
Overview
Background
My research interest may be seen to lie within one or more of the following areas
· Postcolonial sociologies of education
· Critical governmentality studies
· Student mobilities.
· Studies of globalization and transnationalism in relation to education institutions, policies and practices
· International higher education governance
· Development and education
These interests probably have something to do with my personal biography. I am a first generation ‘education migrant’ whose parents migrated to Australia at the tail end of the 1970s, their postcolonial dream unraveled by the cultural politics of new nationhood. We came to live in Western Australia at the end of one mining boom (this one was Japan driven), and the start of a major economic restructuring project that would transform the Australia economy, and the lifestyles and livelihoods of many of its citizens. I finished high school and then majored in Microbiology at the University of Western Australia, before working for two years in a genetics laboratory on the molecular aspects of change in anaerobic bacteria. I subsequently moved disciplines to the social sciences, completed a degree in Social Work, and worked for a decade in a number of areas ranging from child protection and juvenile justice to ‘educational development assistance’, multicultural counselling, refugee settlement and international student advising. In 1999, I commenced my PhD studies. My thesis investigated the workings of the education export industry using postcolonial and poststructuralist frameworks. It critically appraised the concept of globalisation and its use to govern international education. Through this work, I developed an interest in the different actors in the cast of globalization - international students, transnational scientists, and refugees and asylum seekers.
My more recent research has focused on emerging education hubs in Singapore and Malaysia and the transnational mobilities of ‘knowledge workers’ recruited to these emerging knowledge spatialities. I am also investigating the temporal reach and recontextualisation of colonial knowledges and practices on assembling ‘postcolonial’ subjectivities in the context of Southeast Asia. I have a strong interest in empirical work and welcome enquires from students who are interested in deep and substantive engagement with theoretical frameworks. Being a cultural, professional and disciplinary hybrid, I am keen to work across disciplines.
I am actively involved in three research projects at present, all concerned variously with investigations of mobility:
- Globalising Universities and International Student Mobilities in East Asia, Funded by the Ministry of Education, Government of Singapore
- Transnational Knowledge Workers in the Life-and Technosciences, Funded by the University of Queensland
- Inbound and Outbound Student Mobility, Funded by the University of Queensland.
Availability
- Dr Ravinder Sidhu is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science, University of Western Australia
- Bachelor (Honours), The University of Queensland
- Masters (Coursework) of Education, Queensland University of Technology
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Works
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2024
Book Chapter
International Education and (Dis)embodied Cosmopolitanisms
Sidhu, Ravinder Kaur and Dall’Alba, Gloria (2024). International Education and (Dis)embodied Cosmopolitanisms. Being and Becoming Through Higher Education. (pp. 137-157) Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-2062-0_8
2023
Book Chapter
Internationalization and Education-Related Mobility in Asia-Pacific Universities
Ho, K. C., Sidhu, Ravinder and Yeoh, Brenda S. A. (2023). Internationalization and Education-Related Mobility in Asia-Pacific Universities. The Oxford Handbook of Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Region. (pp. 268-C13.P115) Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192845986.013.13
2022
Journal Article
Creating hospitable urban spaces: a multicultural city for refugees and asylum seekers
Sidhu, Ravinder and Rossi-Sackey, Donata (2022). Creating hospitable urban spaces: a multicultural city for refugees and asylum seekers. Urban Studies, 59 (16), 3404-3421. doi: 10.1177/00420980221109050
2022
Book Chapter
Governing the international university: the intellectual and ethical challenges of leadership
Sidhu, Ravinder and Ishikawa, Mayumi (2022). Governing the international university: the intellectual and ethical challenges of leadership. The Palgrave handbook of educational leadership and management discourse. (pp. 83-99) edited by Fenwick W. English. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-99097-8_95
2022
Journal Article
Equitable teaching for cultural and linguistic diversity: exploring the possibilities for engaged pedagogy in post-COVID-19 higher education
Baker, Sally, Anderson, Joel, Burke, Rachel, De Fazio, Teresa, Due, Clemence, Hartley, Lisa, Molla, Tebeje, Morison, Carolina, Mude, William, Naidoo, Loshini and Sidhu, Ravinder (2022). Equitable teaching for cultural and linguistic diversity: exploring the possibilities for engaged pedagogy in post-COVID-19 higher education. Educational Review, 74 (3), 444-459. doi: 10.1080/00131911.2021.2015293
2021
Other Outputs
Emotional geographies of international education and public diplomacy
Sidhu, Ravinder K. (2021). Emotional geographies of international education and public diplomacy. Global Cooperation Research - A Quarterly Magazine (2), 12-15.
2021
Journal Article
International student mobilities in a contagion: (Im)mobilising higher education?
Sidhu, Ravinder, Cheng, Yi' En, Collins, Francis, Ho, Kong Chong and Yeoh, Brenda (2021). International student mobilities in a contagion: (Im)mobilising higher education?. Geographical Research, 59 (3), 313-323. doi: 10.1111/1745-5871.12471
2021
Book Chapter
National policies on education abroad outcomes
van Gaalen, Adinda, Huisman, Jeroen and Sidhu, Ravinder (2021). National policies on education abroad outcomes. Education Abroad: Bridging Scholarship and Practice. (pp. 203-217) edited by Anthony C. Ogden, Bernhard Streitwieser and Christof Van Mol. Abingdon, Oxfordshire United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429431463-13
2020
Journal Article
Navigating the politics and ethics of hospitality: inclusive practice with forced migrants
Sidhu, Ravinder K. and Rossi-Sackey, Donata (2020). Navigating the politics and ethics of hospitality: inclusive practice with forced migrants. The British Journal of Social Work, 52 (1), 138-157. doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcaa215
2020
Journal Article
Destined for Asia: hospitality and emotions in international student mobilities
Sidhu, Ravinder and Ishikawa, Mayumi (2020). Destined for Asia: hospitality and emotions in international student mobilities. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 52 (3), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/03057925.2020.1771544
2020
Book Chapter
Emotional Geographies of International Students: Beginning an East Asian Conversation
Sidhu, Ravinder K., Kong Chong, Ho and Yeoh, Brenda S. A. (2020). Emotional Geographies of International Students: Beginning an East Asian Conversation. Student Mobilities and International Education in Asia: Emotional Geographies of Knowledge Spaces. (pp. 1-29) Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-27856-4_1
2020
Book Chapter
The Cultural Politics of Emplacement
Sidhu, Ravinder K., Kong Chong, Ho and Yeoh, Brenda S. A. (2020). The Cultural Politics of Emplacement. Student Mobilities and International Education in Asia: Emotional Geographies of Knowledge Spaces. (pp. 85-114) Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-27856-4_4
2020
Book Chapter
International Branch Campuses
Sidhu, Ravinder (2020). International Branch Campuses. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education. (pp. 838-841) Thousand Oaks, CA United States: SAGE Publications. doi: 10.4135/9781529714395.n313
2020
Book
Student mobilities and international education in Asia: emotional geographies of knowledge spaces
Sidhu, Ravinder K., Kong Chong, Ho and Yeoh, Brenda S. A. (2020). Student mobilities and international education in Asia: emotional geographies of knowledge spaces. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-27856-4
2019
Journal Article
Reclaiming schools as spaces of hope
Sidhu, Ravinder (2019). Reclaiming schools as spaces of hope. Ethos, 27 (1) 1, 14-16.
2018
Journal Article
Educating students from refugee backgrounds: ethical conduct to resist the politics of besiegement
Sidhu, Ravinder and Naidoo, Loshini (2018). Educating students from refugee backgrounds: ethical conduct to resist the politics of besiegement. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 27 (2-3), 166-183. doi: 10.1080/09620214.2018.1445004
2018
Journal Article
A post-colonial autoethnography of transnational adoption
Sidhu, Ravinder (2018). A post-colonial autoethnography of transnational adoption. The British Journal of Social Work, 48 (8), 2176-2194. doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcy011
2017
Journal Article
Embodying skillful performance: co-constituting body and world in biotechnology
Dall'Alba, Gloria, Sandberg, Jorgen and Sidhu, Ravinder Kaur (2017). Embodying skillful performance: co-constituting body and world in biotechnology. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50 (3), 1-17. doi: 10.1080/00131857.2017.1343114
2017
Journal Article
'A strategy of distinction' unfolds: Unsettling the undergraduate outbound mobility experience
Sidhu, Ravinder and Dall'Alba, Gloria (2017). 'A strategy of distinction' unfolds: Unsettling the undergraduate outbound mobility experience. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 38 (4), 468-484. doi: 10.1080/01425692.2015.1131143
2016
Journal Article
Navigating unfreedoms & re-imagining ethical counter-conducts: caring about refugees & asylum seekers
Sidhu, Ravinder (2016). Navigating unfreedoms & re-imagining ethical counter-conducts: caring about refugees & asylum seekers. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 49 (3), 1-12. doi: 10.1080/00131857.2016.1225558
Funding
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Supervision
Availability
- Dr Ravinder Sidhu is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Improving Human Resources through the Establishment of Education Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Indonesia
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Robin Shields
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Doctor Philosophy
The Paradox of University Autonomy: Power and Politics in University Governance
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Adam Hannah
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Master Philosophy
From Reactive to Proactive Shaping The Future of Teacher Professional Learning
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Annie Pohlman
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Master Philosophy
From Reactive to Proactive Shaping The Future of Teacher Professional Learning
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Annie Pohlman
Completed supervision
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Transforming Bangladeshi higher education through the Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project: An investigation of problem representations.
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Bob Lingard
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2014
Master Philosophy
A study of the factors affecting the decision-making process of prospective Chinese international students
Principal Advisor
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Becoming 'unemployed': Mapping and (re)constituting subjectivity within jobactive
Joint Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr David Fryer
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
A Foucauldian-inspired ethnographic investigation: The emergence of the everyday social practice of ADHD
Joint Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr David Fryer
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2009
Doctor Philosophy
Anti-sectarian Adult Education in Northern Ireland
Joint Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Peter Renshaw
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
The journey of Indonesian female students in Australia: An autoethnography
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Liz Mackinlay
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2015
Doctor Philosophy
Transnational Mobilities of Australia-Educated and Domiciled Professional Migrants from Vietnam
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Gloria Dall'Alba
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2009
Master Philosophy
The role of higher education for knowledge on and for Africa: A historical critique
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Honorary Professor Pamela Christie
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