Development
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Can refugees thrive in academia with the right support?
Written by Mir Abdullah Miri As a PhD scholar in the Education Department on the Warm Welcome Scholarship at the University of Bath, I've found more than just a university—I've discovered a supportive home that truly appreciates and values my...
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Naomi Farrington, International Relations Coordinator for the School of Management, writes about her staff mobility experience in Valladolid, Spain
I set off to Spain with some trepidation as I hadn’t used my basic Spanish skills for many years and wasn’t entirely sure what I was letting myself in for when I signed up to join the recent International Staff...
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Celebrating the launch of our new Doctoral Training Consortium with Stellenbosch University and the University of Fort Hare
Earlier this year, we celebrated the successful launch of a new doctoral training consortium to support doctoral provision especially for university staff in South Africa. Under the auspices of the South Africa-UK University Staff Doctoral Programme (USDP), ten PhD candidates...
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Galway, Dublin and Writing Sprints - Caroline Ang shares her experience of Staff Mobility in Ireland
Caroline with members of the School of Nursing and Midwifery From the 28 May - 01 June 2018, I visited the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) as a beneficiary of Erasmus+ Staff Mobility funding through the University of Bath....
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A Flavour of some of this year’s Erasmus+ Staff Mobility Experiences
About 450 students each year benefit from Erasmus+ funding when they opt to spend a part of their degree abroad, either to work or to study. It’s perhaps less widely known that Erasmus+ funding is also available for university members...
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Visiting our Study & Work Abroad students in Asia
Kirsten Brown, Placements Manager in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, tells us about her experience of meeting our Study & Work Abroad programme students in Hong Kong and Singapore. The beginning of September saw me visiting the first cohort...
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Research trip to Ohio State University
Travelling to a new country is always an exciting experience, but working in new country, under a new professor, can be daunting. Once all the necessities had been acquired - visa, accommodation, flights ect. and the final pint had been...