.  She contributed to more than 50 peer-reviewed publications in the form of journal articles, conference proceedings and book chapters.   Dr Jacobs serves on the editorial board of the SCOPUS listed journal Perspectives in Education. She is Co-Lead Investigator with Marina Orsini-Jones and Kyria Finardi on the ‘Female Voices in the Third Space’ British Academy/Leverhulme-funded project. Dr Kyria Finardi is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Languages, Culture and Education (DLCE) at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), in Vitória, Brazil, where she is also a member of the Permanent Board of Internationalisation. Dr Finardi has an extensive list of publications that can be viewed at https://www.kyriafinardi.com/en/artigos and focus on decolonisation in applied linguistics and North-South issues in research theory and practice. Dr Finardi is the President  of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) https://aila.info/about/organization/executive_board/. She is Co-Lead Investigator with Marina Orsini-Jones and Lynette Jacobs on the ‘Female Voices in the Third Space’ British Academy/Leverhulme-funded project. Abstract: In this talk we will share interim insights that emerged from Female Voices in the Third Space: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in South-North Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL), a project co-funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust. Drawing on data generated through interviews conducted with female participants across universities in four different continents, we reviewed the relevance and appropriateness of named values and capitals we previously presented in a model of South-North COIL. Using a three-phase hybrid concept analysis methodology (theory, fieldwork and analysis), we discuss how female voices have articulated attributes of their engagement in COIL to further explicate the relevance/meaning of the values and capitals identified and emerging. Our analysis pushes beyond normative and universal conceptualisations of learning spaces in HE in relation to the potential of COIL as a postdigital Third Space as 1) connected (providing inclusive and adaptive environments in which learning can take place), 2) embodied (shaped by the physical and virtual (inter)actions of individuals and groups), 3) relational (as realised through meaningful (inter)relationships that foster mattering, belonging, wellbeing, and community, amidst different cultures and contexts), and 4) (socio)material (as mutually shaped by technology and contexts which are mediated by educators and learners).This seminar is linked to the Centre for Global Learning research cluster: Education without BoundariesPlease register using the register tab at the top left of your screen.GLEA Seminars are open to everyone, but prior booking is mandatory. If you have any queries about this event please contact us by email: globallearning@coventry.ac.uk.

Presentation slides:

3. Third Dissemination Webinar 28/3/2025 – Interim female staff voices results