International Student Connectedness and Identity

Ly Thi Tran is a senior lecturer at Deakin University's School of Education in Australia and an Australian Research Council DECRA (Discovery Early Career Researcher Award) fellow. Ly's research and publications focus on international students, student mobility, international vocational education and training, pedagogy and curriculum in international education and Vietnamese higher education. She has been awarded three grants on international student mobility and staff professional development in international education by the Australian Research Council. Ly's book entitled Teaching international students in vocational education: New pedagogical approaches won the 2014 International Education Association of Australia's Excellence Award for best Practice/Innovation in International Education. Catherine Gomes is a senior lecturer at RMIT University in Melbourne and recently completed an Australian Research Council DECRA (Discovery Early Career Research Award) fellowship. Her work covers migration, transnationalism and diasporas, particularly transient migration in Australia and Singapore with special interest in international students, their well-being, their social networks and their media and communication use. Catherine is founding editor of Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration (Intellect Books) and leader of the RMIT Migration and Digital Media Research Lab at the Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC). Her recent books include Multiculturalism through the Lens: A Guide to Ethnic and Migrant Anxieties in Singapore (Ethos Books, 2015), The Asia Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility: The Search for Community and Identity on and through Social Media (Anthem Press, 2016) and Transient Mobility and Middle Class Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Catherine has also written on identity, gender, ethnicity and race in Chinese cinemas.