Spotlight session
The EAIE Thematic Committee Student and Staff Mobility is interested in the topics connected to the movement of students and staff across borders for academic experience or professional development. This session will focus on analysing best practice in the management of multi-aspect and complex international mobility programmes, ie, those that involve several kinds of mobility (for example a combination of student and staff and research exchanges); three or more partners; and/or various locations within and outside of Europe. This topic will be explored from a variety of perspectivesa nd will provide a framework that participants can take with them to improve their own practice in managing complex international mobility programmes.
Alejandra has been working in international education for 20 years and is currently Head of International Mobility at Northumbria University, where she manages all aspects of international mobility programmes for students and staff, funding and partner relations.
Originally from Chile, she is passionate about internationalising higher education and based her postgraduate research on this topic in a development context. She has a Bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of Chile and a Master’s in international development from Northumbria.
She has been involved with the EAIE since 2014 as a session evaluator, and an EAIE mentor for the last 5 years. Alejandra was elected as Chair of the Expert Community Mobility Advising for the 2022–2024 term
